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Prof. Topper Speaks at 2016 MARM

POSTED ON: June 11, 2016

Professor Robert Topper gave a talk titled "Mag-walking Monte Carlo and density functional theory calculations of interaction energies in ammonium halide clusters" at the 2016 Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society. The paper was coauthored by Professor Topper, John Biswakarma (BSE'14) and Vlad Ciocoi (ChE'14, M.Eng.'15).

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