MRSEC Seminar Series

Unraveling Nanoparticle Properties Using Density-Functional Theory

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Christine Aikens

Department of Chemistry
Kansas State University

213 CBC Building
Manhattan, KS 66506-0401

 

Friday, February 24, 2012, 2:30 PM- 3:30 PM

Ryan 4003

 

Biography:

Christine M. Aikens completed her B.S. at the University of Oklahoma in 2000. Her graduate studies were performed under the direction of Mark S. Gordon at Iowa State University and were supported by a National Science Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship. Upon receiving her Ph.D. degree in 2005, she began a postdoctoral research position with George C. Schatz at Northwestern University. In 2007, she accepted a position as an Assistant Professor at Kansas State University. Prof. Aikens received a NSF CAREER grant in 2010 and was awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship and a Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award in 2011.
   
   
 
 
The Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) is supported by the National Science Foundation under NSF Award Number DMR-1121262. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect those of the National Science Foundation.
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