Mandal Group | Summer 2026
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Mandal group receives National Science Foundation Grant for "Simulating Macroscopic Quantum Effects of Exciton-Polaritons at Room-Temperature" 💰
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Amir wins an award for his project on nonadiabatic dynamics at the Cybertraining workshop! 🏆
Arshath has been selected as a recipient of the 2026 ACS Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Scholars Recognition Program.🏆
Jaehyeok (Asst. Prof. at Yale) visits our group!
Mandal group receives collaborative access (with Prof. Gerrit Groenhof) to the extreme-scale computational resources @ LUMI Extreme Scale, Finland! 🖥️
Pritha wins an early career travel award at the CQS workshop at UMBC!🏆
Amir is accepted to attend the CyberTraining Summer School (UBuffalo) with funding for travel and lodging! 🥳
Ian graduates and is set to join University of Rochester as a graduate student!
Saeed, Arshath and Logans work is accepted at Nature Comm.! 🍻 🤩
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Our front cover for PCCP is out! 🥳
Ian and Arshath's work on the mechanistic insights of exciton-polariton relaxation is accepted at JPCL! 🎉
Sachith and Amirs's work on developing the cavity on-the-fly approach is accepted for publication at PCCP! 🎉
Logan Blackham wins the best poster award at the Texas Quantum Winter School! 🥳 🥂
Our cover for ACS Photonics is out! 🥳
Leopoldo (Asst. Prof. at U. Andres Bello) visits us and teaches us about his many-body approach!
Arshath and Logan wins a Scholarship to attend the Texas Quantum Winter School! 🥳
Our cover for Nano Letters is out! 🥳
Arshath, Saeed and Logan's work on tilted material based cavity QED is accepted at ACS Photonics! 🎉
Logan, Arshath and Saeed's microscopic theory of polaron-polariton is accepted at Nano Letters! 🎉
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Mandal group takes part in the chemistry open house, 2025!
Arkajit presents our work on cavity modified transport at PVAMU
Our recent work has been highlighted in Phys. Rev. B as an “Editors’ Suggestion” 🎉
Pritha's many body quantum dynamical approach is accepted at PRB! 🎉
Mandal group receives a collaborative grant, TAMU-PVAMU PRISE Grant, with Prof. Ciftja (Prairie View A&M).💰
Mandal group takes part in 2025 REACT@TAMU outreach event (Jul 25)
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Arkajit presented at the Telluride Workshop on "Nonequilibrium Phenomena, Nonadiabatic Dynamics & Spectroscopy"
(Aug 25)
Arkajit presented at the Telluride Workshop on "Polariton Chemistry and Molecular Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics" (Jul 25)
Mandal group takes part in the chemistry program for Katy ISD (school) students (Jun 25)
Logan wins the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship ! 💰 🎉
(Jun 25)
Arkajit is selected as a Fellow to participate in the "Scialog: Quantum Matter and Information" (Jun 25)
Arkajit presented at the Telluride Workshop on "Nanomaterials: Computation, Theory, Machine Learning, and Experiment"
(Jun 25)
Arkajit presented at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (Apr 25)
Saeed and Arkajit presented at the APS March Meeting (Mar 25)
Saeed wins the Löwdin Postdoctoral Researcher Award 🎉 (Feb 25)
Arkajit and Saeed presented at the 64th Senibel Symposium (Feb 25)
Mandal Group | Spring 2025
Saeed wins the APS (Division of Materials Physics) Post-Doctoral Travel Award 🎉🎉
(Dec 24)
Prof. Liang-Yan Hsu visits Mandal group!
The Mandal Group receives a collaborative research grant from the Strategic Transformative Research Program (STRP) at Texas A&M.💰
Arkajit presented at ACS SWRM
(Oct 24)
Mandal Group | Fall 2024