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McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering Cockrell School of Engineering | The University of Texas at Austin |
Hayley Silverman is an undergraduate from Houston, TX studying chemical engineering at The University of Texas at Austin.
As part of the Texas Advanced Computer Center's (TACC) ICERT REU, she is currently working under the guidance of Dr. Graeme Henkelman on a kinetic database that will enable scientists to predict available saddles from a query configuration, as well as store reaction mechanisms so that they can be reused, thus reducing the computational cost of the standard kinetic Monte Carlo. During the school year, she is part of the UT Freshman Research Initiative's Nanomaterials for Chemical Catalysis stream. She works to synthesize and characterize dendrimer encapsulated nanoparticles that have the potential to be used as chemical catalysts. |