Wednesday, March 7, 2007 
8:00AM - 8:36AM 
 
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N27.00001: Evolution of Magnetism from Atoms to Crystals 
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Wednesday, March 7, 2007 
8:36AM - 8:48AM 
 
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N27.00002: Electronic and structural properties of binary Pt-Ni nanoclusters 
Luis A. P\'erez, Ignacio L. Garz\'on
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Wednesday, March 7, 2007 
8:48AM - 9:00AM 
 
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N27.00003: First principles studies of the geometric and electronic structure of nanoalloy Ag$_{27}$Cu$_{7}$. 
M. Alcantara Ortigoza, T.S. Rahman
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Wednesday, March 7, 2007 
9:00AM - 9:12AM 
 
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N27.00004: Bond Stiffening in Small Clusters, and its Consequences 
Shobhana Narasimhan, Raghani Pushpa, Umesh Waghmare
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Wednesday, March 7, 2007 
9:12AM - 9:24AM 
 
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N27.00005: Structural Properties of Small Pd Clusters 
Jos\'e Rogan, Griselda Garc{\'i}a, Juan Alejandro Valdivia, Ricardo Ram{\'i}rez, Miguel Kiwi
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Wednesday, March 7, 2007 
9:24AM - 9:36AM 
 
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N27.00006: Efficient method to calculate total energies of large nanoclusters 
Min Yu, Rampi Ramprasad, Gayanath W. Fernando, Richard M. Martin
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Wednesday, March 7, 2007 
9:36AM - 9:48AM 
 
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N27.00007: First principles study of coulombic correlation effect on lithium doped zinc oxide nanocrystals 
Hyunwook Kwak, Murilo L. Tiago, James R. Chelikowsky
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Wednesday, March 7, 2007 
9:48AM - 10:00AM 
 
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N27.00008: Excitonic effects and optical properties of passivated CdSe clusters 
Marie Lopez del Puerto, Murilo Tiago, James Chelikowsky
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Wednesday, March 7, 2007 
10:00AM - 10:12AM 
 
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N27.00009: Structure and Dynamics of Silicon Carbide Clusters: A Tight-Binding Adaptive Monte Carlo Application 
Anthony Patrick, Xiao Dong, Estela Blaisten-Barojas, Thomas Allison, Anwar Hasmy
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Wednesday, March 7, 2007 
10:12AM - 10:24AM 
 
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N27.00010: First-principles studies of isomerization processes of silicon clusters 
Leonidas Tsetseris, George Hadjisavvas, Sokrates Pantelides
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Wednesday, March 7, 2007 
10:24AM - 10:36AM 
 
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N27.00011: Investigation of the structure and properties of vacancies in Si and Ge nano-crystals by \textit{ab initio} methods 
Scott Beckman, James Chelikowsky
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Wednesday, March 7, 2007 
10:36AM - 10:48AM 
 
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N27.00012: Self-purification in semiconductor nanostructures 
Gustavo Dalpian, James R. Chelikowsky
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