Advances in Chemical Physics, Volume 121

Ilya Prigogine is Director of the International Solvay Institutes in Brussels, Belgium. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1977. Stuart Rice is Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor in the James Franck Institute and the Department of Chemistry at the University of Chicago.

• Ultrafast Dynamics and Spectroscopy of Bacterial Photosynthetic Reaction Centers (S. H. Lin, et al.). Polymer Melts at Solid Surfaces (Arun Yethiraj). Morphology of Surfaces in Mesoscopic Polymers, Surfactants, Electrons, or Reaction-Diffusion System: Methods, Simulations, and Measurements (Aleksij Aksimentiev, et al.). Infrared Lineshapes of Weak Hydrogen Bonds: Recent Quantum Developments (Oliver Henri-Rousseau, et al.). Two-Center Effects in Ionization by Ion-Impact in Heavy-particle Collisions (S. F. C. O'Rourke, et al.). Evolution Times of Probability Distributions and Averages--Exact Solutions of the Kramers' Problem (Askold N. Malakhov and Andrey L. Pankratov). Ab Initio Quantum Molecular Dynamics (Michal Ben-Nun and Todd J. Martinez). Author Index. Subject Index.

"...this volume follows the excellent tradition of the series and provides a very useful reference for researchers interested in keeping up with advances in the numerous facets of research in chemical physics." (Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 124, 2002)