Polymer Centre - Polymer science research, from synthesis of polymeric materials to industrial and consumer applications. Also offers professional courses and consultancy. Web Intelligence Group at University of Sheffield (WIT) - Research on, and provide applications of, Intelligent Technologies for tomorrow's Web, with a particular focus on their use for Knowledge Management. University of Sheffield Information Retrieval Group - The primary research areas of the group include statistical information retrieval techniques, multimedia browsing and retrieval, and personal information management and retrieval. The myGrid Project at Sheffield - The project aims to develop a workbench for the e-scientist where in-silico experiments can be run using a single unified interface. Low Dimensional Structures and Devices - Currently has 30 PhD students and 11 postdoctoral workers involved in 5 main research topics covering both experimental and theoretical semiconductor physics. Department of Physics and Astronomy. Social and Spatial Inequalities Research Group - Staff, research, publications, maps and links. Based in the Geography Department. Sheffield Astronomy - University of Sheffield. The astronomy group within the Department of Physics and Astronomy are involved in a range of teaching and research activities. Centre for Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering - Biomaterials and tissue engineering represent the pharmacology of the future - tissues and materials engineered to integrate with the patient's own body. elp:rdu - Experiential Landscape Place Research and Development Unit. The unit is concerned with exploring the relationship between human experience and its spatial expression in urban open spaces. Sheffield Institute for Studies on Ageing (SISA) - Gerontological research and training group studying human ageing and quality of life issues University of Sheffield ATLAS - The Sheffield High Energy Physics group is an active participant in the ATLAS experiment, one of the general purpose detectors being built to exploit the exciting physics potential of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN.