News
2024
May 17, 2024: Steve and Walt publish on molecular beam scattering of ammonia from a dodecane flat liquid jet.
May 14, 2024: Eric and Megan graduate! Congratulations!
April 23, 2024: Madison receives the Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowship! Congrats!
April 10, 2024: Masa, Do, and Neal, alongside group alumni Zach, Blake, and Negar, publish on adenine, adenosine, and adenosine monophosphate in a liquid flat jet.
February 1, 2024: Marty publishes on work he did at Leipzig: vibrational wave-packet dynamics of the silver pentamer probed by femtosecond NeNePo spectroscopy.
February 1, 2024: Megan, Masa, and Jenny publish a paper on the time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy of iodide–4-thiouracil cluster.
2023
December 15, 2023: Steve graduates! Congratulations!
October 1, 2023: Korina joins the group as a 1st year graduate student! Welcome!
August 11, 2023: Zach and Yen-Cheng graduate! Congratulations!
August 2, 2023: Walt and Steve, along with group alumni Chin and Marvin, publish a paper on evaporation and molecular beam scattering of neon, methane, and water from a dodecane flat liquid jet.
May 19, 2023: Eric and group alumnus Andrew publish a paper on femtosecond symmetry breaking and coherent relaxation of methane cations.
April 4, 2023: Jascha, Marty, and Tonia, along with group alumnus Mark, publish a paper on vibrationally excited vinoxide anions.
March 27, 2023: Nicki, Yen-Cheng, and James, along with group alumna Ashley, publish a paper on autoionization decay lifetimes of optically forbidden inner valence excited states in neon atoms.
February 28, 2023: James and Yen-Cheng, along with group alumni Ashley and Yuki, publish a paper on nonresonant coherent amplitude transfer.
February 15, 2023: Zach passes his qualifying exam! Congratulations!
2022
December 30, 2022: Yen-Cheng and James, along with group alumna Ashley, publish a paper on state-selective probing of CO2 autoionizing inner valence Rydberg states.
December 16, 2022: Chin graduates! Congratulations!
December 12, 2022: Marty and Jascha, as well as group alumni Mark, Marissa, and Jongjin, publish in Nature Chemistry on the transition state of the F + NH3 reaction.
December 8, 2022: Zach completes a review paper on nonadiabatic dynamics studied by liquid-jet time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy.
October 21, 2022: Marty, Jascha, and Tonia, alongside group alumnus Mark, complete a paper on high resolution photoelectron spectroscopy of the acetyl anion.
October 12, 2022: Walt passes his qualifying exam! Congratulations!
July 7, 2022: Jascha and Marty finish a paper for publication in PCCP on SEVI spectroscopy of NiO2–.
Jun 7, 2022: Masa and Megan publish a paper on the dynamics of UV excited iodide-2-thiouracil clusters.
Jun 6, 2022: Andrew and Eric finish a paper on the dissociation of CCl4+.
March 10, 2022: Chin, Marvin, and Walt finish a paper on evaporation and molecular beam scattering from a liquid flat jet.
March 2, 2022: Kristina publishes a paper on alkyl iodides. Congratulations!
February 14, 2022: Yuki publishes on transition dipole phase in XUV transient-absorption.
February 18, 2022: Marvin and Chin publish on angle-resolved photoemission of liquid fencone.
January 7, 2022: We publish on sizes of pure and doped helium droplets.
2021
December 20, 2021: Mark and Blake graduate! Congratulations!
November 4, 2021: Mark and Marty publish in the Journal of Physical Chemistry on structural characterization of nickel-doped aluminum oxide cations.
November 2, 2021: Two 1st year graduate students join the group! Welcome Leonardo and Walt!
September 6, 2021: Catherine's paper on charge dynamics of large helium nanodroplets is published in The European Physical Journal Specia Topics!
August 27, 2021: Mark and Marty publish in the Journal of Chemical Physics on the electronic structure of NdO.
August 16, 2021: Marty and Mark publish on vibrationally excited OH- as part of the Journal of Physical Chemistry's virtual special issue "Daniel Neumark Festschrift".
July 28, 2021: Chin publishes on evidence for a metallic water solution!
July 2, 2021: Chin publishes on vertical ionization energies of water!
May 26, 2021: Kristina and Yuki publish on strong-field dissociation vinyl bromide!
June 15, 2021: James is awarded the 2021 ACS Physical Division Young Investigator Award!
May 21, 2021: Isaac and Hung-Tzu graduate!
May 26, 2021: James is awarded the 2021 ACS Physical Division Young Investigator Award!
April 29, 2021: Isaac publishes on the photodissociation dynamics of the cyclohexyl radical!
March 15, 2021: Chin publishes work done while at FHI on photoelectron spectra of liquid water! Check it out!
February 10, 2021: Hung-Tzu publishes on the thermalization and relaxation of laser-heated nickel - congrats!
2020
December 30, 2020: Mark and group alumn Jessalyn sneak in one last paper, on ZrO2- reacting with H2O, to end 2020!
December 21, 2020: Ashley got her thesis signed! Congrats!! She's off to Princeton to work with group alumnus, Marissa Weichman!
December 18, 2020: Yen-Cheng and Ashley publish on dynamics in O2 inner valance excited states!
November 16, 2020: Ashley publsihes with group alumni Yuki and Hugo on dynamics in the ICI molecule!
October 29, 2020: Nicki Puskar has joined the group and will work on the atto project at LBNL! Welcome Nicki!!
October 26, 2020: Lou leaves us to take on a tenured position at Université Paris-Saclay! Congrats and safe travels!
September 24, 2020: Romain leaves us for France! Bonne chance!
September 23, 2020: Marty passes his qualifying exam!
September 11, 2020: Mark and Marty publish on 4-atom Silicon Carbides!
August 12, 2020: Kristina and Lou have a new paper out on alkyl iodides in Nature Communications!
July 28, 2020: Erin and Steve publish their work on iso-propoxy!
July 19, 2020: Today is Katharine's last day in the group, we'll miss her tremendously and know she's going to do amazing work at Physical Sciences.
June 22, 2020: Erin and Bethan have their work on tert-butyl perthiyl published!
June 22, 2020: Yuki and Kristina publish their recent work on the dynamics in deuterium bromide.
June 18, 2020: Romain publishes work on beam optimization for high harmonic generation.
May 21, 2020: Romain and Andrew publish their work on Magnesium Oxide in Phys. Rev. Lett.
May 19, 2020: Erin got her dissertation signed by Dan and is graduating! We're excited you're staying in the Bay while working for Exponent!
May 12, 2020: Ashley publishes work on self-heterodyned detection of dressed state coherences in helium!
April 2, 2020: Lou and Andrew publish their work on reaching the carbon K-edge! Congrats!
March 9, 2020: The Bay Area is under a shelt-in-place order dur to the COVID-19 outbreak. All lab operations are suspended until further notice.
Jan 30-Feb 2, 2020: Check out Mark's poster and Blake's contributed talk at the 2020 Pacific Conference on Spectroscopy and Dynamics!
Jan 25-31, 2020: Check out Zach and Katharine's posters at the 2020 Molecular Models of Chemical Structure and Dynamics Gordon Research Conference and associated Gordon Research Symposium
2019
Dec 30, 2019: Mark, Jessalyn, and Marty's paper on the photodetachment of NO3ˉ is finally published in its final form. Congrats!
Dec 13, 2019: Jessalyn and Alice got their dissertations signed by Dan and are graduating! Congrats! Good luck on your postdocs in the Wodtke and Allison groups!
Nov 25, 2019: Yuki publishes a theory paper on predissociation via XUV transient absorption spectroscopy in JCP. Congrats!
Nov 22, 2019: Congratulations to Blake, Zach, and Erica for their paper in JPCA describing the relaxation dynamics of hydrated thymine! This was in collaboration with the Martinez group at Stanford.
Nov 04, 2019: Erin's paper on the photodissociation dynamics of the indenyl radical is published by JCP! Congrats!
Oct 16, 2019: Congrats to Alice, Valerie, and Katharine for having their paper on iodide-uracil-water clusters published by JCP!
Oct 14, 2019: We have new 1st year graduate students - Marty and Megan haved joined the group! Welcome!
Oct 10, 2019: This page was born! Sorry there isn't news before this point in time, but it will be kept up to date from henceforth!