Overleaf at CERN: Supporting thousands of research collaborations

Wednesday 3 Jul 2019, 09:30 → 12:15 Europe/Zurich

31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre (CERN)

Nikos Kasioumis (CERN), Tim Smith (CERN)

Overleaf is an online LaTeX and Rich Text collaborative writing and publishing tool that makes the whole process of writing, editing and publishing scientific documents much quicker and easier.

Following a year-long CERN-wide trial of collaborative authoring platforms, Overleaf has been fully available to the CERN Community since 2018.

On 3 July 2019 Overleaf and CERN come together to present their use cases, share their experiences and discuss with each other.

Overleaf Workshop.pdf

09:30 → 09:45 Collaborative Scientific Authoring at CERN: A user-centered approach

For over a year through 2016 to 2017 a CERN-wide trial of collaborative authoring platforms took place, aiming at understanding the authoring habits of the CERN community and gathering user requirements. As a result, the Overleaf cloud platform is now fully available to the CERN Community.

Speaker: Nikos Kasioumis (CERN)

Overleaf_Workshop___Collaborative_Scientific_Authoring_at_CERN__2019_07_03__.pdf

Slides on Overleaf

09:45 → 10:15 Overleaf: The founder's perspective on reaching four million users worldwide, and what lies ahead

Overleaf is a collaborative, cloud-based writing platform with over 3.9 million users worldwide as of early 2019. It's helping to make the process of writing, editing and publishing scientific documents quicker and easier for students, teachers and researchers alike.

Overleaf was founded by two mathematicians in 2012. They had been working on a project involving many partners to build autonomous cars, and work between team members had been challenging. So they built a light-weight, LaTeX-based collaboration system and used it for writing their research papers. It was simple to use - all you needed was a web browser.

Overleaf has since seen rapid adoption across science and research, and its market-leading collaboration technology is now in use in universities, labs and industry worldwide. These include major institutions such as Stanford and Caltech, with Overleaf becoming an important part not only of research collaborations but also of undergraduate teaching.

Most recently, Overleaf acquired its nearest competitor ShareLaTeX, and their combined team has worked together to build an even stronger next-generation platform to take collaborative writing to the next level.

Speakers: Ms Harriet Walsh (Overleaf), Dr John Hammersley (Overleaf)

Overleaf_CERN_presentation (1).pdf

10:15 → 10:30 Coffee break

10:30 → 10:40 Overleaf use case at CERN: CLIC

Speaker: Markus Aicheler (Helsinki Institute of Physics (FI))

Overleaf-CLIC_MAicheler.pdf

Overleaf-CLIC_MAicheler.pptx

10:40 → 10:50 Evolution of LaTeX towards Overleaf in the CERN accelerator sector

Speaker: John Jowett (CERN)

Overleaf 3Jul2019 Jowett.pptx

10:50 → 11:00 Collaborative writing with Overleaf at TE-MPE-PE

Speaker: Michal Maciejewski (CERN)

190703 Collaborative writing with Overleaf at TE-MPE-PE.pdf

190703 Collaborative writing with Overleaf at TE-MPE-PE.pptx

11:00 → 11:10 Overleaf use case at CERN: ALICE

Speaker: David Dobrigkeit Chinellato (University of Campinas UNICAMP (BR))

DDChinellato-OverleafALICE.pdf

11:10 → 11:20 Overleaf use case at CERN: LHCb

Speaker: Alex Pearce (CERN)

20190703-apearce-Overleaf-at-LHCb.pdf

Slides

11:20 → 11:30 Overleaf use case at CERN: BioLEIR Yellow Report

Speaker: Silvia Schuh-Erhard (CERN)

20190703_OverleafWorkshop_BioLEIR_UseCaseSchuh_final.pdf

20190703_OverleafWorkshop_BioLEIR_UseCaseSchuh_final.pptx

11:30 → 12:15 Q&A