Project Neptun

Personal laptops for students

General information about Project NEPTUN can be found on the Neptun homepage.

Beginning in the winter semester 2002/2003, the Mathematics Department is participating in Project NEPTUN from the ETH Zurich. Also included is the Study Course for Computer-Aided Sciences (RW). The result of this will be "Neptun Lectures" in the department (and RW), in which using a "Neptun notebook" (notebook or macbook) equiped with special student software is recommended. Buying a laptop is not a must and is not a requirement to visit a Neptun lecture.

Recommendations for Neptun laptops

The Neptun laptops used in the D-MATH lectures will be IBM equiped notebooks with dual-boot Windows and Linux systems, please look at the notes regarding the particular operating system for which the software is available. The special software will only be offered to students which visit the Neptun lectures.

Further information about acquiring a laptop can be found on the Neptun homepage under HW-Offers. On the Neptun homepage you can also find information on the software bundle (under SW-Offers) as well as installation instructions.

Neptun lectures winter semester 2006/2007

• Numerische Mathematik für CSE (401-2663-00L) by Prof. R. Hiptmair
  Hardware  Notebook
  Neptun-Software: MATLAB
  Operating System: Linux or Windows
• Numerik partieller Differentialgleichungen (401-3651-00L) by Prof. R. Hiptmair
  Hardware : Notebook
  Neptun-Software: MATLAB
  Operating System: Linux or Windows
• Zeitreihenanalyse (401-4623-00L) by Prof. P. Bühlmann
  Hardware: Notebook
  Neptun-Software: R
  Operating System: Linux
• Numerik der Differentialgleichungen (401-3663-00L) by Prof. C. Schwab
  Hardware: Notebook or Macbook
  Neptun-Software: Matlab
  Operating System: Linux, Windows or MacOS X
• Lineare Algebra (401-0131-00L) by Prof. M. Gutknecht
  Hardware: Notebook or Macbook
  Neptun-Software: Matlab
  Operating System: Linux, Windows or MacOS X
  
  
  

Availability of Neptun software specific to D-MATH

The department specific Neptun software is available through the SSD or Stud-IDES. In the case of Matlab, you have to download the software from Stud-IDES.

Helpdesk Organisation

Problems and questions can be clarified and solved by:

• Consulting the Neptun-FAQ's
• The students will be supported through a centralised helpdesk, please look at the Support Section on the Neptun homepage.
• Should problems arise which can't be supported from the helpdesk then you can contact the D-MATH IT Support (HG G18, isg@math.ethz.ch, Tel. 044/632 2230).
• Employess of D-MATH shoud contact the IT Support Group from D-MATH

Network access in the main building

General information can be found on the Neptun support page. There a description can also be found about the WLAN equiped areas.

Contact

A list of people to contact aswell as email address can be found on the Neptun mainpage, under 'Personen'.