Departmental News

• Dr. Dimitri Pappas has been appointed Acting Chair of the Department through the end of the December. The department has begun its search for its next department chair.
• János Sarka presented for Dr. Bill Poirier, "Hitting the Trifecta: How to simultaneously push the limits of Schrodinger solution with respect to system size, convergence accuracy, and number of computed states," Invited Oral Presentation, 16th International Workshop on Quantum Reactive Scattering (QRS22), September 6, 2022, Balatonfoldvar, Hungary
• Dr. Kristin Hutchins delivered an invited lecture for the Welch Summer Scholars Public Seminar Program on July 27, 2022 titled: "Using mechanical force to address challenges in the pharmaceutical industry."
• Dr. Kristin Hutchins delivered an invited lecture for the NSF Center for the Mechanical Control of Chemistry Mechanochemistry Discussions on July 21, 2022 titled: "Mechanochemistry as a tool for facilitating crystallization and synthesis of multi-component solids." The lecture was live streamed on YouTube and the recording is available here: Dr. Hutchins' Lecture
• Tessa Hoang, Janos Sarka, Mahdi Aarabi, and Bill Poirier, "A 2-D Potential Energy Surface study of the Dynamical Rotation of the Dihydrogen Ligand in the FeH(H2)(PEtPh2)3]+ Coordination Complex", TTU TrUE (Transformative Undergraduate Experiences) Symposium
• Prof. Carol Korzeniewski gave the presentation "Probing Composition at the Polymer-Polymer Interface within Bipolar Membranes" (poster with Jiahe Xu as co-author) at the Electrochemistry Gordon Research Conference, held Sept. 11-16 in Ventura, CA, and was Discussion Leader for the Session on Electroanalytical Modalities.
• Jiahe Xu, who is apart of the Dr. Korzeniewski group, gave the oral presentation “In-Situ Studies of Structure and Composition at Electrode-Electrolyte Interfaces” in the Symposium on In situ Characterization of Electrochemical Interfaces using X-rays, Electrons, and Neutrons at the 73rd Annual Meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry held virtually during Sept. 12-16, 2022.
• Dr. Poirier’s quantum startup company, Quantum Galaxies, has been selected among a handful of others from the Creative Destruction Labs (CDL) "Quantum Boot Camp" to take part in the final stage, the "CDL Quantum Incubator" program. This is an intense, year-long program where CDL concentrates on developing your specific startup to make it commercially viable—while also establishing connections with other quantum companies, clients, investors, and venture capitalists.

Departmental News

• Dr. Dimitri Pappas has been appointed Acting Chair of the Department through the end of the December. The department has begun its search for its next department chair.
• János Sarka presented for Dr. Bill Poirier, "Hitting the Trifecta: How to simultaneously push the limits of Schrodinger solution with respect to system size, convergence accuracy, and number of computed states," Invited Oral Presentation, 16th International Workshop on Quantum Reactive Scattering (QRS22), September 6, 2022, Balatonfoldvar, Hungary
• Dr. Kristin Hutchins delivered an invited lecture for the Welch Summer Scholars Public Seminar Program on July 27, 2022 titled: "Using mechanical force to address challenges in the pharmaceutical industry."
• Dr. Kristin Hutchins delivered an invited lecture for the NSF Center for the Mechanical Control of Chemistry Mechanochemistry Discussions on July 21, 2022 titled: "Mechanochemistry as a tool for facilitating crystallization and synthesis of multi-component solids." The lecture was live streamed on YouTube and the recording is available here: Dr. Hutchins' Lecture
• Tessa Hoang, Janos Sarka, Mahdi Aarabi, and Bill Poirier, "A 2-D Potential Energy Surface study of the Dynamical Rotation of the Dihydrogen Ligand in the FeH(H2)(PEtPh2)3]+ Coordination Complex", TTU TrUE (Transformative Undergraduate Experiences) Symposium
• Prof. Carol Korzeniewski gave the presentation "Probing Composition at the Polymer-Polymer Interface within Bipolar Membranes" (poster with Jiahe Xu as co-author) at the Electrochemistry Gordon Research Conference, held Sept. 11-16 in Ventura, CA, and was Discussion Leader for the Session on Electroanalytical Modalities.
• Jiahe Xu, who is apart of the Dr. Korzeniewski group, gave the oral presentation “In-Situ Studies of Structure and Composition at Electrode-Electrolyte Interfaces” in the Symposium on In situ Characterization of Electrochemical Interfaces using X-rays, Electrons, and Neutrons at the 73rd Annual Meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry held virtually during Sept. 12-16, 2022.
• Dr. Poirier’s quantum startup company, Quantum Galaxies, has been selected among a handful of others from the Creative Destruction Labs (CDL) "Quantum Boot Camp" to take part in the final stage, the "CDL Quantum Incubator" program. This is an intense, year-long program where CDL concentrates on developing your specific startup to make it commercially viable—while also establishing connections with other quantum companies, clients, investors, and venture capitalists.

Departmental News

• Dr. Dimitri Pappas has been appointed Acting Chair of the Department through the end of the December. The department has begun its search for its next department chair.
• János Sarka presented for Dr. Bill Poirier, "Hitting the Trifecta: How to simultaneously push the limits of Schrodinger solution with respect to system size, convergence accuracy, and number of computed states," Invited Oral Presentation, 16th International Workshop on Quantum Reactive Scattering (QRS22), September 6, 2022, Balatonfoldvar, Hungary
• Dr. Kristin Hutchins delivered an invited lecture for the Welch Summer Scholars Public Seminar Program on July 27, 2022 titled: "Using mechanical force to address challenges in the pharmaceutical industry."
• Dr. Kristin Hutchins delivered an invited lecture for the NSF Center for the Mechanical Control of Chemistry Mechanochemistry Discussions on July 21, 2022 titled: "Mechanochemistry as a tool for facilitating crystallization and synthesis of multi-component solids." The lecture was live streamed on YouTube and the recording is available here: Dr. Hutchins' Lecture
• Tessa Hoang, Janos Sarka, Mahdi Aarabi, and Bill Poirier, "A 2-D Potential Energy Surface study of the Dynamical Rotation of the Dihydrogen Ligand in the FeH(H2)(PEtPh2)3]+ Coordination Complex", TTU TrUE (Transformative Undergraduate Experiences) Symposium
• Prof. Carol Korzeniewski gave the presentation "Probing Composition at the Polymer-Polymer Interface within Bipolar Membranes" (poster with Jiahe Xu as co-author) at the Electrochemistry Gordon Research Conference, held Sept. 11-16 in Ventura, CA, and was Discussion Leader for the Session on Electroanalytical Modalities.
• Jiahe Xu, who is apart of the Dr. Korzeniewski group, gave the oral presentation “In-Situ Studies of Structure and Composition at Electrode-Electrolyte Interfaces” in the Symposium on In situ Characterization of Electrochemical Interfaces using X-rays, Electrons, and Neutrons at the 73rd Annual Meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry held virtually during Sept. 12-16, 2022.
• Dr. Poirier’s quantum startup company, Quantum Galaxies, has been selected among a handful of others from the Creative Destruction Labs (CDL) "Quantum Boot Camp" to take part in the final stage, the "CDL Quantum Incubator" program. This is an intense, year-long program where CDL concentrates on developing your specific startup to make it commercially viable—while also establishing connections with other quantum companies, clients, investors, and venture capitalists.

Departmental News

• Dr. Dimitri Pappas has been appointed Acting Chair of the Department through the end of the December. The department has begun its search for its next department chair.
• János Sarka presented for Dr. Bill Poirier, "Hitting the Trifecta: How to simultaneously push the limits of Schrodinger solution with respect to system size, convergence accuracy, and number of computed states," Invited Oral Presentation, 16th International Workshop on Quantum Reactive Scattering (QRS22), September 6, 2022, Balatonfoldvar, Hungary
• Dr. Kristin Hutchins delivered an invited lecture for the Welch Summer Scholars Public Seminar Program on July 27, 2022 titled: "Using mechanical force to address challenges in the pharmaceutical industry."
• Dr. Kristin Hutchins delivered an invited lecture for the NSF Center for the Mechanical Control of Chemistry Mechanochemistry Discussions on July 21, 2022 titled: "Mechanochemistry as a tool for facilitating crystallization and synthesis of multi-component solids." The lecture was live streamed on YouTube and the recording is available here: Dr. Hutchins' Lecture
• Tessa Hoang, Janos Sarka, Mahdi Aarabi, and Bill Poirier, "A 2-D Potential Energy Surface study of the Dynamical Rotation of the Dihydrogen Ligand in the FeH(H2)(PEtPh2)3]+ Coordination Complex", TTU TrUE (Transformative Undergraduate Experiences) Symposium
• Prof. Carol Korzeniewski gave the presentation "Probing Composition at the Polymer-Polymer Interface within Bipolar Membranes" (poster with Jiahe Xu as co-author) at the Electrochemistry Gordon Research Conference, held Sept. 11-16 in Ventura, CA, and was Discussion Leader for the Session on Electroanalytical Modalities.
• Jiahe Xu, who is apart of the Dr. Korzeniewski group, gave the oral presentation “In-Situ Studies of Structure and Composition at Electrode-Electrolyte Interfaces” in the Symposium on In situ Characterization of Electrochemical Interfaces using X-rays, Electrons, and Neutrons at the 73rd Annual Meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry held virtually during Sept. 12-16, 2022.
• Dr. Poirier’s quantum startup company, Quantum Galaxies, has been selected among a handful of others from the Creative Destruction Labs (CDL) "Quantum Boot Camp" to take part in the final stage, the "CDL Quantum Incubator" program. This is an intense, year-long program where CDL concentrates on developing your specific startup to make it commercially viable—while also establishing connections with other quantum companies, clients, investors, and venture capitalists.

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Bill Hase Memorial Scholarship

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