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TUG 2025: July 18-20, 2025 (Friday-Sunday)
The 46th Annual Meeting of the TeX Users Group
Come celebrate TeX, Metafont, and family!
Thursday, July 17, 2025, 11:00-16:00: Tagging PDF documents
A LaTeX developers' workshop
(limited seats).
Venue
Hyatt Regency
(group booking)
CV Raman Pillai Rd, DPI, Thycaud
Trivandrum
695014 Kerala
India
phone: +91 471 258 1234
Principal sponsor and organizer
TeXFolio (STMDocs)
Post-conference
Registration and information
Dates and deadlines
- as soon as possible - visa application (request invitation letter)
- April 4, 2025 - bursary
application (financial assistance) deadline.
- April 25 - deadline for early bird
registration discount. Early registrations
are greatly appreciated!
- April 25 - deadline for abstracts for presentation
proposals.
The deadline has passed, late submissions will be accepted,
as long as the schedule remains open. Remote presentations are welcome.
- June 13 - deadline for preprints (submit PDF) to be in the printed program.
- June 25 - deadline for hotel reservations at the Hyatt.
Booking your hotel room early is highly advisable.
Availability and rates are not guaranteed afterwards.
- July 9 - deadline for uploading all slides and videos, for all speakers.
- July 17, 11:00-16:00 - LaTeX developers'
workshop: Tagged and Accessible PDF Documents.
More info on workshop page.
- July 17, 17:30-19:30 - opening reception, Hyatt Regency.
- July 18-20 - TUG conference,
Friday–Sunday. The TUG Annual General Meeting will take place
during the conference.
- July 20, afternoon - calligraphy
demo/workshop.
- July 18 & 19, evening - free optional excursions;
see below.
- July 20, evening - banquet.
- July 27 - deadline for final papers for the printed
TUGboat proceedings.
Venue
The conference will be held in the Royal
Ballroom 3&4 of the
Hyatt Regency hotel, Trivandrum (aka Thiruvananthapuram).
The principal airport is Thiruvananthapuram International Airport,
airport code TRV (Terminal 2). Terminal 1 is the domestic
airport; they are about 5 km apart. Details: travel options from/to the airport and local visitor information.
Online participation
This is primarily an in-person conference, but the
talks will be streamed live on the TUG YouTube Channel, at
no charge or required registration. The channel will be monitored during
the conference for questions or comments to relay to the speakers.
Hotel
TUG conference participants can book
online at the Hyatt Regency, Trivandrum. Rooms are available to our
group at a discounted rate for the period of July 14–24, 2025 at
the following pricing:
- USD 92 + taxes for single occupancy
- USD 103 + taxes for double occupancy
The conference program will take place at this hotel. Please do stay
here if at all possible, both for your convenience and to help TUG and
the conference.
Meals
- The opening reception will be at the hotel,
Thursday July 17, 17:30-19:30.
- Breakfast is included with the hotel reservation.
- Lunches and breaks will be provided during the conference,
July 18-20, at no additional charge beyond the registration fee.
- Dinners are not included with the conference registration or hotel
reservation, but are available at the hotel and restaurants nearby. See
the food section on the local information
page for some ideas.
- We'll have a banquet on Sunday evening, approx.
19:00-21:30 in the Royal Ballroom at the Hyatt Regency. There will be
meat, fish, and vegetarian options; other requirements may also be
accommodated, so if in doubt, ask in advance and we will do our best.
The registration form has banquet options.
Evening excursions
Both of these are optional excursions, sponsored by
STM. There is no charge and no pre-registration is necessary.
For both excursions, please be in the Hyatt lobby by 18:45 (6:45pm)
if you'd like to participate.
- Friday: guided night tour of city (until approx. 21.00);
- Saturday: classical concert/dance performance (until approx.
20.30-21.00)
The two events may be interchanged, depending on availability. The
final announcement will be made at the conference.
The conference is sponsored by
the TeX Users Group,
TeXFolio,
DANTE e.V.,
Elsevier,
Google,
Overleaf,
Xerdi,
and many individual donors.
Thanks to all.
Additional sponsors will be greatly
appreciated! Please also mention the conference to colleagues and in any
other contexts.
Poster and drawings
A poster for TUG'25 is available in several sizes:
a3 poster,
a4 poster,
letter-size poster,
mobile phone-size (about
3in x 7.4in).
Please copy and post anywhere appropriate, with our thanks.
Feel free to use the conference drawing above, and many others used on
conference merchandise et al., for anything connected to the conference.
They were made for TUG'25 by noted Indian cartoonist E P Unny.
Thank you Mr. Unny!
- Email: tug2025@tug.org.
- Phone, fax, postal mail: see TUG
office contact information.
- Conference committee:
Radhakrishnan CV,
Rajagopal CV,
Rajeesh K V,
Rishikesan Nair T,
Shanmugham AM,
Sophia Laakso, Karl Berry.
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