Web Watch

http://www.nnin.org

Since March 2004, the NSF-funded National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network has served as a national toolbox for nanoscience. By booking a visit to any of the 13 labs in the network, researchers can use state-of-the-art equipment that their home institutions might lack. NNIN also provides training, outreach, and software.

http://www.cmp.caltech.edu/~mcc/Patterns

Caltech’s Michael Cross studies systems far from thermo-dynamic equilibrium. To illustrate some of the equations that describe such systems, Cross has developed a set of Java applets. You can run the applets from his Pattern Formation in Nonequilibrium Systems website.

http://www.compadre.org

Teachers, students, and departments are creating online materials for teaching physics. To collect and disseminate those products, five US physics societies have joined forces to form comPADRE: Communities for Physics and Astronomy Digital Resources in Education.

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Compiled and edited by Charles Day