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We theoretically study 2D optical spectra cross peaks arising from indirect, bath-mediated interact described by quantum cross-correlation functions. pubs.aip.org/aip/jcp/articl… Our paper is selected as a J. of Chem. Phys. "Editor's Pick"! @ScienceNTU

Spent several delightful days at IISER Mohali, attending the UNOOS conference organized by @arijitb4u, & celebrating Debu Goswami's 60th birthday. Made new friends and learnt new stuff.

Can crosspeaks appear in a 2D spectra of a dimer system without direct coupling or population transfer between the two monomers? Yes, a different type of crosspeak appears if we have a quantum time cross correlation function between them. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

@PremNTU Good idea!

@howesiang So, in 2026, you will climb Bukit Timah summit?

Hiked up Ben Nevis, UK's highpoint at 1345m, with Taka Tanimura, Klaas Wynne and his son Guus. This is a Summit Summit event where we meet to climb a mountain (usually a country highpoint), and discuss science. (Ok, the latter is usually the excuse for the former :p)

@jd1278 @cmds_online Thanks!

@howesiang @cmds_online Congratulations 👏 all the best for organising it

Conference ends at CMDS2024 @cmds_online in York. Wonderful science and fellowship. Superb organization by the team led by Neil Hunt. CMDS2026 will be in Singapore. (Can't really say I am looking forward to it.. since yours truly will be the one trying to organize it).

@PremNTU @cmds_online Thanks!

@howesiang @cmds_online All the best for CDMS 2026

Attending the Coherent MultiDimensional Spectroscopy conference (CMDS2024) at York. Some of our group members' presentations. @cmds_online

@PremNTU Haha. Cool fun fact. Thanks!

@howesiang Kit Kat was invented in York, I heard during my last trip 😂

CMDS 2024 begins with a lecture on the history of York, England, by the chair of the conference, Neil Hunt. @cmds_online

We measure the Ultrafast Energy Transfer between FCP light harvesting complexes and the Photosystem II core complex in diatom photosynthesis. A collaboration with @PHLambrev and others. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Exposed to iron limitations, some cyanobacteria produce iron stress-induced protein A (IsiA) pigment-protein cplxs, which assemble around Photosystem I (PSI). We measure a very fast ~3ps energy transfer from that IsiA to PSI core w/ 2DES. @PHLambrev frontiersin.org/journals/plant…

@MPchenitchnikov Looks like I should pass this on to let some Singapore university adminstrators to read... hahaha :)

without him everything is going to break, so if someone from the faculty administration is reading this you should immediately go and pray to Maxim." Is somebody from the administration reading?

I've just received a formal student evaluation for my Electricity and Magnetism course. Among many complimentary comments, I found this one:

@ChemistryMIT @gabriela_ssc Congratulations!

Congratulations to Professor Gabriela Schlau-Cohen (@gabriela_ssc), who has been promoted to Full Professor effective July 1, 2024! chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-news…

Dear network, please help us RT🙏🫶 we are looking for an experienced hands-on ultrafast time-resolved spectroscopist for an open postdoc position in our group to develop together novel tools for photosynthesis and bioenergetics🌷🌞

@jd1278 @ScienceNTU @Long26598564 @PHLambrev @parvidua @cour_lab Thank you! :)

@howesiang @ScienceNTU @Long26598564 @PHLambrev @parvidua @cour_lab Wonderful work HoweSiang😊😊😊

How fast is energy transferred from the light harvesting antennae to the Photosystem II core in photosynthesis? We directly measured this process in our Sci. Adv. paper. @ScienceNTU. Great work @Long26598564 & collab w/ @PHLambrev @parvidua @cour_lab science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

@Pinzheng1 @ScienceNTU @Long26598564 @PHLambrev @parvidua @cour_lab Thanks for reading :)

@howesiang @ScienceNTU @Long26598564 @PHLambrev @parvidua @cour_lab Cool, will add it to my weekend reading list ! 😀

@lacour_c Sure! But Taka is here for a few hours flight layover. now on his plane back to Japan.

Meeting up with old friends. Yoshitaka Tanimura and Maxim Gelin. Having some spicy Singapore Katong Laksa.