Guidelines for submitting abstracts for the University of Oregon Department of Mathematics Colloquium

Colloquium speakers are usually expected to submit abstracts by Thursday of the week before the talk. We will post any or all of the following formats. We won't post Microsoft Word files, or any other secret proprietary binary format (such as AppleWorks).

Plain text (7 bit ASCII)

• This is the most common format.
• Pidgin TeX is allowed.
• No binary characters, such as curved quotation marks or accented letters. (Use "ue" or pidgin TeX for "ü", etc. Use only the characters found on a standard English language keyboard. See the discussion part way down this page for more.)
• No lines over 79 characters.
• Send the abstract as the text of an email message (not as an attachment; no encoding; no html).
• This option is not recommended if the abstract contains more than a few mathematical symbols.

TeX

• Use any of plain TeX, AMSTeX, LaTeX, or AMSLaTeX.
• We will make a pdf file from your TeX file, and post that as well. (In particular, please don't put anything in the TeX file which is incompatible with pdftex.)
• The entire abstract should be one file.
• Send the abstract as the text of an email message (not as an attachment; no encoding; no binary characters).
• Please say which version of TeX should be used to run it.

Pdf

• Please don't include JavaScript in the pdf file.
• Send the pdf file uuencoded, as an attachment, or using some other common encoding for binary files. (If we can't decode it, we will let you know.)

Jpg

• Send the jpg file uuencoded, as an attachment, or using some other common encoding for binary files. (If we can't decode it, we will let you know.)

Html

• Please use plain html which you write yourself. (Html authoring software produces horrible code.)
• No JavaScript, no Java, no attempts to set cookies, no statements "This page is best viewed with Browser X", etc.
• Send the abstract as the text of an email message (not as an attachment; no encoding; no binary characters; no lines over 79 characters).
• Send the html as a separate message, or make clear in the message where the html code of the abstract begins and ends.

Last significant change: 24 Feb. 2009.

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