Education

• Ph.D., Chemistry
• University of Rochester
• 1998

• M.S., Physics (highest honors)
• Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
• 1994

Positions

• 2001 - Present | Technical Staff Member, Theoretical Division
• 2005 - Present | Staff Scientist, CINT
• 1999 - 2001 | Director's Postdoctoral Fellow, Theoretial Division

Awards

• LANL Fellows Prize (2010)
• Slansky Fellow Award (2001)
• LANL Director's Postdoctoral Fellow (1999-2001)
• Arnold Weissberger Fellow (1997-1998)
• Graduate Student Award in Computational Chemistry (1996)
• Elon Huntington Hooker Fellow (1996-1997)
• Sherman Clarke Fellow (1996-1997)
• Diploma with Honor, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (1994)

Publications

• [Wu, C * Malinin, SV * Tretiak, S * Chernyak, VY], "Exciton scattering and localization in branched dendrimeric structures", NATURE PHYSICS, Vol.2, iss.9, p.631-635, SEP 2006.
• [Piryatinski, A * Stepanov, M * Tretiak, S * Chernyak, V], "Photoexcited wavepacket scattering on conical intersections: Semiclassical expansion", ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, Vol.231, MAR 26 2006.
• [Tang, ZX * Hicks, RK * Magyar, RJ * Tretiak, S * Gao, Y * Wang, HL], "Synthesis and characterization of amphiphilic phenylene ethynylene oligomers and their Langmuir-Blodgett films", LANGMUIR, Vol.22, iss.21, p.8813-8820, OCT 10 2006.
• [Tretiak, S * Kilina, S * Piryatinski, A * Saxena, A * Martin, RL * Bishop, AR], "Excitons and peierls distortion in conjugated carbon nanotubes", NANO LETTERS, Vol.7, iss.1, p.86-92, JAN 2007.
• [Magyar, RJ * Tretiak, S], "Dependence of spurious charge-transfer excited states on orbital exchange in TDDFT: Large molecules and clusters", JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL THEORY AND COMPUTATION, Vol.3, iss.3, p.976-987, MAY-JUN 2007.
• [Nanda, J * Ivanov, SA * Htoon, H * Bezel, I * Piryatinski, A * Tretiak, S * Klimov, VI], "Absorption cross sections and Auger recombination lifetimes in inverted core-shell nanocrystals: Implications for lasing performance", JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS, Vol.99, iss.3, 034309, FEB 1 2006.
• [Gambetta, A * Manzoni, C * Menna, E * Meneghetti, M * Cerullo, G * Lanzani, G * Tretiak, S * Piryatinski, A * Saxena, A * Martin, RL * Bishop, AR], "Real-time observation of nonlinear coherent phonon dynamics in single-walled carbon nanotubes", NATURE PHYSICS, Vol.2, iss.8, p.515-520, AUG 2006.
• [Kauffman, JF * Turner, JM * Alabugin, IV * Breiner, B * Kovalenko, SV * Badaeva, EA * Masunov, A * Tretiak, S], "Two-photon excitation of substituted enediynes", JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A, Vol.110, iss.1, p.241-251, JAN 12 2006.
• [Wu, C * Tretiak, S * Chernyak, VY], "Excited states and optical response of a donor-acceptor substituted polyene: A TD-DFT study", CHEMICAL PHYSICS LETTERS, Vol.433, iss.4-6, p.305-311, JAN 12 2007.
• [Tamulis, A. * Tsifrinovich, V.I. * Tretiak, S. * Berman, G.P. * Allara, D.L.], "Neutral radical molecules ordered in self-assembled monolayer systems for quantum information processing", Chemical Physics Letters, Vol.436, iss.1-3, p.144-149, 20070227.
• [Piryatinski, A * Ivanov, SA * Tretiak, S * Klimov, VI], "Effect of quantum and dielectric confinement on the exciton-exciton interaction energy in type II core/shell semiconductor nanocrystals", NANO LETTERS, Vol.7, iss.1, p.108-115, JAN 2007.
• [Shreve, AP * Haroz, EH * Bachilo, SM * Weisman, RB * Tretiak, S * Kilina, S * Doorn, SK], "Determination of exciton-phonon coupling elements in single-walled carbon nanotubes by Raman overtone analysis", PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, Vol.98, iss.3, 037405, JAN 19 2007.
• [Araujo, PT * Doorn, SK * Kilina, S * Tretiak, S * Einarsson, E * Maruyama, S * Chacham, H * Pimenta, MA * Jorio, A], "Third and fourth optical transitions in semiconducting carbon nanotubes", PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, Vol.98, iss.6, 067401, FEB 9 2007.
• [Kilina, S * Tretiak, S * Yarotski, DA * Zhu, JX * Modine, N * Taylor, A * Balatsky, AV], "Electronic properties of DNA base molecules adsorbed on a metallic surface", JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C, Vol.111, iss.39, p.14541-14551, OCT 4 2007.
• [Tretiak, S], "Triplet state absorption in carbon nanotubes: A TD-DFT study", NANO LETTERS, Vol.7, iss.8, p.2201-2206, AUG 2007.