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       SEMINAR OF THE LABORATORY FOR COMPUTER DESIGN OF MATERIALS
        Institute for Computational Sciences and Informatics
                              CSI 898-Sec 001  
              (http://www.csi.gmu.edu/lcdm/seminar/schedule.html)		
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Structural Phase Stability and Electron-Phonon Coupling in Lithium

                               Amy Liu
    Physics Department, Georgetown University, Washington D.C.

Although solid Lithium is arguably one of the simplest metals, 
open questions remain about some of its electronic and structural
properties.  Its structural phase diagram, especially at low
temperatures, appears to be complex, with several phases observed to 
coexist.  Furthermore, given that several first-principles studies
have suggested that the electron-phonon interaction in Li should be
moderately large, the lack of an observed superconducting transition, 
at least down to the mK level, has been a long-standing theoretical
puzzle.

	               Monday , November 16 1998
                               4:30 pm
                       Room 206, Science & Tech. I
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