PHYSWednesday, August 25, 2004

7:30 PM-10:00 PM Pennsylvania Convention Center -- Hall D, Poster
Physical Chemistry Poster Session
Phys Chem Poster: Theory and Applications
Organizer, Presiding:David J. Nesbitt
AEI: In the language of mathematics: A physical chemist's research retrospective
Christine V. Hampton
Molecular dynamic simulations of tetra n-butyl ammonium chloride and water at varying concentrations and temperatures
Raeanne L Napoleon, Rodney J. Wigent, Preston B. Moore
AEI: Nonadditive ab initio interaction potentials in simulations of condensed phases
Robert Bukowski, Krzysztof Szalewicz
Estimation of dinitrogen oxide solubility in polar solvents
Stefan Perisanu
Application of the nuclear-electronic orbital (NEO) method to hydrogen transfer reactions: Importance of electron-proton correlation
Michael Pak, Chet Swalina, Sharon Hammes-Schiffer
Density functional study of organic open-shell triradical 5-dehydro-1,3-quinodimethane
Tunna Baruah, Rajendra R. Zope, Mark R. Pederson, Brett I Dunlap
Ab initio studies of cyclo(L-proline-L-proline) and theoretical calculation of the UV-CD Spectrum
Kristine L. Carlson, Mark R. Hoffmann, Kathryn A. Thomasson
Quantum Monte Carlo study of nucleic acid base properties
Glake A Hill Jr., Alexander C. Kollias, Jerzy Leszczynski, William A. Lester Jr.
A new quantum expression for the thermal rate constant
Dmitry M. Medvedev, Stephen K. Gray
Direct (Monte Carlo) simulation of chemical reaction systems: Studies of gas phase detonations
James B. Anderson, Lyle N. Long, Patrick D. O'Connor
Performance of post Hartree-Fock, density functional theory and quantum Monte Carlo methods for the electronic structure of 3d-block transition metals
John A.W. Harkless, Ainsley Gibson
Accurately solving the electronic Schrödinger equation of small atoms and molecules using the explicitly correlated (r12-) multi-reference averaged coupled-pair functional (MR-ACPF)
Robert J. Gdanitz, Wim Cardoen
Ab initio investigation of XeI and XeI-
Gerald J. Hoffman
A fast semiemprical DivCon/Charmm QM/MM approach for biomolecules
Kenneth M. Merz Jr., Xiaodong Zhang
AEI: New approach to ab initio molecular dynamics using atom-centered basis functions
John M. Herbert, Martin Head-Gordon
An ab initio study of low-energy electron scattering by NO
Zhiyong Zhang
A theoretical and experimental investigation of the rate determing step for nitrosamide thermolyses
C.F. Rodriquez, Chad Vallee, Edson V Perez, Martin Brantley, Ron W. Darbeau
Calculated vibrational circular dichroism of nucleic acid oligomers utilizing DeVoe polarizability theory making use of DFT derived input parameters
Steven D. Ferber
A theoretical study of the benzene excimer using time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT)
Jay C. Amicangelo
A generalization of Kimball-Overhauser approach to finite inhomogeneous systems
Sergey A. Varganov, Mark S. Gordon
Paper Withdrawn
A theoretical study of potential energy surfaces in the photodissociation of carbonic dibromide
Peng Zhang, Keiji Morokuma
A time-dependent Hartree-Fock approach for studying the electronic optical response of molecules in intense fields
H. Bernhard Schlegel, Xiaosong Li, Stanley M Smith, Alexei N Markevitch, Dmitri A Romanov, Robert J Levis
Ab initio and empirical model simulation studies of "neat" liquid
Yves A. Mantz, Helene Gerard, Radu Iftimie, Glenn Martyna, Bin Chen
Ab initio molecular orbital study of the silsesquioxanes
Takako Kudo, Mark S. Gordon
Ab initio studies of F(2P), Cl(2P) and Br(2P)-HF Van der Waals complexes
Malgorzata M. Szczesniak, Grzegorz Chalasinski, Jacek Klos
AEI: Ab-initio study of excited electronic states of the C3H3 radical
Milena Shahu, Charles D. Pibel
Ab initio studies of the interaction of oxygen with perfect and defective graphite surfaces
Natasa Mateljevic, John C. Tully
Ab initio studies on the acidities of carbon acids, I: the cyano substituted 1,3-cyclopentadienes
Lin Chen, Bradley Burcar, Richard EDWIN Brown
Application of time-dependent quantum mechanics to electron transport in molecular junctions
Natalie Carroll, Karl Sohlberg
Atomic charges for classical simulations of polar systems
Hendrik Heinz, Ulrich W. Suter
Molecular dynamics simulation of polymer structure using an implicit solvent quality technique
Thomas W. Scott
Correlation energies in the high density limit
Takeyce K. Whittingham, Kieron Burke
Analytic gradients for the EOM-SF-CCSD and EOM-EE-CCSD methods: Theory and applications
Tao Wang, Sergey V. Levchenko, Anna I. Krylov
Capture, re-dissociation, and vibrational deactivation in the OH(v) + NO2 ↔ HONO2* → OH(v') + NO2 reaction system
Yong Liu, John R. Barker, Lawrence L. Lohr
Numerical simulations of 2-D NMR spectra and MR images by parallel computation
Prasad S. Lakkaraju, Motohiro Mizuno, Warren S. Warren
Data-driven approximations in electronic structure theory
Benjamin G Janesko, David Yaron
Condensed phase relaxation dynamics: Non-adiabatic mixed quantum/classical molecular dynamics simulations of photo-excited sodide (Na¯)
C. Jay Smallwood, Michael J. Bedard-Hearn, Ross E. Larsen, Benjamin J. Schwartz
Controlling the dynamics of molecular systems
Florence J. Lin
Density matrix renormalization group with localized orbitals
Dominika Zgid, Marcel Nooijen
Dissociation of hydrogen fluoride in HF(H2O)7
Jer Lai Kuo, Michael L. Klein
Calculations of intermolecular interaction energies using a perturbational approach based on density-functional theory
Eugeniya Tchoukova, Alston J. Misquitta, Krzysztof Szalewicz
Domain wall motion study of ferroelectric crystals using the bond-valence model
Young Han Shin, Valentino R. Cooper, Ilya Grinberg, Andrew M. Rappe
Can accurate properties of methane clathrates be obtained from molecular simulations using ab initio force fields?
Omololu Akin-Ojo, Krzysztof Szalewicz
Dynamics study of unimolecular decomposition
Chris Stopera, Dave Thweatt, Michael Page
Molecular dynamics calculation of absolute binding free energy: Aromatic ligands bind to a nonpolar Cavity of T4 Lysozyme
Yuqing Deng, Benoi^t Roux
Effect of excited angular momentum states upon the isomerization dynamics of DCN
Rudolph C. Mayrhofer
Combining variation and diffusion calculations in quantum Monte Carlo
Matthew C. Wilson, James B. Anderson
Effective fragment potential method: From molecules to clusters to the bulk
Heather Netzloff, Mark S. Gordon
Effects of proton donor-acceptor vibrational motion on proton-coupled electron transfer in solution and proteins
Alexander V Soudackov, Elizabeth R Hatcher, Sharon Hammes-Schiffer
Experimental and computational studies of water – glassy polymer network interactions
Hua Zhang, Jovan Mijovic
Detailed balance and equilibrium in mixed quantum-classical dynamics
Priya V Parandekar, John C. Tully
Molecular dynamics simulations of the two-way junction hairpin ribozyme
Maria M. Rhodes, Kamila Reblova, Jiøí Šponer, Nils G. Walter
First-principles studies of structures and phase transitions of platinum dioxides
Shuping Zhuo, Karl Sohlberg
Group III atomic wires on Si(100)-(2x1) reconstructed surfaces
Deborah D. Zorn, Mark S. Gordon
Heat capacity of gas phase Ag2
Michael L. Biolsi, Louis Biolsi, Paul M. Holland
Efficient real-space configuration interaction method for calculating ground and excited state multi-electron and spin dynamics in the condensed phase
Ross E. Larsen, Benjamin J. Schwartz
Including nuclear quantum effects directly into the calculation of NMR shielding and spin-spin coupling
Chet Swalina, Michael Pak, Sharon Hammes-Schiffer
Inclusion of dispersion effect in the MP2 based effective fragment potential method (EFP1)
Jie Song, Mark S. Gordon
Inclusion of dispersion into DFT by optimization of analytic pseudopotentials
O. Anatole von Lilienfeld-Toal, Ivano Tavernelli, Ursula Rothlisberger, Daniel Sebastiani
Excited-state density functionals?
Rene Gaudoin
Interfacial characterization of n-octanol and 3-octanol using molecular dynamic (MD) simulations
Preston B. Moore, Raeanne L Napoleon
Explicit solvent TDDFT simulations of anomalous Stokes shift in substituted [2.2] paracyclophane
Artem Masunov, Sergei Tretiak, Janice W. Hong, Guillermo C. Bazan
Extensions of the molecular dynamics with quantum transitions approach for proton transfer in solution
Soo Young Kim, Sharon Hammes-Schiffer
Isotope effects with the nuclear-electronic orbital approach
Andres Reyes, Sharon Hammes-Schiffer
AEI: Kinetic Monte Carlo model for graphite slabs exposed in low-Earth orbit
K. Lance Kelly, John C. Tully
Thermochemical and kinetic analysis on decomposition and oxidation of sulfur hydrocarbons
Fei Jin, Joseph W. Bozzelli, Li Zhu, Jongwoo Lee
Vibrational couplings in peptide oligomers examined by ab initio calculations and multidimensional infrared spectral measurements
Jianping Wang, Chong Fang, Yungsam Kim, Paul, H Axelsen, Robin, M Hochstrasser
Modeling a pure fluid using lattice fluid theory
Steven G. Arturo, Dana E. Knox
Vibrational energy relaxation of liquid oxygen or liquid nitrogen from a semiclassical molecular dynamics
Being J. Ka, Qiang Shi, Eitan Geva
Modeling mechanical molecular nanodevices
Xiange Zheng, Rebecca Orndorff, Karl Sohlberg
Molecular dynamics simulations of laser ablation
Patrick F. Conforti, Yaroslava G. Yingling, Barbara J. Garrison
Implementation and performance of the modified Becke-Roussel exchange-correlation functional
Artur F. Izmaylov, Sergey N. Maximoff, Gustavo E Scuseria
Nitrous oxide formation in UV photolysis of O3/O2/N2 mixtures: A useful testbed for the reaction dynamics involving electronically excited species
Sheo S. Prasad
Nonorthogonal configuration interaction treatment of density localization in a model hydrogen tunneling system
Jonathan H Skone, Michael Pak, Sharon Hammes-Schiffer
Physics behind conformance of microscopic dielectric response of dipolar solvents to macroscopic continuum model
Edward L. Mertz
Proton-coupled electron transfer in soybean lipoxygenase
Elizabeth R Hatcher, Alexander V Soudackov, Sharon Hammes-Schiffer
Qualitative and quantitative investigation of aqueous insolubility using crystal packing simulations
Laura A. Deschenes, Michael A. Walters, Howard Y. Ando
Reaction paths, kinetics and thermochemical properties on reaction of methylthiol (CH3SH) and dimethylsulfide (CH3SCH3) radicals with O2
Fei Jin, Li Zhu, Joseph W. Bozzelli
Linear scaling multi-proton MSEVB algorithms
Feng Wang, Gregory A. Voth
Relaxation of rotationally hot CN in liquid argon
Guohua Tao, Richard M. Stratt
MAME: Minimal Atomic Multipole Expansion of molecular fields
Eugene V. Tsiper, Kieron Burke
Paper Withdrawn
Simulation study of space charge patterns to trap dipoles in photoconductive film
Choongkeun Lee, Nam Soo Lee, Mino Yang, Nakjoong Kim
Solvent effects in the reaction of peroxynitrite and carbon dioxide
Mariano C. Gonzalez Lebrero, Dario A. Estrin
Molecular properties from the auxiliary density: Selected applications of deMon 200X
Alberto Vela
Structure and energetics of [B, N, O, H2]: Quantum mechanics shows multiple minima
Carol A. Deakyne, Aaron K. Corum
Nearly degenerate excitations in density functional theory
Fan Zhang, Neepa T. Maitra, Robert J. Cave, Kieron Burke
Structure of protonated water clusters: Finite temperature behavior and low-energy topologies
Jer Lai Kuo, Michael L. Klein
Old technique reapplied to the solution of the Schroedinger
B. Lachele Foley
Supercritical behavior and pattern formationi n a weakly heterogeneous chemical model: The fluctuation-driven Oregonator model for the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction
Harold M Hastings, Richard J. Field, Sabrina G Sobel
On memory in time-dependent density functional theory
Neepa T. Maitra
Temperature dependence of the activation energy of glass dynamics on a molecular level
Allison B. Peet, Noah A. Capurso, John A. Harris, Gerald C. Lindo, Dieter Bingemann
Tests of new ab initio potential energy surfaces in rovibrational energy transfer studies of helium + metal hydride collisions
Brian K. Taylor, Jason E. Distefano, Randa J. Gates
QM/MM approach to treating long-range electrostatics
Patricia S. Schaefer, Qiang Cui
Theoretic study on molecular structure and properties of the complete series of chlorophenols
Jun Han, Richard L. Deming, Fu Ming Tao
Photoabsorption vs. photoionization in the local density approximation
Adam Wasserman, Neepa T. Maitra, Kieron Burke
QM/MM boundary atoms by variational optimization of analytic pseudopotentials
O. Anatole von Lilienfeld-Toal, Ivano Tavernelli, Ursula Rothlisberger, Daniel Sebastiani
Theoretical study of the solvation of fluorine and chlorine anions by water
Daniel D Kemp, M. S. Gordon
Thermal activation of bond torsion as the main factor governing the triplet-triplet energy transfer reaction to flexible molecules
Xavier Allonas, Jacques Lalevee, Jean Pierre Fouassier
Quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical (QM/MM) study of the mechanism of dihydroorotate dehydrogenase
Yolanda A. Small, Sharon Hammes-Schiffer
Thermochemical properties and kinetic analysis on intramolecular hydrogen transfer reactions in n butyl- and n-pentyl- alkyl peroxy and hydroperoxide-alkyl radicals
Lei Zhu, Lisa M. Kardos, Joseph W. Bozzelli
Thermodynamics of surface vs. interior solvation in halide-water clusters
Denise M. Koch, Gilles Peslherbe
Scalable implementation of analytic gradients for second order Z-averaged perturbation theory using the distributed data interface
Christine M. Aikens, Graham D. Fletcher, Michael W. Schmidt, Mark S. Gordon
Time correlation function theory for the fifth order Raman response
Russell DeVane
Paper Withdrawn
Towards a quantitative description of a functional group interaction using first principles
Steven G. Arturo, Dana E. Knox
Toward formation of Buckminsterfullerene C60 in quantum chemical molecular dynamics
Guishan Zheng, Stephan Irle, Marcus Elstner, Keiji Morokuma
Simulating fluid phase equilibria from first principles
Matthew J. McGrath, J. Ilja Siepmann, I Feng W. Kuo, Christopher J. Mundy, Joost H.B. VandeVondele, Matthias Krack, Fawzi Mohamed, Michele Parrinello
Treatment of dispersion energy in the general effective fragment potential (EFP2) method-dynamic polarizabilty
Ivana Adamovic, Mark S. Gordon
Vibrational analysis and intermolecular hydrogen bonding of N-methylacetamide in the cluster
Kyung Chul Min, Sun Kyung Park, Choongkeun Lee, Nam Soo Lee
Symmetry-adapted perturbation theory approach to intermolecular interactions based on the density functional theory description of monomers
Rafal Podeszwa, Alston J. Misquitta, Krzysztof Szalewicz
Studying biological molecules with quantum Monte Carlo: Improved scaling
Alan Aspuru-Guzik, Romelia Salomon-Ferrer, William A. Lester Jr.
Symmetry-adapted perturbation theory with regularized induction interaction
Konrad Patkowski, Krzysztof Szalewicz, Bogumil Jeziorski
The quantum Drude model for many-body polarization and dispersion: Application to water and xenon
Troy W. Whitfield, G. J. Martyna
Understanding the singularity structure of the Moeller-Plesset energy function
David Z. Goodson, Alexey V. Sergeev
Water pair potential with flexible monomers
Garold Murdachaew, Krzysztof Szalewicz

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