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    COLLOQUIUM OF THE LABORATORY FOR COMPUTER DESIGN OF MATERIALS
        Institute for Computational Sciences and Informatics
	                      (CSI 898-Sec 001) 
                               
			      joint with the
                              
			      CSI COLLOQUIUM
                                  (CSI 899)
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                MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION OF FISSION 
                    IN HIGHLY CHARGED METAL CLUSTERS

		 Estela Blaisten-Barojas and Yibing Li 
           Institute for Computational Sciences and Informatics
                        George Masson University

 A brief introduction to Molecular Dynamics simulation will be followed 
by the description of what happens to an atomic cluster of about 100
metal atoms when the cluster is electrically charged.  A phenomenon 
similar to the fission of the atomic nucleus is observed, although 
in the world of cluster physics, it has received the name of "Coulomb 
explosion".  We studied this process as a function of temperature and 
time, being able to predict the spontaneous cluster size for fission, 
the critical size, and other properties related to the fission point 
for several metals.

	                 Monday , February 2 1998
                                  4:30 pm
                        Room 206, Science & Tech. I

Refreshments will be served.
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