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Advances in the Theory of Chemical and Physical Systems is a collection of 26 selected papers from the scientific presentations made at the 9th European Workshop on Quantum Systems in Chemistry and Physics (QSCP-IX) held at Les Houches, France, in September 2004. This volume encompasses a spectrum of developing topics in which scientists place special emphasis on theoretical methods in the study of chemical and physical properties of various systems: Quantum Chemical Methods (including CC and DFT for excited states) Relativistic and Heavy-Element Systems (including radiative and nuclear effects)Complexes and Clusters (including metal complexes and clusters) Complex Systems (including quasicrystals, nanotubes and proteins).
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RECENT ADVANCES IN THE THEORY OF CHEMICAL AND PHYSICAL SYSTEMS
Progress in Theoretical Chemistry and Physics VOLUME 15 Honorary Editor: W.N. Lipscomb (Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.)
Editors-in-Chief: J. Maruani (Laboratoire de Chimie Physique, Paris, France) S. Wilson (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Oxfordshire, U.K.)
Editorial Board: H. Ågren (Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden) D. Avnir (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) J. Cioslowski (Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, U.S.A.) R. Daudel (European Academy of Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Paris, France) G. Delgado-Barrio (Instituto de Matematicas y Fisica Fundamental, Madrid, Spain) E.K.U. Gross (Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany) W.F. van Gunsteren (ETH-Zentrum, Zürich, Switzerland) K. Hirao (University of Tokyo, Japan) I. Hubac× (Komensky University, Bratislava, Slovakia) M.P. Levy (Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, U.S.A.) R. McWeeny (Università di Pisa, Italy) P.G. Mezey (University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada) M.A.C. Nascimento (Instituto de Quimica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) N. Rahman (Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche, Trieste, Italy) S.D. Schwartz (Yeshiva University, Bronx, NY, U.S.A.) S. Suhai (Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany) O. Tapia (University of Uppsala, Sweden) P.R. Taylor (University of Warwick, Coventry, U.K.) R.G. Woolley (Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, U.K.)
Former Editors and Editorial Board Members: I. Prigogine (deceased) J. Rychlewski (deceased) Y.G. Smeyers (deceased) G.L. Malli (resigned) The titles published in this series are listed at the end of this volume.
Recent Advances in the Theory of Chemical and Physical Systems Proceedings of the 9th European Workshop on Quantum Systems in Chemistry and Physics (QSCP-IX) held at Les Houches, France, in September 2004 Edited by
JEAN-PIERRE JULIEN Laboratoire d'Etudes des Propriét és Electroniques des Solides, CNRS and UJF, Grenoble, France
JEAN MARUANI Laboratoire de Chimie Physique, CNRS and UPMC, Paris, France
DIDIER MAYOU Laboratoire d'Etudes des Propriétés Electroniques des solides, CNRS and UJF, Grenoble, France
STEPHEN WILSON Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Oxfordshire, U.K. and
GERARDO DELGADO-BARRIO Instituto de Matemá ticas y Física Fundamental, CSIC, Madrid, Spain
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