Quantum-Mechanical Ab-initio Calculation of the Properties of Crystalline Materials

1 Crystal Lattices and Crystal Symmetry.- 2 The Language of Band Theory.- 3 Ab-Initio Approaches to the Quantum-Mechanical Treatment of Periodic Systems.- 4 Reciprocal Space Integration and Special-Point Techniques.- 5 Numerical Integration in Density Functional Methods with Linear Combination of Atomic Orbitals.- 6 Hartree-Fock Treatment of Spin-Polarized Crystals.- 7 The Quantum Theory of Periodic Systems on Modern Computers.- 8 The CRYSTAL Code.- 9 Description of an LAPW DF Program (WIEN95).- 10 A Pseudopotential Plane Waves Program (PWSCF) and some Case Studies.- 11 Total Energy and Related Properties.- 12 Lattice Dynamics and Thermodynamic Properties.- 13 Loss of Symmetry in Crystals: Surfaces and Local Defects.- 14 One-Electron Density Matrices and Related Observables.- 15 Macroscopic Dielectric Polarization: Hartree-Fock Theory.- 16 The Hubbard Models and Superconductivity.- A Schedule of the 1994 GICC School of Computational Chemistry.- B Subject Index.- C List of Acronyms.