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Expectations

• Evaluation Rubrics for Papers, Talks, Posters

LaTeX

• Dr. Herman's LaTeX page - http://people.uncw.edu/hermanr/latex/

• Sources

  • Overleaf.com - Online LaTeX Editor

  • For offline work see MikTeX - https://miktex.org/ or http://tug.org/mactex/

  • Honors Thesis Template

• Getting Started

  • Documentstyle

  • Quick tutorial for formatting, sections, etc.

• Editing Mathematics

  • Introduction

  • Tables

  • Figures

  • LaTeX/Floats, Figures and Captions

  • Bibliography

    • J. Phys A, AIP

  • LaTeX/Advanced Mathematics

  • Mathematical Expressions HW: PDF

• Packages

  • CTAN

  • physics

  • revtex

  • Other Physics packages

• Proposal Template: tex file, PDF

• Undergraduate Research Papers - U. Alberta

• Help and Tutorials

• Quick Start for LaTeX

• LaTeX Tutorials - PDF

• LaTeX Graphics Companion

Miscellaneous

• The (mostly true) origins of the scientific journal, 2012 Sci. Am.

• 350 Years of Scientific Journals

• Philosophical Transactions, March 1665

• Mathematical and physical papers, by George Gabriel Stokes

• An Essay on the Application of mathematical Analysis to the theories of Electricity and Magnetism by George Green

• American Journal of Physics

• American Physical Society

• Institute of Physics

• Growth rates of modern science - Oct 2021

• A century of physics

• Global number of publications over time - StackExchange

• Number of Academic Papers Published Per Year - 2023
• The Paradox of Proof - about  Mochizuki's papers
  • ABC Still a Conjecture - 2021, 2022 update, 2024 Update, and video
• The importance of stupidity in scientific research
• Paper Generators - Pre-AI boom
  • Math Paper Generator
  • http://snarxiv.org/ - Play arXiv vs. snarXiv
  • SCIgen - An Automatic CS Paper Generator
  • Fake Scientific Papers
  • The fight against fake-paper factories that churn out sham science
  • Fake Star Trek Paper
  • 1953-nature-papers-watson-crick-wilkins-franklin

   

Writing

• Guide for Writing in Physics
• Reviews of Modern Physics Style Guide
• Writing Physics Papers
• Physical Review tutorial for authors: How to write a great scientific paper - Webinar
• Abstracts
  • What is an Abstract?
  • Effective Abstracts  - Elliot
  • APS Tips for writing title and abstract
  • How to Write a Scientific Abstract
  • UNC Guide
  • Examples
    • UConn
    • Good vs Bad,
  • Common Mistakes
• Introductions
  •  How to write a compelling research paper introduction Video
  • Introductions - UNC
• Write Right
• UW Madison Handbook
• No one Writes Alone - Peer Review - Video
• Guide to Writing Mathematics
• Effective Technical Writing - Penn State

Talking

• Pointer on giving a talk
• How to Do a Presentation in Class
• Tips for scientific presentations
• MathDL on Presentations
• Technically Speaking - Class Examples
• Videos from YouTube
  • Life after Death by Powerpoint (4 min)
  • Killer Presentations (7 min) and Conquering Death by PowerPoint (4 min)
  • How to avoid death By PowerPoint (20:31)
  • How to Give Good Presentations (3 min)
  • How to Give a Bad Presentation (6 min)
  • Don't Read From Your Slides (4 min)
  • What Do I Do With My Hands? (1 min)
  • Walk, Stop, Talk (2 min)
• Advice on Giving Good Talk (pdf)
• How To Present Mathematics To Non-Mathematicians?
• How to talk to a non-speccialist
• Essential Presentation Skills
• Find TED Talks on Physics to emulate.

Posters

• Physics Poster Examples and LaTeX Restricted
• Scientific Poster Design - Cornell
• Guide to Effective Poster Design - Argonne National Laboratory
• How to Create a Research Poster: Poster Basics -NYU Libraries
• Creating Research Posters - Wayne State
• SPS Posters
• Effective Posters - Physics at UIIUC the Planetary Society
• CSURF Poster Workshops
• Templates
  • Overleaf
  • Gemini
  • Conference Posters
• Poster Styles
  • beamerposter - CTAN, tutorial
  • baposter
  • tikzposter video (15:52), Style Guide
  • Jacobs Landscape Poster
  • tcolorbox package
  • Minimal poster
  • Better Poster Template at GitHub, (pptx verson)
• Poster Examples
  • tikzposter Example
  • Johnston example
  • Stack Exchange - LaTeX Poster for a Beginner
  • Stack Exchange - How to Create Posters
  • tcolorbox - PDF
  • LaTeX, R, and knitr
• Poster Templates
  • Minimal Poster.doc, Minimal Poster Template - zip file, Minimal Style file
  • TikzPoster Template - zip file
  • Beamer Poster Template - zip file

Paper Body

• Need help?

• Physics Writing Guide

• Top 10 Papers from Physical Review's first 125 years

• Guideline to Scientific Writing - Georgetown Physics

• Writing Physics Papers

• Avoiding Plagiarism

• Literature Review

• Reports on Experimental Work

• How to write a conclusion

Citations and Bibliography

• Plagiarism.org - What is plagiarism?
• Randall Library Help
• Monash University Citing and Referencing
• How to create bibliographies in LaTeX
• Overleaf on Biliography Management
• How to cite a webiste
• Citing Internet Sources - Yale
• AIP: Style Manual, Referencing
• BibTeX Style Examples - at Verbosus
• BibTeX Styles - Reed College, More Examples

Using Graphics

• Graphical Excellence in Scientific Presentations and Papers
• Top Ten Worst Graphs
• How to Display Data Badly
• Effective Science Talks
• Figures, Tables, and Graphs - Durham Univ. Physics
  [See their Graphical Excellence Prizes]
• How to write figure captions
• Guidelines for using figures and tables
• Ten Simple Rules for Better Figures
• Online Drawing Software
• Physics Drawing Online
• Python matplotlib plots in LaTeX
• Convert Images to LaTeX with Mathpix
• Tikz for drawing LaTeX Figures:
  • A Very Minimal Introduction to Tikz
  • Tikz Examples
  • TikZ: A 5 Part Tutorial on Overleaf
  • TikZ online Manual - 2023, version 3.1.10
  • Visual Tikz
  • Tikz Editors
    • QTikz
    • TikZiT
  • How to draw a Bloch Sphere
  • Block Diagram in LaTeX
  • Tpx - Drawing tool for TeX
  • PGFPlots Gallery
  tikzplotlib, a Python tool for converting matplotlib figures into PGFPlots (PGF/TikZ) figures https://pypi.org/project/tikzplotlib/
  • matlba2tikz

Peer Review

Comments from peers on presentations consist of both positive feedback and suggestions meant to improve the draft presentations.
• How to Distinguish a Good Poster Design ...
• Critique
• Peer critique for presentations at MathDL Communications
• Critique of Presentation
• No One Writes Alone: Peer Review in the Classroom - A Guide For Students - MIT Video on Peer Review (6:33 min)

Project Ideas

• Old PHY 495 topics
• Dr. H's Student Projects

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