Tools for your studies
PC-Pools
The Universitiys computing centre provides computer working stations in central PC-Pools. Windows computer as well as very modern iMacs for graphical applications can be used by the students at the ground floor and the second floor in the Augusteum. That is also where the printers, scanners and computers with video, image and text editing programs are located. You can use your University Login for the working stations. Our faculty also provides a few at the ground floor of our physics department right below the big lecture hall.
You can find the WIFI network eduroam at many places in the city. The University of Leipzig is part of a global net of education institutions that provide this service. Use your University Login to connect with the network. If you travel to other cities or countries, you can use eduroam as usual there. The Setup can be a bit tricky at the beginning because eduroam is built to provide a high level of security. You can find a helpdesk in the second floor of the Augusteum.
You need the VPN to access internal offers of our university. To mention a few: the index of staff, the software shop, the intranet, the access to download and use Origin, as well as a few other things. To use it you’ll have to follow these instructions.
The “Speicherwolke” is a cloud of the university. You can login with your university credentials and upload up to 5 GB. It’s a valid alternative to Google Drive or to sending large files through discord. We can’t recommend to edit your files over the “Speicherwolke” though.
The mailclient of our university: “Horde” can be unpractical and unasthetic. Therefore it might be nice to access your Mails through a different mailclient. Here is a guide for Thunderbird and Apple Mail. In these programs you can also implement other E-Mail adressses so you have all your communications in one application.
To activate Microsoft Office for you Uni-Mail you’ll need to log into the IDM oft the University. There, under “Office 365”, you’ll have to accept the transmitting of your data to Microsoft. After about 60 min. you can login into Microsoft Office with your Uni Login credential and use the Office Suite fully.
With Google Collab you can work together in one Jupyter Notebook. That way, you can analyse your data from your General and Advanced Labs.
Additionally you don’t have to run your code on your own machine but can instead run it on the Google servers as well.
Anaconda enables you to use Jupyter Notebooks on your own PC.
Overleaf enables you to edit a LaTeX document together. Though the free version only allows small documents. Therefore you might need to compile in the draft mode and later on finish the final document on your own machine. (With a little luck we might get access to a free students version in the future.)
Wolfram Alpha is a calculator that enables you to solve advanced problems such as: differentials, integrals, differential equations and much more. Please remember that you’ll have to be able to solve the problems independently and that it’s probably best to check your solutions rather than just copying the answers. The App on android, iOS and through the windows store are a onetime purchase while the website needs a reoccurring payment.
