Blog
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September 06, 2022
The members of the QDRG participate to the week long ASQSIS workshop taking place at EAIFR and online.
Sosthene and Wala participated to the week long African School on Quantum Simulation and Quantum Information Science (ASQSIS) workshop taking place in Kigali, Rwanda (EAIFR) and online from the 5th to the 9th of September 2022.
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September 05, 2022
The members of the QDRG participate to the week long MLCQCDyn workshop taking place in Paris, France and online.
Steve, Ayda and Hervé participated to the week long workshop on Machine Learning and Quantum Computing for Quantum Molecular Dynamics taking place in Paris, France and online from the 5th to the 9th of September 2022. Steve presented his work with collaborators from France and Germany on the infrared spectroscopy of the water-dimer. Hervé presented his recent results on the spectroscopy of the water-dimer using the MCTDH method.
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August 22, 2022
Steve Ndengué presented his work at the Psi-k 2022 conference.
Steve presented his work with collaborators from France and Germany on the infrared spectroscopy of the water-dimer at the Psi-k 2022 conference in Lausanne, Switzerland.
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August 09, 2022
Steve Ndengué visits the THEOS group of Prof Nicola Marzari at EPFL.
Steve visits the THEOS group of Prof Nicola Marzari at EPFL. The visit is part of the collaboration on the EXAF project on photocatalytic water splitting.
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June 10, 2022
Steve Ndengué presented his work at Rutgers-Newark Physics.
Steve presented his work with collaborators from France and Germany on the infrared spectroscopy of the water-dimer at the Rutgers-Newark Summer Theory Workshop on Molecules and Materials: design and Dynamics.
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June 03, 2022
Steve Ndengué presented his work at the ES22 meeting.
Steve presented his work with collaborators from France and Germany on the infrared spectroscopy of the water-dimer at the 2022 Workshop on Recent Developments in Electronic Structure (ES22). The meeting, hosted by Columbia University, was an opportunity to celebrate Prof Richard Martin 80th birthday.
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May 27, 2022
Steve Ndengué presented his work at the USAFRI workshop.
Steve presented his work with collaborators from France and Germany on the infrared spectroscopy of the water-dimer at the online US-Africa Initiative on Electronic Structure (USAFRI) workshop.
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May 16, 2022
Members of the group attend the MLESMD.
Ayda, Hervé, Sosthene and Wala attended the week long Machine Learning in Electronic Structure and Molecular Dynamics workshop organized by ICTP-EAIFR and ICTP and hosted at the Institute. It is the first in-person meeting at ICTP-EAIFR since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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May 09, 2022
Members of the group participate to an ICTP ML woorkhop.
Ayda and Sosthene participated to the week long online Young Researchers’ Workshop on Machine Learning for Materials organized by ICTP.
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March 10, 2022
Wala Elsayed joined the group.
Wala got her Master’s in Chemistry from the University of Khartoum, Sudan. Her PhD is supported by the Organisation for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD).
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March 01, 2022
Ange Benise Niyikiza joined the group.
Ange Benise got her BSc in Physics from the University of Rwanda, Rwanda. Her Master’s project, in collaboration with Prof Fabien Gatti of University Paris-Saclay, will be on quantum control of molecular processes for quantum technologies applications in chemistry.
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November 01, 2021
Mr Sosthene Irambona and Dr Ayda Badri joined the group.
Sosthene got his Master’s in Mathematical Science from AIMS South Africa and is an Assistant Lecturer at Rwanda Polytechnic, Musanze. Ayda got her PhD in Molecular Physics in the LSAMA lab of University of Tunis El Manar. The PhD of Sosthene and the Postdoc tenure of Ayda are supported by the EXAF-JFD grant.
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June 11, 2021
New paper published in J. Phys. Chem. A
Our work in collaboration with Richard Dawes group and David Osborn on the calculations of the low lying potential energy and dipole surfaces, bound states and absoption spectrum of NO2 has been published in Journal of Physical Chemistry A. The work made the front cover of the journal.
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May 25, 2021
New paper published in Phys. Rev. A.
Our work with Richard Dawes in collaboration with Roland Wester group on the comparison of computed and experimental reaction rates for the OH-+He inelastic scattering at low tempaerature has been published in Physical Review A. Congratulations to Eric of Roland Wester group on his paper.
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January 15, 2021
The group received a grant from the EXAF-JFD program.
Our project on photocatalysis in partnership with Nicola Marzari at EPFL was selected for funding by the Excellence in Africa - Junior Faculty Development (ExAf-JFD) program. Stay tuned for PhD and Postdoc openings.
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August 25, 2020
New paper published in J. Chem. Phys.
Our work in collaboration with Yohann Scribano group, Fabien Gatti and Hans-Dieter Meyer on the calculations of reaction rates for the HD+H→D+H2 using the MCTDH approach has been published in J. Chem. Phys. Congratulations to Duncan on his paper.
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February 01, 2020
Herve Tajouo Tela joined the group.
Herve got his Master’s in Physics from the University of Yaounde 1, Cameroon. He will work on the spectroscopy and dynamics of small water clusters. His PhD is supported by the ICTP Office of External Activities (ICTP-OEA).
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January 03, 2020
New paper published in Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys.
Our work in collaboration with Richard Dawes group and Francois Lique group on the calculations of state-to-state cross sections and reaction rates of the O3+Ar process in order to understand the Ozone isotopic anomaly has been published in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics Congratulations to Sangeeta of Richard Dawes group on her paper.
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October 01, 2019
New paper published in J. Chem. Phys.
Our work in collaboration with Richard Dawes, Fabien Gatti and Yohann Scribano on the calculations of state-to-state inelastic cross sections in five atoms systems (H2O+H2) using the MCTDH method is published in J. Chem. Phys.
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June 12, 2019
Work presented at ISMS2019.
Sangeeta Sur from Richard Dawes group presented our collaborative work on the spectrocopy and scattering of the O3+Ar system at the International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy 2019.
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May 01, 2019
Dr Steve Ndengué joins ICTP-EAIFR.
Dr Steve Ndengué joined the newly created ICTP-East African Institute for Fundamental Research in Kigali, Rwanda.
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March 12, 2019
New paper published in Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys.
Our work in collaboration with Richard Dawes group on the development of a new potential energy surface for the O3-Ar system has been published in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. Congratulations to Sangeeta Sur of Richard Dawes’ Group on her paper.
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The Quantum Dynamics Research Group is part of the Condensed Matter Physics Group of the ICTP-East African Institute for Fundamental Research. ICTP-EAIFR is a partner institute of the ICTP and a Category 2 UNESCO institute. It is built from a collaboration between ICTP, the University of Rwanda and the Ministry of Education of Rwanda.