Randall Hall's Coworkers
Current and Former Postdoctoral Associates
Dr. Jan Eilertsen | Ph.D., August 1995 Trondheim Univ., Norway |
Experimental and Computational Studies of MAO | 2001-2003 | Senior Advisor, The Research Council of Norway |
Dr. Petia Bobadova-Parvanova | Ph.D., January2000 Univ. of Sofia, Bulgaria |
Ab initio studies of materials and biomaterials | 2002-2003 | Assistant Professor, Rockhurst University |
Dr. Cheri McFerrin | Ph.D., June 2007 Univ. of Sofia, Bulgaria |
Ab initio studies of the structure and reactivity of metal oxide clusters | 2009-present | LSU |
Current and Former Graduate Students
Dr. Melissa R. Prince | Ph.D., August1995 | "Theoretical Studies of Sodium Metal Clusters" | Texas |
Dr. Andrew M. Kolchin | Ph.D., March2000 | "Atomic and Electronic Properties of Neutral and Cationic Metallic Clusters" | New York |
Dr. Chris R. Harwell | Ph.D., June 2000 | "Theoretical Prediction of Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance Spectra of Aluminum, Bromine, and Nitrogen Compounds via First Principles Calculations" | Computer Systems Administrator at D.E. Shaw Research |
Jerome D. Krough | Masters in Chemistry, Fall2000 | ||
Dr. Jose A. Gascon | Ph.D., July 2002 | "Computer simulation of cationic rare gas clusters" | Assistant Professor, University of Connecticut |
Dr. Lacramioara Negureanu | Ph.D., May 2006 | "Ab Initio Simulations and Quantum Structure Calculations of Methylalumoxane (MAO) Synthesis by Hydrolysis of Trimethylaluminum" | Postdoc, Wake Forest University |
Dr. Yanlong (Jerry) Xu | Ph.D., August2006 | "Simulating protein evolution via thermodynamic models" | Regeneron Pharma |
Dr. Cheri McFerrin | Ph.D., June 2007 | "Elementary reactions involved in pollutant-forming mechanisms" | Instructor, Southeastern Louisiana University |
James Rucker | Simulation of beta-sheet polypeptides | ||
Gyun-Tack Bae | Ph.D., December2009 | Growth of CuO nanoclusters | Postdoc, Kansas State University |
Brandon Borill | Hydrogen storage materials |
Current and Former Undergraduate Students
Christopher Chapman | 1989-1990 | Computer Programming, including SIMD parallel programming | Principal Engineer at Monotype Imaging |
Wei Wang | 1992-1993 | Kink-based path integral formalism | Software Engineer at Sun Microsystems |
Sean E. Hays | Summer,1900 | Ionization potential for small sodium clusters | |
Chris R. Harwell | Summer1994 | ab initio studies of andalusite | See above |
Akilah I. Shelby | Summer,1996 | ab initio studies of flame retardants | |
William Scullin | 2000-2002 | Computer programming (beowulf cluster) and ab initiostudies of MAO | Senior HPC Systems Administrator, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL |
Sarah Hickey | Summer,2000 | ab initio studies of incineration reactions | |
Ashlyn Kidd | 2000 | ab initio studies of incineration reactions | |
Dana Doucet | Summer,2002 | Metal and rare gas cluster ions | Graduate School, Physics, University of Florida |
Allen Johnson | Summer,2002 | ab initio studies of MAO and incineration | |
Yuko Oku | Summer,2003 | ab initio studies of chemotherapy drugs | Graduate School, Johns Hopkins University |
Shawn Wilkinson | 2007-2008 | Path integral studies of molecules and simulations of glasses | Graduate School, University of Illinois |
Drew Hamilton | Summer2010 | MD simulations of flame retardent/polystyrene mimics | Undergrad at Tulane |
Igor Kolesnichenko | Summer2011 | Hydrogen storage | Undergrad at LSU |
Jeff Parrozzo | Summer2011 | MD simulations of flame retardent/polyurethane mimics | Undergrad at LSU |
Brian Kurtz | Summer2011 | MD simulations of flame retardent/polystyrene mimics | Undergrad at LSU |