Resources ========= There are several books available on the topic of Soft Matter. Many set their own focus. Here is a list of books useful for the lecture. Rob Pillips, Jane Kondev, Julie Theriot, Hernan Garcia: **Physical Biology of the Cell** (Garland Science) Jacob N. Israelachvili: **Intermolecular and Surface Forces: With Applications to Colloidal and Biological Systems** (Academic Press) Richard A.L. Jones: **Soft Condensed Matter** (Oxford University Press) Michael Rubinstein, Ralph H Colby: **Polymer Physics** (Oxford University Press) Jonathan Howard: **Mechanics of Motor proteins and the Cytoskeleton** (Sinauer Associates) M. Doi und S.F. Edwards: **The Theory of Polymer Dynamics** (Oxford Academic Press) P.G. de Gennes and J. Prost: **The Physics of Liquid Crystals** (Oxford Academic Press) P.M. Chaikin and T. Lubensky: **Principles of Condensed Matter Physics** (Cambridge University Press) In addition, we will make current literature from different journals available.