10.29.05
Two talks and LaTeX Beamer
In the last couple of weeks I have been busy preparing for and giving two talks. One was a talk to the math department at Chicago State University, on stuff related to my research. The second was a general audience science colloquium here at Illinois Wesleyan University. They both have been great experiences, and have boosted my confidence about giving talks in front of faculty, something I’ve always been afraid of. For both presentations I used the wonderful LaTeX class called Beamer. The beamer class allows you to create powerpoint style presentations, with slides and overlays, straight from LaTeX. It is pretty easy for anyone with basic LaTeX experience to use. You can find the pdf files I used for my two talks here. I found out about it through my use of TextMate, when someone added snippets for it to the LaTeX class. In other words, I got very lucky 
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