Xiang attends FEMTO14 Conference
Xiang attends The 14th Femtochemistry Conference (FEMTO 14) – Dynamics of the Complexity in Chemistry, Biology, and Physics – which will take place in Shanghai, China from July 28 to August 2, 2019.
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Master student opening available (ECNU)
We have a Master student opening available in our group through the State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, ECNU (Optics major). If you are interested, please contact Prof. Sun at xiang.sun@nyu.edu.
Xiang presents at Telluride Workshop
Xiang gives an invited talk on photoinduced charge transfer at Telluride workshop on “Nonequilibrium Phenomena, Nonadiabatic Dynamics and Spectroscopy“, July 16-20, 2019 organized by Alexander White, Alexey Akimov, Sergei Tretiak, and Vladimir Chernyak.
https://www.telluridescience.org/meetings/workshop-details?wid=739
Xiang gives an invited talk at Caltech
Xiang gives an invited talk on Linearized Path Integral Methods at California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA.
Host: Thomas F. Miller, III.
Xiang presents at Symposium of Quantum Effects in Chemistry and Biology
Xiang gives a talk on photoinduced charge transfer at the International Symposium of Quantum Effects in Chemistry and Biology, NYU Shanghai June 1-3, 2019.
Xiang received Grants from STCSM and SMEC
Xiang received grants of Shanghai Sailing Program (上海市青年科技英才 “扬帆计划” ) from the Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality (STCSM上海市科委) and
Shanghai Eastern Young Scholar Program (上海市高校 “青年东方学者” 岗位计划) from the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission (SMEC上海市教委).
Cheers!
Dr. Zhengqing Tong joins our group, Welcome!
Dr. Zhengqing Tong joins our group as a Postdoctoral Fellow, Welcome!
Xiang gives STEM seminar
Xiang gives a STEMinar talk on “What Do We See in Ultrafast Spectroscopy of Liquids?”
The seminar is scheduled for 4:30-5:30 PM, Wednesday, April 17 in Room 310, Pudong. Please also note that tea and coffee reception will start at 4:00 PM. VC will be ready in Room 375, Geo Building, Zhongbei Campus.
Abstract of the Talk:
The advancement of ultrafast laser techniques enables scientists to track molecular movements in real time, just like taking a series of snapshots with superfast shutter speed (compare with a femtosecond or 10^-15 second). However, shooting a movie of all the molecules in a bulk liquid solution is not possible experimentally (which is possible in computer simulations), in fact, one can only focus on a few important motions. In this talk, I will introduce the concept of using ultrafast spectroscopy to study solvation dynamics, which is a relaxation process of the solvent after exciting the solute by a laser pulse. The traditional approach of studying solvation dynamics is called time-dependent fluorescence spectroscopy, which reports the evolution of solute’s emitted fluorescence. Still, one has to infer the changes in solvent structure from the concomitant evolution of the solute-solvent interaction energy. With the method we developed, it is now possible to measure directly how the solvent dynamics can be affected by electronically excitation of the solute. Combining laser excitation of solute with light scattering, we can follow the solvent structural dynamics via novel solute-pump/solvent-probe spectroscopy. From computer simulations of these spectra, we show that one can learn about local solvent structural changes near the newly excited solute.
Postdocs, students and your visitors are welcome also. We look forward to seeing you there.
Richard Stratt visits NYU Shanghai
Professor Richard Stratt, Newport Rogers professor in chemistry and professor of physics at Brown University visits NYU Shanghai during the week of Mar 25-29, 2019 and gives two talks as follows.
General Talk: What is it like to make a scientific discovery? Monday, March 25, 2019 12:00PM to 1:30PM
Location: Room 604, Pudong Campus
https://events.shanghai.nyu.edu/#!view/event/event_id/5274
Research Seminar: Stationary Points Never Go Anywhere! Efficient Paths Through Potential Energy Landscapes
Wednesday, March 27, 2019 – 2:00PM to 3:00PM
Location: Room 264, Geography Building, Zhongbei Campus
Xiang gives an invited talk at University of Houston
Xiang gives an invited talk on charge transfer dynamics at the Department of Physics, University of Houston.
Host: Margaret Cheung.