Minimalist LaTeX Template for Academic Presentations

This repository contains a LaTeX template to create an academic presentation. The template uses the Beamer class. The template follows typographical best practices and has a minimalist design. The template is particularly well suited for research presentations. It is designed to convey scientific arguments and results effectively. The repository also contains a variant of the template to create a wide, 16:9 presentation.

Documentation

The template is documented at https://pascalmichaillat.org/c/.

Illustration

The presentation produced by the template can be viewed at https://pascalmichaillat.org/c.pdf. The 16:9 presentation can be viewed at https://pascalmichaillat.org/cw.pdf.

Usage

• Clone the repository to your local machine.
• Start editing the LaTeX file presentation.tex to replace the boilerplate content with the content of your presentation.
• Replace the figures in the PDF file figures.pdf with the figures for your presentation (one figure per page).
• Compile presentation.tex with pdfTeX. This will generate a new PDF file named presentation.pdf.
• The LaTeX style file presentation.sty formats the presentation. It must be included in the same folder as presentation.tex. It can be modified to alter the presentation's format.
• The file presentation.pdf is not required to use the template. It only illustrates the output of the template. It will be overwritten when presentation.tex is compiled.

To produce a wide presentation with 16:9 aspect ratio, edit the LaTeX file wide.tex instead of presentation.tex and follow the same steps. The wide presentation uses the same presentation.sty and figures.pdf files. Compiling wide.tex with pdfTeX writes wide.pdf.

Software

• The template is currently operational with TeX Live 2025 on macOS.
• Other LaTeX distributions and operating systems may require minor adjustments. Please report any issues to help improve compatibility.

License

This repository is licensed under the MIT License.

Real-world implementations

• Recession Detection Using Classifiers on the Anticipation-Precision Frontier (by P. Michaillat)
• Does Skill Abundance Still Matter? The Evolution of Comparative Advantage in the 21st Century (by S. Kikuchi)
• Efficient range estimation with NDB interpreted code (by M. Retzlaff)
• A Lisp dialect for NDB interpreted code (by M. Retzlaff)
• Beveridgean Phillips Curve (by P. Michaillat and E. Saez)
• Modeling Migration-Induced Unemployment (by P. Michaillat)
• u* = √uv: The Full-Employment Rate of Unemployment in the United States (by P. Michaillat and E. Saez)
• An Economical Business-Cycle Model (by P. Michaillat and E. Saez)
• Beveridgean Unemployment Gap (by P. Michaillat and E. Saez)
• Pricing under Fairness Concerns (by E. Eyster, K. Madarasz, and P. Michaillat)
• Resolving New Keynesian Anomalies with Wealth in the Utility Function (by P. Michaillat and E. Saez)

Related resources

• latex-paper - This LaTeX template produces academic papers that follow the same typographic principles as the presentation template.
• latex-book - This LaTeX template produces lecture notes and academic books that follow the same typographic principles as the presentation template.
• latex-math - These LaTeX commands simplify writing mathematical expressions. They can be used in combination with the presentation template.
• matlab-figures - This MATLAB template produces minimalist scientific figures that can be inserted into your presentation.