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November 23, 2009

Plutonium, the Most Enigmatic of All Metals

Dr. Per Soderlind
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Darwin 103
3:00 PM

Dr. Per Soderlind of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory will discuss some of the peculiarities of this metal and how quantum-mechanical electronic structure from density-functional theory attempts to explain them. [Available on DVD in the SSU library.]