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\textbf{\LaTeX\ Topic Assignments}
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Please prepare a presentation using \texttt{beamer}-\LaTeX\ on the topic assigned to you.  Note that some topics have a basic presentation and then a more advanced presentation later by a different student.  You may want to communicate with the other party in advance to make sure your presentations complement one another.  I have spaced them apart to give the presenters an opportunity to plan the advanced talk based on the basic talk and to give the class time to absorb, apply, and appreciate the basic material before moving to more advanced considerations.

If you have any questions about the presentation topic, please contact the professor.  Generally, any reasonable exploration of the topic is fine.  The idea is to survey and provide an overview rather than attempting an exhaustive presentation.
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		date & name & topic \\ \hline
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	06/30 & Deng, Wenting & basic text formatting --- spacing, special characters, emphasis \\
	06/30 & Ma, Tao & beamer presentation package --- basics \\
	07/02 & Kim, Dongjin  & tables \& figures \\
	07/02 & Reeves  & basic equations \\
	07/07 & Pukish, Michael  & lists/bullets/enumeration \\
	07/09 & Thetford, Robert  & LyX WYSIWYM document processor \\
	07/09 & Jajam, Kailash  & fonts \\
	07/12 & Henning, Stephan  & advanced beamer presentation techniques \\
	07/12 & Huang, Guangjie  & AMS equations \\
	07/14 & Williams, Clarisa  & bibliography/citations \\
	07/14 & Maddox, Jack  & graphics in \LaTeX \\
	07/16 & Lilly, Brian  & Jabref bibliography reference manager \\
	07/16 & Periasamy, Chandru  & pgfplots for plots in \LaTeX \\
	07/19 & Pfeiffenberger, Alexander  & hyperref for PDF links \\
	07/19 & Sanders, Timmy  & PDF tricks (balloons/video/navigation) \\
	07/21 & Rose, Christopher  & \LaTeX\ gotchas --- common pitfalls, debugging \\
	07/21 & Biddings, Aaron  & \LaTeX\ in MATLAB --- figure captions, m-file publishing, matrices \\
%	07/23 & Maddox, Jack  & creating/modifying style files and packages \\
  07/23 & Suramaniam, Mithun & TBD \\
	07/23 & Roberts, Jordan  & posters \\
	07/26 & Wang, Xueming & more pgfplots \\
%	07/26 & Bell, Richard & TBD \\
	07/28 & TBD & TBD \\
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