SB Mathematical Writing Seminar, Fall 2015
This seminar focuses on ALL issues of professional development
relevant to young mathematicians, particularly graduate students.
Among the topics we may discuss: preparing application materials,
using TeX and TeX packages, mathematical writing,
creating webpages, creating blogs, time management, preparing / giving
research lectures,
and general discussions about doing
research.
SPECIAL GRANTWRITING PANEL, WEDNESDAY 9 SEPTEMBER 2015, MATH TOWER 4-125.
Special events this semester.
- Grantwriting panel: Wednesday, 9 September 2015.
- Professional ethics lecture: Monday, 14 September 2015.
- Panel on non-academic jobs: Date to be announced.
- Panel on job applications: Date to be announced.
Meetings
The seminar will meet on Mondays, 5:00pm-6:00pm in Math Tower 5-127.
Here is a tentative list of lectures (but these may change depending on
the interests of the seminar participants).
August 31, 2015.
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5:00 PM.
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Math Tower 5-127.
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First meeting.
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Jason Starr.
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Preparing application materials.
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September 14, 2015.
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5:00 PM.
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Math Tower 5-127.
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Second meeting.
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Jason Starr.
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Professional ethics.
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September 21, 2015.
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5:00 PM.
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Math Tower 5-127.
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Third meeting.
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Jason Starr.
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Expert tips from Knuth
and Halmos.
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September 28, 2015.
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5:00 PM.
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Math Tower 5-127.
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Fourth meeting.
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Jason Starr.
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TBA
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October 5, 2015.
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5:00 PM.
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Math Tower 5-127.
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Fifth meeting.
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Jason Starr.
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TBA
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October 12, 2015.
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5:00 PM.
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Math Tower 5-127.
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Sixth meeting.
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Jason Starr
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TBA
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October 19, 2015.
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5:00 PM.
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Math Tower 5-127.
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Seventh meeting.
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Jason Starr
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TBA
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October 26, 2015.
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5:00 PM.
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Math Tower 5-127.
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Eighth meeting.
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Jason Starr.
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TBA
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November 2, 2015.
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5:00 PM.
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Math Tower 5-127.
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Ninth meeting.
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Jason Starr.
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TBA
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November 9, 2015.
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5:00 PM.
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Math Tower 5-127.
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Tenth meeting.
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Jason Starr.
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TBA
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November 16, 2015.
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5:00 PM.
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Math Tower 5-127.
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Eleventh meeting.
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Jason Starr.
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TBA.
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Funding Opportunities in the Mathematical Sciences
Mathematical Writing Resources
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Mathematical Writing by Donald Knuth. Available
in print from the
following webpage.
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How to Write Mathematics by
N. E. Steenrod, P. R. Halmos, M. M. Schiffer, and
J. A. Dieudonné. The essay by Halmos is particularly fun
and is also available
here from L'Enseignement Mathématique.
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Steven G. Krantz, A primer of mathematical writing: being a
disquistion on having your ideas recorded, typeset, published,
read and appreciated, American Mathematical Society, 1997.
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Advice from Jonathan Shewchuk, UC Berkeley CS
department: Three Sins
of Authors
and Giving an
Academic Talk.
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YouTube link to
Serre's fabulous video How to Write
Mathematics Badly.
Resources in Professional Ethics in the
Mathematical Sciences
Job Application Resources
LaTeX Resources
USE AT YOUR OWN RISK! I am not a
computer guru. I have been able to install most of these programs and
use them on my computer. But that is no guarantee that it will work
for you. If you experience problems with some of the software below,
I urge you to read the documentation.
- If you intend to use a port of UNIX or Linux software under
Windows, I strongly encourage you to first
install Cygwin. With Cygwin
installed, you will be able to open a Linux terminal emulator. For
some of the software below, part of the installation may involve
running a file from within this emulator.
- A
GNU directory
with precompiled Emacs distributions for Windows (if you use a
standard Linux distribution,
Emacs should be bundled with your distribution). If you want to use
AUCTeX (described below) for TeX compiling in Emacs, you should get
Emacs 23.3. Please also read the
Emacs
for Windows FAQ.
- A list of
free TeX implementations for MacOS and Windows from the
TeX Users Group.
Personally I use MiKTeX.
- In order to compile TeX from within Emacs (rather than having to
open a cygwin window, etc.), I
use AUCTeX.
Note: this is not a distribution of TeX. You will still need
to install MiKTeX or some other distribution of TeX.
- To produce and view PostScript (.PS) files with TeX, I
use Ghostscript. To
produce PostScript, you will need to
get Ghostscript
(the precompiled file for Windows is near the bottom of the page).
To view PostScript files, you will need to get
GSview.
- For spell-checking, I also recommend
downloading Ispell.
There is now a GNU version
called Aspell.
Some useful LaTeX Packages
Under construction.
Back to my home page.
Jason Starr
4-108 Math Tower
Department of Mathematics
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY 11794-3651
Phone: 631-632-8270
Fax: 631-632-7631
Jason Starr, jstarr@math.sunysb.edu