Writing reports and scientific publications in conventional word processing applications requires a lot of discipline to maintain a consistent form; they are prone to crash and they are not suited to produce scientific papers. With LaTeX you can concentrate on writing the content and you don`t have to waste a thought on design. The author writes the text and LaTeX does the rest. Latex is a typesetting system, which allows you to create large papers like theses and master theses easily. LaTeX is very reliable and crash-free. LaTeX works on virtually all operating systems and also on stone-age computers.

In this workshop you will learn…

• to install the necessary editor and compiler by your own
• about philosophy of LaTex, its different styles, basic typesetting and how to create simple documents with LaTex
• how to create simple and complex mathematic formulas and you will learn about the advantages and pitfalls of mathematical typesetting
• to include graphs and images in a LaTex document

Dates: Fridays, October 5 & 12, 2012 (2 days)

Time: each date from 4:00 p.m. to about 7:00 p.m.

Location: University of Kaiserslautern, building 48, room 379

Workshop language: English

Participants: German and international Master-Students, (post)doctoral students and research assistants

Number of participants: 8 to max. 15 participants

Course fee: 5 € per person (please pay the fee until October 4, 2012 to Mr. Arthur Harutyunyan, building 36, room 262)

Registration: compulsory registration via email to doktoranden@isgs.uni-kl.de >> subject “LaTex Workshop” including your name, first name, home country, status (postdoc, doctoral student etc.), and department

Registration deadline: October 4, 2012

Trainer: Mr. Gregor Zolynski (TU Kaiserslautern)

Requirement: A laptop with Microsoft Windows installed.

Further information in the pdf.