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Last Updated Tuesday June 30, 2009
		NMR, Chemistry and Science Links Fun Stuff Personal Interests Windsor and Detroit Media, Politics and the World Useful Sites

		*NMR, Chemistry and Science Links*

		Commerical NMR Vendors Acorn NMR - the makers of NUTS processing software Bruker Canada - Bruker's Canadian division Bruker GmbH - Bruker's NMR division JEOL cutaway views of a 270 MHz superconducting magnet - fascinating! More cutaways of a supercon magnet - from FSU Revolution NMR - manufacturer of NMR rotors for solid state NMR Varian NMR - Varian/Chemagnetics NMR division NMR Conferences Alpine Conference on Solid-State NMR - September 13-17, 2009 (Chamonix-Mont Blanc, France) Canadian Society for Chemistry Conference - May 24-28, 2008 (Edmonton, AB) - NMR sessions Experimental NMR Conference - March 9-14, 2008 (Pacific Grove, CA) MOOT NMR Symposium - MOOT 21 is in Windsor this year! October 4-5, 2008 Rocky Mountain Conference Solid-State NMR Symposium - July 27-31, 2008 (Breckenridge, CO) Small Molecule NMR Conference (SMASH) - September 7-10, 2008 (Santa Fe, NM) Waterloo NMR Summer School - TBA Educational and Reference Sites for NMR Advanced NMR Course - with neat animations, periodic table, by Francoise Sauriol (Queens) Basics of NMR - Excellent web book-basic NMR by Joseph P. Hornak (Rochester I.T.) Glen Facey's NMR blog - tips and tricks for NMR spectroscopists Klaus Eichele's "NMR Ramblings" - useful reference page on NMR interaction tensors NMR Course - by Gordon Rule (Carnegie Mellon) NMR Resources and Lessons - Broken - by Peter A. Petillo (U. of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne) NMR Spectroscopy Course - by Angel de Dios (Georgetown) Quadrupolar Nuclei in Solid-State NMR - comprehensive site of Pascal Man, including bibliographies Solid-state NMR blog - our group's blog for tracking literature on SSNMR Stan's NMR blog - the most comprehensive listing of NMR links on the web NMR Information Servers and Link Lists Chemical Shift Ranges and Standards for Selected Nuclei Carbon-13 (¹³C) NMR Chemical Shift Database - from the University of Wisconsin Some Common Phosphorus-31 (³¹P) Chemical Shifts General NMR Information - by Acorn NMR NMR Information Server- List of NMR resources NMR Knowledge Base - Used to be one of the best NMR sites on the web - quality has clearly degraded NMR Web Link List - Large list of commercial vendors, research groups, etc. Spectral Database for Organic Compounds, SDBS - ¹H, ¹³C NMR, IR, etc. database. Spectroscopy Tools - ¹H, ¹³C NMR and MS tools, from Potsdam Solid-State NMR Research Groups Click here for a listing of Solid-State NMR research groups in Canada Professor Roderick Wasylishen - University of Alberta - my Ph.D. supervisor Professor Lucio Frydman - Weizmann Institute, Israel - my second postdoc Professor Clare P. Grey - SUNY at Stony Brook - my first postdoc Professor David Bryce - University of Ottawa Professor Lyndon Emsley - ENS Lyon, France Dr. Zhehong Gan - National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Tallahassee, FL Professor Philip Grandinetti - The Ohio State University Professor Yining Huang - University of Western Ontario Professor Cynthia Jameson - University of Illinois at Chicago Professor Scott Kroeker - University of Manitoba Professor Malcolm Levitt - University of Southampton Professor Pascal Man - Universit� Pierre et Marie Curie Professor William Power - U. of Waterloo Professor Glenn H. Penner - U. of Guelph Professor Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy - University of Michigan Professor Mark E. Smith - University of Warwick Professor Gang Wu - Queens University NMR Software GAMMA Online - NMR simulation software Product Operator Formalism using Maple - by Rene Kanters SIMPSON - SIMulation Package for SOlid-state Nmr spectroscopy - by Mads Bak DMFIT - process and simulate NMR spectra, solid-state NMR simulations Mestre-C - NMR processing software Chemistry Links of all Kinds American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database (AMCSD) Canadian Chemistry Departments Listing Crystallography Open Database (COD) Hyperphysics - excellent review site for basic physics Journal of Chemical Education - great resources for students and educators Mineralogy Database - excellent discussion of minerals and crystallography (need Java) NIST Chemistry Web Book - extensive database of chemical properties NIST Physical Constants - extensive database of fundamental physical constants Periodic Table of Comic Books - very interesting site about elements in comics. Periodic Tables on the WWW - many periodic tables PSIgate - Physical Sciences Information Gateway Web Elements Periodic Table - periodic table and databases - useful NMR info here too.

		*Fun Stuff*

		Absolut Vodka Advertising Archive - excellent, has tons of great pictures! Definitive Frink - remember Prof. Frink from the Simpsons? He has his own website... Howard Stern at MarksFriggin.com James Randi - excellent site on critical thinking and debunking scientific quackery Statistical Assessment Service - Don't believe all the numbers, facts and figures you see in the media. Check this out! Stick-Figure Death Theatre - weird site featuring stick figure snuff films The Gallery of the Absurd - Some very funny ads (and great comments) - a must see! The Onion - America's finest news source!

		*Personal Interests*

		Music Billy Bragg Leonard Cohen Bob Dylan Men at Work -newly reformed also see: Colin Hay, his own webpage made by an obsessed fan Stan Rogers - and Stan Roger's Folk Festival in Canso, NS Radiohead - excellent fan site, greenplastic.com Tom Waits WDET 101.9 FM Detroit - best radio station in the area

		*Windsor and Detroit*
		Windsor, Ontario Windsor, Ontario - The City of Windsor Official Homepage Windsor Area Guide - Commerical Site Index for Windsor Windsor Metro - Yet another index of Windsor businesses Windsor Spitfires - Windsor's Major Junior Hockey Club Windsor Airport - Should I leave from Gate 1A or Gate 1B? Capitol Theatre - Refurbished theatre with some unusual entertainment selections Point Pelee National Park - Visit the Southern tip of Canada Detroit, Michigan Detroit, Michigan - The City of Detroit Official Homepage Fabulous Ruins of Detroit - Amazing site about a variety of ruined buildings in Detroit Detroit Metro Airport - A convenient way to come visit Windsor Detroit People Mover - Unofficial Site for downtown transit Detroit People Mover - Official Site: visit it just for the music!! Majestic Detroit - Majestic Theatre and Magic Stick, cool concert venues Travelling Between Windsor and Detroit Detroit - Windsor Tunnel - International underground tunnel for motor vehicles Ambassador Bridge - Largest international crossing

		*Media, Politics and the World*

		Media British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) National Post - Canada's new national newspaper. The Globe and Mail - Canada's National newspaper. The Winnipeg Free Press - My father worked for this paper for over 30 years. The Winnipeg Sun - My father will be reading this paper for the next 30 years. The Windsor Star - part of the Global Communications Empire Politics and the World CIA World Fact Book - interesting facts about the world. Global Statistics - Lists comparing all the countries of the world. Noam Chomsky - American linguist and activist, at the front of the left wing - interesting. Terrorism Research Centre - fascinating site about such activities around the world.


		*Useful Sites*

		Web Page Creation Dynamic Drive - place to obtain DHTML scripts Universities I have worked at University of Manitoba (B.Sc. and M.Sc.) Dalhousie University (Ph.D.) State University of New York at Stony Brook (first postdoctoral fellow) University of Illinois at Chicago (second post-doctoral fellow) University of Windsor (I am now an associate professor here)