Recent talks by Nelson H. F. Beebe
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Brief introduction to TeX and LaTeX
Two-hour workshop held at the Center for High
Performance Computing, University of Utah,
14 January 2019
Web site
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Workshop on computer arithmetic
Three-hour workshop held at the Department of Physics & Astronomy,
University of Utah, 05 November 2019
Web site
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Brief introduction to TeX and LaTeX
Two-hour workshop held at the Department
of Mathematics, University of Utah,
13 November 2018
Web site
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Brief introduction to TeX and LaTeX
Two-hour workshop held at the Department
of Mathematics, Utah Valley University,
2 November 2018
Web site
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Quantum Theory Matters
Guest lecture in Math 5750: Representation Theory
Techniques in Quantum Physics 11-Jan-2018
University of Utah Department of Mathematics
Slides PDF
[4MB]
Slides PDF (4/page for landscape printing)
[0.5MB]
Links to other handouts.
No talks in 2014.
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BibTeX meets relational databases
TUG 2009: The 30th Annual Meeting of the TeX Users Group,
University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA, July 29--31, 2009.
PDF of full paper
[240KB],
Slides PDF
[354KB].
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A new math library
Mathematical Association of America regional meeting,
Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, USA, 20 March 2009.
Slides PDF
[3062KB].
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Computer arithmetic and the MathCW library
Trends in Quantum Chemistry, Department of Chemistry,
Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, December 12--14, 2008.
Slides PDF
[3242KB].
Handout PDF
[4738KB],
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Virtual machines
University of Utah IT managers meeting,
28 February 2008.
Slides PDF
[3242KB].
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New directions in floating-point arithmetic
ICCMSE 2007, Hotel Marbella, Agios Ioannis Peristeron,
Corfu, Greece, 25--30 September, 2007
PDF of extended abstract (published in proceedings),
[84KB],
PDF of full paper (unpublished)
[128KB],
Slides PDF
[600KB],
Slides PDF (reduced 3x2 per page) PDF
[91KB].
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Extending TeX and METAFONT with Floating-Point Arithmetic
TUG 2007,
San Diego State University, San Diego, CA,
USA, 17--20 July, 2007.
Article PDF
[234KB],
Slides PDF
[522KB],
Slides (reduced 2x2 per page) PDF
[512KB]
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Cryptography, Freedom, Democracy: How Basic
Science Affects Everyone
Mathematics Undergraduate Colloquium 17-Jan-2006
and Blue Chips computer group 11-Oct-2006:
Poster PDF
[4KB]
Handout PDF
[6KB],
Slides PDF
[0.2MB]
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The design of TeX and METAFONT: A retrospective [keynote Address]
Practical TeX 2005 [14--17 June 2005, Chapel Hill, NC]
preprint article (PDF) [232KB]
slides (PDF) [129KB]
final article (PDF) [330KB]
(PostScript) [377KB]
(gzipped PostScript) [175KB]
(BibTeX file) [106KB]
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The design of TeX and METAFONT: A retrospective
TUG 2005 [23--25 August 2005, Wuhan, China P. R.]
slides (PDF)
final article (PDF) [330KB] [same as Practical TeX 2005 article]
(PostScript) [377KB]
(gzipped PostScript)
[175KB]
BibTeX file
[106KB]
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Pseudo-random numbers: [mostly] a line [of code]
at a time
Undergraduate Colloquium, Mathematics Department,
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, 11 October
2005
Handout PDF
[4.6MB: black and white]
Slides PDF
[5MB: extensive use of color]
Slides PDF (four per page)
[3.6MB: extensive use of color]
Announcement poster PDF
[0.2MB: color].
Earlier editions were presented as Undergraduate
Colloquia (course Mathematics 3000) in 2002 and 2003,
and at an IBM AIX User Group meeting in 2004. This
version uses a new slide format, and has many small
changes and rearrangements.
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Cryptography, Freedom, Democracy: How Basic
Science Affects Everyone
Guest lecture in Physics 1905: Einstein's
Legacy, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, 30
November 2005
Slides PDF
[0.2MB],
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Cryptography, Freedom, Democracy: How Basic
Science Affects Everyone
Forum for Questioning Minds,
Salt Lake City Public Library, 11 December 2005.
Slides PDF
[200KB],
Announcement poster PDF
[60KB],
Handout PDF
[6KB]
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A Bibliographer's Toolbox
Practical TeX '2004: 19--22 July 2004,
Holiday Inn Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco,
California
Article PDF [276KB]
Article DVI [32KB]
Slides PDF [116KB]
Slides PostScript [461KB]
BibTeX file [32KB]
Also presented to a smaller group at
TUG'2004: 30-August--1-September 2004, Democritus
University of Thrace, Xanthi, Greece
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Pseudo-random numbers: [mostly] a line [of code]
at a time
IBM AIX Users Group, Research Park, Salt Lake City,
UT, 23 March 2004
Handout PDF
Slides PDF
Earlier editions were presented as Undergraduate
Colloquia (course Mathematics 3000) in 2002 and 2003.
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Tips on Indexing LaTeX documents
PDF
[intended to be published in TUGboat, but never
submitted]
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Bibliography prettyprinting and syntax checking
PDF
[published in TUGboat 14(3) 222, October (1993)
and 14(4) 395--419, December (1993)]