Spring 2012
- Fri, Feb 3, 2pm, Math 102, Making a Professional Website, by Joseph Dinius
- Mon, Feb 13, 3pm, Math 102, Introduction to Mathematica, by Stuart Kent
- Fri, Mar 2, 2pm, Math 102, A Brief Introduction to CUDA, by Matthew Pennybacker
For more details, and talks in past semesters, consult the
full schedule of talks.
Tentative talks:
- Scripting with Bash
- Power Point presentation using LaTeX
- GNU/Linux text editors
Interested in speaking?
Past topics can (and should) be repeated
occasionally. In addition,
here are some topics people might like to hear about:
- Femlab (PDE modeling environment)
- GAP (computer algebra software)
- Getting started with Maple (or Matlab, or Mathematica, ...)
- How to do math on a Mac
- How to filter e-mail spam
- HTML vs. XHTML (the new HTML standard)
- Octave (free Matlab-like system)
- PDAs (handheld personal digital assistants and much more)
- PHP (server-side webpage scripting)
- R (free statistics system)
- Remote access (SSH, VNC, dial-up, ...)
- Scientific WorkPlace (graphical front end to TeX)
- Setting up a dual boot system (DOS/Linux)
- TeX / LaTeX topics
- Using scanners efficiently
- Using the WINEDT editor (a front end to TeX, HTML)
- XML (extensible markup language)
- [your favorite topic here]
To give a talk, please contact
swig@math.arizona.edu.
Presentations introducing LaTeX and Beamer
Becuase the LaTeX typesetting and presentation tools are so useful for graduate students, SWIG has hosted multiple introduction talks. The most recent ones are listed on this page, in reverse chronological order.
Introduction to LaTeX and Beamer
by Matt Bush
An introduction to LaTeX and Beamer
by Kevin LaTourette and John Pate
