This volume records the proceedings of a Forum on The Fundamentals of Electron Density, Density Matrix and Density Functional Theory in Atoms, Molecules and the Solid State held at the Coseners' House, Abingdon-on-Thames, Oxon.

I The Workshop.- The Fundamental of Electron Density, Density Matrix and Density Functional Theory for Atoms, Molecules and the Solid State.- The Programme.- Abstracts of Talks and Posters.- List of Participants.- II The Proceedings.- The Keldysh formalism applied to time-dependent current-density-functional theory.- Towards time-dependent density-functional theory for molecules in strong laser pulses.- Pair density functional theory.- The Kummer Variety for N-particles.- Some Unsolved Problems in Density Matrix Theory and Density Functional Theory.- The new formulation of the density functional theory, the limitation of accuracy of the Kohn-Sham potential and its expression in terms of the external potential.- Functional N-representability in density matrix and density functional theory.- Density-functional theory for the Hubbard model.- Demonstrating the effectiveness of a nonlocal density functional description of exchange and correlation.- Incorporating the Virial Field into the Hartree-Fock Equations.- Hohenberg-Kohn Theorem and Constrained Search Formulation for Diagonal Spin Density Functional Theory.- III The Forum.- The Forum — Questions.- The Forum — Discussion.- A Glossary.- A Selected Bibliography.

From the reviews: "The book under review is the proceedings of a 2002 conference on DFT and related theories aiming to give a state-of-the-art presentation of the subject. It is an interesting volume with contributions from some of the leading physicists and chemists working in a neighborhood of DFT. … This book will be valuable for those wanting to know about the recent trends and developments in DFT." (Jerome A. Goldstein, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1074 (25), 2005)