Onboarding new students

Rooms of interest

The Sherbrooke Connectivity Imaging Laboratory is located in the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Sherbrooke (room number D6-0051). Other rooms of interest include:

• Pr. Maxime Descoteaux’ office, located at D4-1016-2;

• Pr. François Rheault’s office, located at D4-1010-5;

• The Faculty of Sciences offices, located at D3-1044;

• The Department of Computer Sciences offices, located at D4-1010-1;

• The printer’s room which gives you free access to a printer, located at D4-1013.

Don’t hesitate to ask someone in the lab to guide you if you ever feel lost.

Claim your accesses

To get started, complete these steps. Don’t hesitate to contact your supervisor or his research assistant for help.

• Get your keys to the lab

  Your supervisor will ask them for you. You should receive an email.
• Ask to be added to the SCIL Team

  You can connect to the SCIL Team on Microsoft Teams with your CIP and University password.
  • Visit the SCIL Team where you can find various channels to follow the activity of the lab.
  • Visit the SCIL OneDrive where you can find a lot of useful resources like “images”, “presentations”, “training”, etc. in the SCIL folder, or “Recordings” in the General folder.
• Join the SCIL “Boîte partagée”

  Ask a supervisor or his research assistant to add you to the SCIL “Boîte partagée”. We use it to schedule our lab meetings, events and other important information.
• Add the SCIL “Boîte partagée” to your calendars
  • Online:

    From Outlook, go to your calendar. Select “Add a calendar”, “Add from directory”, your email address, and type “sciences.SCIL@usherbrooke.ca”.
  • Smartphone app:

    From the Outlook app, go to “Calendar”. Click on the top left icon twice, select “Add a shared calendar” and type “sciences.SCIL@usherbrooke.ca”.
  Your supervisor can also add you to his personal calendar.
• Ask to be added to the SCIL mailing list

  Don’t miss our weekly newsletter and other important information!
• Create a Github account

  For code versioning, we use Git and Github.
• Make sure you have access to BrainData (optional)

  You should be able to access our data server, Braindata, using your CIP and University password. Braindata is useful for heavy data storage. To connect to the server, see this link.
• Create a Digital Research Alliance of Canada account (optional)

  This gives you access to high performance computers (HPC). Create an account here. When creating your account, ask your supervisor for your sponsor’s ID.

Now get going with the next step, Setting up your computer!