2024

• Apr : Congratulations to Debashree for being selected as a fellow of the Royal Soceity of Chemistry.

                                                                          2023

• Dec  : Sumanta defends his thesis successfully. Congratulations !!! Best wishes for future ahead. 

• Dec  : Mandira wins the best poster prize in TCS-2023 conference. 

• Oct   : We welcome a new group member Somsuta Ray. 

• Sept  :  We welcome a new group member Dr. Naomi Karmakar.

• July   : We welcome two new group members Azhar and Debroop. 

• June  : Ms. Madhumita is now Dr. Madhumita Rano !!! Congratulations to her. 

• April : Debashree received "Bochhorer Best" award from the ABP group.  

• Jan : Our work has been highlighted in AsiaChem magazine as "A glimpse from computational chemistry and machine learning."

                                                                                                           2022

• Nov :  Congratulations to Debashree for receiving the Walter-Kohn award from ICTP, Trieste !!! More to come.

• June : We welcome our two new group members Pradipta and Arnab.

• Feb : Huge congratulations to Paulami for her successful Ph.D. defense! Loads of best wishes for her future ahead.

                                                                                                           2021

• June : A huge achievement for our group is that Dr. Debashree Ghosh receives the prestigious award from IAQMS "For her outstanding contributions to the treatment of strongly correlated systems and photophysics of bio-systems". Congratulations to her!

                                                                                                           2020

• Sept : Congrats to Dr. Samik Bose for successfully defending his Ph.D. viva! We wish best of luck for his exciting career ahead.

• Aug : We welcome our two new group members Mandira Dey and Supriyo Santra.

                                                                                                           2019

• Dec : We are pleased to welcome our new group member Tanima Kundu as she joins the group as a Ph.D. student.

• Nov : Paulami's paper titled "Effect of microsolvation on the non-radiative decay of the eumelanin monomer" is published in PCCP.

• Sep : Debashree will be receiving her "2018 PCCP Emerging Investigator Lectureship" award at APATCC in Sydney, Australia.

• Aug : Congratulations to Madhumita and Sumanta! Their paper "In the quest for a stable triplet state in small polyaromatic hydrocarbons: an in silico tool for rational design and prediction" has been accepted to be published in Chemical Science.

• July  : A huge welcome to Arpan Choudhury who joins our group as a PhD student.

• July  : Debashree will give an invited lecture at the 10th Triennial Congress of the International Society for Theoretical Chemical Physics (ISTCP) in Tromsø, Norway.

• Mar : Paulami's paper titled "Non-radiative decay of an eumelanin monomer: to be or not to be planar" is published in PCCP.

                                                                                                          2018

• Aug : Samik's paper titled "Machine learning prediction of interaction energies in rigid water clusters" is published in PCCP and is part of the themed collection: PCCP Emerging Investigator Lectureship.

• Aug : Congratulations to Debashree for winning the 2018 PCCP Emerging Investigator Lectureship.

• Aug : Congratulations to Debashree for receiving the National Supercomputing Mission grant for developing indigenous software packages.

• Aug : Debashree is presenting our work on hybrid QM/MM and new force fields at Groningen University.

• July : Madhumita gets the best poster award at the IISER Kolkata - ACS workshop on Physical Chemistry for her poster on "Spin Frustration in Conjugated Molecules". Congratulations!

• July : Samik and Madhumita will be presenting posters at IISER-Kolkata.

• July : Sumanta K. Ghosh and Koushik Seth join as Ph.D. students.

• July : Debashree is presenting our work on hybrid QM/MM at Max Planck Institute, Stuttgart.

• July : Debashree is co-organzing a Telluride workshop on excited state QM/MM methods.

• June-Sept : Debashree is visiting the group of Prof. Christian Ochsenfeld at Ludwig Maxmillian University (University of Munich). She will be working on low scaling computational methods.

• June : Debashree delivers an invited talk on our work on hybrid QM/MM and new force fields at 16th International Congress of Quantum Chemistry in Menton, France.

• May : Rajat Majumdar and Aniket Mandal join as summer project students.

• May : Debashree is invited to join the Editorial Board of Electronic Structure.

• March : Debashree is invited to join the Editorial Board of International Journal of Quantum Chemistry.

• Feb : Debashree delivers an invited talk our work on strong correlation at RaMOLs, Bangalore.

• Feb : Debashree is co-organizing Spectroscopy and Dynamics of Molecules and Clusters (SDMC) at Dooars.

                                                                                                       2017

• Dec : Debashree delivers an invited talk on hybrid QM/MM in Asia Pacific Conference of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry (APCTCC8) at IIT Bombay.

• Aug-Oct : Debashree visits LMU on a Humboldt Experienced Researcher Fellowship.

• Oct : Debashree delivers an invited lecture at the departmental colloquium in University of Munich.

• Sept : Debashree presents our work on melanin at WATOC 2017.

• July : Madhumita Rano and Subhamoy Jana joins the group as PhD students. 

• June : The group relocates to Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata.

• Feb : Debashree delivers an invited talk on strong correlation at Recent Advances of Many Electron Theory (RAMET), Goa.

• Feb : Debashree presents our work at SDMC, Pondicherry.

                                                                                                     2016

• Dec : Samik and Rahul present our work (posters) at Theoretical Chemistry Symposium, Hyderabad.

• Dec : Debashree delivers an invited talk at Theoretical Chemistry Symposium, Hyderabad.

• July : Debashree delivers an invited lecture at IXth Congress of International Society for Theoretical Chemical Physics, Grand Forks, USA.

• July : Diksha Dhawan joins the group of Prof. Dominika Zgid at University of Michigan for her PhD. Congratulations!

                                                                                                    2015

• June : Debashree joins the Computational Materials subgroup of National Supercomputing mission.

• Feb : Debashree delivers an invited lecture at SDMC, Nainital.

• Jan : Our BRNS project on Effective Fragment Potential gets funded. 

                                                                                                    2014

• Aug : Debashree delivers an invited lecture on strong correlation at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai.

• July : Debashree delivers a lecture at the Q-Chem Developers Meeting in Berkeley, USA.

• July : Samik Bose joins the group as the first PhD student.

• May : Our DST-SERB Fast Track project gets funded.

                                                                                                   2013

• Dec : Debashree delivers an invited lecture at Recent Advances of Correlation Problem, IACS, Kolkata.

• Sept : The first paper from the group is published. Many more to come!

                                                                                                   2012

• Dec : Debashree delivers an invited lecture at Theoretical Chemistry Symposium, Guwahati.

• July : The group starts at National Chemical Laboratory, Pune! Exciting times ahead!