CS PostDocs Wiki

• For non LCI-specific post-doc info, look here.

• • lci-steering
    • lci-faculty,lci-scholars, list of people invited to the monthly LCI steering committee

1. 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]
2. 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

• (TODO) Housing tips: UBC housing, Village gate, other campus housing, craigslist, AMS listings

Info regarding employment, benefits and immigration

Postdocs @ UBC in general

• • • • members of netgroup lci-faculty (LCI faculty)

• • • • members of netgroup lci-staff (LCI technical and administrative staff)

• • • • members of netgroup lci-grads (LCI grad students: MSc students, PhD students)

• • • • members of netgroup lci-guests (LCI visitors: short term visitors, visiting faculty, visiting grad students)

• • • • members of netgroup lci-scholarsfaculty (LCI scholars: postdoctoral fellows = PostDocs)

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 their minimum salary. Check here for the rules: http://www.hr.ubc.ca/benefits/employment_group/faculty/minimum_salary.html

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

• lci-all
  • lci-lab
    • lci-faculty
      • members of netgroup lci-faculty
    • lci-staff
      • members of netgroup lci-staff
    • lci-grads
      • members of netgroup lci-grads
    • lci-guests
      • members of netgroup lci-guests
    • lci-scholars
      • members of netgroup lci-scholarsfaculty
    • lci-associates
      • list of people
  • lci-interest
    • list of people

Who we are

• Per Erik Forssen
• Heather MacLaren
• Robert Sim
• Julia Vogel

Helpful hints and tips

Administrative

• Mailing lists and groups.

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

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.
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.

Web hints

Eg

$ ln -s /lci/project/raid1/simra/public_html ~/www/lci/

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

UBC/Vancouver Community info

-- RobertSim - 04 May 2006