Chapter 1 Developing the MTO Formalism

Chapter 2 From ASA Towards the Full Potential

Chapter 3 A Full-Potential LMTO Method Based on Smooth Hankel Functions

Chapter 4 Full-Potential LMTO Total Energy and Force Calculations

Chapter 6 Fully Relativistic Band Structure Calculations for Magnetic Solids - Formalism and Application

Chapter 7 First Principles Theory of Magneto—Crystalline Anisotropy

Chapter 8 On the Implementation of the Self-Interaction Corrected Local Spin Density Approximation for d- and f-Electron Systems

Chapter 9 Ab Initio Theory of the Interlayer Exchange Coupling

Chapter 10 Disordered Alloys and Their Surfaces: The Coherent Potential Approximation

Chapter 11 Locally Self-Consistent Green’s Function Method and Its Application in the Theory of Random Alloys

Chapter 12 Sparse Direct Methods: An Introduction

Chapter 13 Real-Space Tight-Binding LMTO Approach to Magnetic Anisotropy: Application to Nickel Films on Copper

Chapter 14 Combining Real Space and Tight Binding Methods for Studying Large Metallic Systems