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Department News
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May 1, 2023
A.I. discovers new planet outside our solar system (Jason Terry; Cassandra Hall)
UGA researchers discover a new planet outside of our solar system
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Apr 26, 2023
Cassandra Hall, Assistant Professor of Computational Astrophysics, quoted in PhysicsWorld
New UGA study says that 'Goldilocks zone' may not be a good metric for whether life exists on exoplanets
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Apr 24, 2023
2023 Graduate Awards
Four departmental awards were given to six selected graduate students this year for exemplary research and teaching.
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Feb 27, 2023
UGA Columns: Jambeck, Landau, Terns named Regents' Professors
UGA Faculty members recognized for their innovative and renowned scholarship
Recent Publications
Multiplex detection of cancer-related biomarkers

Yanjun Yang, Chunyuan Song, Jingjing Zhang, Jie Chao, Hoang Mai Luong, Yiping Zhao, Lianhui Wang, “DNA self-assembled Au nanoparticle clusters on the silver nanorod array for high-sensitive and multiplex detection of cancer-related biomarkers,” Nanoscale 14, 4538-4547 (2022).
The Long Tails of the Pegasus-Pisces Arch Intermediate Velocity Cloud

Shelton, R. L., Williams, M. E., Parker, M. C., Galyardt, J. E., Fukui, Y., & Tachihara, K. (2022), ApJ 925 190.
Excited state properties of porphyrins

L. Hanna, E. Movsesian, M. Orozco, A. R. Bernot Jr., M. Asadinamin, L. Shenje, S. Ullrich, Y. Zhao, N. Marshall, J. A. Weeks, M. B. Thomas, J. A. Teprovich Jr., P. A. Ward: Spectroscopic Investigation of the Electronic and Excited State Properties of Para-Substituted Tetraphenyl Porphyrins and Their Electrochemically Generated Ions, Spectrochimica Acta Part A 2022, 278, 121300.
FSRS of photo-ODIBO

L. Shenje, Y. Qu, V. Popik, S. Ullrich: Femtosecond Photodecarbonylation of photo-Oxadibenzocyclooctyne Studied by Stimulated Raman Spectroscopy and Density Functional Theory. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2021, 23, 25637-25648.
Photodecarbonylation of photo-ODIBO

L. Shenje, W. Thompson, Z. Ren, N. Lin, V. Popik, S. Ullrich: Ultrafast transient absorption spectroscopy of the photodecarbonylation of photo-oxadibenzocyclooctyne (photo-ODIBO) J. Chem. Phys. 2021, 154, 074302.
Differentiation and classification of bacterial endotoxins

Yanjun Yang, Beibei Xu, James Haverstick, Nabil Ibtehaz, Artur Muszyński, Xianyan Chen, Muhammad E. H. Chowdhury, Susu M. Zughaier, and Yiping Zhao, “Differentiation and classification of bacterial endotoxins based on surface enhanced Raman scattering and advanced machine learning,” Nanoscale 14, 8806-8817 (2022).
Born-Kuhn model

Nima Karimitari, Bin Ai, and Yiping Zhao, “A Comparison Study of the Born-Kuhn Model and the Finite-Difference-Time-Domain Calculations on Stacked Plasmonic Nanorods,” J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 55, 325104 (2022).