Dr. Michael Springborg heads up of the three groups in Physical Chemistry at the University of Saarland where the main activities concentrate on teaching and research.

• Introduction;Operators;Eigenvalues and eigen funtions;Factorization, time- and spin-dependence;Variational principle, Lagrange multipliers;Perturbation theory;Symmetry and group theory;The Schrödinger equation and the Born-Oppenheimer approximation;The Hartree, Hartree-Fock and Hartree-Fock-Roothaan methods;Basis Sets;Semiempirical methods;Creation and annihilation operators;Correlation effects;Where are the electrons and atoms?;Density functional theory;Some simplifications and technical details;Green's Function;Acidity and basicity, hardness and softness;Periodicity and band structures;Structure and forces;Vibrations;Electronic excitations;Relativistic Effects;Molecules and solids in electromagnetic fields;Impurities;Surface and interfaces;Non-periodic, extended systems;Phase diagrams;Clusters;Macromolecules;Interactions;Solvation;Relativistic effects;