Poster template for the University of Vienna based on the baposter package.
\documentclass[a0paper,portrait]{baposter}
\usepackage{lipsum} % This is just for some blindtext
\usepackage{relsize} % For \smaller
\usepackage{url} % For \url
\usepackage{epstopdf} % Included EPS files automatically converted to PDF to include with pdflatex
\usepackage{multicol} % Multi Columns
\usepackage{amsmath,amssymb} % math
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%%% Utility functions %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
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%%% Save space in lists. Use this after the opening of the list %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\renewcommand{\vec}[1]{\bm{#1}}
\newcommand{\vnabla}{\vec{\nabla}}
\renewcommand{\d}[1]{\text{d} #1}
\newcommand{\dxx}{\,\text{d}\vec{x}}
\newcommand{\dx}{\,\text{d}x}
\newcommand{\diff}[2]{\frac{\text{d}#1}{\text{d}#2}}
\newcommand{\idiff}[2]{\text{d}#1 / \text{d}#2}
\newcommand{\pdiff}[2]{\frac{\partial #1}{\partial #2}}
\newcommand{\pdifff}[2]{\frac{\partial^2 #1}{\partial #2^2}}
\newcommand{\ipdiff}[2]{\partial #1 / \partial #2}
\newcommand{\vdiff}[2]{\frac{\delta #1}{\delta #2}}
\newcommand{\ivdiff}[2]{\delta #1 / \delta #2}
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%%% Document Start %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
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\begin{document}
\typeout{Poster rendering started}
%%% General Poster Settings %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%%%%%% Eye Catcher, Title, Authors and University Images %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\begin{poster}{
columns=2,
grid=false,
borderColor=uniblue,
headerColorOne=uniblue,
headerColorTwo=uniblue,
headerFontColor=white,
headerheight=14em,
boxColorOne=white,
boxpadding=1em,
headershape=rounded,
headerfont=\Large\textsf,
textborder=rounded,
background=shadetb,
bgColorOne=uniblue!10,
bgColorTwo=uniblue!30,
headerborder=open,
boxshade=plain,
eyecatcher=false
}
%%% Eye Cacther %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
{
}
%%% Title %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
{\smaller This title is quite long as you can see\\it spans two lines}
%%% Authors %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
{
\vspace{1em}
Max Mustermann*, Sabine Musterfrau\\
{\smaller *max.mustermann@univie.ac.at}
}
%%% Logo %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
{\begin{minipage}{20.0em}
\includegraphics[height=5em]{logo-uni}
\end{minipage}
}
%%% Abstract %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\headerbox{Abstract}{name=abstract,column=0,row=0,span=2}{
\begin{multicols}{2}
\lipsum[2-4]
\end{multicols}
}
%%% Box 1 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\headerbox{Some Box}{name=box1,column=0,below=abstract,above=bottom}{
% two columns, see: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/112983/beamer-columns-environment-in-article-document
\begin{columns}
\column{0.5\textwidth}
\lipsum[1-1]
\column{0.5\textwidth}
\begin{itemize}
\item one
\item two
\item three
\item four
\end{itemize}
\end{columns}%
\hhrule
\lipsum[1-1]
}
%%% Box 2 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\headerbox{Some Box}{name=box2,column=1,below=abstract,above=bottom}{
\begin{equation*}
\int \vec{a} \cdot \vec{b} \dxx
\end{equation*}
\hhrule
\lipsum[1-1]
}
\end{poster}
\end{document}