Reviews in Mineralogy & Geochemistry (RiMG) volumes contain concise advances in theoretical and/or applied mineralogy, crystallography, petrology, and geochemistry.

• SHORT COURSE SERIES DEDICATION
• PREFACE
• TABLE OF CONTENTS
• 1. Density Functional Theory of Electronic Structure: A Short Course for Mineralogists and Geophysicists
• 2. The Minnesota Density Functionals and their Applications to Problems in Mineralogy and Geochemistry
• 3. Density-Functional Perturbation Theory for Quasi-Harmonic Calculations
• 4. Thermodynamic Properties and Phase Relations in Mantle Minerals Investigated by First Principles Quasiharmonic Theory
• 5. First Principles Quasiharmonic Thermoelasticity of Mantle Minerals
• 6. An Overview of Quantum Monte Carlo Methods
• 7. Quantum Monte Carlo Studies of Transition Metal Oxides
• 8. Accurate and Efficient Calculations on Strongly Correlated Minerals with the LDA+U Method: Review and Perspectives
• 9. Spin-State Crossover of Iron in Lower-Mantle Minerals: Results of DFT+U Investigations
• 10. Simulating Diffusion
• 11. Modeling Dislocations and Plasticity of Deep Earth Materials
• 12. Theoretical Methods for Calculating the Lattice Thermal Conductivity of Minerals
• 13. Evolutionary Crystal Structure Prediction as a Method for the Discovery of Minerals and Materials
• 14. Multi-Mbar Phase Transitions in Minerals
• 15. Computer Simulations on Phase Transitions in Ice
• 16. Iron at Earth's Core Conditions from First Principles Calculations
• 17. First-Principles Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Silicate Melts: Structural and Dynamical Properties
• 18. Lattice Dynamics from Force-Fields as a Technique for Mineral Physics
• 19. An Efficient Cluster Expansion Method for Binary Solid Solutions: Application to the Halite-Silvite, NaCl-KCl, System
• 20. Large Scale Simulations
• 21. Thermodynamics of the Earth's Mantle