The title page

Prosper provides an easy way to make a title page for a slide presentation. The file titlepage.tex, shows how.

% titlepage.tex
\documentclass[pdf,autumn,slideColor,colorBG]{prosper}
\title{Traveling Waves in Layered Combustible Media}
\subtitle{Homogenization and phase-space analysis}
\author{Rouben Rostamian}
\email{rostamian@umbc.edu}
\institution{
        Department of Mathematics \& Statistics \\
        University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) \\
        Baltimore, MD~21250, USA
}

% Optional: text to put in the bottom of each slide.
% By default, the title of the talk will be placed there.
%\slideCaption{\textit{Rouben Rostamian, UMBC}}

\begin{document}

% make the title slide
\maketitle

% % make the rest of the slides as usual:
% \begin{slide}{The first slide}
% Body of the first slide
% \end{slide}

\end{document}

Here is the result:

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