Mini Course: LaTeX
Mini Course: LaTeX will focus on teaching the quintessential scientific typesetting system of LaTeX.
LaTeX is widely used in academia, as it makes handling equations, tables, figures, numbering, references and so much more extremely easy to handle and returns a beautifully finished product. I personally cannot image writing a research paper or a thesis without LaTeX. However, as it fundamentally differs to typical word processors such as Microsoft Word, it usually requires a decent amount of motivation to start learning. Fear no more, we will provide that motivation for free.
This course was already held many times before and has been one of the most useful ones to date.
Please join it if you think you can make use of it!
Target audience
This course will be suitable for anyone and is highly recommended for all students. In particular, the last session will explain how to use OIST's LaTeX thesis template, which every student should investigate.
Teachers
The teachers will be Ruxandra Cojocaru (technician), Gabriela Capo Rangel, Juan Polo Gomez (postdocs), Jeremie Gillet (angel) and will be helped by Alexandru Mihai (PhD student).
Program (Fifth edition, November 2020)
The course will be divided into four sessions which will start from the very basics and end with presenting more elaborate tools. The program (subject to small changes) will be as follow:
| Date | Time | Topic | Lecturer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monday, Nov. 30 | 3PM - 5PM | Basics 1 (what is LaTeX, first document, basic functions, equations...) | Gabriela |
| Wednesday, Dec. 2 | 3PM - 5PM | Basics 2 (references, tables, figures...) | Ruxandra |
| Monday, Dec. 7 | 3PM - 5PM | Intermediate (bibliographies, modifying the standard format, integrating files...) | Juan Polo |
| Wednesday, Dec. 9 | 3PM - 5PM | Beamer, Tikz and the Graduate School LaTeX templates, including the thesis template |
Jeremie |
You will find the material relevant to this edition here.
You can see the footage of the Mini Course here.
Program (Fourth edition, November 2019)
The teachers were be Makoto Schreiber, Ainash Garifullina (PhD student) ans Jeremie Gillet (clown in geta), helped by Alexey Martyushev (postdoc).
The course will be divided into four sessions which will start from the very basics and end with presenting more elaborate tools. The program (subject to small changes) will be as follow:
| Date | Time | Topic | Lecturer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monday, Nov. 25 | 10AM - 12PM | Basics 1 (what is LaTeX, first document, basic functions, equations...) | Makoto |
| Wednesday, Nov. 27 | 10AM - 12PM | Basics 2 (references, tables, figures...) | Ainash |
| Monday, Dec. 2 | 10AM - 12PM | Intermediate (bibliographies, modifying the standard format, integrating files...) | Jeremie |
| Wednesday, Dec. 4 | 10AM - 12PM | Beamer, Tikz and the Graduate School LaTeX templates, including the thesis template |
Jeremie |
You will find the material relevant to this edition here.
Program (Fourth edition, November 2018)
The teachers were Nico Fischer, Christina Nguyen (interns), Hanley Andrean (student) and Alexey Martyushev (postdoc). They will be assisted by Barnaby Smith and Ainash Garifullina.
The couse will be divided into four sessions which will start from the very basics and end with presenting more elaborate tools. The program (subject to small changes) will be as follow:
| Date | Time | Topic | Lecturer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tuesday, Nov. 6 | 1 - 3PM | Basics 1 (what is LaTeX, first document, basic functions...) | Nico |
| Wednesday, Nov. 7 | 1 - 3PM | Basics 2 (equations, tables, figures...) | Alex |
| Tuesday, Nov. 13 | 1 - 3PM | Intermediate (bibliographies, modifying the standard format, integrating files...) | Hanley |
| Wednesday, Nov. 14 | 1 - 3PM | Beamer, Tikz and the Graduate School LaTeX templates, including the thesis template |
Christina |
You will find the material relevant to the course here.
Program (Third edition, November 2017)
The course will be divided into four sessions which will start from the very basics and end with presenting more elaborate tools. The program (subject to small changes) will be as follow:
| Date | Time | Topic | Lecturer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monday, Nov. 6 | 1 - 3PM | Basics 1 (what is LaTeX, first document, basic functions...) | Ruth |
| Tuesday, Nov. 7 | 1 - 3PM | Basics 2 (equations, tables, figures...) | Amit |
| Monday, Nov. 13 | 1 - 3PM | Intermediate (modifying the standard format, integrating files, books and papers, BibTeX...) | Jeremie |
| Tuesday, Nov. 14 | 1 - 3PM | Beamer and the Graduate School LaTeX templates, including the thesis template |
Jeremie |
You can download all the material that we used during this Course here and the LaTeX templates here.
Program (Second edition, January/February 2017)
The course will be divided into four sessions which will start from the very basics and end with presenting more elaborate tools. The program (subject to small changes) will be as follow:
| Date | Time | Topic | Lecturer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monday, Jan. 30 | 5:20 ~ 7:20 PM | Basics 1 (what is LaTeX, first document, basic functions...) | Jeremie |
| Thursday, Feb. 2 | 5 ~ 7 PM | Basics 2 (equations, tables, figures...) | Albert |
| Monday, Feb. 6 | 5 ~ 7 PM | Intermediate (modifying the standard format, integrating files, books and papers, BibTeX...) | James |
| Thursday, Feb. 9 | 5 ~ 7 PM | Beamer and the Graduate School LaTeX templates, including the thesis template | Alexandru |
Program (First edition, January 2016)
| Date | Time | Topic | Lecturer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monday, Jan. 18th 2016 | 5PM ~ 7PM | Basics 1 (what is LaTeX, first document, basic functions...) | Mark Kremer |
| Thursday, Jan. 21st 2016 | 5PM ~ 7PM | Basics 2 (equations, tables, figures...) | Christina Lee |
| Monday, Jan. 25th 2016 | 5:20PM ~ 7:20PM | Intermediate (modifying the standard format, integrating files, books and papers, BibTeX...) | Ankur Dhar |
| Thursday, Jan. 28th 2016 | 5PM ~ 7PM | Extra tools: Beamer and Tikz. In parallel: one-on-one sessions. |
Valentin Churavy |
On top of the four brilliant students who will be lecturing, Jiabao Chen, Adi David, Thomas Nieddu and Ruth Thompson will be present and help you with the tutorials throughout the sessions.
On the last session, parallel one-on-one sessions will be held with whomever wants advice or has a particular issue with LaTeX, regardless of participation to the previous sessions.
At the end of each session, voluntary homework will be distributed, try your best to complete it.
More information
- Location: B701, AKA the Computer Lab, Lab 3.
- Zoom link: if you prefer joining remotely, or if B701 exceeds 50% capacity, you can join using this link. Unfortunately, we won't be able to provide much help with the hands-on part via Zoom.
- What to bring: a laptop with LaTeX installed. There are many LaTeX distributions and even more editors, we suggest the following ones as they are simple:
- Mac: go here, download the MacTeX package and install it. Then, open the application “TeXShop”, a TeX editor that comes with the package. If you are limited in HD space, download BasicTeX (a slimmed down version of TeX) from the same page and download TeXShop separately.
- Linux: search for the texlive package in your package manager. Most text editors can handle LaTeX, if you want a specialised one you can pick one from this list.
- Windows: the instructions are on this document.
- YouTube: this course might be recorded and uploaded on YouTube, only the teachers will be seen. Contact Jeremie Gillet if you have reservations about this.
- Drinks: There will be free coffee and tea, bring your cup!
If you would like to participate, even for a single session please answer the following webform. If you are interested but cannot attend the event, please enter the webform as well, we will contact you for any later occurrence of the course.