Put the title of your PhD project in between these brackets
Supervisors: Maarten H. P. Ambaum, Jule G. Charney
Type the text of your proposal as simple ASCII here. To those who have not used LATEX before, I can
only say that it is time for repentance. It should all be pretty self-explanatory. LATEX commands start
with a backslash. You can use these to get non-ASCII characters: do you write “Vaisala” or “Väisälä”?
And you can include comments that will not show up in your final document by preceding them with a
To start a new paragraph simply leave a blank line (or more). The LATEX typesetter does not care how
many spaces you put between words. You can, of course, include equations: come and ask me if you
do not know how to do this. Next I will show how I would like you to include a figure in your page.
This figure is copied from the 1979 Charney and DeVore paper. I will not put a big caption here. If you do not
want a figure caption just get rid of this minipage stuff.
You can only include pdf figures or png figures (colour allowed!) Put them in the same directory as this
LATEX file. You can include as many as you want. Just repeat the block above. The number after the
scalebox command does what you think it should do: it scales your graphics. Repeat the includegraphics
command if you want to have several figures on one line. If you want to put a url in your text use the
backslash-url command: this website http://www.met.rdg.ac.uk/phd is now nicely printed
as a proper url.
And . . . for the LATEX buffs out there: could you please refrain from changing the page layout. Otherwise
this is not much of a template.
To get a nice pdf version you have to run “pdflatex filename.tex” at the prompt of your terminal or you
send the tex file and figures to me. Please check whether it all fits on one page.
Student profile:
Put your required student profile here; something like: This project is particularly suited for a student
with a degree in media studies.
If you do not have any particular requests I suggest you use the following phrase: This project would be
suitable for students with a degree in mathematics, physics or a closely related physical or environmental
science.
Funding particulars:
Remove this if you have nothing to say in particular. You could say here whether this is a CASE award
or whether it is for students of a particular nationality only.
http://www.met.rdg.ac.uk/phd