TUG 2025: July 18-20, 2025 (Friday-Sunday)
The 46th Annual Meeting of the TeX Users Group
Come celebrate TeX, Metafont, and family!

Venue

Hyatt Regency (group booking)
CV Raman Pillai Rd, DPI, Thycaud
Trivandrum
695014 Kerala
India
phone: +91 471 258 1234

Principal sponsor and organizer

STMDocs (TeXFolio)

Registration and information

• Register for the conference.
• Conference program.
• Submit proposal / call for papers.
• Advice for presenters.
• List of conference participants.
• Workshop information.
• Travel to/from the city.
• Visitor information.

Dates and deadlines

• as soon as possible - visa application (request invitation letter)
• April 4, 2025 - bursary application (financial assistance) deadline.
• April 25 - deadline for early bird registration discount. Early registrations are greatly appreciated!
• April 25 - deadline for abstracts for presentation proposals.
• May 31 - deadline for hotel reservations at the Hyatt. Booking your hotel room early is highly advisable. Availability and rates are not guaranteed afterwards.
• June 13 - deadline for preprints (submit PDF) to be in the printed program.
• July 9 - deadline for uploading all slides and videos, for all speakers.
• July 17, 17:30-19:30 - opening reception, Hyatt Regency.
• July 18-20 - TUG conference, Friday–Sunday. The TUG Annual General Meeting will take place during the conference, time tbd.
• July 20, evening - banquet.
• July 28 - deadline for final papers for the printed TUGboat proceedings.

Venue

The conference will be held in the Royal Ballroom 3&4 of the Hyatt Regency hotel, Trivandrum (aka Thiruvananthapuram).

The principal airport is Thiruvananthapuram International Airport, airport code TRV (Terminal 2). Terminal 1 is the domestic airport; they are about 5 km apart. Details: travel options from/to the airport and local visitor information.

Online participation

This is primarily an in-person conference, but the talks will be streamed live on the TUG YouTube Channel, at no charge or required registration. The channel will be monitored during the conference for questions or comments to relay to the speakers.

Hotel

TUG conference participants can book online at the Hyatt Regency, Trivandrum. Rooms are available to our group at a discounted rate for the period of July 14–24, 2025 at the following pricing:

• USD 92 + taxes for single occupancy
• USD 103 + taxes for double occupancy

The conference program will take place at this hotel. Please do stay here if at all possible, both for your convenience and to help TUG and the conference.

Meals

• The opening reception will be at the hotel, Thursday July 17, 17:30-19:30.
• Breakfast is included with the hotel reservation.
• Lunches and breaks will be provided during the conference, July 18-20, at no additional charge.
• Dinners are not included with the conference registration or hotel reservation, but are available at the hotel and restaurants nearby. See the food section on the local information page for some ideas.
• We'll have a banquet on Sunday evening, approx. 19:00-21:30 in the Royal Ballroom at the Hyatt Regency. There will be meat, fish, and vegetarian options; other requirements may also be accommodated, so if in doubt, ask in advance and we will do our best. The registration form has banquet options.

Sponsors

The conference is sponsored by the TeX Users Group, TeXFolio, DANTE e.V., Google, and many individual donors. Thanks to all.

Additional sponsors will be greatly appreciated! Please also mention the conference to colleagues and in any other contexts.

Poster and drawings

A poster for TUG'25 is available in several sizes: a3 poster, a4 poster, letter-size poster. phone-size image (about 3in x 7.4in). Please copy and post anywhere appropriate, with our thanks.

Feel free to use the conference drawing above, and many others used on conference merchandise et al., for anything connected to the conference. They were made for TUG'25 by noted Indian cartoonist E P Unny. Thank you Mr. Unny!

Contact

• Email: tug2025@tug.org.
• Phone, fax, postal mail: see TUG office contact information.
• Conference committee: Radhakrishnan CV, Rajagopal CV, Rajeesh K V, Rishikesan Nair T, Shanmugham AM, Sophia Laakso, Karl Berry.