Thursday, March 8, 2007 
8:00AM - 8:12AM 
 
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U27.00001: Effects of Rh coordination and surface strain on NO dissociation 
Stefano de Gironcoli, Pushpa Raghani, Prasenjit Ghosh, Shobhana Narasimhan
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Thursday, March 8, 2007 
8:12AM - 8:24AM 
 
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U27.00002: Bridging the materials gap in catalytic kinetics via first principles coarse-grained kinetic Monte Carlo simulations 
Altaf Karim, Dion Vlachos
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Thursday, March 8, 2007 
8:24AM - 8:36AM 
 
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U27.00003: Formation of Pt nano-islands on Ru(0001) surface: insights from ab initio calculations . 
Talat S. Rahman, Marisol Alcantara Ortigoza, Sergey Stolbov
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Thursday, March 8, 2007 
8:36AM - 8:48AM 
 
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U27.00004: First principles studies of CO adsorption and diffusion over Pt nano-islands on Ru(0001) surface 
Sergey Stolbov, Marisol Ancantara Ortigoza, Talat S. Rahman
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Thursday, March 8, 2007 
8:48AM - 9:00AM 
 
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U27.00005: Mechanism of the Energy Barrier Formation during Dissociation of Hydrogen Molecule on Mg(0001) 
Shigeyuki Takagi, Kazuo Tsumuraya
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Thursday, March 8, 2007 
9:00AM - 9:12AM 
 
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U27.00006: Theoretical study of tunneling spectra of tetramantane on Au(111) surface 
Emmanouil Kioupakis, Y. Wang, R. Yamachika, X. Lu, M. F. Crommie, Steven G. Louie
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Thursday, March 8, 2007 
9:12AM - 9:24AM 
 
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U27.00007: Motion of clusters on complex surfaces 
Sabri Alkis, Jeffrey Krause, Hai-Ping Cheng
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Thursday, March 8, 2007 
9:24AM - 9:36AM 
 
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U27.00008: Effects of water on the reactivity and stability of SiO2 nanostructure. 
Yao He, Chao Cao, Hai-Ping Cheng
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Thursday, March 8, 2007 
9:36AM - 9:48AM 
 
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U27.00009: Enantiospecific adsorption of chiral molecules on chiral Au clusters 
Ignacio L. Garzon, Xochitl Lopez-Lozano, Luis A. Perez
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Thursday, March 8, 2007 
9:48AM - 10:00AM 
 
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U27.00010: Spin-dependent electronic structure of transition-metal atomic chains adsorbed on single-wall carbon nanotubes 
Engin Durgun, Salim Ciraci
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Thursday, March 8, 2007 
10:00AM - 10:12AM 
 
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U27.00011: \textit{Ab inition }study of adenine and thymine adsorption on carbon nanotubes. 
Yaroslav Shtogun, Lilia Woods, Galyna Dovbeshko
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Thursday, March 8, 2007 
10:12AM - 10:24AM 
 
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U27.00012: First-Principle Calculation on Hydrogen Dissociation on Pd-doped CNT 
Chao Cao, Alexandre Kemper, Yao He, Hai-Ping Cheng
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Thursday, March 8, 2007 
10:24AM - 10:36AM 
 
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U27.00013: Dynamics and shape fluctuations of nanosized water pools in reverse micelles 
Janamejaya Chowdhary, Branka Ladanyi
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Thursday, March 8, 2007 
10:36AM - 10:48AM 
 
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U27.00014: First-Principles Studies of sila-Diamondoids 
Steven L. Richardson, Rajendra R. Zope, Tunna Baruah, Mark R. Pederson
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