Getting started with computing in Maths (staff and students)

To do

1. Change all your initial passwords

2. Check your entry on the email and phone list (it may take up to a week after you arrive for it to be created).

   • DAMTP users : Click to check the DAMTP email and phone list.
   • DPMMS users : Click to check the DPMMS email and phone list.
   • If your entry is missing or incorrect please contact the Maths HR office (staff) or the postgraduate office (research and mphil students).

3. Check your university address book entry.

4. Check your details in the Maths database. To do this you will either need to be sitting at a CMS computer, logged into one remotely using hotdesk or connected to the CMS network via the Maths VPN.

Local computing information for new users

• How to connect your laptop, tablet or smartphone to the Internet, via Wifi or wire.
• Software available.
• Who gets what
• Email.
• Storage and home directory.
• Who can read your files - file permissions.
• Central computing and IT services most likely to be useful to Mathematicians.
• Many free computer-related training courses are available, mostly run by the University Information Service.
• You agreed to the computing rules when you filled in your part of our user application form.