Software and licenses

Here you find information about the computer software that is availabe to employees and students at Fysikum through the IT division of Stockholm University and through the IT services of Fysikum.

The person in charge of software and licenses at the department, and the person to turn to in case of questions, is Ronni Barouta.

Important!

Generally, program licenses acquired for employees through Stockholm University can only be used on computers owned by the university. However, some programs also offer an option for use on privately owned computers. It is not allowed to use program licenses acquired through Stockholm University on computers owned by collaborating partners, like other universities or institutes.

General information on available software

Employees
General information in Swedish about computer software available for university employees is found here. The list shows the most common software products available through either Stockholm University or the common software supply organisation of the Swedish universities, hosted by Uppsala University.

Students
For students the general information is available in Swedish here and in English here.

Fysikum-specific information

The department of physics has obtained some licenses that is availbale for free to our users. Here you can read more about them.

Department-wide licenses

For LabVIEW and Mathematica, Fysikum has department-wide licenses. This means that the licenses are paid by Fysikum's IT services, and there is no cost for the users. In general, software costs are to be covered by the research projects using the software.

For collaborative LaTeX editing, Stockholm University offers Overleaf Pro+ accounts free of charge to all students, faculty, and staff. Log-in through ORCID/SSO or your institutional email adress.

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Licenses avaliable locally at the department

For a few software products, floating network licenses are available locally at Fysikum. This means that the software can be installed on many computers, but the number of concurrent users is limited. The following software is available this way:

COMSOL Multiphysics, an interactive environment for modeling and simulating scientific and engineering problems.
Zemax OpticStudio, a program for the design of optical systems.
Altium Designer, is a PCB and electronic design automation software package for printed circuit boards.

For more information, contact Ronni Barouta.

Purchase of software

Questions regarding the purchase of software will be answered by Ronni Barouta. For information about the procedure, please see the page about purchase of software.

Last updated: December 12, 2021

Source: Fysinfo

Department of Physics