IT Introduction Course for PhD Students

This introductory workshop provides early-career researchers with an overview of the university’s research servers and essential tools for using it.

The usage of the research servers is particularly beneficial — for example, when working with confidential data that should not be stored on a personal computer, or when projects require substantial computational resources such as high memory, CPU, or RAM allocations.

Participants will gain hands-on experience on:

• generating and using SSH keys to log into the servers
• setting up a VPN connection 
• working with the command line environment 
• working with data from your own user folder and from a shared project folder
• using Jupyter Notebook and RSTudio via SSH tunneling
• using Git for version control

In addition, the workshop proposes an open exchange session to discuss participants’ current IT workflows, tools and support needs. If you would like to share your own setup or practices, you are welcome to do so.

Participants are encouraged to contact the organiser in advance if there are additional IT-related topics they would like to see covered.