Purdue Mathematics IT

In order to connect a laptop to Mathematics computer network, you will need to provide your computer’s MAC address.

The MAC address look like xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx where x is a hexidecimal character. The method for retrieving a computer’s MAC address varies for different operating systems:

• Windows.
  • From the Start Menu, choose the “Run…” option.
  • Run the “cmd.exe” program.
  • Once the DOS box has appeared, type “ipconfig /all” into it.
  • The output from the ipconfig command lists the MAC address for each of the network interfaces on your computer. If your computer can connect to a wireless network, you have two MAC addresses. You need to find the non-wireless address.
• Mac OSX
  • Click on the Apple () in the top left corner of your screen.
  • Click the “About this Mac” option.
  • Click the “More Info” button.
  • Click on the top level “Network” link.
  • Scroll down to the bottom of the resulting information, until you see the MAC address entry.
  • It will look something like this:
  • 
• Linux
  • Run the command: ifconfig -a
• Solaris
  • Run the command: arp computer_name (or arp `uname -n`)

You can find information about making adjustments to your Department of Mathematics account and other helpful information for new users on the New Account Information page.

The Department of Mathematics is using the AMS backed mathjobs.org job application system for tenure-track and research assistant professors.

Mathjobs.org provides nice documentation for Logging on, getting started as well as a User Guide and a short video introduction (in flash). Any question not answered by the available documentation can be asked of Math’s Web-Helpdesk.

1. You should have received (yet another) password in an email to your math email account. Using that password you can Login to Mathjobs.org at https://www.mathjobs.org by clicking the “… as Faculty or staff at employer institutions” link (under the “Login to MathJobs.org” heading). Use your email address at which your received your temporary password for your username. Upon logging in, you will be asked to change your password. You must pick a password that does not include a “dictionary word”.
2. Upon logging in, the list of applicants is displayed for our two open positions. TT is the Tenure Track Professor position, RAP is the Research Assistant Professor. (Please make sure both entries in *[RAP0018362007 TT0018372007]* are shaded green. If, for example, *RAP0018362007* is shaded gray, the listed applicants will not include those applying only for RaP’s. Click on either of these entries to go back and forth from green to gray.) Also, as the list of applicants grows, they will not all be display on the first page. Please click on the “ALL” button at the top (or bottom) of the page to display all applicants.
3. Clicking on a name will open a new window with that applicant information. Here you can read the various parts of the application separately (cover letter, letters of recommendation, teaching statement, research statement, etc.). You can click on the “All” button at the very top (to the right of “Address“) to generate a single pdf file which is just like a complete paper application.
4. For each applicant, one can assign Ratings, Refer the applicant to another faculty member, and even jot down private notes.
   1. “Refer this appl to“: You can select other faculty on the list (right to the left of this box) who you think should also read it and select “email notify” to have the system send email to that person. Note: to select multiple usernames, one must hold down the the command key on a Mac (), or the Ctrl key on a Unix or Windows machine.
   2. Your Private Notes. These notes appear as “yellow smiley faces” right below the applicants name once you return to the main Application List and after you click on the list again to update the system. These notes are only visible to you and the “managers” of the system who are the Department Head, Sally Goeke and the Webmaster.
5. IMPORTANT: Please make sure you click on the “submit” button at the bottom of the screen or else your work will not be recorded!
6. A useful tool for finding applicants that match specific parameters is the “Search” link at the top of the mathjobs.org webpage.

Due to the way Math’s email servers are configured, email cannot be sent through them (to another destination) unless you are on the Math network (in the building and plugged into a Math network jack). Although one can still read mail from their math.purdue.edu email account, they must send through a different smtp server. Below is illustrated how to set up Thunderbird to receive email from a math account while sending email through Purdue’s servers. This configuration works anywhere and requires that you know both your Math login/password and your Purdue Career Account login/password.

By default, Mac’s Terminal.app application declares itself to be of terminal type “xterm-color”. You can change this by changing Terminal.app’s default.

Go to Terminal’s Preferences

Change “xterm-color” to “xterm”.

Alternatively, one can change their terminal type from the command line by typing:

setenv TERM xterm

(if that doesn’t work, try export TERM=xterm)

If you want to update your Publications list from MathSciNet by
redownloading a list from MathSciNet, here’s how:

1. Go to MathSciNet (the Resources page on the web site links to Rice’s mirror, which is quite fast).
2. Search for yourself in the “Author” search box and hit return.
3. It will give you a list of papers, some of which will be by you. Find a paper with your name and click on your name. Ensure that the list of papers is really by you.
4. In the upper left of the page, beside “Batch Download:” choose “Citations (BibTeX)”.
5. If you have 50 or fewer publications, hit “Retrieve First 50″ to the right of “Batch Download:”. If you have more than 50 publications, then one will have to mark the checkbox besides all the publications and then click “Retrieve Marked”.
6. Copy all the data in the typewriter font to a file; I’d name it username.bib.
7. On one the Solaris math servers (ie bessel), run this command in a terminal window:
   /opt/csw/bin/bibtex2html -nobibsource -nodoc -noheader -nofooter -q username.bib
   This will create username.html.
8. If all your papers are in MathSciNet, copy username.html to
   ~/WWWbio/Publications/index
   Otherwise you can use username.html as the start of a more extensive web page of publications.
9. If you want to indicate that the publications are from MathSciNet as of a certain date, then add a line like the following example to the top of the file named index:
   <h2>Papers listed in Math Reviews as of December 8, 2008</h2>

Brad Lucier has installed new math department letterhead macros for amstex and plain tex for the new tex.
You need to have /pkgs/texlive/2005/bin/sparc-solaris/ early in your unix path to use these new macros.

There are sample files showing how to use them at:

/pkgs/texlive/2005/texmf-local/tex/plain/local/

The short version is that after the

\input amstex
\documentstyle{whatever}

lines (if any) say

\input mathletter2006
You can use the macros \address, \salutation, and \closing for the obvious things. By default, it uses a black-and-white version of the Purdue logo; if you have a color printer and want to use the black-and-gold version, say \goldlogo after you input mathletter.
Tell Brad Lucier if you have problems (but please see plaintest.tex and amstextest.tex first).

Documentation for Math Bio pages exists here:
www.math.purdue.edu/resources/computing/webdocumentation/bio/.

You can print one sided using dvips by using the following command:

dvips -f [dvi file] | lpr -o sides=one-sided -P [printer name]


For the Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) users manual, click
here.

From a MAC:

From Mac OS X 10.1 or higher

1. In the Finder, click on the Go menu
2. Select “Connect to Server”

3. In the “Server Address:” field enter

smb://smbhost.math.purdue.edu/{yourusername}

4. Click the “+” button on the right side of the field to
add this address to your favorites.

5. Set the “WorkGroup or Domain” field to ‘MATH’.
6. Enter your Math account login for “Name” and your Math account password for “Password”