Congratulations to Feizhi Ding for being awarded the Department of Chemistry Travel Award. This award provides funds for students to travel to their alma mater during the 2013-2014 academic year to present their research. The award recognizes students for their excellent performance at the University of Washington and as an excellent spokesperson for the graduate program. Feizhi will now coordinate a time to visit his alma mater, the University of Science and Technology of China.

Congratulations to Feizhi Ding who passed his general exam. Feizhi presented on his work developing efficient methods for solving the real-time time-dependent Hartree-Fock and density functional theory equations. He also discussed his application of these methods to the study of organic photovoltaics in collaboration with Professor Alex Jen’s and Professor David Ginger’s labs at the University of Washington and on surface plasmon resonances in silver nanoparticle chains in collaboration with Assistant Professor Christine Aikens at Kansas State University. Feizhi has earned his Ph.D. candidacy and will be working to bring real-time time-dependence to mutlireference methods.

The Li group welcomes Alessio Petrone, a third-year Ph.D. student at the University of Napoli “Federico II”, from Naples, Italy. Alessio will be with the group through January working on new developments for post-SCF methods.