Computer TA homepage

This page is set up to provide some quick links to department resources and to explain a bit about my job. It will be updated fairly regularly as I have more stuff to put in here, so keep looking.

The Job

User support

This can mean anything you want it to. I hold office hours in the small computer lab, RLM 8.118, MWF 10am - 12 noon; anyone can ask me questions, get help and so on. I answer gripe email when appropriate. I install new software, and update old software as required, usually as requested by users.

Seminars

I give regular seminars on different aspects of using the math department computer system. These are every week or two weeks. The notes are available as hard copy and on the web in the documentation tree in four different formats. See below for a list of recent seminars.

Documentation

One of my tasks is to improve the documentation of the computer system. This is a very poorly specified job, partly because there is so much of it to do. Any suggestions are welcome (please email me if you have any). My first plan is to expand the FAQ which was started in the Spring. This is meant to be a list of the most popular questions we get asked. Hopefully it will soon be the first place people look when they have a question. If you think there is some program which badly needs documentation please let me know.

Webmaster

I am the main person responsible for maintaining the departments web pages; I receive all mail sent to the webmaster. If you have any questions about the web pages, please contact www@math.utexas.edu; this can mean anything from, "please set me up with a directory and links for my web pages," to, "how do I write a web page, anyway." I hope to give a seminar later on in the semester about writing HTML documents.

Seminars

• Introduction to the Math Department computer system
• Introduction to UNIX
• Using the X Window System
• Introduction to Emacs
• Introduction to LaTeX

Under construction, to be continued ...