Keynote address: Barbara Beeton, American Mathematical Society and TeX Users Group
How to Create a TeX Journal: A Personal Journey

Conference web pages:

• Call for participation: register here!
• Conference program & participants.
• LaTeX workshop.
• Conference sponsorship opportunities.
• Rutgers/New Jersey local information.
• Publicity flyer (please post).
• Post-conference: multimedia recordings, and report, photos, sponsors, booklet, and video recordings.

This three-day conference focuses on practical techniques for document production using LaTeX, TeX, ConTeXt, MetaPost, and friends. It is preceded by a hands-on four-day workshop on LaTeX.

Hope to see you there!

Dates and deadlines

See the call for papers for more information about presentations.

• May 1, 2006 - deadline for abstracts for presentations.
• May 1, 2006 - deadline for early bird registration discount.
• June 15, 2006 - deadline for preprints to be in the program.
• July 14, 2006 - deadline for hotel reservations at conference rate.
• July 25-28, 2006 - pre-conference LaTeX workshop.
• July 30-August 1, 2006 - conference presentations.
• September 1, 2006 - deadline for final papers for proceedings.

Further information

Conference attendees will enjoy an opening night reception and an (optional) banquet on the final evening. Coffee and lunch will be served each day of the meeting. Located on the Busch Campus of Rutgers University in Piscataway, New Jersey, an easy train ride from New York City.

Conference fee and hotel information is available on the registration page.

Conference flyer and publicity

Mentioning the conference to colleagues and in any other contexts would be very much appreciated. We'd also be grateful for any posting of this one-page PDF flyer (TeX source).

Sponsorship

If you or your organization would like to help sponsor the conference, numerous options are available, from a straight cash donation (always welcome!) to logos on the conference memorabilia. Please see this separate sponsorship page for details, or email us.

We are very grateful to Rutgers University for major support, the German-speaking TeX users group DANTE for a special contribution, and especially to the many individual contributors.

Contact

Email: conferences@tug.org
Phone, fax, postal mail: see TUG office contact information.
Organizing committee: Karl Berry (TeX Users Group); Sue Demeritt Robin Laakso (TeX Users Group); Barbara Mastrian (Rutgers); Gerree Pecht (Princeton University); Steve Peter (TeX Users Group).

Presented by the TeX Users Group. This conference follows the Practical TeX 2004 conference in San Francisco and Practical TeX 2005 in Chapel Hill.