COMPMonday, August 20, 2007

9:00 AM-12:10 PM BCEC -- 160B, Oral
Bold Predictions in Theoretical Chemistry: A Symposium in Honor of One of the Boldest, Bill Goddard, on the Occasion of his 70th Birthday
Nanotechnology
Organizers:Emily A. Carter
Mark S. Gordon
Presiding:Jamil Tahir-Kheli
9:00 AMQuantum chemical molecular dynamics simulations of growth of fullerenes, metallofullerenes and carbon nanotubes
Keiji Morokuma, Stephan Irle, Zhi Wang, Guishan Zheng, Benjamin Y. Finck, Biswajit Saha, Yasuhito Ohta, Yoshiko Okamoto
9:35 AMSilicon nanowire thermoelectrics
James R. Heath, Akram Boukai, Yuri Bunimovich, Jen Kan Yu, William A. Goddard III, Paul von Allmen, Jamil Tahir-Kheli, Seungwon Lee, Robert J. Nielsen, Yuki Matsuda
10:10 AMChemical dynamics at metal surfaces: Electronic excitations
Neil Shenvi, Sharani Roy, Hongzhi Cheng, John Tully
10:45 AMIntermission
11:00 AMQuantum conductance of silver nanowires and linearization of atomic gold chains
Young Cheol Choi, Woo Youn Kim, Seung Kyu Min, Han Myoung Lee, Kwang S. Kim
11:35 AMTime-dependent density-functional theory for open systems and its calculation of transient currents through molecular devices
GuanHua Chen

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The 234th ACS National Meeting, Boston, MA, August 19-23, 2007