Acknowledgments
I acknowledge insightful discussions from students of BE559 multiscale
modeling of chemical and biological systems at the University of
Pennsylvania, where the topics in this review are discussed as a
one-semester course. I would like to thank my colleagues at the Penn
Institute for Computational Science for insightful discussions on
multiscale modeling over the years. I would like to take this
opportunity to acknowledge the profound influence Keith E. Gubbins has
had, as my PhD thesis advisor, as a professional mentor throughout my
faculty career and through his books, Reid and Gubbins – applied
statistical mechanics, and Gray and Gubbins – theory of molecular
fluids 1 and 2. Funding for this work was provided in part through
various grants from NSF, NIH, EU, and XSEDE. This report reflects a very
subjective and personal journey, and I regret and apologize for not
citing all of the influencers in the discipline of multiscale modeling.