April 4, 2024
Professor Xuhui Huang of the Theoretical Chemistry Institute in Madison visited us and gave the final Chemical Theory Center seminar of the 2023-2024 academic year. The photo shows him with Don Truhlar and Jiali Gao sharing conversation and a seafood dinner at the end of the day.
January 9, 2024
Group alumni met at Yan Zhao’s seminar at East China Normal University in Shanghai on January 9, 2024. From left to right are former group members Kaining Duanmu (Tongji Univ. in Shanghai), Xinping Wu (Shanghai Jiaotong Univ. in Shanghai), and Professor Yan Zhao (Sichuan Univ. in Sichuan) and senior collaborator Professor Xiao He (East China Normal University in Shanghai).
August 9, 2023
Front Row: Aiswarya M. Parameswaran, Maryam Mansoori Kermani, Qinghui Meng, Yinan Shu, Jie Bao
Back Row: Suman Bhaumik, Donald G. Truhlar, Dayou Zhang
Missing: Luke Fiedler
November 17, 2022
Fourth Row: Jie Bao, Dayou Zhang, Donald G. Truhlar
Third Row: Suman Bhaumik, Farideh Badichi Akher, Yinan Shu
Second Row: Aiswarya M. Parameswaran, Maryam Mansoori Kermani, Siriluk Kanchanakungwankul
First Row: Jiaxin Ning
Missing: Luke Fiedler
October 14, 2021
Top Row: Chen Zhou, Jie Bao, Siriluk Kanchanakungwankul, Donald G. Truhlar
Middle Row: Dihua Wu, Jiaxin Ning, Dayou Zhang, Suman Bhaumik
Bottom Row: Zoltán Varga, Yinan Shu
Missing: Aiswarya M. Parameswaran, Luke Fiedler
October 20, 2020
Top Row: Jiaxin Ning, Jie Bao, Chen Zhou, Yinan Shu
Middle Row: Donald G. Truhlar, Suman Bhaumik, Dayou Zhang, Dihua Wu
Bottom Row: Rui Ming Zhang, Siriluk Kanchanakungwankul, Zoltán Varga
Missing: Luke Fiedler
July 2019
Back Row: Jie Bao, Kelsey Parker
Middle Row: Lyuben Borislavov, Erica Mitchell, Bo Yang, Zoli Varga, Jingyun Ye, Indrani Choudhuri, Siri Kanchanakungwankul, Jiaxin Ning, Chen Zhou, Dayou Zhang, Xin-Ping Wu
Front Row: Wei Lin (group alumnus), Donald G. Truhlar, Linyao Zhang, Junjun Wu, Lu Gao, Yinan Shu
Missing: Luke Fiedler
April 2019
Current and former group members at the ACS National Meeting in Orlando, FL: Jie Bao, Jingjing Zheng, Tao Yu, and Rain Li.
Aug 11, 2017
Back Row: Luke Fiedler, Steven Mielke, Junwei, Lucas Bao, Yinan Shu
Second Row: Sijia Dong, Wei-Guang Liu, Don Truhlar, Siri Kanchanakungwanchul, Zoltán Varga, Bo Yang, Xin-Ping Wu
First Row: Andrew Sand, Kamal Sharkas, Yuliya Paukku, Kelsey Parker, Wanqiao Zhang, Lili Xing, Jingyun Ye
Missing: Jie Bao, Hirbod Heidari, Joanna Kryven, and Pragya Verma
June 9, 2017
Group dinner of “truhlar group alumni” WeChat group in Dalian China. Left to right: Peifeng Su, Bo Long, Guo-Liang Song, Zhen Hua Li, Shuping Huang, Don Truhlar, Wenjing Zhang, Xin Zhang, Xuefei Xu, Donghui Zhang, Chaoyuan Zhu, and Wei Lin. Not present: Jie Bao, Lucas Bao, Xiao He, Shaohong Li, Haoyu Yu, Yuan Zhang and Jingjing Zheng. In the background is the beautiful Xinghai Bridge in Dalian.
August 2016
Back Row: Bo Long, Xin Zhang, Junwei Bao, Don Truhlar, Jie Bao, Wei-Guang Liu, Luke Fiedler, Steven Mielke, Zoltán Varga, Xin-Ping Wu, Yuliya Paukku
Second Row: Rubén Meana Pañeda, Pragya Verma, Mayank Dodia, Bo Yang
First Row: Kaining Duanmu, Shaohong Li, Yinan Shu, Kelsey Parker, Chad Hoyer, Andrew Sand, Kamal Sharkas
Shaohong Li receiving the 2016 Overend Award for Graduate Research in Physical Chemistry from Prof. Aaron Massari (April 2016)
Group alumni Hannah Leverentz and Boris Averkiev, Knoxville, TN, Feb. 6, 2016.
August 2015
Back Row: Junwei Bao, Max Makeev, Don Truhlar, Shaohong Li, Yuliya Paukku, Wei Lin, Steven Mielke, Zoltan Varga
Second Row: Haoyu Yu, Wei-Guang Liu, Pragya Verma, Xiao He, Guoliang Song
First Row: Laura Fernandez, Kelsey Parker, Chad Hoyer, Rubén Meana Pañeda, Kaining Duanmu, Xiaoyu Li
Missing: Shuping Huang, Luke Fiedler, Osanna Tishchenko
August 2014
Third Row: Junwei Bao, Bo Wang, Chad Hoyer, Xiao He, Rubén Meana Pañeda, He Ma, Max Makeev
Second Row: Zoltan Varga, Don Truhlar, Yuliya Paukku, Steven Mielke, Shaohong Li, Kaining Duanmu, Luke Fiedler
First Row: Wenjing Zhang, Pattrawan Sripa, Laura Fernandez, Xuefei Xu, Pragya Verma, Prasenjit Seal, Wei Lin
Missing: Shuping Huang, Osanna Tishchenko, Haoyu Yu, Jingjing Zheng
A candid picture shows a great representation of how our group functions (August 2014)
Zhengtian Yu , Don Truhlar, and Angela Wilson at the Gordon Conference on Compuational Chemistry,West Dover,
Vermont, July 23, 2014. Zhengtian Yu (Associate Director, Head of CADD & Chemoinformatics, China Novartis
Institutes for BioMedical Research Co., Ltd.) and Angela Wilson (Regents Professor of Chemistry and Co-Director
of the Center for Advanced Scientific Computing and Modeling, University of North Texas) are University of Minnesotaa
graduate alumni of the research group of Professor Jan Almlöf.
Xuefei Xu, Don Truhlar, and Pragya Verma, coauthors of Don Truhlar's 1000th journal article,
at the surprise party, Smith Hall, July 1st, 2013.
July 2013
Third Row: Bo Wang, Yulia Paukku, Zoltan Varga,Rubén Meana Pañeda,Steven Mielke, Alek Marenich
Second Row: Luke Fiedler, Chad Hoyer, Haoyu Yu, Shaohong Li, Andy Luo,Kaining Duanmu,Prasenjit Seal
First Row: Don Truhlar, Xuefei Xu, Pragya Verma, Wenjing Zhang, Jingjing Zheng, Ke Yang
Missing: Osanna Tishchenko
June 2012
Fourth Row: Alek Marenich, Hannah Leverentz, Kaining Duanmu, Zoltan Varga, Jingjing Zheng, Helena Qi
Third Row: Luke Fiedler, Rubén Meana Pañeda, Haoyu Yu, Steven Mielke, Bo Wang
Second Row: Gbenga Oyedepo,Prasenjit Seal, Pragya Verma, Ke Yang, Flurnia Hadley-Davis, Xuefei Xu
First Row: Yulia Paukku, Miho Isegawa, Boris Averkiev, Tao Yu, Don Truhlar
Missing: Andy Luo, Ewa Papajak, Osanna Tishchenko
CTC 2011-2012
October 2011
Picture taken at a party for Yan's visiting the group
Fifth to last Row (left to right): Gbenga Oyedepo, Steven Mielke, Bo Wang, Don Truhlar
Fourth Row: Rubén Meana Pañeda, Roberto Peverati, Santhanamoorthi Nachimuthu
Third Row: Yan Zhao, Tao Yu, Raphael Florentino Ribeiro, Ewa Papajak
Second Row: Boris Averkiev, Haoyu Yu, Yulia Paukku, Alek Marenich, Prasenjit Seal
First Row: Jingjing Zheng (Valerie Zheng), Xuefei Xu, Run Li, Ke Yang
June 2011
Fifth Row: Bo Wang, Yulia Paukku, Raphael Florentino Ribeiro, John Alecu
Fourth Row: Prasenjit Seal, Jeremy Tempkin, Roberto Peverati, Boris Averkiev
Third Row: Alek Marenich, Steven Mielke, Tao Yu, Jingjing Zheng, Andy Luo
Second Row: Flurnia Hadley-Davis, Hannah Leverentz, Santhanamoorthi Nachimuthu, Anant Kulkarni, Donald Truhlar
First Row: Gillian Shaw, Miho Isegawa, Xuefei Xu, Run Li, Ke Yang, Ewa Papajak
Missing: Luke Fiedler, Sara Kragt, Osanna Tishchenko
October 2010
Third Row: Alek Marenich, Steven Mielke, Roberto Peverati, Bo Wang, Luke Fiedler,John Alecu, Boris Averkiev
Second Row: Ewa Papajak, Andy Luo, Miho Isegawa, Xuefei Xu, Jingjing Zheng, Anant Kulkarni, Donald Truhlar
First Row: Hannah Leverentz, Tao Yu, Run Li, Viki Ding, Ke Yang
Missing: Hadi Dinpajooh, Flurnia Hadley-Davis, Sara Kragt, Osanna Tishchenko
November 2009
Fifth Row: Bo Wang, John Alecu, Orlando Roberto-Neto, Boris Averkiev
Fourth Row: Steven L. Mielke, Luke Fiedler, Ruifang Li, Donald Truhlar
Third Row: Ewa Papajak, Andy Luo
Second Row: Flurnia Hadley-Davis,Sarah Kragt, Alek Marenich
First Row: Jingjing Zheng, Ke Yang, Hannah Leverentz, Run Li
Missing: Osanna Tishchenko, Hadi Dinpajooh, Brian White
June 2008
Third Row: Luke Fiedler, Bo Wang, Yongho Kim
Second Row: Masahiro Higashi,David Bonhommeau, Rosendo Valero, Ewa Papajak, Donald Truhlar
First Row: Yan Zhao, Jingjing Zheng, Hannah Leverentz, Meiyu Zhao, Alek Marenich, Rubén Meana Pañeda
Missing: Steven L. Mielke, Jonathan Smith, Osanna Tishchenko, Brian White, Wangshen Xie
July 2007
Third Row: Robert Molt, Masahiro Higashi, Andreas Heyden, Adam Chamberlin, Brian White, Ryan Olson
Second Row: Jingjing Zheng, Jonathan Young, Mark Iron, Hannah Leverentz, Anastassia Sorkin, Alek Marenich
First Row: Donald Truhlar, Rosendo Valero, Yan Zhao, David Bonhommeau, Erin Dahlke, Ewa Papajak
Missing: Natalie Elmasry, Jonathan Smith
August 2006
Sixth Row: Zhenhua Li, Andreas Heyden
Fifth Row: Casey Kelly, Neil Young, Divesh Bhatt
Fourth Row: Benjamin Lynch, Michael Collins, Elizabeth Amin
Third Row: Donald Truhlar, Erin Dahlke, Benjamin Ellingson
Second Row: Mark Iron, Hyunju Lee
First Row: Yan Zhao, Yuan Zhang, Nate Schultz, Jingjing Zheng
Missing: Adam Chamberlin, Natalie Elmasry, Michelle Orthmeyer, Pablo Jaque, Jonathan Smith, Rosendo Valero, Wangshen Xie, Brian White
March 2006
Left to right: Marek Strajbl, Avital Shurki, Jane Truhlar, and Don Truhlar in Jerusalem
June 2005
Fourth Row: Zhenhua Li, Casey Kelly, Adam Chamberlin
Third Row: Mark Iron, Ahren Jasper, Yan Zhao, Jerry Mohrig, Ian Haken, Erin Dahlke
Second Row: Dan Theis, Michal Rostkowski, Ben Ellingson, Don Truhlar, T.J. Preston, Nate Schultz
First Row: Núria González-García, Rosendo Valero, Clayton Spencer, Arindam Chakraborty, Shikha Nangia, Hai Lin, Jingzhi Pu
Oct. 5, 2004
Left to right: Nate Schultz, Elizabeth Ambrose Amin, Vanessa Audette Lynch, Erin Dahlke, Jose Javier Ruiz Perna, Ahren Jasper, Chaoyuan Zhu, Antonio Fernandez-Ramos, Yan Zhao, Jerry Mohrig, Ben Lynch, Arindam Chakraborty, Ben Ellingson, Jason Thompson, Don Truhlar, Clayton Spencer, Dan Theis, Hai Lin
Aug 16, 2004
Back Row: Grazyna Staszewska, Ben Ellingson, Erin Dahlke, Ahren Jasper, Don Truhlar, Ben Lynch, Nate Schultz, Przemyslaw Staszewski
Middle Row: Núria González-García, Chaoyuan Zhu, Arindam Chakraborty, Shikha Nangia, Vanessa Audette Lynch, Jason Thompson
Front Row: Clayton Spencer, Yan Zhao, Hai Lin, Jingzhi Pu, Adam Chamberlin, Dan Theis
