Minimalist LaTeX Template for Academic Presentations

This repository contains a LaTeX template to create an academic presentation. The template uses the Beamer class. The template carefully follows typographical best practices and has a minimalist design.

Documentation

The template is documented at https://pascalmichaillat.org/d1/.

Illustration

The presentation produced by the template can be viewed at https://pascalmichaillat.org/d1.pdf.

Features

• The font for text, roman math, and numbers is Source Sans Pro.
• The font for Greek and calligraphic math is Euler.
• No colors are used in the text (only grayscale) to reduce distraction; colors are reserved for graphs and alerts.
• Margins, spacing, and font size are set for comfortable reading.
• There are no frills at the periphery of the slides.
• Slides with figures, tables, and section headings can easily be inserted into the presentation.
• The aspect ratio is set to 4:3.

Usage

• Clone the repository to your local machine.
• Start editing the LaTeX file presentation.tex to replace the boilerplate content with the content of your presentation.
• Replace the figures in the PDF file figures.pdf with the figures that will be included in the presentation. There should be one figure per page.
• Compile presentation.tex with pdfTeX. This will generate a new PDF file named presentation.pdf.
• The LaTeX style file presentation.sty collects all the commands to format the presentation. The file must be included in the same folder as presentation.tex. It can be modified to alter the presentation's format.
• The file presentation.pdf is not required to use the template. It only illustrate the output of the template, and will be overridden once presentation.tex is compiled.

Software

The template was developed on a Mac with the MacTeX-2021 distribution, and it continues to work with the MacTeX-2023 distribution. Hopefully, it should also work on other machines and with other distributions.

License

The content of this repository is licensed under the terms of the MIT License.

Real-world implementations

• u* = √uv (4:3 format)
• u* = √uv (16:9 format)
• Modeling the Displacement of Native Workers by Immigrants
• An Economomical Business-Cycle Model
• Beveridgean Unemployment Gap
• Pricing under Fairness Concerns
• Resolving New Keynesian Anomalies with Wealth in the Utility Function

Related resources

• LaTeX template for academic papers – This template produces academic papers following the same principles, and with a similar appearance, as this presentation template.
• LaTeX commands to write math – These commands make it easy to write mathematical expressions. They can be used in combination with this paper template.