Rethinking TeX in STEM: Online Thu 29 Sep: 6.30pm BST (UK time): From the TeX Hour

[Christopher Dimech]

> Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2022 at 5:53 AM
> From: "Jonathan Fine" <jfine2358 at gmail.com>
> To: members at tug.org, "tex-live" <tex-live at tug.org>, "TeXhax" <texhax at tug.org>
> Subject: Rethinking TeX in STEM: Online Thu 29 Sep: 6.30pm BST (UK time): From the TeX Hour

> Hi
 
> I write to warmly invite you to a one hour online meeting on TeX in STEM, followed by an 
> optional one-hour workshop. It will take place on Thursday 29 September at 6:30pm BST 
> (UK time). Please forward this invitation to others if you wish. Here are the most important
> links:
 
> Zoom URL: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/78551255396?pwd=cHdJN0pTTXRlRCtSd1lCTHpuWmNIUT09
> UK time now: https://time.is/UK[https://time.is/UK].
  
For something befitting the education of technically capable people, one thing is to reject Zoom.
Zoom is unjust, because it requires users to run nonfree  programs, mistreating and limiting users.  
Zoom lied to users for years about its software's encryption capability and security. It also
installed malware to override security features of some browsers.  
 
Besides sending personal data straight te Facebook, Zoom enforces Chinese censorship against
those who voice its murderous repression of protests.
 
Please rethink that !

Christopher Dimech
Administrator General (Gnu Project)
 
 
> We are fortunate to have as main speakers Peter Williams, Dennis Müller and Martin Ruckert. 
> All three have projects (Tectonic, sTeX and HINT) based on rethinking TeX for our changed 
> times. All three have spoken on this at the annual TeX Conference organised by the TeX Users
> Group. For more information see:
 
> https://texhour.github.io/2022/09/29/rethink-tex-in-stem/[https://texhour.github.io/2022/09/29/rethink-tex-in-stem/]
 
> The world has moved on since the 1990s (and the invention of the world-wide-web). Print 
> and PDF no longer dominate as they did, even in the world of STEM publishing. Here's an 
> example, which surprised me, of just how good HTML can be for heavily mathematical STEM content. 
> Quality technical typography is no longer confined to print media (and its digital representation
> PDF):
 
> Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
> Lattices in Tate modules
> Bjorn Poonena and Sergey Rybakov
> https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2113201118[https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2113201118]  # HTML
> https://www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1073/pnas.2113201118[https://www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1073/pnas.2113201118] # PDF
 
> In late November or early December there will be another special TeX Hour, this time 
> focussed on LaTeX and Accessibility.  >We're pleased that Jonathan Godfrey, a blind 
> senior lecturer in Statistics and stalwart of the Blind Math list, will be one of our
> special guests. For more details see: 

> https://texhour.github.io/access/[https://texhour.github.io/access/]
 
> with kind regards
> Jonathan
 
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