Newcomers

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Revision as of 13:59, 16 March 2011

Here we will describe some essencial issues that new comers to our department may need to consider. This page is under construction. So please let me know if you think some information should be added to this page or removed.

Housing

Housing is an important issue in Stockholm. To put yourself in the queue of the largest student accommodation company Stiftelsen Stockholms Studentbostäder.

Get your person number

To be able to get your salary, opening a bank account, registering yourself in insurance companies and lots of other things you need to get a number so called person number or civic registration number or personnummer is Swedish. The person number is given by the Skatteverket Swedish tax agency (tax office). For getting a person number, you need to go to one of the tax offices close to your place.

Health Care

As soon as you receive your person number, you should register for health care which is via Försäkringskassan. You basically need to fill-in the registration form and send the documents mentioned in Section 9 of the form.

Get your Swedish ID card

You can find the information for applying for Swedish ID card in tax office ID card section.

Official Registration at KTH

New PhD students need to officially get registered at KTH. For PhD students officially employed by KTH, this process is simple and mostly handled by the students' supervisor. The students need only to provide some documents such as their Master degree and sign some forms and papers.

Computers and Resources

• Servers: there are several serveres available in our department to be used. I will list some of the most important ones here.
  • my: is a SUN SPARC old and slow machine. But it is well enough for some basic every day usage, e.g., internet surfing, editing documents, etc. This server can be accessed by my.nada.kth.se address. You can easily SSH to this server and get into your home directory.
  • faun: is machine for everyday use as well. This server can be accessed by faun.nada.kth.se address. You can easily SSH to this server and get into your home directory.
  • tray: is an Intel machine. I guess it is supposed to be fast enough for most kind of computations and basic every day usage. This server can be accessed via tray.nada.kth.se address. By default you dont have access to this server, because it is not maintained any more but you can ask system group to give you an account in it.
  • rungner: is a SUN SPARC old and slow machine. But it is well enough for some basic every day usage, e.g., internet surfing, editing documents, etc. This server can be accessed by rungner.nada.kth.se address. By default new comers dont have access to this server, because it is not maintained any more.
• AFS: is the file system used in all servers in our department, therefore all information in all servers are automatically synchronized.
• Equipments: as an employee of our department you are supposed to have some working equipments. Some of them are listed here
  • Monitors (Screens): you can have a 24 inches LCD on your desk at your office. If you don't have it you can contact Torbjörn Granlund. He will help you to get on.
  • Nettops: we have some negotiations for getting some new Nettops for every employee at our department. The latest news about these negotiations can be gained from Karl Palmskog.

Access to facilities

Registration to student's union

Open a bank account

Setting up your homepage

It is important for every employee to have a homepage and we strongly recommend to new comers to set their homepages up as soon as possible. For setting up your homepage you need to follow the steps below.

• connect to one of the servers in our department (for example by SSH)
• make "public_html" directory in your home directory
• give your public_html directory the read permission for our webserver, if you dont know how to it, just type in the following command when you are in your home directory. ~> fs as public_html wwwservice r
• place an index.html file or index.php file containing the layout of your homepage in public_html directory

Then, you homepage can be accessed by www.csc.kth.se/~<yourUsername>.

If you find it too difficult to do all above, let Siavash Soleimanifard know and he will help you with this.

Study Plan and selection of classes to attend to

Swedish course