Monthly Meet March 10 2018

The next monthly meet is scheduled on Saturday, March 10th 2018 at 1500 IST.

Venue: Classroom No 1, Aerospace Engineering, Near Gajendra Circle, IIT Madras.

Link for the Map: http://bit.ly/iitm-aero

Talk schedule for the meet

Talk 1: L A TEX for mathematicians and all others

• Speaker: S. Parthasarathy

• Description: L A TEX is a very powerful and versatile typesetting system, for high-quality publishing. It is used internationally, by a wide variety of users.

  It was originally conceived by Prof. Donald E Knuth, the greatest computer scientist of our times. L A TEX is available for free (gratis), on all, modern, Linux systems.

  This short lecture will present an overview of L A TEX with a special focus on creating mathematically-rich publications.

• Duration : Approx. 90 minutes.

• About Speaker: Parthasarathy is a retired teacher of discrete mathematics, and is based in Hyderabad. He is an experienced user of L A TEX and an aggressive promoter of FOSS. He is also a special editor of PracTex journal, the official journal of the TeX Users Group (TUG).

  All his L A TEX related publications are available under a CC-BY-SA license, at : http://drpartha.org.in/publications/downloadlatx.htm.

  Prof. Parthasarathy’s profile is available at: http://drpartha.org.in/profpartha/profile.pdf

Talk 2: How to create a sandhi checker for Tamil using python ?

• Speaker: Nithya Duraisamy

• Description: Sandhi is kind of conjunction for tamil words. To check for this error is one of the tasks of a tamil spell checker. Tamil grammar gives clear rules to check for the error.

  Let us explore on how to implement tamil rules using python.

• Duration : 30 min

• About Speaker : Nithya Duraisamy, Writer, Dancer, and Programmer.

  Get her books at http://freetamilebooks.com/authors/nithyaduraisamy/

• Links : https://github.com/nithyadurai87/tamil-sandhi-checker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC82S7wOr3E

Talk 3: brainstorm on building an organization for tamil computing

• Speaker: T.Shrinivasan
• Description: Discussion with all on why/how to start an organization for tamil computing. How free software can be a core value for it? What should be activities for it? What to learn from other free software based organizations?
• Duration : 45 min