{"id":164,"date":"2023-08-01T14:47:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T21:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/compbionano\/?page_id=164"},"modified":"2025-02-06T19:56:45","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T03:56:45","slug":"news-events","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/compbionano\/news-events\/","title":{"rendered":"News\/Events"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <div class=\"html-content\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>February 2025:<\/strong> USC media coverage. <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/stories\/usc-dornsifes-rosa-di-felice-earns-recognition-in-the-airbus-bmw-quantum-computing-challenge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/stories\/usc-dornsifes-rosa-di-felice-earns-recognition-in-the-airbus-bmw-quantum-computing-challenge\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1738986883261000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2yDDdIZpclV0MNI3bSgUns\">https:\/\/dornsife.<wbr \/>usc.edu\/stories\/usc-dornsifes-<wbr \/>rosa-di-felice-earns-<wbr \/>recognition-in-the-airbus-bmw-<wbr \/>quantum-computing-challenge\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>January 2025:<\/strong>\u00a0USC Dornsife media coverage.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news-briefs\/news-brief\/2025\/01\/quantum-solution-rusty-equipment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news-briefs\/news-brief\/2025\/01\/quantum-solution-rusty-equipment\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1738986883261000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1YngjPJtZ0JgWO0r4jmDdD\">https:\/\/dornsife.<wbr \/>usc.edu\/news-briefs\/news-<wbr \/>brief\/2025\/01\/quantum-<wbr \/>solution-rusty-equipment\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>December 2024:<\/strong> Naman and Rosa won the 2024 Airbus-BMW quantum computing challenge in the Smart Coating track,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/blogs\/quantum-computing\/winners-announced-in-the-airbus-bmw-group-quantum-computing-challenge\/__;!!LIr3w8kk_Xxm!o2s3yW4F1FLMJSzYZcYuWRochgt66oW9nUKQnJASQWqab7DvMGQxHxykfyn9_FWUDEt4PIqambmuiTg$\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/blogs\/quantum-computing\/winners-announced-in-the-airbus-bmw-group-quantum-computing-challenge\/__;!!LIr3w8kk_Xxm!o2s3yW4F1FLMJSzYZcYuWRochgt66oW9nUKQnJASQWqab7DvMGQxHxykfyn9_FWUDEt4PIqambmuiTg$&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1738960480828000&amp;usg=AOvVaw35Sn4b10CBUuzRyoobMIzM\">https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/<wbr \/>blogs\/quantum-computing\/<wbr \/>winners-announced-in-the-<wbr \/>airbus-bmw-group-quantum-<wbr \/>computing-challenge\/<\/a>,<\/li>\n<li><strong>November 2024<\/strong>: Samprita successfully defended her PhD defense and she will join Purdue University as a postdoctoral scientist in December 2024. Congratulations!<\/li>\n<li><strong>October 2024<\/strong>: Hoda published her first-author paper on CRISPR\/Cas9 in ACS Omega <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/39554421\/\">https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/39554421\/<\/a>. Congratulations!<\/li>\n<li><strong>November 2022\/October 2024<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>Miguel, Karlo, Yuxiao, Charu, Dawei, Devika, Naman and Brennen joined the group at different times and efforts.<\/li>\n<li>Hoda and Angana became mothers of a boy and a girl, respectively;<\/li>\n<li>Colin has started his PhD in Physics at Yale University;<\/li>\n<li>Margo has first joined and experimental group at USC and then started her PhD in Physics at the University of Colorado Boulder;<\/li>\n<li>Advik has left the group.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>October 2022<\/strong>: Colin passes his Physics GRE with the score of 910. Congratulations and good luck for graduate school!<\/li>\n<li><strong>October 2022<\/strong>: USC Physics majors Advik Unni (freshamn) and Margo Collins (junior) join the group and start learning molecular dynamics simulations. Welcome!<\/li>\n<li><strong>September 2022<\/strong>: Dawei Zhong, PhD student in Physics, starts exploring algorithms for electronic structure calculations of molecules and materials.<\/li>\n<li><strong>September 2022<\/strong>: Parth Hemant Darekar, Master student in quantum information sciences, joins the group for Directed Research in Fall 2022.<\/li>\n<li><strong>September 2022<\/strong>: Samprita&#8217;s first-author paper has been published in Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., with co-authors Colin, Angel, Angana and Rosa. Congratulations! <a class=\" RLC_Start RLC_Ok\" href=\"https:\/\/pubs.rsc.org\/en\/content\/articlelanding\/2022\/cp\/d2cp03505g\">https:\/\/pubs.rsc.org\/en\/content\/articlelanding\/2022\/cp\/d2cp03505g<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>May-July 2022<\/strong>: Colin spends a Summer research internship at the University of Padova, Department of Chemistry, working on electronic structure calculations of molecules on surfaces.<\/li>\n<li><strong>May 6, 2021<\/strong>:\u00a0We have just published our outreach articles in the leading science communication publication, Scientia.\u00a0<a class=\" RLC_Start RLC_Redirect\" title=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/www.scientia.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rosa-Di-Felice.pdf__;!!LIr3w8kk_Xxm!8fSf_pmlPNC7aj98cCHZNrBEGlfiKm3G84qzk19achgIRKCHT9Th6ewZKHuO40M$ | https:\/\/www.scientia.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rosa-Di-Felice.pdf\" href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/www.scientia.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rosa-Di-Felice.pdf__;!!LIr3w8kk_Xxm!8fSf_pmlPNC7aj98cCHZNrBEGlfiKm3G84qzk19achgIRKCHT9Th6ewZKHuO40M$\">https:\/\/www.scientia.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rosa-Di-Felice.pdf<\/a>; <a class=\" RLC_Start RLC_Ok\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scientia.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/Q4Q\/Q4Q-team.pdf\">https:\/\/www.scientia.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/Q4Q\/Q4Q-team.pdf<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Summer 2021<\/strong>: Samprita receives a Simons Foundation&#8217;s research internship to work at the Flatiron Institute in New York City; Hoda receives a Colgate-Palmolive research internship to work remotely; Billy has accepted a PhD offer at the University of Minnesota, which will start in AUgust 2021; Angel has been accepted for a Bridge Program at DePaul University, starting in AUgust 2021; Colin has been accepted in multiple REU programs and he has chosen to join Notre Dame University.<\/li>\n<li><strong>March 2020-May2021<\/strong>: the pandemic year. Group meetings continued on zoom as regularly as possible, on a weekly basis. Rosa was tenured in April 2020.<\/li>\n<li><strong>January 2020<\/strong>: Angana leaves the group, for a postdoc position in Poland.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Summer 2019<\/strong>: Hoa spends two months working in Italy and participates in the Quantum Hiking Conference.<\/li>\n<li><strong>April 15, 2019<\/strong>. Congratulations to Samprita, Hoa, Hoda and Carlos for passing the screening exam! Very good job!<\/li>\n<li><strong>February 26, 2019<\/strong>. Welcome to new group member, Physics freshman Colin Coane.<\/li>\n<li><strong>January 18, 2019<\/strong>. Welcome to new group member Carlos Alas (PhD student 1st year, trial).<\/li>\n<li><strong>January 8, 2019<\/strong>. Welcome to new group member, Physics junior William Jackson.<\/li>\n<li><strong>September 28, 2018<\/strong>. Welcome to new group member, Biophysics freshman Mitchell Bias.<\/li>\n<li><strong>September 25, 2018<\/strong>. Pizza dinner with PHYS 408A undergraduate students, joined by Samprita and Angana.<\/li>\n<li><strong>September 25, 2018<\/strong>. Congratulations Angana! For receiving an invitation to participate as a plenary speaker in the 4th International Conference on Self-Assembly and Molecular Electronics (SAME) in Aalborg, Denmark, November 13-16, 2018. Angana will present her work done at USC on CRISPR\/Cas9 systems and will write a review paper for the SAME journal.<\/li>\n<li><strong>September 24, 2018<\/strong>. The US Department of Energy announces $218 Million for Quantum Information Science, in which framework I get a $1.842 Million award to work on &#8220;Q4Q: Quantum Computation for Quantum Prediction of Materials and Molecular Properties&#8221;, with co-PIs Anna I. Krlylov (USC Chemistry), Marco Fornari (Central Michigan University) and Marco Buongiorno Nardelli (University of North Texas).<\/li>\n<li><strong>September 1, 2018<\/strong>. Welcome to new group members: Samprita Nandi (PhD student 2nd year, Physics, trial); Hoda Fatemi (PhD student 1st year, Physics, trial); Hoa Trinh (PhD student 1st year, Physics, trial); Anwesha Maitra (PhD student 1st year, Chemistry, trial with Anna Krylov)<\/li>\n<li><strong>February 4, 2018<\/strong>. Welcome to postdoctoral scholar Dr. Angana Ray. Thanks Angana for accepting the challenge to be a pioneer in my new group at USC.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-content-detail.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-164","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>News\/Events - CompBioNano<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/compbionano\/news-events\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"News\/Events - 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