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2007 FSMS Meeting

The 2007 FSMS meeting was held in the physics department of the University of South Florida

Faculty talks

A list of faculty talks is given below.

  1. Aravind Asthagiri (Chemical Engineering, UF) "Enantiospecificity of chiral surfaces"
  2. Artem Masunov (Nanoscience Center and Chemistry, UCF) "Density Functional Theory studies of excited states in model photovoltaic materials"
  3. Lilia Woods (Physics, USF) "Theoretial investigations of tailoring carbon nanotube properties through chemistry, mechanical modifications and optics"
  4. Anter El-Azab (Mechanical Engineering, FSU) "Statistical modeling of dislocation and mesoscale deformation"
  5. Simon Phillpot (Materials Science, UF) "Atomic level processes in solid oxide fuel cell electrolytes"
  6. Talat Rahman (Physics, UCF) "Self learning kinetic Monte Carlo method and its application to cluster diffusion on metal surface"
  7. Brian Space (USF) "Theoretical modeling of hydrogen storage in metal-organic frameworks"
  8. Patrick Schelling (AMPAC and Physics, UCF) "Molecular dynamics simulation of nanoscale phonon transport"
  9. Susan Sinnott (Materials Science, UF) "Potential development for molecular dynamics simulations"
  10. Aniket Bhattacharya (Physics, UCF) "Morphology and dynamics of ionomers"
  11. Gunjan Mohan (UF), "Dynamics of micelle formation and disintegration"
  12. Sergey Stolbov (Physics, UCF) "Why PtRu20 nano-catalyst is so tolerant to CO adsorption: Insight from first principles calculations"
  13. Lan Li (UF) "First-principles investigation of C60 metal interface"
  14. Ivan Oleynik (Physics, USF) "Electrical conduction in single organic molecules"