How to post a blog

Steps:

1. create a file in the folder _posts
2. the file name should of the form 2017-12-20-start.md
3. the file starts with
   

---
layout:     post
title:      TITLE
date:       2017-12-20 (the date you want to document to be posted)
summary:    One sentence summary
author:     Maryam Fazel
image:      images/NSF.gif
image_url:  https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.01085
categories: blog
---
your content

Note that image_url is the url when you click the image. Both image and image_url are optional.

How to post a blog

Use the following header instead

---
layout:     post
title:      TITLE
date:       2017-12-20 (the date you want to document to be posted)
summary:    One sentence summary
author:     Maryam Fazel
image:      images/NSF.gif
image_url:  https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.01085
categories: news
---
your content

How to write the content

Please see the instruction here. For latex, Inline mode:

Someone really likes $$E=mc^2$$

Display mode:

$$
x^2
$$

Note that the display mode requires one empty line before and after. (Otherwise, there is some conflict with markdown syntax such as the underscore will be interpreted as emphasis.

How to add a new member

1. add an entry in _data\people.yml

    - first_name: Dmitriy
      last_name: Drusvyatskiy
      pic: FILENAME
      interest: Convex Optimization
      url: http://sites.math.washington.edu/~ddrusv/

2. check the update using http://yaml-online-parser.appspot.com/
3. add an image in members\FILENAME

How to add a new publication

Add an entry in _data\publications.yml

    - author: Sebastien Bubeck, Michael B. Cohen, James R. Lee, Yin Tat Lee, Aleksander Madry
      title: k-server via multiscale entropic regularization
      journal: arXiv abs/1711.01085
      url: http://arxiv.org/abs/1711.01085
      blog: ./2017/12/20/kserver
      highlight: A breakthough in the k-server problem. The first o(k)-competitive algorithm for hierarchically separated trees.
      code: https://github.com/