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    COLLOQUIUM OF THE LABORATORY FOR COMPUTER DESIGN OF MATERIALS
        Institute for Computational Sciences and Informatics
	                      (CSI 898-Sec 001) 

                Fission of highly charged metal clusters

                           T.Patrick Martin
              Max Planck Institut fuer Festkoerperforschung
                         Stuttgart, Germany

  It is not obvious that metal clusters should behave like atomic 
nuclei- but they do.  The shell model developed by nuclear physicists 
describes very nicely the electronic properties of metal clusters.
Clusters also demonstrate a giant dipole resonance in their excitation
spectrum. However, the topic of this seminar is the fission of
metal clusters and the applicability of the liquid droplet model that has
been so successful in describing the same phenomenon in atomic nuclei.

	                  Monday , October 18 1999
                                  4:30 pm
                         Room 206, Science & Tech. I

Refreshments will be served.
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