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+$pdflatex="pdflatex -interaction=nonstopmode %O %S";
+$out_dir = 'build';
diff --git a/latex/presentations/midterm/build.sh b/latex/presentations/midterm/build.sh
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+mkdir -p build/build
+latexmk -pdf
diff --git a/latex/presentations/midterm/presentation.tex b/latex/presentations/midterm/presentation.tex
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+\documentclass[10pt, aspectratio=169]{beamer}
+
+\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
+\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
+% \usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
+%\usepackage{amsmath}
+\usepackage{float}
+\usepackage{tikz}
+\usepackage{pgfplots}
+\pgfplotsset{compat=newest}
+\usepackage{subcaption}
+\usepackage{listings}
+\usepackage{graphicx}
+\usepackage{xcolor}
+\usepgfplotslibrary{colorbrewer}
+
+\setlength {\marginparwidth }{2cm}
+
+\newcommand{\templates}{../lib}
+
+% packages to be included
+\input{\templates/packages.tex}
+\presetkeys{todonotes}{inline}{}
+
+% modifications to stick to new KIT style
+\input{\templates/modifications.tex}
+
+% marcos used throughout the slides
+\input{\templates/makros_own.tex}
+
+
+\title{Application of Optimization Algorithms for Channel Decoding}
+\subtitle{\small Midterm Presentation}
+%\author{Andreas Tsouchlos}
+\author{\vspace{1.5mm} Andreas Tsouchlos}
+
+\institute{Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), \\ Communications Engineering Lab (CEL) }
+
+
+\AtBeginSection[]
+{
+  \begin{frame}[t]
+		   \frametitle{\ifthenelse{\boolean{EnglishLanguage}}{Overview}{Übersicht}}
+	   \tableofcontents[sectionstyle=show/shaded, subsectionstyle=show/show/shaded,subsubsectionstyle=hide]
+  \end{frame}
+}
+\AtBeginSubsubsection[]{}
+\AtBeginSubsection[]{}
+
+\pgfplotsset{
+    discard if/.style 2 args={
+        x filter/.code={
+            \edef\tempa{\thisrow{#1}}
+            \edef\tempb{#2}
+            \ifx\tempa\tempb
+                \def\pgfmathresult{inf}
+            \fi
+        }
+    },
+    discard if not/.style 2 args={
+        x filter/.code={
+            \edef\tempa{\thisrow{#1}}
+            \edef\tempb{#2}
+            \ifx\tempa\tempb
+            \else
+                \def\pgfmathresult{inf}
+            \fi
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+
+\begin{document}
+
+    \newboolean{EnglishLanguage}
+    \setboolean{EnglishLanguage}{True}
+
+    \begin{frame}[plain]
+        \maketitle
+    \end{frame}
+
+    \setnextsection{0}
+    \input{sections/theoretical_background.tex}
+    \input{sections/decoding_algorithms.tex}
+    \input{sections/examination_results.tex}
+    \input{sections/forthcoming_examination.tex}
+    
+\end{document}
diff --git a/latex/presentations/midterm/sections/decoding_algorithms.tex b/latex/presentations/midterm/sections/decoding_algorithms.tex
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+\section{Decoding Algorithms}%
+\label{sec:Decoding Algorithms}
+
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+\subsection{Proximal Decoding}%
+\label{sub:Alg Proximal Decoding}
+
+\begin{frame}[t]
+    \frametitle{Proximal Decoding: General Idea}
+    \todo{Settle on a convetion for titles: Use overview slides subtitles or something else?}
+
+    \todo{TODO}
+\end{frame}
+
+\begin{frame}[t]
+    \frametitle{Algorithm}
+
+    \todo{TODO}
+\end{frame}
+
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+\subsection{ADMM}%
+\label{sub:Alg ADMM}
+
+\begin{frame}[t]
+    \frametitle{General Idea}
+
+    \todo{TODO}
+\end{frame}
+
+\begin{frame}[t]
+    \frametitle{Algorithm}
+
+    \todo{TODO}
+\end{frame}
+
diff --git a/latex/presentations/midterm/sections/examination_results.tex b/latex/presentations/midterm/sections/examination_results.tex
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+\section{Examination Results}%
+\label{sec:Examination Results}
+
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+\subsection{Proximal Decoder}%
+\label{sub:Ex Proximal Decoder}
+
+\begin{frame}[t]
+    \frametitle{Proximal Decoder}
+
+    \todo{TODO}
+\end{frame}
+
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+\subsection{ADMM}%
+\label{sub:Ex ADMM}
+
+\begin{frame}[t]
+    \frametitle{ADMM}
+
+    \todo{TODO}
+\end{frame}
+
diff --git a/latex/presentations/midterm/sections/forthcoming_examination.tex b/latex/presentations/midterm/sections/forthcoming_examination.tex
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+\section{Forthcoming Examination}%
+\label{sec:Forthcoming Examination}
+
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+\subsection{TODO}%
+\label{sub:TODO}
+
+\begin{frame}[t]
+    \frametitle{TODO}
+
+    \todo{TODO}
+\end{frame}
+
diff --git a/latex/presentations/midterm/sections/theoretical_background.tex b/latex/presentations/midterm/sections/theoretical_background.tex
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+\section{Theoretical Background}%
+\label{sec:Theoretical Background}
+
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+\subsection{Motivation}%
+\label{sub:Motivation}
+
+\begin{frame}[t]
+    \frametitle{Motivation}
+
+    \todo{TODO}
+\end{frame}
+
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+\subsection{Presumptions}%
+\label{sub:Presumptions}
+
+\begin{frame}[t]
+    \frametitle{Channel \& Modulation}
+
+    \todo{AWGN}
+    \todo{BPSK}
+\end{frame}
+
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+\subsection{LP Decoding}%
+\label{sub:LP Decoding}
+
+\begin{frame}[t]
+    \frametitle{LP Decoding}
+
+    \todo{TODO}
+\end{frame}
+