(r7) PostDocs < LCI

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---+ Who we are
   * [[http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~perfo][Per Erik Forssen]]
   * [[http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~maclaren][Heather MacLaren]]
   * [[http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~simra][Robert Sim]]
   * [[http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~vogel][Julia Vogel]]

---+ Helpful hints and tips

---++ Administrative
   * Mailing lists and groups.
Mailing list hierarchy and UNIX netgroup correspondence, from Alan Mackworth (May 01, 2006)
   * lci-all
      * lci-lab
         * lci-faculty
            * =members of netgroup lci-faculty= (LCI faculty)
         * lci-staff
            * =members of netgroup lci-staff=   (LCI technical and administrative staff)
         * lci-grads
            * =members of netgroup lci-grads=   (LCI grad students: MSc students, PhD students)
         * lci-guests
            * =members of netgroup lci-guests=  (LCI visitors: short term visitors, visiting faculty, visiting grad students)
         * lci-scholars
            * =members of netgroup lci-scholarsfaculty= (LCI scholars: postdoctoral fellows = PostDocs)
         * lci-associates
            * =list of people=
      * lci-interest
         * =list of people=
      * lci-steering
         * lci-faculty,lci-scholars, =list of people invited to the monthly LCI steering committee=

---++ Computing

The most important email address you'll ever know: =lci-help@cs.ubc.ca=.  Trouble calls sent to this address will be automatically filed through the usual =help@cs= system, but also get routed straight to Hazita for faster handling (in many cases).

---+++ Disk space
Obtaining access to disk space is a relentless battle in the dept.  As a postdoc, you should have *at least* 100MB of space on the /faculty filesystem (which in this day and age is pretty much useless).  If you only received 10MB or you're not on /faculty, that's the first thing you should have corrected.

Assuming you've got your 100MB, there is a sequence of priorities you should use to get more space:
   1. You want backed-up space.  /ai is the main filesystem that gets a regular backup.  Like /faculty, it's under a quota system, but assuming there's space and your supervisor helps, you should be able to get 1GB or so by sending a message to =lci-help=.
   2. You want reliable space (but maybe not backed up).  There is a lot of space available in /lci/project/raid1 (and possibly elsewhere in /lci --RS).  You should have write access to this disk, so you can create a directory and file away.  Note that this space is *NOT* backed up, but it's a raid disk and failures are usually recoverable. [Correction, May 15/06: apparently raid1 _is_ backed up.  Good news. :-) RS]
   3. Just give me some space!  Assuming you have a desktop machine, you can use /var/tmp, which provides more space than the systems people have ever conceived of.  The down-side is it's not backed up, your box could catch fire, be stolen, or any other number of calamities can strike.  That said, you'll have total control over the space and the data.  See also /lci/SCRATCH and /cs/SCRATCH


---+++ Web hints
Your [[http://www.cs.ubc.ca/local/computing/accounts/webpage.shtml home page]] will be in ~/www/index.html (or ~/World/index.html) 100MB isn't much space for all your papers, photos, weblogs, public data, etc, etc, *but* you can extend this space by creating symlinks to other filesystems.  
   Eg: =$ ln -s /lci/project/raid1/simra/public_html ~/www/lci/=
This creates a soft link to the directory public_html in my lci space.  The web server is smart enough to forward URLs of the type: =http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~simra/lci/= to that directory.
   
*Wanted:* A method for getting a directory listing from the web.  By default, the web server will produce an error message when you try to access a directory without an index.html file.  Sometimes, I want to share a directory without an index...  If there's a user directive I can use to instruct the webserver otherwise (it's a netscape server, not apache), I'd like to hear about it.

---++ University info

---++++++ Info regarding employment, benefits and immigration 

Immigration information for postdocs: http://www.hr.ubc.ca/faculty_relations/immigration/postdocfellows.html

Overview of benefits: http://www.hr.ubc.ca/benefits/employment_group/faculty/eligibility.html

Postdocs are in the employment group 'faculty', and more precisely, either in group FEP004 or FEP007. This depends on the salary  you get *from UBC*. Check here for the rules: http://www.hr.ubc.ca/benefits/employment_group/faculty/minimum_salary.html



---++++++ Postdocs @ UBC in general 

The VP research started a project to connect UBC postdocs better, hosts a mailing list and organizes infrequent postdoc events. Check out the following link and subscribe to the mailing list. Otherwise knowbody knows you are here. http://www.research.ubc.ca/pdf.aspx


---++ UBC/Vancouver Community info
   
   * (TODO) Housing tips: UBC housing, Village gate, other campus housing, craigslist, AMS listings

-- Main.RobertSim - 04 May 2006
Topic revision: r7 - 2006-05-19 - PerErikForssen