Session 2: Introduction to Academic LaTeX

Overview

This session will tackle important academic uses of LaTeX such as the usage of LaTeX for the writing of a thesis, a research paper, an academic report, etc. as well as introduce the concept of a LaTeX template which many institutions offer for their respective fields.

Lecturers

… — TBD

Jad Kanaan — Primary Instructor & Organizer (jhk22@mail.aub.edu)

Session Information

• Date and Time: Wednesday 21 October 2026, 17:30 — 19:00
• Place: Engineering Lecture Hall (ELH)
• Online Meeting Link
• Session Recording

Core Concepts

• Bibliographies
• Referencing
• Custom Commands (also called Macros)
• Tables
• Cross-references
• Abstracts
• Beamer document class
• Report document class

Slides

Session 2 Slides: Download PDF

References

• Overleaf’s documentation page

Exercises & Extra Steps

• The exercise for this session is in the section of the Problem Set

Navigation

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