Professional Preparation:

Professional Appointments

Associate Fellow of the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, 2007-2008
Next Generation of the Professoriate Award, UMN Digital Media Center 2006-2007.

Selected Publications

S. Hao, D-B. Zhang, and T. Dumitrica, "Effect of small shape changes on the optical responses of highly symmetric silicon quantum dots," Physical Review B: Rapid Communication 76, 081305 (2007)

P. Valentini, W.W. Gerberich, and T. Dumitrica, "Phase Transition Plasticity in Silicon Nanospheres", Physical Letters (accepted for publication)

P. Valentini and T. Dumitrica, "Microscopic Theory for Nanoparticle-Surface Collisions in Crystalline Silicon", Physical Review B 22, 224106 (2007)

T. Dumitrica, M. Hua, and B. I. Yakobson, "Endohedral Silicon Nanotubes as Thinnest Silicide Wires," Physical Review B: Rapid Communication 70, 01448 (2004).

T. Dumitrica, A. Burzo, Y. Dou, and R.E. Allen, "Response of Si and InSb to Ultrafast Laser Pulses", Physica Status Solidi 241, 2331 (2004) Other Selected Publications T. Dumitrica and R.D. James, "Objective Molecular Dynamics," Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids (at press)

T. Dumitrica, M. Hua, and B. I. Yakobson, "Symmetry, time, and temperature dependent strength of carbon nanotubes", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103, 6105 (2006).

T. Dumitrica, M. E. Garcia, H. O. Jeschke, and B. I. Yakobson, "Selective Cap Opening in Carbon Nanotubes Driven by Laser-Induced Coherent Phonons," Physical Review Letters 92, 117401 (2004).

T. Dumitrica, T. Belytschko, and B. I. Yakobson, "Bond-Breaking Bifurcation States in Carbon Nanotube Fracture," Journal of Chemical Physics: Communication 118, 9485 (2003).

T. Dumitrica, H.F. Bettinger, G.E. Scuseria, and B.I. Yakobson, "Thermodynamics of Yield in BN Nanotubes", Physical Review B 68, 085412 (2003)