2026

SMSN Winter Workshop 2026: Quarto workshop

Online, 13:30-15:30 Wednesday 4th March, facilitated by Dr Tom Coleman (University of St Andrews)

Abstract and information:

Quarto is a powerful open-source typesetting language. Including both R and Python functionality, it can be used to write a huge range of outputs including full websites of html pages, interactive Python or R workbooks via Jupyter, dynamic and accessible slides, or even traditional lecture notes.

This hands-on interactive workshop will teach you how to create and build Quarto documents. The workshop will cover: how to build Quarto documents, writing content in Quarto, working with revealjs slides, and authoring longer-form documents such as lecture notes. Templates will be provided for ease of use, given as RStudio projects.

To get the most out of this workshop, which caters for everybody, you will need to be able to run Quarto. You can either do this locally via RStudio on computer, or use Posit Cloud (a free cloud-based service to run RStudio projects). More instructions can be found at https://quarto.org/docs/get-started/hello/rstudio.html (local installation) or https://posit.cloud/ (browser based).

Resources from the workshop: https://tdhc153.github.io/smsn-quarto-workshop/ 

17th Annual Scottish Maths Support Network Meeting 

University of Dundee 19th of June 2026

Our annual meeting was a chance to get together and share good practice, and is also the first time we were able to provide travel funding for PGR students to get involved.

The meeting was subsidised by the Edinburgh Maths Society and The Glasgow Mathematical Journal Trust. 

Programme

• 10:00-10:30 Registration and Coffee

• 10:30-11:00 Shazia Ahmed, Katrina Gardner and Francesco Giglio, University of Glasgow - Developing and piloting a framework for Reflective Writing in the Mathematical Sciences

• 11:00-11:30 John Little, Robert Gordon University - The Mean Teacher

• 11:30-12:00 Laura Forero, University of Aberdeen - Making Quantitative Figures more Accessible with Desmos Templates 

• 12:00-12:30 Roundtable Discussion on Accessibility

• 12:30-13:15 Lunch

• 13:15-13:45 Short talks from PGR Students

• 13:45-14:45 Roundtable Discussion on AI for Maths & Stats Support

• 14:45-15:15 Coffee 

• 15:15-15:45 SMSN AGM