Graduation

October 2024

Congratulations to Lorenzo Bocchi and Matteo Costanza for their bachelor degree. Cheers!

Conference

September 2024

Congratulations to Riccardo Conte for his presentation at the Molecular Electronic Structure (MES) 2024 meeting in Pescara.

Conference

August 2024

Congratulations to Cecilia Lanzi and Davide Moscato for their presentations at the Italian National Chemistry Society (SCI) meeting in Milan.

"And to Davide Barbiero for his presentation and his SCI award!"

Graduation

July 2024

Congratulations to Giacomo Botti for successfully defending his PhD theses. Cheers!

Graduation

July 2024

Congratulations to Giacomo Mandelli for successfully defending his PhD theses. Cheers!

Seminar

July 2024

Prof. Riccardo Spezia from Sorbonne University and Prof. Carlo Cavallotti from Politecnico di Milano will be given a two seminars in our group titled respectively "Reaction Rates from Direct Dynamics Simulations" and "Recent progress in the development and application of new methodologies for kinetic investigations".

Visitor

April 2024

Thanks to Yajun Liu from the Center for Advanced Materials Research, Beijing Normal University, Zhuhai (China) for visiting our group.

And for giving us a seminar titled "Blue-shifted Förster Resonance Energy Transfer in Bacterial Bioluminescence".

Visitor

April 2024

Thanks to Marco Garavelli from Università degli Studi di Bologna (Dipartimento di Chimica Industriale), Bologna (Italy) for visiting our group and for giving us a seminar titled "Towards an accurate computational photobiology and spectroscopy: state-of-the-art and perspectives".

Graduation

April 2023

Congratulations to Paolo Cattaneo that defended successfully his master theses. Cheers!

Graduation

February 2024

Congratulations to Michele Gandolfi for successfully definding his Ph.D. theses. Cheers!

European Grant Award

July 2023

Congratulations to Hampus Karlsson for winning the prestigious Marie Curie European Individual Fellowship! The title of the project is "Semiclassical Spin Dynamics in Condensed Phase" (SCSD). Hampus will spend two years in our group.

Graduation

October 2023

Congratulations to Luca Corneo that defended successfully his master theses. Cheers!

Visitor

September 2023

Our friend and collaborator Eli Pollak from Weizmann Institue is visiting our group. Thank you Eli!

Poster Presentation

September 2023

Cecilia Lanzi is presenting a poster at the Symposium on Theoretical Chemistry at ETH Zurich.

Poster Presentation

September 2023

Davide Moscato is presenting a poster at the Symposium on Theoretical Chemistry at ETH Zurich.

Graduation

July 2023

Congratulations to Davide Barbiero that defended successfully his master theses. Cheers!

European Grant Award

July 2023

Congratulations to Chiara Aieta for winning the prestigious Marie Curie Global Individual Fellowship! The title of the project is "Post Born-Oppenheimer Approximation for Semiclassical Spectroscopy Investigation of Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Processes" (NEOSC). Chiara will spend two years in Princeton at Sharon-Hammes Schiffer's group and one year back in Milan.

Seminar

May 2023

We enjoyed a seminar given by Sophya Garashchuk titled "Nuclear Quantum Effects in Molecular Dynamics: Theory and Applications. We thank Sonya for her two-days visit of our group.

Seminar and PhD lecture

May 2023

We enjoyed a morning lecture and an afternoon seminar given by Marzia Bedoni titled ". This is part of our collaboration within the ERC POC SEMISOFT project titled "A web-platform interfaced software for spectroscopic molecular characterization and early diagnosis of Parkinson's disease".

Graduation

September 2022

Congratulations to Cecilia Lanzi that defended successfully her master theses. Cheers!

Graduation

January 2022

Congratulations to Alessandro Rognoni that defended successfully his Ph.D. theses. Cheers!

Graduation

October 2021

Congratulations to Davide Moscato that defended successfully his master theses. Cheers!

Nature Communications Editorial 2020 Collection

January 2021

The editors at Nature Communications have put together an Editors' Highlights webpage of recent research called “Inorganic and physical chemistry” and they chose to feature our article, entitled “Anharmonic quantum nuclear densities from full dimensional vibrational eigenfunctions with application to protonated glycine”

See the Editorial Collection

Our publication in Nature Communications

August 2020

Our latest paper “Anharmonic quantum nuclear densities fromfull dimensional vibrational eigenfunctionswith application to protonated glycine” has been published on Nature Communications. Congratulations to Chiara, Gianluca, Marco and Michele for these achievements!

Open Access full paper

February 23rd, 2019

Congratulations to Fabio and Giovanni for their final PhD discussion and commencement!

Januray 22nd, 2019

Prof. Dimitrii V. Shalashilin from University of Leeds (UK), gave a seminar titled “Trajectory guided basis sets of Coherent States for quantum dynamics” hr. 15.30, Aula G15, Settore Didattico Golgi

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Graduation

December 2018

Congratulations to Giacomo Buccella, Erika Fallacara, and Lorenzo Parma that defended successfully their master theses. Cheers!

Talk at MolSimEng 2018

September 26th, 2018

Fabio gave a talk titled “Ab-initio and force field molecular dynamics applied to vibrational spectroscopy: the case of Deoxyguanosine and Ac-Phe-Met-NH2” at the MolSimEng 2018 meeting held in Milan. The talk is part of the dissemination of the ERC project outcomes. Giovanni, Chiara and Marco Cazzaniga presented their posters.

MolSimEng 2018 webpage

Talk at AMOC 2018

April 17th, 2018

Riccardo gave a talk titled “Semiclassical vibrational spectroscopy: the importance of quantum anharmonicity in supramolecular systems” at the AMOC (Anharmonicity in Medium-Sized Molecules and Clusters) workshop held in Budapest on April 16-19th, 2018. The talk is part of the dissemination of the ERC project outcomes.

AMOC conference webpage

ERC Seminar

April 13th, 2018

Prof. Matteo Tommasini from Dipartimento di Chimica, Materiale e Ingegneria Chimica “Giulio Natta”, Politecnico di Milano, gave a seminar titled “Vibrational fingerprints of molecular structure: the case of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons” hr. 11:00, Aula Montanari, Dipartimento di Chimica

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ERC Seminar

February 28th, 2018

Prof. Chiara Castiglioni from Dipartimento di Chimica, Materiale e Ingegneria Chimica “Giulio Natta”, Politecnico di Milano, gave a seminar titled “Spettroscopia vibrazionale per la scienza dei materiali: sinergie tra l’osservazione sperimentale e la modellazione teorica dello spettro” hr. 11:00, Aula Bianchi, Dipartimento di Chimica

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Talk at ASTRO-Winter modeling 2018

February 16th, 2018

Riccardo gave a talk titled “Investigating molecular quantum vibrational frequencies with semiclassical dynamics: theory and application to systems of astrochemical interest” at the ASTRO-Winter modeling workshop held in Bologna on 15-16th February 2018. The talk is part of the dissemination of the ERC project outcomes.

Workshop webpage

PhD Commencement

February 2nd, 2018

Congratulations to Chiara for her final PhD discussion and commencement.

ERC Seminar

February 2nd, 2018

Dr. Frank Grossmann from Institut fuer Theoretische Physik, Technische Universitaet Dresden, gave a seminar titled “Semiclassical initial value representations: Basics and applications to quantum dissipation” hr. 11:00, Aula Montanari, Dipartimento di Chimica

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ERC Seminar

March 14th, 2017

Dr. Lorenzo Mino from University of Turin gave a seminar titled “Catalysis and photocatalysis on TiO2 nanoparticles: a surface science approach” hr. 14:30, Aula 302, Settore Didattico Celoria

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ERC Seminar

January 19th, 2017

Dr. Huaqing Li gave a seminar titled “Keep Dynamical Quantum Effect in Multi-dimensional MD” hr. 14:30, Aula Bianchi, Dipartimento di Chimica

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ERC Seminar

November 28th, 2016

Dr. Jaime Suarez gave a seminar titled “GridTDSE: Cartesian coordinate-based wave packet propagations in QMD” hr. 14:30, Aula Bianchi, Dipartimento di Chimica

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Talk at MolSimEng 2016

September 30th, 2016

Riccardo gave a talk on glycine vibrational frequencies at MolSimEng 2016 workshop held at Politecnico di Milano. The talk is part of the dissemination of the ERC project outcomes. Chiara and Giovanni have presented their posters.

Book of abstracts MolSimEng 2016

Congratulations Chiara!

September 19th, 2016

Chiara's poster entitled "A Quantum Approximate Method for the Calculation of Thermal Reaction Rate Constants" has been selected for a Lightning Presentation at "Reaction Rate Theory: Faraday Discussion" held at Cambridge University. Good job, Chiara!

Go to the conference website

Seminar

April 16th, 2016

Prof. N. Serpone gives a seminar titled "Four Decades of Heterogeneous Photocatalysis: Where are the much promised Solar Fuels?" hr. 14:30, Aula 403, Settore Didattico Celoria

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