Each person’s page corresponds to a single file in the _departmentpeople/ folder called [UVA_COMPUTING_ID].md (all these files are here on GitHub). This naming is for the purposes of consistency with links in the old website. This file corresponds to the page https://math.virginia.edu/people/[UVA_COMPUTING_ID]/. The people listings such as https://math.virginia.edu/faculty/ and listings by research areas are generated automatically.
Note. The subfolders in _departmentpeople/ are purely for convenience - they do not affect anything in the actual website.
Here’s an example of such a file for a particular faculty member. The page itself is at https://math.virginia.edu/people/aso9t/.
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---
UVA_id: aso9t
lastname: Obus
name: Andrew
general_position: faculty
position: Assistant Professor
office: 208 Kerchof Hall
phone: 434-924-4930
email: obus@virginia.edu
image: __SITE_URL__/img/people/Obus.jpg
personal_page: http://people.virginia.edu/~aso9t/
areas:
- Algebra, Arithmetic Geometry/Number Theory, Representation Theory
- Geometry, Topology
grad_general_areas:
- algebra
grad_special_areas:
- algebraic_geometry
---
##### Selected Publications
- Cyclic extensions and the local lifting problem (with S. Wewers), Ann. of Math. **180**, No. 1 (2014), 233--284.
- Fields of moduli of three-point $G$-covers with cyclic $p$-Sylow, I, Algebra Number Theory **6**, No. 5 (2012), 833--883.
Having all data on people in one place allows to quickly reference them by
UVA computing ID. For example, the code
{% include person_info.html UVA_id="aso9t" %}
produces the following nice listing of information about a
faculty member with computing ID aso9t:
This is powered by this include file on GitHub, and one can create similar files to get, for example, reference without office number. All links are also taken from the person’s data and are handled correctly in case, say, personal page or phone is missing:
If there is no such computing ID (e.g. if a person left), then one space is displayed: . (Code: {% include person_info.html UVA_id="no_such_id" %})
The first 15 lines in this file are for configuration, separated by two ---. The lines after line 15 (after the second ---) can be any content the person would like on their page, such as
The syntax is markdown. Math formulas are also supported. As usual, plain HTML is supported inside markdown.
Most configuration fields are self-evident, except the following:
general_position
This field is used to put the person in a correct listing such as https://math.virginia.edu/postdocs/ or https://math.virginia.edu/gradstudents/. Possible values are:
emeritusfaculty (tenure-track or tenured)gradstudentlecturerpostdocstaffThis field is also used in automatically counting the number of faculty/postdocs/etc on pages like about.
The exact title of the position is under position: configuration field, as in position: Assistant Professor.
image
Put the image file (jpg or png, any size/dimensions, but square and up to 600x600 preferred) into the folder /img/people/ in the source code, and link it in a configuration field like image: __SITE_URL__/img/people/Obus.jpg.
Important! keep the __SITE_URL__ prefix as is, this is needed for correct automatic generation of the website.
office_hours
If you’d like, you can add office hours to be displayed on the website. They will be shown in the list of people and on the person’s page at the department website. However, this information should be kept up to date, and so office hours should probably not be added for all facutly.
areas
This is a field which determines how people are displayed by research area in the general lists of the people in the department (for example, here). See below for details.
grad_general_areas and grad_special_areas
These fields determine only where the person is displayed in the graduate research areas information page.
To add a person, make a new file and fill all the fields in. The person’s page will appear on the website on correct pages.
To remove a person, either delete the file, or remove it from the building of the website by adding published: false, say, before the areas: line.
published: false appears to be broken in a new version of Jekyll,
so please manually move the source files to a special folder /_UNPUBLISHED/ in the source
The listings of people by research area such as https://math.virginia.edu/research/analysis/ are generated automatically. To ensure correct generation of the website, one needs to add the exact research areas to each person’s configuration, as in the example above:
areas:
- Algebra, Arithmetic Geometry/Number Theory, Representation Theory
- Geometry, TopologyPossible values for research areas are quite broad and include the cup signs \(\cup\) to indicate this. Here are the possible values for research areas one can put into a person’s .md page:
Algebra, Arithmetic Geometry/Number Theory, Representation TheoryGeometry, TopologyAnalysis, PDE, Operator AlgebrasProbability, CombinatoricsMathematical Physics, Applied MathematicsHistory of MathematicsThe list of these values is in the file _data/research_areas.yml (GitHub link), here is an example of one entry (the dash in the first line and indentation are important):
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name: Analysis, PDE, Operator Algebras
h-name: Analysis ∪ PDE ∪ Operator Algebras
shortname: analysisFor correct display of research areas, three conditions must be met:
_data/research_areas.yml as aboveshortname must be manually created. These files are in people/research/ folder, see an example file on GitHub.name field.