Advances in Chemical Physics, Volume 127

Ilya Prigogine is Director of the International Solvay Institutes in Brussels, Bel-gium. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1977.Stuart A. Rice is Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor in the James Franck Institute and the Department of Chemistry at the University of Chicago.

"…a detailed and comprehensive account of the molecular-based modeling that has been developed to obtain a theoretical understanding of dielectric responses in aqueous media." (Journal of the American Chemical Society, August 18, 2004)

• Computational Strategies For Mapping Equilibrium Phase Diagrams (Alastair D. Bruce and Nigel B. Wilding). Molecular Models for Calculation of Dielectric/Far-Infrared Spectra of Liquid Water (Vladimir I. Gaiduk and Boris M. Tseitlin).Author Index.Subject Index.