UMass groups in soft matter and related topics: Scott Auerbach@Chem. Michael Barnes@Chem Don Candela@Physics. Min Chen@Chem. Al Crosby@Polymer Sci. Eng. Benny Davidovitch@Physics. Paul Dubin@Chemistry. Todd Emrick@Polymer Sci. Eng. David Ford@Chem Eng. Lila Gierasch@Biochem. Lori Goldner@Physics. Greg Grason@Polymer Sci. Eng. David Gross@Biochem. Ryan Hayward@Polymer Sci. Eng. Alejandro Heuck@Biochem. David Hoagland@Polymer Sci. Eng. Matt Holden@Chem. Maria Kilfoil@Physics. Jon Machta@Physics. Craig Martin@Chem. Dimitrios Maroudas@ChemEng. Tom McCarthy@Polymer Sci. Eng.. Julian McClements@Food Science. Menon@Physics. Peter Monson@Chem Eng. Muthukumar@Polymer Sci. Eng. Micha Peleg@Food Science. Jenny Ross@Physics. Vince Rotello@Chem. Jonathan Rothstein@Mech. Eng. Tom Russell@Polymer Science. Chris Santangelo@Physics. Maria Santore@Polymer Sci. Eng.. Greg Tew@Polymer Sci. Eng.. Thayumanavan@Chem. Lynmarie Thompson@Chem. Mark Tuominen@Physics. Dhandapani Venkataraman@Chemistry. Patricia Wadsworth@Biology. Jim Watkins@Polymer Sci. Eng. Bob Weis@Chem. Henning Winter@Chem Eng. Jun Yan@Physics.

UMass Facilities and Inter-departmental Research Programs: Central Microscopy Facility NSF-supported MRSEC on Polymer Science. UMass-Amherst/Baystate Medical Center Collaborative Biomedical Research Program The MassNanoTech institute of nanotechnology at UMass-Amherst. NSF-supported Center for Hierarchical Manufacturing (NSEC). Structural Biology and Biophysics at UMass: a summary of the UMass research program. Off-campus Collaborators: Andreas Bausch@Physics, Technische Universitat Munchen. The Center for Bio/Molecular Science and Engineering at the Naval Research Laboratory. John Crocker@UPenn Chemical Engineering. Alex Levine@UCLA Chemistry. The UPenn Soft Condensed Matter Physics Group. Eric Weeks@Emory physics. Weitz group@Harvard Physics & DEAS.

Events: CM seminars@Physics seminars@Polymer Science. seminars@Chem Eng. seminars@Chemistry. seminars@College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics. seminars@Amherst College Physics Dept. Five-College Physics site.

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Miscellaneous Links for General Science and Math:

• Hyperphysics: science terms and concepts.
• Xrefer.com: big database of references.
• Mathworld.com (Wolfram).

Miscellaneous links for soft matter background information:

• Lecture notes on soft matter physics from Tony's Physics 850 course.
• Basic microfluidic concepts. A compiled list of microfluidic links
• Bravais and other crystal lattices, with rotatable views.
• Solvent miscibility chart.

Links for articles:

• Los Alamos e-print server for condensed matter physics.
• ISI Web of Science, searchable database of published articles (click on 'Web of Science').

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Links for Image Processing and IDL:

• IDL for particle-tracking, making GIFs and other useful things, (Eric Weeks and John Crocker)
• David Grier's list of IDL routines for particle tracking.
• User-contributed library, maintained by RSI (now ITT), the maker of IDL.
• The IDL Astronomy User's Library.
• IDL Programming resources.

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Links for Microscopy and Image Archives:

• Molecular Expressions Microscopy Primer, which has a lot of detailed information.
• Virtual Library of Microscopy.
• Food under the Microscope, a collection of fascinating images of food products.
• Ice Cream.
• Cells Alive!
• Eric Weeks' tutorial on confocal microscopy.
• Visitech International VT-Eye page.

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Links for Photonic Crystals:

• "PBGLink" list of publications and other useful things.
• Joannopoulos' group at MIT Physics.
• The Iowa-State Group at Ames.

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Documents for lab-related business.

• Millipore water filter system replacement schedule.
• VWR supplies list (pdf).
• Purchase request form for Physics department (Microsoft Excel file).

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