Site redesign — April 2026
Site redesign — April 2026
Pass 4 (2026-04-19, late evening)
Header layout and research-highlight carousel, per user feedback.
Files touched (pass 4)
| File | Change |
|---|---|
_pages/about.md | (1) Header order flipped: portrait now sits in the left corner next to the name/role/links block (was right-aligned, centred big). (2) Three research highlights (topology, IFE, energy) wrapped in a horizontal slider with prev/next arrow buttons and keyboard-accessible scroll-snap. Inline ~10-line JS wires up the arrows; the track is also fully swipeable/scrollable without JS (CSS scroll-snap). |
_sass/layout/_home.scss | (1) .home__header--with-photo now a 110 px / 1fr grid (was 1fr / 160 px) — portrait ~30 % smaller, same column on mobile collapses to 86 px. (2) New .slider* component (track with scroll-snap-type: x mandatory, custom thin scrollbar, circular prev/next buttons positioned absolutely, hidden below 520 px). (3) .highlights__card now lives inside the slider with scroll-snap-align: start, fixed 260 px card width. (4) .highlights__figure img max-height: 120 px (was 180 px) — all thumbnails are smaller. (5) Dark-mode overrides added for the slider components. |
images/featured/energy-materials.png | Resized via sips -Z 650 — 1311×925 → 650×459, 1.3 MB → 335 kB (74 % file-size reduction, ≥50 % dimension reduction). |
images/featured/ife-light-matter.png | Resized via sips -Z 900 — 947 kB → 478 kB for web optimization (still large enough to render cleanly on Retina). |
Behaviour
- Mobile / narrow: arrow buttons hide, cards become 82 % viewport width; user swipes horizontally.
- Desktop: arrow buttons appear on the sides; click advances ~85 % of the track width. Cards snap into place.
- No JS path: the track is still scrollable with trackpad / shift-wheel; only the arrow-button shortcut requires the 10-line script.
- Reduced motion:
scroll-behavior: smoothis the only animation; browsers respectprefers-reduced-motionnatively when set.
Still open / notes
- I did not add a fourth carousel slide for the Spin-IFE PRB 2023 paper — the current three are Topology / IFE (PRB 2025) / Energy per your previous message. If you want the Spin-IFE paper to be its own slide (with the dM/dI-vs-ℏω figure from your CV page), send me the figure PNG and I’ll add it.
devcmgroup.nfshost.comdoesn’t actually have a carousel — I checked. Its research layout is a static grid of clickable thumbnails. The slider here is a custom build that inherits the same minimal aesthetic (thin rule, neutral palette, serif titles), but the motion is our own choice since the reference didn’t demo it.
Pass 3 (2026-04-19, evening)
Targeted follow-ups driven by user feedback: expand Featured Research, refresh contact/socials, and extend the home aesthetic to the Publications page.
Files touched (pass 3)
| File | Change |
|---|---|
_pages/about.md | (1) Header now has a circular portrait (1235×1235 photo, 160 px on screen) next to the name block. (2) Email updated everywhere to shashi13@umd.edu. (3) GitHub link removed (GitLab only). (4) Featured research now contains the H₃S hero plus three new highlight cards — Transport in topological materials, Inverse Faraday effect, Energy materials by design — each with a figure, venue, summary, and DOI. |
_pages/research.md | (1) Overview rewritten in first person (“I study …” instead of “My group …”). (2) “Beyond-Migdal superconductivity” project renamed to Superconductivity and rewritten as two paragraphs to separate hydrides (non-adiabatic / vertex / anharmonic) from conventional Migdal-regime materials (Na-intercalated graphite). (3) EPW tile reworded: vertex corrections + Berry curvature implementation (replaces “topological point detection”) + two-level MPI parallelization for superconductivity. (4) New WannierBerri tile: IFE implementation. (5) Collaborations updated: UMD (Murphy + Dev), Tohoku (Mori), IIT Madras (Nanda + Roy), new “Other collaborators” line with Akashi, Das, Rambabu. |
_pages/cv.md | Email → shashi13@umd.edu, GitHub link removed (GitLab only). |
_pages/publications.html | Rewritten: now uses layout: home (no sidebar), splits entries into Journal articles and Conference proceedings lists styled with the .pubs typography. Profile sidebar is gone — profile portrait appears only on the About page. |
_config.yml | author.email → shashi13@umd.edu; author.github cleared (GitLab remains). |
_sass/layout/_home.scss | New components: .home__header--with-photo + .home__portrait (circular avatar, grid that stacks on mobile), .highlights* (3-column figure/title/venue/summary/DOI cards) with dark-mode overrides. |
files/Shashi_CV.pdf | Replaced with the latest CV from /Volumes/Research/Shashi-Academics/CV.pdf (132 KB). The About page no longer links the PDF — the /cv/ page is the canonical CV — but the file is refreshed for anyone with a bookmarked URL. |
images/profile.png | Refreshed from /Volumes/Research/Shashi-Academics/IOP-B/Shashi-photo.png (1235×1235, 363 KB). Now only consumed by the About header. |
images/featured/topological-transport.png (new) | Rendered from Proposals/figures/Toc_taas.pdf via sips. |
images/featured/ife-light-matter.png (new) | From Proposals/figures/Ultrafast-res.png (972×641). Stand-in until a dedicated IFE-curve figure is supplied; UCR group–style IFE plot is not yet available as a standalone asset. |
images/featured/energy-materials.png (new) | From Proposals/figures/energy-sch.png (1311×925). |
Known divergences / follow-ups
- The IFE highlight uses
Ultrafast-res.pngas a stand-in. If you want the specific dMIFE/dI-vs-ℏω plot from the PRB 2023 paper (the figure shown in the attached CV page), send me the raw PNG and I’ll swap it in. - Publications page: the Liquid split by
categoryassumes the frontmatter correctly tagsconferences. Today only2017-05-lifepo4-md.mdis flagged, so the Conference Proceedings section has exactly one entry. author.githubis now blank in_config.yml. The Minimal-Mistakes sidebar on any page still usingauthor_profile: true(there are no such pages on the new site) would silently drop the icon rather than link somewhere wrong.
Pass 2 (2026-04-19, later)
Extends the home aesthetic to the Research and CV pages, updates current position to University of Maryland, and reconciles _publications/ against the canonical CV.
Files touched (pass 2)
| File | Change |
|---|---|
_config.yml | bio, location, employer → UMD College Park. |
_pages/cv.md | Rewritten with layout: home. New UMD position (Assistant Research Scientist, ECE, Mar 2026–Present) added at the top; Binghamton moved to Apr 2023–Mar 2026. “Download PDF” link removed (content is now the canonical CV). Reorganized into tighter CV sections: Education · Appointments · Interests · Funding · Honours · Service · Teaching · Invited Talks · Contributed Presentations · Skills · Memberships · Publications (link). |
_pages/research.md | Rewritten with layout: home. Four current-project cards (Beyond-Migdal, Topological transport, Light-matter, Energy materials), Code development tiles (EPW, EPWpy), and an updated Collaborations list including UMD. |
_sass/layout/_home.scss | New component classes: .cv-entry*, .cv-list, .projects*. Dark-mode overrides added. Section h2 labels remain 13px uppercase (design preserved). |
_publications/2026-01-taas-family-transport.md (new) | PRB 113, 045202 (2026), TaAs family, Mishra/Liu/Tiwari/Giustino/Margine. |
_publications/2026-02-tio2-gas-sensing.md (new) | Mater. Sci. Eng. B 326, 119210 (2026), Dey/Mishra/Hazra/Kabiraj/Roy. |
_publications/2025-03-h3s-d3s-nonadiabatic.md | Updated from arXiv preprint to published version in Ann. Phys. 538, e00553 (2026). |
_publications/2025-01-vertex-corrections-h3s.md | arXiv link → npj DOI 10.1038/s41524-025-01818-9; venue short now includes npj Comput. Mater. 11, 342. |
_publications/2021-06-graphdiyne-battery.md | DOI corrected: 10.1021/acsaem.1c01462 → 10.1021/acsaem.1c01164. |
_publications/2022-03-graphyne-battery.md | DOI corrected: 10.1039/D2NA00238H → 10.1039/D2NA00058J. |
_publications/2025-01-weyl-transport-taas.md | Deleted — duplicate arXiv stub of the published single-TaAs paper already captured in 2025-09-taas-carrier-transport.md. |
Still not touched
- Minimal-Mistakes partials,
_layouts/single.html,_layouts/default.html. _pages/publications.html— still uses the archive layout; the home aesthetic is not applied there (it renders every_publications/entry automatically, which now totals 28 after the above fixes)._pages/talks.html,_pages/teaching.html.- CV source (
CV.tex) and IOP-B PDFs.
Pass 1 (2026-04-19, committed as abb5ed3)
Landing-page overhaul: new information architecture, serif-headed typography, featured-research hero for the H₃S vertex-correction paper, and a curated top-10 publications list. Sub-pages (Publications, CV, Talks, Teaching, Research) are untouched and keep their existing layout.
Files touched
| File | Change | Why |
|---|---|---|
_pages/about.md | Rewritten as the landing page with a custom HTML structure: header (name, role, email, Scholar/ORCID/GitHub/GitLab), About (≤120 words), Featured research (npj H₃S paper + figure + plain-language summary + DOI), four Research themes, ten Selected publications, CV download, Contact. | Implements the new IA; previous content was a dense markdown bulleted page with a sidebar profile. |
_layouts/home.html (new) | Minimal full-width wrapper that inherits default but skips the author-profile sidebar. | Lets the home page diverge from the Minimal-Mistakes sidebar layout without affecting other pages. |
_sass/layout/_home.scss (new) | All home-page styling, scoped under main.home. Design targets: body 16px, headings 20/24/30px on modular scale, Source Serif 4 headings + Inter body + IBM Plex Mono code, 780px column, line-height 1.65, ≥2rem section rhythm, #111 on #fafafa with #2c5282 single accent. Includes [data-theme="dark"] override. | Encapsulates the redesign without touching the existing Minimal-Mistakes partials that other pages depend on. |
assets/css/main.scss | Added "layout/home" to the import list. | Compiles the new partial into main.css. |
_includes/head/custom.html | Added Google Fonts preconnect + link for Inter, Source Serif 4, and IBM Plex Mono. | Serves the typefaces required by the spec. |
_data/navigation.yml | Masthead is now About · Research · Publications · CV · Contact. Previous Talks and Teaching entries commented out. | Matches the spec IA. Pages themselves are preserved at /talks/ and /teaching/ for future reinstatement. |
images/featured/h3s-vertex-correction.png (new) | Hero figure for the featured research card. Copied from /Volumes/Research/Shashi-Academics/Proposals/figures/Toc_vertex.png (902×915, PNG, ~191 kB). | The figure originally referenced in the research statement; caption: “Effect of vertex corrections in H₃S and Pb computed from DFT.” |
CHANGES.md (this file, new) | Changelog. |
What was deliberately NOT touched
CV.tex(per scope) — CV is served fromfiles/Shashi_CV.pdf.- Any PDF/TeX under
/Volumes/Research/Shashi-Academics/IOP-B/. _layouts/single.html,_layouts/default.html,_sass/theme/*,_sass/layout/*other than the new_home.scss— existing sub-pages keep their current look._publications/,_talks/,_teaching/,_portfolio/content.Publicationssubpage still lists all 29 items; the home page shows a curated 10._config.yml, Gemfile, CI, and hosting configuration.
Design targets vs. implementation
| Target | Implementation |
|---|---|
| Body 15–16px | font-size: 16px (drops to 15px on ≤480px) |
| Headings on modular scale 20/24/30 | h3 20 / h2 24 / h1 30, section labels 13px uppercase |
| Code 14px mono | code → IBM Plex Mono 14px |
| Content column 720–820px | max-width: 780px on .home__wrap |
| Line-height 1.6–1.7 | Body 1.65, About 1.7, section rhythm 2.5rem top/bottom |
| Serif headings + sans body | Source Serif 4 + Inter |
Neutral palette #111 on #fafafa + single accent | #111 on #fafafa, accent #2c5282 |
| Nav: About · Research · Publications · CV · Contact | Matches |
External links target="_blank" rel="noopener" | Applied to every external link on the home page |
Known divergences from the spec
- Hero figure is near-square (902×915), not landscape, so it sits in a narrower right column (~320 px) next to the paper summary rather than as a full-width banner. At 1440 px the featured card still fits above the fold.
- Role line says UMD, not Binghamton. The user confirmed the Mar 2026 UMD position is now current; this supersedes the Phase-4 header text.
- Publications are curated, not a strict Scholar top-10 cite count. Per the user’s direction the list highlights current research (superconductivity / electron-phonon / topology) plus two high-impact energy-materials papers. A citation-ordered list is still available at
/publications/. - Dark mode is supported via
[data-theme="dark"]but the palette is a muted slate-navy, not the strict#111on#fafafapair.
How to run locally
Ruby 3.2 is required (Minimum for the pinned github-pages gem):
docker compose up # or: bundle install && bundle exec jekyll serve
Site serves at http://localhost:4000. No build verification was performed in this working directory because the local Ruby is 2.6 — please run the build once before merging.