ICTS has been contracted by the Science Faculty to manage their four student computing labs. Gerhard Mohammed, the Lab Administrator, manages the labs and assists faculty staff in booking the lab for classes. Together with Assistant Lab Administrators, he assists students where necessary and ensures that they abide by the lab rules as set out in the General Rules and Polices handbook.
Access to the labs
| Lab | Who can use it? | Number of PCs | Lab location |
| Sci Lab A | Open to all, but mainly used by the Computer Science Department | 85 | Room 1.06, Ground Floor, Computer Science Building |
| Sci Lab B | Open to all, but mainly used by the Computer Science Department | 29 | Room 1.06, Ground Floor, Computer Science Building |
| Sci Lab C | Open to all but mainly used by the Departments of Chemistry, Botany and Molecular & Cell Biology. | 64 | Oceanography Department, Fourth Floor, RW James Building |
| Sci Lab D | Open to all students but mainly used by the Department of Statistics. | 84 | Room 1.14, Ground Floor, PD Hahn Building |
| Sci Lab D Annex | Open to all students but mainly used by the Department of Statistics. | 29 | Room 1.14, Ground Floor, PD Hahn Building |
Opening hours
Lab | Term time | Times |
| Sci Lab A and B | Monday - Thursday | 08h30 - 21h30 |
| Friday | 08h30 - 21h00 | |
| Saturday | 10h00 - 15h00 | |
| Sunday | Closed | |
| Sci Lab C | Monday - Friday | 08h00 - 17h00 |
| Saturday - Sunday | Closed | |
| Sci Lab D1 & D2 | Monday - Friday | 08h00 - 17h00 |
| Saturday - Sunday | Closed |
Your lab administrator
Lab Administrator | Scilab D, Ground Floor, PD Hahn Building |
What software is available in the Science labs?
The standard lab software is available in the labs. In addition, the following software is available in Science labs.
| Lab | Sci lab A | Sci lab B | Sci lab C | Sci lab D | Sci lab D Annex |
| AnyLogic 8.3.3 | |||||
| Arduino 1.8.5 | |||||
| BioEdit 7.2.5.0 | |||||
| Data Analysis Plus® 5 plug-in for Excel | |||||
| ECLIPSE 4.4.2 | |||||
| Ecopath with Ecosim 6.5 | |||||
| jGRASP 2.0.4_03 | |||||
| LibreOffice 5.3.0.3 | |||||
| MATLAB R2018B | |||||
| Mega 7 | |||||
| Mendeley 1.19 (64-bit) | |||||
| Meshlab_64b | |||||
| MiKTeX 2.9.6643 | |||||
| Netlogo 6.0.2 | |||||
| pandoc | |||||
| PyQt GPL v5.10.1 for Python v3.6 | |||||
| PyQt GPL v5.6 for Python v3.5 | |||||
| Python 3.6.0 (Anaconda3 4.3.1 64-bit) | |||||
| Python 3.6.3 | |||||
| QGIS 2.18.15 | |||||
| R Studio 1.1.383 | |||||
| Rtools | |||||
| SIMUL8 | |||||
| Texmaker 5.0.2 (64-bit) | |||||
| TeXstudio 2.12.0 | |||||
| Virtual Box 6.04 | |||||
| Virtual Box 6.04 extensions | |||||
| Wing IDE 101 6.0.9-1 | |||||
| WinShell | |||||
| Zotero 5.0 |