Computer Classrooms in the Natural Sciences

CSM Classroom SC 3101

SC 3101 is available for any course that needs high-end hardware or software support, particularly advanced visualization capabilities. It may be reserved by submitting a work-order to the CSM facilitator. When not scheduled for courses the classroom is available for student use. The classroom calendar is a resource within the 1Hope Google Calendar application and can be reserved by requesting room 'Schaap 3101'.

The CSM Classroom has a stereo projection system capable of displaying images with true three-dimensionality. Software is installed that understands molecular structure files (e.g. pdb), stereographic image pairs, and the vrml2 3-D image format.

The teacher's workstation also utilizes SMART board technology -- allowing the instructor to write on a touchscreen monitor, project that onto the screen, and also record it for later posting to the web. (on-line users guide.pdf)

15 student PCs have the following software applications installed:

Communicate
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-AIM Triton
-Gaim
-MSN Messenger
-Remote Desktop Connection
-SynchronEyes Student 6.0
-Yahoo! Messenger with Voice

Microsoft Office
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-Access 2003
-Excel 2003
-PowerPoint 2003
-Publisher 2003
-Microsoft Office Tools
-Word 2003

General Tools
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-Binary Viewer
-Calaculator
-Crimson Editor
-gVim
-JDirPrinter.exe
-Maple Calculator
-Notepad
-Notepad ++
-PuTTy
-SSH Secure File Transfer Client
-SSH Secure Shell Client
-Vim
-Windows Explorer
-WinSCP
-Xming

Graphics
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-Autodesk Maya 2008
-VideoMach
-POV-Ray
-Paint

Math, Stats, Plotting
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-Maple 10
-MATLAB R2007a
-Microsoft Office Excel 2003
-Origin 7.5
-R 2.5
-Mplus Editor
-statmech
-SPSS 13.0 for Windows
-SYSTAT 11

Search Tools
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-Google
-KnowItAll (R) 5.0 Informatics System
-SciFinder Scholar

Structure Drawing
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-ChemSketch
-KnowItAll (R) 5.0 Informatics System
-MDL ISIS Draw 2.5

Structure Viewing
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-Cn3d 4.1
-DeepView
-KiNG
-PyMOL
-VMD 1.8.5

A number of other computer classrooms with special capabilities are available. Their descriptions will be added to this site soon.

A short Instructors on-line Howto Guide can be found here