Colorful rounded boxes seems to be an important part of most poster presentations. Here are a few examples on how to create boxes with text and math using PGF/TikZ. The easiest solution is to put a minipage environment inside a node.
Edit and compile if you like:
\documentclass{article} \usepackage{tikz} \usetikzlibrary{shapes,snakes} \usepackage{amsmath,amssymb} \begin{document} % Define box and box title style \tikzstyle{mybox} = [draw=red, fill=blue!20, very thick, rectangle, rounded corners, inner sep=10pt, inner ysep=20pt] \tikzstyle{fancytitle} =[fill=red, text=white] \begin{tikzpicture} \node [mybox] (box){% \begin{minipage}{0.50\textwidth} To calculate the horizontal position the kinematic differential equations are needed: \begin{align} \dot{n} &= u\cos\psi -v\sin\psi \\ \dot{e} &= u\sin\psi + v\cos\psi \end{align} For small angles the following approximation can be used: \begin{align} \dot{n} &= u -v\delta_\psi \\ \dot{e} &= u\delta_\psi + v \end{align} \end{minipage} }; \node[fancytitle, right=10pt] at (box.north west) {A fancy title}; \node[fancytitle, rounded corners] at (box.east) {$\clubsuit$}; \end{tikzpicture}% % \tikzstyle{mybox} = [draw=blue, fill=green!20, very thick, rectangle, rounded corners, inner sep=10pt, inner ysep=20pt] \tikzstyle{fancytitle} =[fill=blue, text=white, ellipse] % \begin{tikzpicture}[transform shape, rotate=10, baseline=-3.5cm] \node [mybox] (box) {% \begin{minipage}[t!]{0.5\textwidth} Fermat's Last Theorem states that \[ x^n + y^n = z^n \] has no non-zero integer solutions for $x$, $y$ and $z$ when $n > 2$. \end{minipage} }; \node[fancytitle] at (box.north) {Fermat's Last Theorem}; \end{tikzpicture} % \end{document}
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