Fall 2008
- Mon, Sep 8, 4pm, Math 101, Remote Connection, SSH, and VNC, by Joe McMahon
- Mon, Sep 15, 4pm, Math 102, An introduction to LaTeX and Beamer, by Kevin LaTourette
- Mon, Oct 13, 4pm, Math 101, Paradigm Shifts in Science Based Simulations, by Mac Hyman
For more details, and talks in past semesters, consult the
full schedule of talks.
Tentative talks:
- Math on a MAC
- How to deal with e-mail spam
- 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.
Webpages Done Right: XHTML (The Extensible HyperText Markup Language) & CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
by Daniel Reich (Fall 2006)
Below you will find two example webpages. One is XHTML 1.0 Transitional compliant and the other is XHTML 1.0 Strict compliant. The transitional one uses XHTML to define both the content and style of the page while the strict one uses XHTML to define the content and CSS to define the style. Having a strict separation between content and style is ideal and that is why you should use CSS. Additionally, CSS provides many possibilities in presentation that would be impossible to achieve with XHTML alone. Hopefully the examples below will help you build a wonderful webpage of your own. To see an example of some unbelievable CSS, check out csszengarden.
XHTML Example Pages:
CSS Example Pages: