Back to all templates

University of Wisconsin—Madison Dissertation Template (new)

Open as TemplateVisa PDF

Författare:

William Benton, modified by Guanzhou Hu

Last Updated:

för 2 dagar sedan

Licens:

Other (as stated in the work)

Sammanfattning:

This is a dissertation template for the University of Wisconsin-Madison which builds on the memoir class. It follows this official formatting guideline by the UW-Madison graduate school: https://grad.wisc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/329/2023/04/Formatting-Requirements-for-your-Doctoral-Dissertation.pdf

This template is modified from the original awesome template by Will Benton, improving the font, modernizing the styling within limits, and adding helper macros.

Source: https://github.com/WiscADSL/Wisc-Dissertation

Source of the base template: https://github.com/willb/wi-thesis-template

Tags:

University Theses

University of Wisconsin—Madison Dissertation Template (new)

\begin{now}

Discover why over 20 million people worldwide trust Overleaf with their work.

Sign up for free Explore all plans

%!TEX TS-program = pdflatex
%
% This is an improved dissertation template that satisfies the formatting requirements
% by the Computer Sciences department and the graduate school at UW--Madison.
%
% Composed and improved by Guanzhou Hu <guanzhou.jose.hu@gmail.com> in 2025, based
% this original template by Benton:  https://github.com/willb/wi-thesis-template
%
% Link to this improved template:  https://github.com/WiscADSL/Wisc-Dissertation
% See here for an end result:  https://www.josehu.com/assets/file/Dissertation.pdf
%
% Below is the original copyright header by William Benton:
%
% Wisconsin dissertation template
% Copyright (c) 2008-2009 William C. Benton.  All rights reserved.
%
% This program can be redistributed and/or modified under the terms of the LaTeX Project
% Public License Distributed from CTAN archives in directory macros/latex/base/lppl.txt;
% either version 1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
%
% This program includes other software that is licensed under the terms of the LPPL and
% the Perl Artistic License; see README for details.
%
% You, the user, still hold the copyright to any document you produce with this software
% (like your dissertation).
%

\documentclass[12pt,oneside,letterpaper]{memoir}

\setlrmarginsandblock{1.2in}{1.2in}{*}   % left/right
\setulmarginsandblock{1.4in}{1.4in}{*}   % upper/lower
\checkandfixthelayout                % calculates the typeblock

\setsecnumdepth{subsubsection}  % otherwise subsecs & subsubsecs won't have preceding numbers
\maxtocdepth{subsection}        % otherwise subsecs won't appear in ToC

\input{defs/preamble}       % all preambles go here
\input{defs/thesisdefs}     % all definitions related to thesis formatting components
\input{defs/customdefs}     % all your custom definitions such as system names

\clearpage\pagenumbering{roman}     % roman page numbering until the first main chapter

%% Title page elements definitions -- CHANGE TO YOURS:
\title{My Awesome Dissertation Research Title}
\author{Bucky B. Badger}
\department{Computer Sciences}
\date{2025}
\defensedate{June 30th, 2025}
\committee{
    Jane Doe, Professor, Computer Sciences\\
    John Doe, Professor, Computer Sciences\\
    Mike Ma, Professor, Computer Sciences\\
    Luke Day, Assistant Professor, Computer Sciences\\
    Mark Lee, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
}

\begin{document}

%% Uncomment the following if your .bib contains references that you will not 
%% explicitly cite, but that should be in the final bibliography:
% \nocite{*}

\ifpdf
\DeclareGraphicsExtensions{.pdf, .jpg, .tif}
\else
\DeclareGraphicsExtensions{.eps, .jpg}
\fi

\maketitle

%% Dedication, Acknowledgments, Abstract, etc.:
\input{0-frontmatter/frontmatter}

%% Your main chapters, organized nicely:
\input{1-introduction/introduction}
\input{2-background/background}
\input{3-research-one/research-one}
\input{4-research-two/research-two}
\input{5-research-three/research-three}
\input{6-related-work/related-work}
\input{7-conclusion/conclusion}

%% Comment out if you don't need any appendix:
\begin{appendices}
\input{99-appendix/appendix}
\end{appendices}

%% Bibliography:
\bibliographystyle{plain}
\bibliography{references}

\end{document}