COMPUTATIONAL & THEORETICAL SCIENCE SEMINAR

			Friday, September 24, 1999
	      11:30 a.m., Room 224 Physics-Astronomy Building
		   (Refreshments served at 11:15 a.m.)


	VISUALIZING THE ELECTRON DISTRIBUTION IN THE CHEMICAL BOND

			     James Harrison
	   Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University

When two atoms come together and form a chemical bond, the constituent electrons
rearrange so as to minimize the molecular energy.  In this talk, I will discuss
the resulting electron distributions and their relationship to the concept of
the chemical bond.  Various ways of representing the rearranged electron density
for several small molecules will be presented.