Using TEX to manage IT for a Mathematics Congress

Ross Moore
Sydney, Australia
ross@maths.mq.edu.au

Sunday July 20, 2003

Abstract

Just prior to this TUG conference, the ICIAM 2003 congress was held. This was a major international congress attracting delegates from all branches of mathematics -- mainly applied but also a good deal of pure mathematics was represented.

As the author was responsible for the Information Technology aspects of this congress, TEX-related software served a major role throughout. It was used, for example, with

• design and production of the congress web-site;
• publicity pages for the invited speakers;
• the abstract-submission process;
• online display of abstracts, in both HTML and PDF;
• printed book of abstracts, program and speaker/subject listings;
• conference volume, with full papers from the invited speakers;
• slides of abstracts for all talks and minisymposia;
• conference CD, with the above items in both and fully-linked/bookmarked PDF.

In this talk we will look at some of this material and discuss the TEXniques used in its production and maintenance over more than 2 years leading up to the congress itself. This will include aspects relevant to L^ATEX, pdf-TEX, L^ATEX2 MATHML, and CGI scripting for webpages.

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