Newcomers
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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.
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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. 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.
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.
- 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. You can easily SSH to this address 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. You can easily SSH to this address and get into your home directory.
- 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.
