Excitation Energy Transfer in Complex Molecular and Biological Systems -- Electronic Energy Transfer in Photosynthetic Antenna Systems -- Mixed Quantum Classical Simulations of Electronic Excitation Energy Transfer and Related Optical Spectra: Supramolecular Pheophorbide–a Complexes in Solution -- Conformational Structure and Dynamics from Single-Molecule FRET -- The Many Facets of DNA -- Quantum Mechanics in Biology: Photoexcitations in DNA -- Energy Flow in DNA Duplexes -- Anharmonic Vibrational Dynamics of DNA Oligomers -- Simulation Study of the Molecular Mechanism of Intercalation of the Anti-Cancer Drug Daunomycin into DNA -- Quantum Dynamics and Transport at Interfaces and Junctions -- Ultrafast Photophysics of Organic Semiconductor Junctions -- Green Function Techniques in the Treatment of Quantum Transport at the Molecular Scale -- New Methods for Open Systems Dynamics -- Time-Local Quantum Master Equations and their Applications to Dissipative Dynamics and Molecular Wires -- Reduced Density Matrix Equations for Combined Instantaneous and Delayed Dissipation in Many-Atom Systems, and their Numerical Treatment -- New Methods for Mixing Quantum and Classical Mechanics -- Quantum Dynamics in Almost Classical Environments -- Trajectory Based Simulations of Quantum-Classical Systems -- Do We Have a Consistent Non-Adiabatic Quantum-Classical Statistical Mechanics?.

This book presents a collection of 14 review articles that cover the key topics addressed in the workshop "Energy Flow Dynamics in Biomaterial Systems" which was held in October 2007 in Paris. These reviews illustrate the many facets of today's theoretical picture of electronic and vibronic dynamics and transport phenomena in biological, biomimetic, and molecular electronic systems. Part I focuses on excitation energy transfer in photosynthetic reaction centers and other multichromophoric systems, part II gives a tour d'horizon of DNA research, and part III addresses molecular electronics and quantum transport in organic materials. Finally, parts IV and V cover recent methodological developments in open system dynamics and hybrid quantum-classical methods. The scope of the book is deliberately broad in terms of physical systems studied and yet unified in the use of quantum dynamical methods to describe transient and often ultrafast energy and charge transfer events in complex systems.