Nick Horelik and Bryan Herman, Graduate students
| Jan/27 | Mon | 09:00AM-12:00PM | 26-142 |
| Jan/28 | Tue | 09:00AM-12:00PM | 26-142 |
| Jan/29 | Wed | 09:00AM-12:00PM | 26-142 |
Enrollment: Limited: First come, first served (no advance sign-up)
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: None
LaTex is the #1 way to produce superior-quality professional documents. Modern tools make it easy to get started in minutes! Everyone should use it for everything from writing psets and lab reports to conference papers, presentations, posters and theses. In this short course, students will be brought up to speed with the basics of LaTex with a simple and easy tool called ShareLaTeX. This online software makes collaboration and preparation of documents easy without needing to install anything on your machine. After reviewing the basics, we will walk through the specifics of creating common documents including how to use conference/journal/MIT thesis templates. Next, we will give a thorough introduction to the Beamer LaTex class and provide practical examples for how to produce high-quality presentation slides and research posters. Finally, we will spend a significant portion of time detailing how to produce good plots, tables, animations and movies in LaTex documents, including an extensive tutorial on how to use TikiZ to produce beautiful schemes and flow charts in LaTeX. Stop print screening your Microsoft paint/powerpoint and switch to a nice vectorized package!
Sponsor(s): Nuclear Science and Engineering
Contact: Nick Horelik, 774-208-2168, nhorelik@mit.edu