Computational Chemistry: A Practical Guide for Applying Techniques to Real World Problems David Young

Part I. Basic Topics Part II. Advanced Topics Part III. Applications

David Young is Supercomputer Analyst at Auburn University, and provides technical support to chemists who use the Alabama Supercomputer Center. He is a young PhD computational chemist with considerable knowledge of chemistry, computational mathematics, and computer programming. This book proposal is the result of my invitation to him, after I saw some very nice text he had posted as tutorials in computational techniques for chemists. There currently is no practical book that is geared to the research chemist with limited theoretical background, who uses computational software packages as "black boxes" for problem solving. Young's book could meet this need, and could be marketed to virtually every group of experimental chemists.