Examination procedure
<p>Report or seminar.</p>
Prerequisites
The course is intended for PhD students.
Syllabus
Introduction to quantum/classical embedding approaches in quantum chemistry.
Continuum embedding approaches: general features and the specific case of the Polarizable Continuum Model.
Continuous versus atomistic embedding approaches.
Fully atomistic approaches: mechanical/electrostatic and polarizable embedding.
Polarizable embedding approaches based on fluctuating charges/dipoles.
Formulation of embedding approaches in computational spectroscopy.
Application of embedding approaches to study spectral properties of systems in solution.