Computational Materials Science

• Available electronic structure codes
• VASP's website at Vienna including the on-line manual and user forum (PWPP DFT, licensed)
• Transition state theory tools for VASP: dimer, nudged elastic band and dynamical matrix method
• ABINIT (PWPP DFT, GNU general public license)
• PWSCF (PWPP DFT, GNU general public license)
• Wien2k's Homepage (FLAPW DFT, licensed)
• Vanderbilt ultrasoft pseudopotential site
• LAMMPS: molecular dynamics, including the online manual
• Empirical Tight Binding and Tight Binding Parameterization
• STATIC: a Scalable Tight-Binding Total Energy Evaluation Code
• Numerical study of pathways for homogeneous nucleations
• Visualization: AtomEye (periodic BC), RasMol (non-periodic BC)

Materials Science and Condensed Matter Theory

• Crystal lattice structures, Bilbao Crystallographic Server, and Point Group Theory
• NIST Physical reference data
• The NIST Reference on constants, units and uncertainty

Electronic Journals and References

• UIUC library, UIUC indices and abstracts, Scitation and Spin databases of the APS, ISI (web of science, cit. ref. search)
• Science, Nature, Nature Materials
• Physical Review Letters, Physical Review B, Reviews of Modern Physics
• Journal of Applied Physics, New Journal of Physics, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter
• Acta Materialia, Scripta Materialia, Progress in Materials Science
• Philosophical Magazine, Philosophical Magazine Letters
• Materials Science and Engineering A, Materials Science and Engineering B, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
• Materials Letters, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, Journal of Nuclear Materials
• Computational Materials Science, Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering
• Condensed Matter Preprint Archive (cond-mat), Materials Science recent (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
• Journal abbreviations

Computing

• Supercomputer centers: NERSC, NCSA, OSC, Turing (state)
• LaPack at NetLib.org
• GNU Scientific Library (GSL) including the online manual
• SourceForge.net
• Fig 3.2 format
• XML Windowing Toolkit and Libtool documentation
• CLISP, LISP source code, LISP style / LISP FAQ / Common LISP repository (at CMU)
• Common Lisp Hyperspec
• Peter Norvig
• Wiki and CLiki (Common Lisp Wiki)
• Version control: TWiki and CVS
• Style guidelines and GNU Coding Standards
• High Performance Computing for Mac OS X
• Training courses: NCSA WebCT

Web Formatting

• Intro to HTML, HTML Code Tutorial
• All about Search Engine Robots
• Javascript Tutorial and Reference, Javascript quick reference
• Introduction to Server Side Includes in Apache

Organizations

• The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS)
• Materials Research Society (MRS)
• American Physical Society (APS)
• Dept. of Defense (DOD): Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), Office of Naval Research (ONR), Army Research Office (ARO)
• Dept. of Energy (DOE): Basic Energy Sciences (BES), Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR)
• National Science Foundation (NSF): Directorate for Engineering (ENG), Division of Materials Research (DMR)

Outside departments and Research groups

• UIUC Physics, UIUC Mechanical Science and Engineering, UIUC Chemistry
• Air Force Research Lab: Metals Development Section
• LANL: T-11 group
• OSU MSE
• OSU Physics: John Wilkins
• Cornell MSE: Richard Hennig

Miscellaneous

• Clarity in Technical Reporting (NASA): pdf ; The Scholarly Lecture
• The Gambler, Kenny Rogers on writing proposals
• The Professor's Ten Commandments, Thanks to Notorious B.I.G.
• Illini Men's Basketball schedule