SWIG: Acknowledgments

Spring 2008

Wed, Apr 9, 3pm, Math 101, Creating Videos & Embedding Them in LaTeX Presentations, by Daniel Reich

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.

Acknowledgments

Muchas gracias to:

Bob Condon for initiating/maintaining the Graduate Student SWIG seminars, and both Bob and Mark Hays for their invaluable technical assistance.
Anu Rao and Andre Lehovich for keeping things going through 1998, and Anu for initial design of the SWIG web pages.
Dave Ropp for reviving SWIG in 2000.
Jim Cushing, Bob Borys, and Robert Maier for encouraging another revival in 2003.
Joe Erker for organizing the 2003 revival.
All speakers who voluntarily contribute their time and experience for the SWIG seminars.

http://math.arizona.edu/~swig/thanks.php
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