Learn to Write Science Beautifully: The Basics of LaTeX
The first of two seminars focused on teaching LaTeX and TikZ
Wednesday, November 15, 2023 · 12 - 1 PM
What is LaTeX?
LaTeX is a great way to professionally write your science, or anything else really! It gives you far more options in terms of both what you can type, and the options you have to display it on your paper! From tons of options on writing math and equations easily, you can number and label anything you want to reference later, create tables, diagrams, and more!
This is not only a great way to write up your lab reports, but its also an industry standard for writing research papers, publications, and creating research posters across STEM fields.
This seminar will be held by Chris Bispels (PME Vice President) and is intended as an introduction to LaTeX. If you want to get from never having used LaTeX to doing your weekly homework, lab reports, writeups, resumes, or research papers in LaTeX this is the place to start! We will cover all the basics, with a focus on creating a document with equations, tables, and images integrated into writing. There will be an emphasis on answering your questions and making sure you become comfortable with the fundamentals of LaTeX. Towards the end, we will introduce the LaTeX package TikZ and some of its basic capabilities in preparation to the second seminar in this series.
Especially helpful for those in Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, Computer Science, and Chemistry and related Majors.
This seminar will be held by Dr. Rostamian and is intended as an introduction to using the package TikZ in LaTeX. If you want to expand your LaTeX repertoire, especially if you want to be able to create visuals, this is the place for seminar for you! We will learn the framework of TikZ, which can be applied to a broad set of purposes, from making graphs to creating state diagrams, even complex geometric visualizations.
Especially helpful for those looking to add visualizations to their writeups, including Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, and Chemistry related majors.
What is "Learn to Write Science Beautifully"?
Across two one hour seminars, you can go from never having opened a .tex file to be able to complete your assignments, lab reports, research papers, and anything else you want to make in this great document preparation program. Even those experienced in LaTeX will have plenty to learn, especially in the second seminar (TikZ Technical Diagrams) which will be hosted by Dr. Rostamian and will dive in-depth on how to create intricate and complex pictures through TikZ.
We recommend anyone who plans to attend the second seminar to attend the first one, as we will introduce TikZ in more detail then may be provided in the second.
What is TikZ?
This is a package in LaTeX focused on creating pictures, diagrams, and more! Explore the endless creative options available from creating tree diagrams to graphs of all sorts, and much more!