Thank you for visiting my home page.
I am a graduate student in
Chemical Engineering at the
University of Massachusetts in Amherst,
Massachusetts. I received my bachelor's degree in
Chemical Engineering from the
California Institute of Technology
(Caltech) in Pasadena, California, and my high school diploma from
John
Marshall High School in
Rochester, Minnesota. If you're
looking to contact me, try my UGCS address if you don't know the UMass one.
My research advisors here at UMass are
Scott Auerbach
(who is actually a theoretical chemist, but the chemical engineers of the
world will forgive him that), and
W. Curt Conner.
My project is to model diffusion and catalysis in zeolites; the Auerbach
group does the modeling end, and the Conner group does the experimental end.
My function is to serve as a human bridge between the two groups, and to (we
hope) find some neat results along the way.
I am a HUGE fan of the show Futurama, and a slightly less
rabid fan of South Park; I've also taken a recent interest in
Shark and House. As for baseball, Go Twins!
As you may have guessed from some of the
links below, I am also a rabid fan of the late Robert Jordan's
The Wheel of Time. His death from amyloidosis will be mourned by
everyone who enjoyed his work, which I consider one of the biggest blows
to the literary community in decades.
Publications
Hammond, K. D., G. A. Tompsett, S. M. Auerbach, and W. C. Conner,
“Apparatus for Measuring Physical Adsorption on Intact Supported Porous
Membranes,” Journal
of Porous Materials 14 (4),
409–416 (2007).
Hammond, K. D., G. A. Tompsett, S. M. Auerbach, and W. C. Conner,
“Physical Adsorption Analysis of Intact Supported MFI Zeolite
Membranes,”
Langmuir
23 (16), 8371–8384 (2007).
Payer, K. R., K. D. Hammond, G. A. Tompsett, L. Krogh, M. N. Pratt, and
W. C. Conner, “The Effects of Mechanical and Thermal Perturbations on
States Within the Hysteresis of Sorption Isotherms of Mesoporous
Materials,” Journal
of Porous Materials (in press) DOI: 10.1007/s10934-007-9172-9.
Hammond, K. D., M. Hong, G. A. Tompsett, S. M. Auerbach, J. L. Falconer,
and W. C. Conner, “High-Resolution Adsorption on Supported
Borosilicate MFI Structures,” (currently being edited, intended for
Journal
of Membrane Science).
Hammond, K. D., G. A. Tompsett, F. Dogan, C. P. Grey, W. C. Conner, and
S. M. Auerbach, “On the Location of Nitrogen in Amine-Substituted HY
Zeolite,” (currently being edited, intended for
Journal
of the American Chemical Society as a short communication).
More of my web work
I maintain (sort of) other web sites, which are listed below.
The Compendium of Wheel of Time
Characters--my site based on Robert Jordan's ongoing series of fantasy
novels. There are currently eleven books, plus a shorter book that takes
place before the primary action in the story. The site is probably not
worth my time, but it is definitely worth yours. Book 11, Knife of
Dreams, is the most recent addition.
My humor site--I haven't updated it for about five years
now, but it's still there.
CHIEF: CHemIcal Engineering
Forums at UMass.
Microwave Synthesis of
Porous Materials (Professor Conner's site for his research grant)
Friends from Caltech
Joy Qiu
Tasha Vanesian
Jennifer Lee
Hannah Kim
Robert Christy
This site, and all others I maintain, are tested and viewed by me in
Firefox 2.0 and Opera 9.02 (these two are my preferred browsers), as well
as Mozilla 1.2.1, Netscape 8.0, and Internet Explorer 6.2. I don't test them
with other browsers very often—testing with five different ones is a
lot better than most people do (grrrrr)—but if you run a
different one and something looks...odd...let me know.
Also, please tell me about expired links, JavaScript errors, or anything
else that looks wrong. Please come back and see the changes in a few months
(or years)! Thank you.
Karl D. Hammond / May 25, 2007