Blei beamer theme

A clean and minimal Beamer theme mimicking David Blei's presentation from his Variational Inference tutorial and developed for academic presentations.

See example.pdf for a complete example of the theme in action, showcasing all features and styling options. The source code for that is in example.tex, but with images and other assets lacking to keep things simple!

• Clean, minimal design with serif fonts (Bitstream Charter)
• Simple navigation with page numbers in footer
• Customizable grey boxes for highlighting content
• Built-in bibliography support with biblatex
• Overlay functionality for emphasis
• Automatic section outline slides
• Optimized for clean academic presentations

Installation

1. Download beamerthemeblei.sty or clone the repo
2. Place it in your local texmf directory:

   ~/texmf/tex/latex/local/beamerthemeblei.sty
   

Usage

Basic usage

\documentclass[10pt,xcolor={dvipsnames}]{beamer}

\usetheme{blei} % <---- Use the theme

\title{Your Presentation Title}
\author{Your Name}
\date{\today}

\begin{document}

\maketitle

\begin{frame}{Your First Slide}
    Content goes here...
\end{frame}

\end{document}

With bibliography

\documentclass[10pt,xcolor={dvipsnames}]{beamer}

\usetheme{blei}
\addbibresource{your-bibliography.bib}

% Your content...

% Add references at the end
\insertreferences

\end{document}

Some features

All features are on display in example.pdf; its source code is in example.tex.

Grey boxes

Highlight important content with grey boxes:

\greybox{Your highlighted content here}

Overlay text

Create overlay text for emphasis:

\overlay{Important message}

Wide item separation

Add extra spacing between list items:

\begin{itemize}
\widesep
\item First item
\item Second item
\end{itemize}

Credits and license

Many thanks go to David Blei, not in the least for helping me understand VI!

Released under MIT license.