Written and Oral Report Resources

Written Summaries

Sample Paper Template Files:(.pdf)(.zip)(source)
An even simpler "minimal example" template:(.pdf)(.zip)(source)
Example Paper from Am. J. Physics (.pdf)

Physical Review Style and Notation Guide
MIT Writing and Communication Center
Author Information for all APS Jounals
REVTeX-4 Home Page
      "REVTeX 4 Command and Options Summary", American Physical Society, July 2001

Oral Presentations
JLAB Presentation Template (.pdf) (.zip)
Beamer Users Guide for Presentation Slides (or Beamer by example)
Advice for Physics Speakers by James C. Garland
Using LaTeX in PowerPoint

Hypertext Help with LaTeX (a classic, short, introductory text)
LaTeX on Athena - Basics (only slightly out of date)
Inessential LaTeX on Athena (32 page .pdf, only slightly out of date)
A Wikibook on LaTeX

, an up-to-date, comprehensive, and accessible reference.
List of Mathematical Symbols

from the Wikibook on LaTeX.
The Comprehensive LATEX Symbol List

(178 page .pdf)
Creating a PDF Document using PDFLaTeX
Other LaTeX Related Information
Emacs on Athena

For Windows: TeXworks, WinEdt
      For Mac: TeXworks, TexShop, TexMaker
      For Linux: TeXworks, Kile (KDE)

Websites for these programs usually have guides for what other things need to be installed (latex distributions, dvi viewers, math packages, etc)

      Inkscape (free vector graphics drawing program for all)
      Ghostscript (A PostScript Interpreter)
      GSView (A PS Viewer for Windows)
      Asymptote (A vector based drawing language)