Enabling Research & Collaboration

9th August 2016

| Katy Alexander

Mary Anne Baynes, Overleaf CMO, will be hosting Overleaf’s 1st webinar of the year, ‘Enabling Research & Collaboration at Institutions.’

The webinar will take place on Wednesday, Sept 7 – 10:00am – 11:00am Aus EST/ 1am BST.

Join our portfolio company, Overleaf, for a free webinar to learn more about enabling research and collaboration at institutions. Guest speakers from Stanford University and the University of Canterbury will discuss their experience and insight on 21st century authoring at their institutions. You will hear how Stanford University is facilitating collaboration with new tools and author services, such as Overleaf. You will also hear how faculty at the University of Canterbury are using tools, such as Overleaf, in their everyday research and teaching.

Overleaf is a free online collaborative writing tool that is being used by over 400,000 students and researchers in the preparation of their research papers, theses, dissertations, journal articles and more.

You’ll hear about:

Growth of Collaboration & Cloud-based Author Services
Facilitating Collaboration at Stanford University
Using Overleaf for Collaboration, Dissertations, Grants, & Teaching

Thought leaders at top institutions will speak, including:

Helen Josephine, Head of the Terman Engineering Library, Stanford University
Arindam (Arin) Basu, Overleaf Advisor & Senior Lecturer at University of Canterbury
John Hammersley, Overleaf Co-Founder & CEO

Speakers

Host: Mary Anne Baynes, Overleaf CMO

A champion for innovation in the scientific and publishing communities through amazing new technologies. Mary currently oversees marketing, sales, advertising and public relations for Overleaf.

Helen Josephine, Head of the Terman Engineering Library – Stanford University

Helen is the Head of the Engineering Library and Library Liaison to the Aeronautics and Astronautics Dept, the Electrical Engineering Dept and the Management Science and Engineering Department. She has more than 30 years of experience in library and information services for academic and corporate information centres.

Arindam (Arin) Basu, Overleaf Advisor & Senior Lecturer at University of Canterbury

Arindam is a medical doctor and an epidemiologist-health services researcher. In addition to teaching courses on research methods, he works as a senior researcher at the Health Services Assessment Collaboration (HSAC) at the University of Canterbury at Christchurch, New Zealand. Before joining Canterbury, he was working as the Associate Director of the Fogarty International Training Program in Environmental and Occupational Health at Kolkata, India.

John Hammersley, Overleaf Co-Founder & CEO

Mathematician; physicist; dancer. Co-founder of Overleaf and previously on the leadership team at Ultra PRT. Passionate about science and making a difference in the world.

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