samcaf.github.io

Personal website for Samuel Alipour-fard — a modern, dependency-free static site (hand-written HTML/CSS/JS, no build step).

Structure

index.html          Showcase homepage (hero · featured work · about · publications · skills · contact)
projects.html       Project gallery with filters, plus a Notes section (physics PDFs)
publications.html   Publications, thesis, talks, honors, service
styles/main.css     Design system (dark + light themes, physics accent)
scripts/main.js     Theme toggle, nav, scroll reveals, project filters
assets/media/       Video (RENC intro)
assets/projects/    Project screenshots / figures
images/             Brand mark + favicon
pdfs/               CV and note PDFs

Local preview

No tooling required — just serve the folder:

python3 -m http.server 8000
# then open http://localhost:8000

Deploying to GitHub Pages

This site is designed to live at https://samcaf.github.io. To publish:

1. Copy these files into your samcaf/samcaf.github.io repository (replacing the old site), or push this folder there as the repo root.
2. Commit and push to the main (or master) branch.
3. In the repo settings → Pages, make sure the source is that branch, root folder.

The .nojekyll file tells GitHub Pages to serve the files as-is.

Things you may want to update

• pdfs/cv.pdf — this is now a freshly compiled, no-Profile build of your CV. It's generated from your LaTeX source at ~/Documents/cv/ via a new web target: resume-web.tex (sets \def\apptarget{web}) plus a one-line guard added to cv/summary.tex that omits the Profile section for that target. To refresh it: cd ~/Documents/cv && xelatex resume-web.tex (twice), then copy resume-web.pdf to pdfs/cv.pdf. Existing CV targets (oratomic/qec/finance/…) are unaffected.
• Private repos — four repos you link work were private, so their links were removed to avoid 404s: Energy-Weighted-Observable-Correlators (kept as a featured project + figures, but delinked), Edu-QoL (card removed), and Paper-Template / Notes-Template (links removed). If you make any public on GitHub, tell me and I'll re-add the links.
• Hero interests / tagline — in index.html, the .hero-lead paragraph and the .tag-strip chips ("Physics · Scientific Programming · AI & Machine Learning · Travel").
• Featured projects — the three <article class="feature"> blocks in index.html.
• Stats row — the four .stat blocks under the hero.
• Colors/fonts live at the top of styles/main.css (the :root and html[data-theme="light"] token blocks).