Advances in Chemical Physics, Volume 156 (eBook)

Stuart A. Rice received his master's and doctorate from Harvard University and was a Junior Fellow at Harvard for two years before joining the faculty of The University of Chicago in 1957 where he remains a well-known theoretical chemist who also does experimental research and is currently the Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at The University of Chicago. Professor Rice has served the university in a wide variety of capacities during his forty-eight year tenure. He served as the director of the James Franck Institute (the university's center for physical chemistry and condensed matter physics) from 1961 to 1967, was Chairman of the Department of Chemistry from 1971 to 1976 and was Dean of the Physical Sciences Division from 1981 to 1995. In 1999 he received the National Medal of Science. Aaron R. Dinner received his bachelor's degree and doctorate from Harvard University, after which he conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Oxford and the University of California, Berkely. He joined the faculty at the University of Chicago in 2003 and is the Principal Investigator of The Dinner Group, which develops and applies theoretical methods for relating cellular behavior to molecular properties.

Phase Space Approach to Solving The Schrödinger Equation:
Thinking Inside the Box 1

David J. Tannor, Norio Takemoto, and Asaf Shimshovitz

Entropy-Driven Phase Transitions In Colloids: From Spheres to
Anisotropic Particles 35

Marjolein Dijkstra

Sub-Nano Clusters: The Last Frontier of Inorganic Chemistry
73

Anastassia N. Alexandrova and Louis-S. Bouchard

Supercooled Liquids and Glasses by Dielectric Relaxation
Spectroscopy 101

Ranko Richert

Confined Fluids: Structure, Properties and Phase Behavior
197

G. Ali Mansoori and Stuart A. Rice

Theories and Quantum Chemical Calculations of Linear and
Sum-Frequency Generation Spectroscopies, and Intramolecular
Vibrational Redistribution and Density Matrix Treatment of
Ultrafast Dynamics 295

L. Yang, Y.L. Niu, C.K. Lin, M. Hayashi, C.Y. Zhu, and S.H.
Lin

On The Kramers Very Low Damping Escape Rate for Point Particles
and Classical Spins 393

Declan J. Byrne, William T. Coffey, William J. Dowling, Yuri P.
Kalmykov, and Serguey V. Titov

Author Index 461

Subject Index 499