Title: LaTeX, its capabilities and why you should be using it

 Abstract:

LaTeX is for more than just typesetting academic papers and theses!
 While this talk isn’t a tutorial, it's an introduction and collection of teasers
for what LaTeX is capable of beyond the usual journal or conference
articles.  I encourage everyone in our department to use LaTeX not only for
it's powerful mathematical typesetting capabilities, but also because it
 allows for reproducible research (Erik's talk next week) in combination
with R.

LaTeX is a word processor and a document markup language that follows
the design philosophy of separating presentation from content, so that authors
can focus on the content of what they are writing without attending
simultaneously to its visual appearance. While I have undoubtedly left
out many interesting use cases, bring your own to discuss at the end of the
talk.