Click the links below for information on the following resources.
- Click here to find out how to request a department email account.
- For wireless network connection, please follow instructions here.
- Here's how to connect to the department VPN. If on the other hand you want to connect to UCLA-level VPN, check here.
- For information about software licenses available through the department (Office, Mathematica, Adobe Acrobat, etc.), check here.
- If you want to create a research website for your group, check here. Sometimes it is useful to create a wiki page for your group for collaborative editing. For more information about using a wiki click this link. For any questions on website creation, incuding websites for department conferences and workshops, please email D.L. MacLaughlan-Dumes.
- If you or your students want to print a research poster within the department, click this link. If you have any questions about poster configuration, please email Aiping Wan. If you need more options/flexibility for your poster, check out UCLA Mail, Document & Distribution Services (MDDS) at this link.
- To set up your UCLA physics email for Mac Mail or Outlook (or your smart phone), follow these instructions.
Other relevant information provided by UCLA:
Some campus resources require mult-factor authentication on your smart phone or tablet, adding extra security when logging in to faculty and student resources. Click here for important information about MFA.
For Cloud file sharing, UCLA offers unlimited storage through BOX. With your UCLA ID and email address, you can easily download and use BOX, see information here.
The default UC software for video conference is called ZOOM. Note: all our faculty members in the department can register for a free Pro account, which allow users to host an unlimited number of meetings of unlimited length for up to 100 participants. Only the host (yourself) needs to have such a Pro account, while other participants just need the software (as a guest) to join your video conference: https://ucla.zoom.us/
CCLE (The Common Collaboration Learning Environment) is UCLA's learning management system where course materials and resources are maintained by instructors. The online student portal is MyUCLA.
For high performance computing, you should register an account at UCLA Hoffman2 cluster. Click here for information. Usually you can run your job up to 24 hours maximum. If you want to run for even longer time, the best solution would be to contribute computer nodes to them. With that they will allow all your group members run jobs for 14 days maximum in your contributed nodes. Besides the standard usual SSH, you can also use NoMachine client to connect to Hoffman2 cluster. Note: Hoffman2 supports compiler for most languages C++/C, Fortran, Python, and also software such as Mathematica, and etc.
For information for buying computer nodes, as well as HPC storage click this link.
You can also buy your own computer cluster and store them in our department through the IT group. If you want to explore this option, please check first with Leon Kopelevich.
If you want to create a UCLA email-list (usually xxx@lists.ucla.edu), you can submit a request here.