Michael Schreiber

the life and art of Bernard Perlin

One-man show

K.-H. Hoffmann

In recent years statistical physics has made significant progress as a result of advances in numerical techniques. While good textbooks exist on the general aspects of statistical physics, the numerical methods and the new developments based on large-scale computing are not usually adequately presented. In this book 16 experts describe the application of methods of statistical physics to various areas in physics such as disordered materials, quasicrystals, semiconductors, and also to other areas beyond physics, such as financial markets, game theory, evolution, and traffic planning, in which statistical physics has recently become significant. In this way the universality of the underlying concepts and methods such as fractals, random matrix theory, time series, neural networks, evolutionary algorithms, becomes clear. The topics are covered by introductory, tutorial presentations.

From Billiards to Monte Carlo

Computational Statistical Physics

From Billards to Monte-Carlo

Roman Leitsmann

Philipp Plänitz

An overview of the latest computational materials science methods on an atomic scale. The authors present the physical and mathematical background in sufficient detail for this highly current and important topic, but without unnecessary complications. They focus on approaches with industrial relevance, covering real-life applications taken from concrete projects that range from tribology modeling to performance optimization of integrated circuits. Following an introduction to the fundamentals, the book describes the most relevant approaches, covering such classical simulation methods as simple and reactive force field methods, as well as highly accurate quantum-mechanical methods ranging from density-functional theory to Hartree-Fock and beyond. A review of the increasingly important multiscale approaches rounds off this section. The last section demonstrates and illustrates the capabilities of the methods previously described using recent real-life examples of industrial applications. As a result, readers gain a heightened user awareness, since the authors clearly state the conditions of applicability for the respective modeling methods so as to avoid fatal mistakes.

Modern Atomistic Simulation Methods for Engineers

In-vitro Materials Design

Karl H. Hoffmann

Computational Physics. Selected Methods, Simple Exercises, Serious Applications is an overview written by leading researchers of a variety of fields and developments. Selected Methods introduce the reader to current fields, including molecular dynamics, hybrid Monte-Carlo algorithms, and neural networks. Simple Exercises give hands-on advice for effective program solutions from a small number of lines to demonstration programs with elaborate graphics. Serious Applications show how questions concerning, for example, aging, many-minima optimisation, or phase transitions can be treated by appropriate tools. The source code and demonstration graphics are included on a 3.5" MS-DOS diskette.

Selected Methods Simple Exercises Serious Applications

Computational Physics

Sibylle Gemming

Jens-Boie Suck

This book contains six chapters on central topics in materials science. Each is written by specialists and gives a state-of-art presentation of the subject for graduate students and scientists not necessarily working in that field. Computer simulations of new materials, theory and experimental work are all extensively discussed. Most of the topics discussed have a bearing on nanomaterials and nanodevices.

Theory, Experiments and Modelling

Materials for Tomorrow

Silvia Hansen-Schirra

Barbara Ahrens

Monika Krein-Kühle

Ursula Wienen 

Das Translationswissenschaftliche Kolloquium ist eine Vortragsreihe des Fachbereichs Translations-, Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft der Universität Mainz in Germersheim und des Instituts für Translation und Mehrsprachige Kommunikation der Technischen Hochschule Köln. Dieser Band vereint ausgewählte Beiträge zum Themenkreis Translation – Didaktik – Kompetenz, die in diesem Rahmen vorgestellt worden sind. Im Zentrum stehen dabei: • theoretisch-methodische Überlegungen und Praxisbeispiele zu einer lernerbasierten Translationsdidaktik, • die Bedeutung der Translationsrichtung, • die Standardisierung der Translationsqualität, • situated learning und Ericssons deliberate practice im Dolmetschunterricht sowie • Online-Unterricht in der Ausbildung von Dolmetschern.

Translation – Didaktik – Kompetenz

Lieven D’hulst

Carol O’Sullivan

The contributions in this book are partly based on papers given at the 7th congress of the European Society for Translation Studies, held at the University of Mainz in Germersheim. For this publication, all papers have undergone a review process. In order to illustrate the variety of contents and approaches involved in the concepts of translation policy and politics, the chapters are organised thematically rather than chronologically. The objective in doing so was to show how policies influence a wide array of discursive practices. The first group of articles is concerned with the policy of translating and interpreting in power settings. A second group deals with translation policies as applied to a wide corpus of literary texts. A third group is devoted to the policies of media translation.

Politics, Policy and Power in Translation History

Ursula Wienen

Das Translationswissenschaftliche Kolloquium ist eine Vortragsreihe des Fachbereichs Translations-, Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft der Universität Mainz in Germersheim und des Instituts für Translation und Mehrsprachige Kommunikation der Technischen Hochschule Köln. Dieser Band vereint ausgewählte Beiträge zum Themenkreis Translation – Linguistik – Semiotik, die in diesem Rahmen vorgestellt worden sind. Es geht dabei um Ausdrucksformen unmittelbarer Nachzeitigkeit in verschiedenen Sprachen, Realienbezeichnungen und ihre Übersetzung, Eigenschaften multimodaler Texte sowie um Filmsemiotik.

Translation – Linguistik – Semiotik

zur Differenzierung und Abgrenzung des Übersetzungsbegriffs

Übersetzung und Bearbeitung

Michael Schreiber

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