Tutorials, Info Pages, Miscellanea, etc.

The links below constitute a collection of pages on miscellaneous topics such as tutorials and info pages on various topics that might be of interest to other researchers or students who are interested in some of the background of our research, a small collection of opinion pieces, and my (Jochen’s) personal story. Download links are also provided on some of the pages listed below (see the separate Downloads page for additional download links).
 

Scientific topics

1. Circularly and Linearly Polarized Light and Optical Activity
    

2. Chirality without an asymmetric carbon
    

3. Analyzing calculated NMR parameters: Why is this particular NMR parameter so large / small /weird / ... ?
    

4. ‘Orbital-rotation’ models for analyzing NMR shielding, and tables of orbital rotations for $p$-, $d$-, and $f$-orbitals
    

5. Graphical representations of rank-2 tensors
    

6. Crystal field Hamiltonian and atomic shell splitting
    

7. Atomic spinors (spin-orbit eigenfunctions) expressed in a basis of atomic spin orbitals, and matrix elements of the angular momentum and Zeeman operators
    

TeX, LaTeX, Xe/LuaLaTeX, and related topics

1. Using LaTeX: Pros and Cons
    

2. Font setup with XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX and fontspec
    

3. Tips for writing your research paper/your thesis/your book, using LaTeX
    

4. LaTeX to Word conversion
    

5. Tips and Scripts for creating properly sized and labeled scientific graphics with Gnuplot and LaTeX
    

6. Tips and Scripts for assembling and labeling compound figures for publications using LaTeX
    

Miscellaneous Topics

1. Linux on your PC: Pros and Cons
    

2. Achieving Work–Life Balance as an Academic
    

3. How (Not?) to Become a Science Professor
    

4. On Writing Scientific Research Proposals

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