Quantlab is a Jekyll-based GitHub Pages template for the University of Michigan Quantitative Finance and Risk Management workshop home page, built to publish academic workshop logistics such as meeting times and locations.
What is Quantlab?
Quantlab is a Jekyll static site template used to build the website for the University of Michigan Quantitative Finance and Risk Management workshops. The repository, israeldi/friday-workshop, provides a minimal home page that takes workshop information—such as the Winter 2019 schedule and room assignments—and renders it as a static site on GitHub Pages. The template is maintained by an academic developer and is hosted under the GitHub account israeldi, with build monitoring via Travis CI. It is designed specifically for a university workshop context rather than as a general-purpose theme.
Key Features
- Jekyll theme — Built on the Jekyll static site generator, so content is written in Markdown and compiled to plain HTML with no runtime database.
- GitHub Pages ready — Configured to deploy automatically via GitHub Pages, giving free hosting under a github.io URL.
- Build status badge — Includes a Travis CI badge in the README (linking to israeldi/quantlab) that displays the current build status of the site.
- Academic event layout — The home page displays a "Workshop Home Page" heading with a dedicated section for meeting logistics, e.g., "Fridays, 10-11:20am in 110 Weiser Hall" for Winter 2019.
- Static site output — Produces fully static HTML/CSS that loads fast and requires no server-side application to serve.
Who is it for?
- University event organizers — use the template to publish weekly workshop times and locations for a quantitative finance program.
- Course instructors — maintain a single home page for a seminar series, updating text directly in the repository.
- Quantitative finance students — consult the generated site to find when and where the UM Quant Lab meetings are held.
What can you do with Quantlab?
- Publish a semester schedule — list workshop dates and times so attendees can plan around the 10-11:20am Friday sessions.
- Announce meeting locations — update the room number (110 Weiser Hall) in the site's content files and redeploy.
- Provide a course hub — use the page as a starting point for linking to lecture notes, readings, or related workshop materials.
