Multiscale Computational Methods in Chemistry and Physics - NATO Science Series: Computer & Systems Sciences

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Publisher Marketing: This text is the proceedings volume of a NATO Advanced Research Workshop, held in Eliat, Israel, April 5th-8th, 2000. It brings together interdisciplinary contributions ranging from applied mathematics, theoretical physics, quantum chemistry and molecular biology, all addressing different facets of the problem to connect the many scales of the computer simulation of many systems of interest in chemistry - polymetric materials, biological molecules, clusters, surface and interface structure. Emphasis is placed on the multigrid technique and its applications, ranging from electronic structure calculations to the statistical mechanics of polymers.

Contributor Bio:  Brandt, Achi Achi Brandt is Professor Emeritus at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Professor in Residence at the University of California, Los Angeles and the Chief Scientist of VideoSurf, Inc. In 2005 he won the SIAM/ACM Prize in Computational Science and Engineering 'for pioneering modern multilevel methods, from multigrid solvers for partial differential equations to multiscale techniques for statistical physics, and for influencing almost every aspect of contemporary computational science and engineering'. Contributor Bio:  Bernholc, Jerzy fm.author_biographical_note2Contributor Bio:  Binder, Kurt Kurt Binder is Professor Emeritus of Theoretical Physics and Gutenberg Fellow at the Institut fur Physik, Johannes Gutenberg Universitat, Mainz, Germany.