Accurate condensed-phase quantum chemistry / / editor, Frederick R. Manby

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910460024603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Boca Raton : , : Taylor & Francis, , 2011
• ISBN: 0-429-13424-X; 1-4398-0837-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (214 p.)
• Collana: Computation in chemistry
• Altri autori (Persone): ManbyFrederick R
• Disciplina: 541/.28
• Soggetti: Quantum chemistry; Condensed matter; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front cover; Contents; Series Preface; Preface; Editor; Contributors; chapter one. Laplace transform second-order Møller-Plesset methods in the atomic orbital basis for periodic systems; chapter two. Density fitting for correlated calculations in periodic systems; chapter three. The method of increments-a wavefunction-based correlation method for extended systems; chapter four. The hierarchical scheme for electron correlation in crystalline solids; chapter five. Electrostatically embedded many-body expansion for large systems; chapter six. Electron correlation in solids: Delocalized and localized orbital approacheschapter seven. Ab initio Monte Carlo simulations of liquid water; Back cover
• Sommario/riassunto: The theoretical methods of quantum chemistry have matured to the point that accurate predictions can be made and experiments can be understood for a wide range of important gas-phase phenomena. A large part of this success can be attributed to the maturation of hierarchies of approximation, which allow one to approach very high accuracy, provided that sufficient computational resources are available. Until recently, these hierarchies have not been available in condensed-phase chemistry, but recent advances in the field have now led to a group of methods that are capable of reaching this goa

Astrofuturism : Science, Race, and Visions of Utopia in Space / / De Witt Douglas Kilgore

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910781884003321
• Autore: Kilgore De Witt Douglas
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Philadelphia : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2010]; ©2003
• ISBN: 1-283-21113-0; 9786613211132; 0-8122-0066-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (305 p.)
• Disciplina: 813/.08762093299
• Soggetti: SCIENCE; Space Science; Science fiction, American - History and criticism - United States; Literature and science; Life on other planets in literature; Space and time in literature; Astronautics in literature; Utopias in literature; Future, The, in literature; Race in literature; English; Languages & Literatures; American Literature
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: The Wonderful Dream -- 1. Knocking on Heaven's Door: David Lasser and the First Conquest of Space -- 2. An Empire in Space: Europe and America as Science Fact -- 3. Building a Space Frontier: Robert A. Heinlein and the American Tradition -- 4. Will There Always Be an England? Arthur C. Clarke's New Eden -- 5. The Domestication of Space: Gerard K. O'Neill's Suburban ; Diaspora -- 6. Ben Bova: Race, Nation, and Renewal on the High Frontier -- 7. On Mars and Other Heterotopias: A Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments
• Sommario/riassunto: Astrofuturism: Science, Race, and Visions of Utopia in Space is the first full-scale analysis of an aesthetic, scientific, and political movement that sought the amelioration of racial difference and social antagonisms through the conquest of space. Drawing on the popular science writing and science fiction of an eclectic group of scientists, engineers, and popular writers, De Witt Douglas Kilgore investigates how the American tradition of technological utopianism responded to the political upheavals of the twentieth century.Founded in the imperial politics and utopian schemes of the nineteenth century, astrofuturism envisions outer space as an endless frontier that offers solutions to the economic and political problems that dominate the modern world. Its advocates use the conventions of technological and scientific conquest to consolidate or challenge the racial and gender hierarchies codified in narratives of exploration. Because the icon of space carries both the imperatives of an imperial past and the democratic hopes of its erstwhile subjects, its study exposes the ideals and contradictions endemic to American culture.Kilgore argues that in the decades following the Second World War the subject of race became the most potent signifier of political crisis for the predominantly white and male ranks of astrofuturism. In response to criticism inspired by the civil rights movement and the new left, astrofuturists imagined space frontiers that could extend the reach of the human species and heal its historical wounds. Their work both replicated dominant social presuppositions and supplied the resources necessary for the critical utopian projects that emerged from the antiracist, socialist, and feminist movements of the twentieth century. This survey of diverse bodies of literature conveys the dramatic and creative syntheses that astrofuturism envisions between people and machines, social imperatives and political hope, physical knowledge and technological power. Bringing American studies, utopian literature, popular conceptions of race and gender, and the cultural study of science and technology into dialogue, Astrofuturism will provide scholars of American culture, fans of science fiction, and readers of science writing with fresh perspectives on both canonical and cutting-edge astrofuturist visions.