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Supplementary Resources

This page contains useful supplementary resources and tools useful for research and training. Note that this list is not intended to be complete but rather a best practise that we found useful. However, for tools we provide references to alternatives as every person has its own style. Suggestions are welcome, too.

Templates

Georg-August-Universität Göttingen LaTeX templates for reports, presentations and theses available under CC-BY-SA 4.0 can be found here:
Version 1.2.1 (2024-02-20) - Report Template
Version 2.0 (2023-06-16) - Presentation Template
Version 1.5.1 (2024-02-20) - Thesis Template

The templates are provided as ZIP files. Uni Göttingen students can use ShareLaTeX. On the ShareLaTeX website, create a new project and select “Upload Project”, then submit the ZIP file.

Older templates for presentations, reports, theses, and letters can be found on our repository. They also contain some supplementary information on how to use and structure accordingly.

Training of Concepts

The following contains principles and concepts we found useful, tools are described separately.

The role of supervisor and student

Communication

Stress

Soft Skills

Life Style

Review

Academic writing

General

Content

Style

Literature research

Presentations

Data visualization

Self esteem

Project management

Time management

The success of any non-trivial endeavours depend on proper time and project management.

Coding

HPC

Tools

The following is a list of tools we use. We welcome suggestions to improve this list.

Notebook

Recording your progress and experiments is key to success and reproducibility.

Report

LaTeX

Presentation

Graphics

Plots

Technical Documentation

Coding

Other