Dated: 22nd Feb to 26th, 2021:LISA LCWU, since its establishment, conducted numerous national and International level virtual workshops, for the faculty and young researchers. In continuation, one week workshop on softwares ‘LaTex’ and ‘EndNote’, dated 22nd Feb to 26th, 2021, had been arranged.The workshops was exclusively designed for the researchers, who wish to document the research article or thesis professionally without hassle of formatting, from Feb 22nd to Feb 26th, 2021. Large number of Faculty and research students attended the workshop. The first event was comprised of four days’ workshop entitled: LATEX, A Useful Tool For Thesis And Research Paper Writing, dated Feb 22nd to Feb25th 2021. LaTeX is the requirement of many journals for publishing the research article. The Objective of the Latex Workshop was to gain the knowledge about documentation on open source tool and developed a basic understanding of Latex. Ms. Naz Saud, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics was the resource person and Ms. Aqsa Rafique, Research student, assisted the event. Participants experienced a special hands on practice learning session through which they got a better understanding of Latex tool and applications for it.
Another one day event conducted by the Department entitled: Organize your Research with EndNote, was held on Feb 26th 2021. EndNote software helps the researchers to save time by downloading, storing and managing references. Ms. Abira Shakeel (Research student), Instructor of the training workshop, guided the participants to use software for managing their research work in an efficient way .
In closing ceremony, Dr. Asifa Kamal, Chairperson and Coordinator, LISA-LCWU, explained the role of LISA 2020 “statslabs”. She emphasized the importance of trainings in building statistical analysis capacity. She presented a vote of thanks to the resource persons and participants for their cooperation and to LISA-LCWU for organizing a successful event.
At the end of the event, the participants were awarded the certificates.