Bala "Ramu" Ramachandran Hazel Stewart Garner Professor of Chemistry Associate Dean for Research, College of Engineering & Science Post-doctoral Fellow, Institute for Theoretical Chemistry, University of Texas, Austin, 1987-89 Ph. D., Kansas State University, 1987 M.Sc., Indian Institute of Technology, India, 1982 B. Sc., University of Calicut, India, 1980 Complete CV (updated April 5, 2012)

Research Interests

My research interests are in the general area of computational chemistry.  In the past decade, my work has dealt with structure, energetics, and reactivity of organolithium compounds.  More recently, as part of the Louisiana Alliance for Simulation-Guided Materials Applications (LA-SiGMA), I am involved in the computational study of catalytic reactions on metal oxide clusters and surfaces. All of this work tends to be intensely computational in nature, and requires the use of high-performance computing platforms such as those provided by the Louisiana Optical Network Initiative (LONI).  

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Atomic Orbital Pictures Using Mathematica

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