Category Archives: Science

Posts about specific scientific methods and problems

Job Qualifications and Ph.D. Prospects

Posted on April 12, 2012 by

Being near the end of my graduate studies, I’ve starting looking at the jobs that other people have a little more critically.  Whereas I used to think in terms of “oh, that’s interesting,” I now find myself wondering “am I … Continue reading →

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Wolf’s approximation of Madelung potentials

Posted on March 15, 2012 by

Wolf (Wolf, Keblinksi, Phillpot, and Eggebrecht, J. Chem. Phys. 110 (1999) 8254) came up with a very clever way to approximate the Madelung potential in infinite solids that is much less expensive to calculate than the traditional reciprocal-space-based Ewald methods, … Continue reading →

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