Lecturer: Herbert Fruchtl 

Institution: SCOTCHEM/St Andrews

Hours Equivalent Credit: 9

Assessment: Continuous assessment through assignments

Course Summary

The course will provide an introduction to practical computational chemistry techniques. The focus is on an introduction to the current state-of-the-art computational chemistry codes together with the theory behind the methods. Ab initio, DFT and classical methods for molecular systems, solids and surfaces, as well as cheminformatics, will be introduced along with how they are used in practice by researchers in Scotland.