Offices

The School of Statistics is housed in Ford Hall on the East Bank campus. We occupy the third and half of the fourth floors, sharing the building with the Communication Studies and Women's Studies Departments. The administrative offices, computer lab, conference room, reading room, lounge, faculty offices, and some student offices are on the third floor; additional student offices are on the fourth floor.

We also occupy a suite of offices (both faculty and student) in 146 Classroom Office Building on the Saint Paul campus. From there we teach classes in Saint Paul and provide statistical consulting services to the Saint Paul campus.

Libraries

The School maintains a small reading room/library in Ford Hall. This library has a pretty good collection of the standard journals going back thirty to forty years. The main mathematics and statistics library is located on the third floor of Vincent Hall (next door to Ford). This library has an extensive collection of periodicals and books in statistics. Also nearby are Walter Library (science and engineering), Wilson Library (social sciences), and the Bio-Medical Library, which contain books and periodicals tailored to those specialties. The Magrath Library (adjacent to Classroom Office Building on the Saint Paul Campus) also has a large collection of books and periodicals in statistics. Materials may be requested over the internet and delivered to you via campus mail.

If these libraries don't have what you are looking for, they can usually get it through interlibrary loan.

Computing

The School of Statistics is a leader in innovative use of computing for statistics, particularly in the areas of statistical graphics and Bayesian computations. The School owns and administers over 40 Intel based, dual-processor SuSE Linux workstations and servers for use of students and faculty at the School of Statistics. These are the main computers used for research and course work. They have standard statistical and mathematical software, including SAS, S-plus, R, Lisp-Stat, MacAnova, Arc, and Mathematica, compilers and interpreters for standard languages, including C, C++, Fortran 77, Fortran 90, Java, Perl, and Python, and text formatting tools, including TeX and LaTeX. All graduate students have accounts on these machines. Most of the student accessable machines are in the computer lab in Ford Hall; a few are in Classroom Office Building in Saint Paul. The computer labs also have standard peripherals such as printers (color and black and white), scanners, and CD-ROM burners.

The School also provides a number of Macintosh and Windows computers. They have standard PC software.

The Minnesota Supercomputing Institute has several large supercomputers and grant programs that make time on these machines available to University researchers.

Student Offices

All graduate assistants are given the use of office space, in Ford or ClaOff depending on the location of their assignments.