# Monthly Archives: April 2017

## Slides from a Dissertation Defense

I just defended my dissertation. Thank you to Jeff, Jill, and Dinakar for being on my Defense Committee. In this talk, I discuss some of the ideas and follow-ups on my thesis. I’ll also take this moment to include the dedication in my thesis.

Here are the slides from my defense.

After the defense, I gave Jeff and Jill a poster of our family tree. I made this using data from Math Genealogy, which has so much data.

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## Experimenting with latex2html5: PSTricks to HTML interactivity

I recently learned about about latex2html5, a javascript library which allows one to write LaTeX and PSTricks to produce interactive objects on websites.At its core, it functions in a similar way to MathJax, which is what I use to generate mathematics on this (and my other) sites. As an example of MathJax, I can write the following.

$$\int_0^1 f(x) dx = F(1) – F(0).$$

The dream of latex2html5 is to be able to describe a diagram using the language of PSTricks inside LaTeX, throw in a bit of sugar to describe how interactivity should work on the web, and then render this to a beautiful svg using javascript.

Unfortunately, I did not try to make this work on WordPress (as WordPress is a bit finicky about how it interacts with javascript). So instead, I wrote a more detailed description about latex2html5, including some examples and some criticisms, on my non-Wordpress website david.lowryduda.com.