Computational Materials Science Center
College of Science
George Mason University

STUDENTS doing graduate work under the direction of Prof. Estela Blaisten-Barojas:

  • Yafei Dai: "Models of conducting polymers."(PhD degree)
  • Richard Massaro "Excited states of large organic molecules." (PhD degree)
  • Scott Orloff "Generalization of the Adaptive Tempering Monte Carlo Method." (PhD degree)
  • John Lyver: "Effects of disorder on the thermal transport in binary alloys."(PhD degree)

    PhD alumni graduated under my direction:

  • Abdullah Al-Sunaidi: December 1999. "Computer Simulation of Aggregation and Gelation in Colloidal Mixtures." Presently an assistant professor at Department of Physics, KFUPM,Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.

  • Chang-Hong Chien : May 2000. "Dynamics and Electronic Structure of Neutral and Multiply Charged Metal Clusters". Presently a research faculty at Department of Physics, National Taiwan University, Tapei, Taiwan.

  • Xiao Dong : May 2006. "Quantum and Classical Simulation of Molecular Clusters." Associate Professor at Beijing Institue of Technology, China.

  • Mohamed Lach-hab: May 1998. "Aggregation Processes in Colloids: Computer Simulations." Research Assistant Professor, CMaSC, George Mason University.

  • Yibing Li: July 1997."Molecular Dynamics and Electronic Structure of Metal Clusters." Presently employed in the private corporate sector.

  • Jeff Mirick: May 2002. "A Study of Molecular Processes in Calcium Clusters, Sarin and Calcium Carbonate Clusters." Presently working in a development position at the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA).

  • Anthony Patrick: December 2008. "Metallization of Carbon Clusters and Silicon Carbide Nanostructures." Presently working for the federal government.

  • Guan Ming Wang December 2002: "Development of many-body potentials based on the electronic structure of clusters and crystals." Presently a National Research Council postdoctoral fellow at the Computational Physics Lab of the Naval Research Laboratory, Washington D. C.

    • Master in Science alumni graduated under my direction:

  • Scott Evans: May 1994. Master in Physics

  • Jacob Walts: May 1997. Master in Physics

  • Carlos Cruz: May 1999. Master in Physics

  • Leulu Gebremedhin: December 2003. Master in Computational Science.

  • Alexandra Landsberg: May 2004. Master in Computational Science.