Links
For Graduate Students
As a graduate student and researcher, one needs to present one’s work to the scientific community. This presentation can be in terms of an article, or an oral presentation. Please find below a number of links that advise on improving writing and presentation skills.
- Good Writing Advice
- Advice for Oral Presentations
- More Advice for Oral Presentations
- Advice for Successful Researchers
- C++ for C Programmers
- Wolfram Mathematica Tutorials
- Good introduction to Mathematica (published version)
Academic Writing
LaTeX
For preparing professional quality papers/reports in science, LaTeX is one of the most commonly used tool.
There are a variety of editors that make writing in LaTeX easier. It has been convenient to use the following editors and TeX distributions.
- TeXnicCenter with MikTex on Windows
- TexShop with MacTex on Mac
Overleaf
Easiest way to get started with LaTeX is via Overleaf since one does not have to install anything on a local computing device. Please find below a list of web resources to help get started.
Beamer
Beamer is a tool to create presentations in LaTeX.
PGF/TikZ
PGF/TikZ is one of the powerful tools to create graphics in LaTeX. You need to write simple code to create graphics and it doesn’t have a graphical interface. However, the code is highly re-usable.
Git
Git is a distributed version control system.