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Friday, September 19, 2008 - 2:00pm

Igor Rivin

Temple Univ. (Mathematics)

Location

University of Pennsylvania

Towne 337

Zeolites are ubiquitous (their uses range from laundry detergents to nuclear power generation to laundry detergent to cat litter) materials with a very beautiful molecular structure. 48 zeolites occur naturally, and some 150 have been synthesized to date. I will talk about a long-running project with Mike Treacy (ASU physics department) to produce a census of possible zeolites and to produce designer zeolites (those with specific chemical properties).