Hacking Materials Handbook
  • Hacking Materials handbook
    • Preamble
    • About our group
    • Before you arrive
    • Finding a place to live
    • After arriving at LBNL
    • Group meetings
    • Facilities - Food, Conference Rooms
    • LETS timecard
    • Vacation days, sick days, foreign travel
    • Telework
    • Making purchases
    • Conference travel
    • Getting help
    • Our computing systems
    • Open science and arxiv / chemrxiv
    • Information for graduate students
    • Giving effective presentations
    • Writing effective papers
    • Fun things to do in the area
    • Leaving the group
    • Thank you!
  • Appendix
    • Purchasing a computer
    • Setting up a new Macbook
    • Some notes being productive with a Mac from Anubhav
    • Science related resources
    • Staying up to date on research and literature searches
    • Why open source
    • 10 of the most common Python mistakes I see from scientist-programmers
    • Mechanics of writing papers in Microsoft Word
    • Eleven questions for self-assessment
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Preamble

“Organization is a means of multiplying the strength of an individual”. Peter Drucker

Last updated 1 year ago

Welcome to the HackingMaterials research group! The purpose of this guide is to ease your transition into our research group and help make your time here as productive and enjoyable as possible.

This is an open document that you can freely share and adapt with attribution and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, please visit:

We thank Valve software (a video game company) for openly publishing their employee handbook, which helped inspire this effort. Also, thank you to those who help create and update this guide; each of us gains from the contributions of those before us, and we hope you are able to pay it forward to future members by contributing as well.

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