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TU Wien services: telephone & e-mail directory, PR office, projects, Mitteilungsblätter, Entwicklungsplan, TU Mensa.

Teaching: courses, curricula: Technische Physik 2002, Bak. Techn. Physik 2006, Master Techn. Physik 2006, Master physikal. Energie- und Messtechnik 2006.

Physics at the TU Wien: publication database (2002-), physics talks, Fachschaft (students' center).

ZID (computing center): TUNET status (in case of problems, try finger status@128.130.2.69 in the command line).

TU Wien library & related: catalogue, online journals. Search: CrossRef, INSPEC. ZB Physik.

Associations & councils: ÖH, HTU, TU scientific staff council (Betriebsrat), ULV, BUKO.

Research in Austria: BMWF (Science Ministry), FWF (Science Foundation), FFG (Applied Research).

Universities in Austria.

Search engines: Alta Vista, Ask.com, Blekko, Cuil, dmoz, Google, Hulbee, Lycos LyGo, Yahoo.

WWW lists sorted by subject: dmoz open directory, looksmart, WWW virtual library, yahoo, EINet Galaxy.

E-mail address search: BigFoot, InternetAddressFinder

In Austria: Arsenal, Joanneum, Seibersdorf.

In Germany: BESSY, DESY, Fritz Haber I. der MPG, GSI, Hahn-Meitner I., KFA.

Other European research institutions: CERN, ESA, Elettra (Triest), ESRF (Grenoble), and FOM.

US research institutions: Argonne, Brookhaven, CalTech, Fermilab, Los Alamos, MIT, NASA, NIST, Oak Ridge, and Sandia N'l Labs.

Science organizations: DFG (Germany), ESF (Europe), NSF (USA).

Physical Societies of Austria (ÖPG), Germany (DPG), Europe (EPS), USA (APS).

Vacuum societies of Austria (ÖGV), USA (AVS), international (IUVSTA).

Science journals: Bild der Wissenschaft, Nature, IEEE Spectrum, New Scientist, Science, and Scientific American.

Physics Publishers: AIP (US), Cambridge University Press (UK), Elsevier (scirus search), Europhysics Lett., IEEE, IOP (UK), New Journal of Physics, Physical Review (Letters), Springer, World Scientific.

Electronics manufacturers: Analog Devices, Burr-Brown, Dallas Semicond., Exar, Infineon, International Rectifiers, Intersil (Harris), National Semiconductor, Linear Technology, Maxim, ON Semi (Motorola), Philips, ST Microel., Texas Instruments, Zarlink (GEC-Plessey).

Electronics components suppliers: Distrelec, Farnell, RS Components Austria, Rutronik, and Wienschall/rb.

Manufacturers and suppliers of vacuum gear: Ceramaseal, CIV, Edwards, Eurovac/Scandivac, Granville-Phillips, Hiden, Hositrad, Huntigton, K.J. Lesker, McAllister, MDC, Oerlikon-Leybold, Omicron, Pfeiffer, Physical Electronics (PHI), Pink, RDB, Riber, Schaefer, Specs, tectra, Thermionics, Trinos, VAb, Vacom, Vaqtec, Varian, VAT, and VG-Scienta.

PhysicsWeb, PhysNet (physics departments), teaching resources (comPADRE).

Physics News from IOP, APS (also Phys. Rev. Focus), AIP, physlink, ÖPG.

Misc. info: Frequently Asked Questions, Tutorials&Reviews, equations (big PDF file), laws etc., Nobel Prizes, and jokes.

(P)reprint arXiv (Condensed matter, chemical physics...).

Constants and data: Periodic tables with element data, electronic structure and phase diagrams; atomic, molecular, and plasma data, atomic spectra, electron binding energies and other x-ray data, nuclear data, Chemistry WebBook, fundamental constants (see also NIST data) and SI units. NIST databases, Landolt Börnstein.

Surface Science Mailing list (archives), Surface Analysis Forum, NIST XPS database, LEED I/V curves, and surface structures (from K. Hermann or P. Stoltze).

Astronomy in Austria and worldwide links. Astronomy news (also in German) and new results from ESO, HST. Space probes.

Info on WWW from the WWW Consortium. Introduction to HTML in German or English, HTML V3.2 or V4.01 reference, Web page test.

Help for users of C, Fortran, Java, LaTeX tutorial, reference, and LaTeX resources in German. Macintosh programming (also Darwin = OS X Unix), Perl and UNIX, openVMS.

Free software at TU Wien ("goodies")

Numerical and scientific software: CERNlib, NETLIB, and NAG; lists of software at NIST (GAMS) and ZIBerlin.

Frequently Asked Questions about linear and nonlinear programming.

A dictionary of computing.

Dictionaries - Translation: German<->English at linguaDict, Leo, TU Chemnitz; multi-language from logos and freetranslation.

English: yourDictionary, HyperDictionary, Websters English dictionary. Thesauri: Roget's, Worldnet.

German: Wörterbuch (alte R.), Neue Rechtschreibung.

Maps: OpenStreetMap, MapQuest.

Statistics about Vienna, Austria and other countries (CIA World Factbook).

Telephone directories: for Austria and Germany; postal (zip) codes for Austria, Germany and USA.

Train connections from ÖBB, DB and SBB. More timetables.

Tourist info for Vienna (also Hotels) and Austria. Trekking & alpine huts.

Vienna events, also searchable, cinema program, map, public transport, VIEnna Airport.

Current Weather: in Austria, the Alps. Forecast, satellite image and weather charts.

Authorities and administration of Vienna, Austria and the EU.

Media/Worldwide: Daily news from USA and Germany. CNN, Time magazine, Die Zeit.

Media in Austria: ORF (Science), Austrian Press Agency (Science), Falter, Kurier, News, Die Presse, Der Standard, Wiener Zeitung.

Political (democratic) parties: SPÖ, ÖVP, LiF, Grüne.