- If you are coming for a temporary stay from a country which participates in the Visa Waiver program (e.g. France, Italy, Germany, etc…) and you are planning to receive any reimbursements: you must have a WB stamp in your passport. You get this by entering the US on the visa waiver program business visa. Please note that this is different from the visa waiver program tourist visa, which gives you a WT stamp in the passport. We will not be able to reimburse your expenses if you have a WT stamp and not a WB stamp. Ask Paul for a letter of invitation that will facilitate you getting a WB stamp. For your reference, here is the form you will have to fill out when you are here.
- Please keep your boarding passes, you may need those for reimbursement. For administrative reasons, you will have to wait till after your departure to receive the reimbursement.
- For wifi access, you can use the “attwifi” network. You can also obtain access to the “psu” network, which is a little bit more reliable. To do this, send Paul an email asking him to email [email protected] and request a STAA (Short-Term Access Account) on your behalf.
- If you are visiting for more than just a few days, you should also get a wired Ethernet connection at your desk. Please email [email protected] to do this.
- See also information below
- You can fly directly to State College airport, which has the code SCE.
- The first thing you will need is a PSU account, before you can proceed with most things.
- For access to the Wartik bldg on nights and weekends, you need to fill out and follow the instructions on this form You can also stop by 101 LSB to pick up the form.
- If you do not have a PSU id card, please speak to Paul first.
- To access our group's compute server, see these instructions.
- Please create a slack account and join http://medvedevgroup.slack.com/. We often use slack for important communication, so please enable some sort of instantenous notifications for the announcement channel, permanent_members channel, and any direct messages. At the same time, please be considerate when posting things there and use other channels for non-urgent and non-crucial messages.
- If you are developing code, we use github as the version control system. If you do not already have a github account, please create one.
- Please join the medvedevgroup organization on GitHub/
- Join the appropriate mailing lists. For example, http://lists.bx.psu.edu/listinfo/all.
- For printer and printing information, check http://wiki.bx.psu.edu/BX:Printing