The Canadian Foundation for Innovation CFI has approved my New Opportunites Fund proposal "Multiplatform Computational Resources for the Study of Molecular Photochemistry." See our brief mention in the ExpressNews article "New Faculty get research boost from Canadian Foundation for Innovation.

Jesse Kadosh (NSERC USRA) and Harry Darmawan begin summer research in the Brown group. Jesse is working on direct driven molecular dynamics and Harry is studying STIRAP-based control of isomerization.

Dr. Brown receives an Award for Teaching Excellence from the Chemistry Students' Association, University of Alberta.

Dr. Brown is accepted as an active member of the The Theoretical Physics Institute of the University of Alberta. "The Theoretical Physics Institute (TPI) promotes education and research in Theoretical Physics. The TPI is based in the Department of Physics at the University of Alberta, and also includes active members from Departments of Mathematics, Chemistry and from the Faculte Saint John. The Institute provides a focus for the research activities of up to sixty faculty members, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students and visitors.It is operating a network of computers and maintaining a theoretical physics reading room (now named The Hiroomi Umezawa Reading Room).

The primary goal of the TPI has been to support different means of scientific exchanges and fostering of research collaborations by organizing frequent seminars, conferences and workshops and playing host to visiting research scientists. Part of our activities is also reaching out to the educated public through the sponsorship of general interest lectures. TPI sponsors or co-sponsors approximately 35-40 seminars each year. On average TPI is host to 20 long term and 20 short term visitors. TPI has been particularly active in organizing workshops and conferences in recent years. Such an organizational role of TPI has been a measure of our vitality and a focus of considerable effort." (description taken from TPI website)

Dr. Taiwang Cheng joins the group as a post-doctoral fellow. Dr. Cheng joins us from the Laboratory of Optical Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Science where he was a post-doctoral fellow.

Harry Darmawan joins the group as an undergraduate student. Harry is a third year chemistry student from the University of Alberta.

Phase 1 of the group's computational resources arrive. These consist of two linked computers (dual AMD Opteron 246 processors). While many calculations will be carried out on this system, importantly, it will serve as a developmental test bed for a larger cluster to be built based on Opteron processors.

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