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Celebrating Luis' birthday in K-town, LA while group attends to APS March meeting.
Great talks given by everyone in the group at the Strong Light-Matter Coupling sessions in DCP.

Joel visits the MPI for Structure and Dynamics of Matter in Hamburg, Germany. Thanks to Ángel Rubio for the kind invitation. A trip filled with great scientific discussions!

Dinner with Rodrigo at a Japanese restuarant after the screening of his award-winning movie 'Lupe Under the Sun'!

Raphael attends the ACS Fall National Meeting in Washington D.C, where he presented his work on vibronic symmetries and Jhan-Teller effect.

A (partial) solar eclipse is a good excuse to go out and take a sunbath.

Matt attends Telluride School on Theoretical Chemistry, where he learned on topics ranging from electronic structure to biophysics.

Raphael attends the Telluride Workshop on Spontaneous Coherence and Collective Dynamics. This covered a range of topics regarding condensation of polaritons.

July 4^th celebration! Joel hosted an awesome lunch (and afternoon of games) before heading to the traditional fireworks.

Joel gives scientific and outreach presentations sponsored by the graduate students' SACNAS chapter at UCSB. Thanks Marcela & friends for organizing this. It was an honor to meet such enthusiastic and interesting students!

The group goes for a spontaneous sushi dinner in UTC!

Joel cooks the group and friends a delicious thanksgiving meal!

Luis attends the "Molecular Reponse Properties" Summer School in Virginia Tech. The topics covered in the school were on the theory of light-matter interaction in the linear-response regime.

Luis and Jorge present a poster at SoCal TheoChem 2.0, the symposium that gathers the theoretical-chemistry community in the southern California area.

Jorge attends the CECAM school "Quantum and Mixed Quantum Classical Dynamics simulations for the study of photoinitiated processes" in Zaragoza, Spain. Here is a photo which seems 100% legit XD

Joel gives an invited talk at the APS March meeting in New Orleans at the Division of Chemical Physics in the session "Spectroscopy and Dynamics of Multichromophoric Systems".

Rosca de Reyes celebration!
We are excited to start this year with renewed energy to do science.

Joel gives a PChem Seminar in the Department of Chemistry at UC Riverside.

Matt Du joins our research group! Matt did his undergrad at Northwestern where he worked in organic chemistry synthesis and electronic structure theory.Matt likes playing quidditch and cooking.

Joel takes the lab for lunch to Bella Vista for a group photo next to the beach.

Joel gives a Condensed Matter seminar in the Department of Physics in Caltech.

Joel and Luis attended the "Strong Coupling with Organic Molecules" workshop in Donostia, San Sebastian! Joel gives an invited talk and Luis presents a poster on ultrastrong coupling chemistry. We had the chance to learn more on the current polariton-related research and its frontiers.

Dr. Raphael Ribeiro joins our research group! He is an expert on semiclassical methods and topology in physics and chemistry. Raphael holds a PhD from UC Irvine on corrections to Thomas Fermi theory.

Joel gives a PChem seminar in the Department of Chemistry at San Diego State University.

Jorge Campos Angulo joins our research group! Jorge holds a BSc and MSc degrees from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. His masters thesis is concerned with spectroscopic signatures of molecular magnets. Jorge enjoys sci-fi.

The group heads over to Pacific Beach, to taste some raelly great Spanish food!

Joel gives an invited talk at the 7th International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals, and Plasmonics (META) in Malaga, Spain.

Joel and Francesco organized the First Southern California Theoretical Chemistry Symposium at UC San Diego!

Joel gives an invited talk at MRS in the session "Organic Excitonic Systems and Devices" in Phoenix.

Joel organizes an MPPG forum entitled "The future of spectroscopies: Theoretical perspectives" at the 251st National ACS meeting themed "Computers in Chemistry".

Joel gives an invited talk at Pacifichem in the session "Quantum Coherence in Energy Transfer" in Honolulu!

Luis A. Martinez-Martinez joins our research group!

Luis holds a BSc and MSc degrees from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).His masters thesis involves accelerated GPU-calculations for a ground-state MP2 variant. He enjoys jogging, video games and heavy metal.

Congratulations Roberto!

Roberto and Joel give talks at the VIII Annual meeting of the Division de Informacion Cuantica of the Mexican Society of Physiscs in Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico.

Excited to annouce my arrival in San Diego from cambridge, MA, to start my new group at UCSD.
Welcome Roberto, Andrew and Ben!