Yael Elmatad

Graduate Student Chandler Group Department of Chemistry University of California at Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720 Phone: 510-643-7128 Fax: 510-643-1566 Email: yael.elmatad@berkeley.edu

Research Interests

• One of my projects involves investigating the dynamics of two melittin dimers coming together to form one tetramer. Through this research, we hope to elucidate the process of hydrophobic collapse to determine whether or not the process is drying induced.
  
  
• I am also interested in glass phenomenology. Specifically, I am interested in understanding the underlying physics of experimental data trends. Additionally, I have been working on simulations of a facilitated spin model for a glass.
  

Current Courses

• Physics 211 - Equilibrium Statistical Physics
  Spring 2008 - Professor Dung-Hai Lee (AUDITING)
  
  
• Physics 212 - Non-Equilibrium Statistical Physics
  Spring 2008 - Professor Ashvin Vishwanath (AUDITING)
  
  
• Chemistry 220B - Advanced Statistical Mechanics
  Spring 2008 - Professor David Chandler (AUDITING)
  
  

Past Courses

• Chemistry 220A - Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics
  Fall 2006 - Professor David Chandler
  
  
• Physics 221A - Quantum Mechanics
  Fall 2006 - Professor Hitoshi Murayama
  
  
• Chemistry 220B - Advanced Statistical Mechanics
  Spring 2007 - Professor Phillip Geissler
  
  
• Chemistry 221B - Advanced Quantum Mechanics
  Spring 2007 - Professor William Miller
  
  
• Chemistry 223A - Chemical Kinetics
  Spring 2007 - Professor Stephen Leone
  
  

Current Teaching

• None

Past Teaching

• Chemistry 120B - Fall 2007
  
  
• Chemistry 4A - Fall 2006 - Sec. 103

History

B.S., Chemistry, 2006, New York University, New York City, NY

Past Research
Static and vibrationally averaged stuctures of small molecular clusters.
Advisor: Professor Zlatko Bacic, New York University, 2004-2006.

Past Teaching
Physical Chemistry I-II at New York University. (Fall 2004-Spring 2005)
General Chemistry I-II at New York University. (Fall 2003-Spring 2004)

Publications

• "Examining Gas Kinetics in MATLAB"
Y. Elmatad, M. Zitolo, D. Fera, and A. Jerschow. Chem. Educator, 12 (2), 89 -93, 2007. Link.

• "Hydrogen Molecules in the Small Dodecahedral Cage of a Clathrate Hydrate: Quantum Translation-Rotation Dynamics of the Confined Molecules"
F. Sebastianelli, M. Xu, Y. S. Elmatad, J. W. Moskowitz, and Z. Bacic. J. Phys. Chem. C, 2007. Link.

• "Hydrogen molecule in the small dodecahedral cage of a clathrate hydrate: Quantum five-dimensional calculations of the coupled translation-rotation eigenstates"
M. Xu, Y. S. Elmatad, F. Sebastianelli, J. W. Moskowitz, and Z. Bacic. J. Phys. Chem. B, 110 (49), 24806 -24811, 2006. Link.

• "HF in clusters of molecular hydrogen: II. Quantum solvation by H₂ isotopomers, cluster rigidity, and comparison with CO-doped parahydrogen clusters"
F. Sebastianelli, Y. S. Elmatad, H. Jiang, and Z. Bacic. J. Chem. Phys. 125, 164313 (2006). Link.

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Last updated: 2/7/2008