Table of Contents

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Implementing Quantum Mechanics into Molecular Mechanics Combined QM/MM Modelling Methods
- Aatto Laaksonen* and Yaoquan Tu

2

Extending the Range of Computational
Spectroscopy by QM/MM Approaches.
Time-dependent and Time-independent routes
- Vincenzo Barone

3

Use of the Average Solvent Potential Approach in the Study of Solvent Effects
- Manuel A. Aguilar*, Ignacio Fdez. Galván, Aurora Muñoz-Losa, Catalina Soriano-Correa, M. Luz Sánchez, M. Elena Martín

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2Laboratorio de Química Computacional. FES Zaragoza, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), 09230 Iztapalapa, México, D.F. (Mexico)
- Benedito Jose Costa Cabral* and Ricardo A. Mata

5

Molecular dynamics of polypeptides and their inclusion compounds with b-cyclodextrin in aqueous solution using DC-SCC-DFTB/UFF approach
- Hélio Anderson Duarte*, Guilherme Ferreira de Lima, Thomas Heine

6

Computer simulations of photobiological
processes: the effect of the protein
environment
- Gerrit Groenhof*, Martial Boggio-Pasqua, Michael A. Robb

7

Quantum Mechnical Charge Field Molecular Dynamics - a non-parametrised first principle approach to liquids and solutions
- Bernd N. Rode*, Thomas S. Hofer, Andreas B. Pribil, Bernhard R. Randolf

8

Applications of mixed quantum/classical
trajectories to the study of nuclear quantum
e ects in chemical reactions and vibrational
relaxation processes
- Juliana Palma*, Gustavo Pierdominici-Sottile, Sebasti an Fern andez Alberti

9

Development of a Quantum Chemical Method Combined with
a Theory of Solutions: Free Energy Calculation for Chemical
Reactions by Condensed Phase Simulations
- Hideaki Takahashi*, Nobuyuki Matubayasi, Masayoshi Nakano

10

A Guide to QM/MM Methodology and Applications
- Dennis R. Salahub*, Sergei Yu Noskov, Javier Edouardo Cuervo, Bogdan Lev, Rui Zhang

About the Author

I was born in Springfield, Mass, and Educated at Williams College (BA) and the University of New Hampshire (PhD). Following that, I was a postdoctoral at Uppsala University in Sweden, and at Northwestern University in Evanston. For the past four decades, I have worked in the Quantum Theory Project, Department of Physics, at the University of Florida. My interests have always been in the theory of molecular electronic structure. More recently, I have been working on the interaction of fast particles, mostly protons and alpha particles, with proto-biological molecules, in terms of the transfer of energy from the projectile to the molecular target, and the outcome of that energy transfer. Such energy transfer is primarily electronic, and the initial electronic excitation results in target electronic and vibrational excitation, ionization, fragmentation, charge exchange, and other processes. The study of these processes, known as stopping power, has applications in fields from microelectronics to tumor therapy. The investigations are interesting and continue.