The Skinner Group

We are a theoretical chemistry research group in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin - Madison with interests in equilibrium and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics and condensed phase spectroscopy.

People in the group

• Professor Jim Skinner
  • Professor Skinner's Homepage
  • Publications
  • Curriculum Vitae
• Ben Auer
• Yu-Shan Lin
• Justin Shorb
• Fu Li
• Craig Tainter
• Lu Wang

Recent former group members

• Dr. Revati Kumar
• Dr. J.R. Schmidt
• Dr. Shuzhou Li
• Prof. Steven Corcelli
• Prof. Chris Lawrence
• Dr. Joe Bauer
• Prof. Tsun-Mei Chang
• Prof. Sergei A. Egorov
• Dr. Karl Everitt
• Prof. Eitan Geva
• Prof. Brian Laird
• Prof. Dale Orth
• Prof. David Hsu
• Dr. Andrei Piryatinski
• Prof. Jeffery Saven
• Dr. Matthew Stephens
• Prof. Lorena Tribe
• Prof. Hannah M. Sevian

Research

• Nonequilibrium statistical mechanics
• Single molecule spectroscopy
• Exciton and electron transport in condensed matter
• Optical and vibrational dephasing and relaxation
• Nonlinear optical processes
• Protein dynamics

Joint probability distribution of the frequency of the OH stretch of HOD in liquid D2O and the hydrogen bond distance.

A rendering of a single snapshot from a molecular dynamics simulation; a large, Buckyball-like solute (red) molecule is shown surrounded by the first few solvation shells of solvent particles (blue). The simulation is used to examine the effects of surface roughness of the diffusion of the solute.