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       SEMINAR OF THE LABORATORY FOR COMPUTER DESIGN OF MATERIALS
        Institute for Computational Sciences and Informatics
		CSI 929  (http://science.gmu.edu/physics/)
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	FIRST-PRINCIPLES STUDIES OF THE STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES OF
              		   SOLID CUBANE
      
			Steven L. Richardson
 	      Department of Electrical Engineering and 
	Materials Science Research Center, Howard University

   Recent advances in computationalmaterials science and theoretical 
condensed matter physics, coupled with the power and speed of modern 
supercomputers, have enabled scientists and engineers to design and 
study novel materials from a first-principles viewpoint. Such 
calculations are becoming increasingly useful in their abilty to both
explain experimental propeties of materials, as well as predict novel
properties.
  As an example of these methods, we will discuss some of our recent 
calculations on the properties of the energetic material, solid cubane.

	               Monday , November 18 1996
                               5:00 pm
                       Room 206, Science & Tech. I
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