{"id":18074,"date":"2022-12-22T13:11:12","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T13:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iiser.ntc-us.com\/iisernew\/?p=18074"},"modified":"2023-02-03T07:32:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T07:32:00","slug":"the-intriguing-chemistry-of-molecules-in-excited-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iiser.ntc-us.com\/iisernew\/the-intriguing-chemistry-of-molecules-in-excited-states\/","title":{"rendered":"The Intriguing Chemistry of Molecules in Excited States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Title<\/strong> : The Intriguing Chemistry of Molecules in Excited States.<br \/>\n<strong>Speaker<\/strong> : Dr. Anirban Hazra, Associate Professor, IISER Pune.<br \/>\n<strong>Date<\/strong> : 04\/03\/2022, 05:30 PM , Online Mode.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>A wide variety\u00a0of\u00a0physical and chemical phenomena involve\u00a0molecules\u00a0in\u00a0their electronic\u00a0excited\u00a0states.\u00a0The\u00a0theoretical methods to describe\u00a0molecules\u00a0in\u00a0their\u00a0excited\u00a0states\u00a0are quite different from\u00a0the\u00a0methods used for\u00a0the\u00a0ground state. I will discuss this difference and talk about quantum chemical approaches needed to properly describe\u00a0excited\u00a0states. I will then present examples from our research to demonstrate how one can obtain valuable insights about experimental observations from a proper theoretical description\u00a0of\u00a0molecular\u00a0excited\u00a0states.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bio-sketch\u00a0of\u00a0the\u00a0speaker:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Anirban Hazra\u00a0has been a faculty member at IISER Pune since 2011. He got his integrated masters from IIT Bombay, PhD from Princeton\u00a0university, and he did a postdoc at Penn State University. His research is on\u00a0the\u00a0fundamental understanding\u00a0of\u00a0excited\u00a0state molecular phenomena using theoretical methods. He loves\u00a0chemistry\u00a0because it helps him see\u00a0the\u00a0world around\u00a0in\u00a0ways beyond what is ordinarily visible and he loves teaching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Date<\/strong> : 04\/03\/2022, 05:30 PM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":21956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_expiration-date-status":"","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[109],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiser.ntc-us.com\/iisernew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18074"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiser.ntc-us.com\/iisernew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiser.ntc-us.com\/iisernew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiser.ntc-us.com\/iisernew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiser.ntc-us.com\/iisernew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18074"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/iiser.ntc-us.com\/iisernew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23227,"href":"https:\/\/iiser.ntc-us.com\/iisernew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18074\/revisions\/23227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiser.ntc-us.com\/iisernew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiser.ntc-us.com\/iisernew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiser.ntc-us.com\/iisernew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiser.ntc-us.com\/iisernew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}