Acknowledgments

• National Science Foundation - Science and Technology Center: Summer Undergraduate Research Program, Virginia Tech; for funding this project.

• National Science Foundation - HPSC at the University of Colorado at Boulder, CO, under an Educational Infrastructure grant, CDA-9017953; for providing us with the materials used for this tutorial.

• The Laboratory for Scientific Visual Analysis and the Multimedia Laboratory.

• Dr. Ron Kriz; for making this project a success by advising and working with me very closely.

• Dr. Venkat Vasudevan; for his advice on molecular dynamics and suggestions about periodic boundary concept.

• Dan Mullholand; for his technical advice on AVS.

• Gordon Miller and Jason Lockhart; for access and assistance in the Multimedia Lab.