%Template for UMass posters, put together by Andrew Weir, playing about with David Vilar's originals. To be used with the `beamerthemeumass.sty' file.
% Put the UMass logo, with the filename `combination2-blk-maroon.eps', in the same directory as the beamerthemeumass.sty file (which should be in one of the bajillion places TeX looks for such files).
% That .sty file is also where you can adjust the spacing/position of the logo, title/author/institute, conference, email address, etc.

\documentclass[final,t]{beamer}

\def\newblock{\hskip .11em plus .33em minus .07em} %for natbib and beamer 

\mode<presentation>{\usetheme{umass}}
  
%The below is for a 36'' by 48'' poster (it works in cm). Play around with scale, in tiny (e.g. 0.005) increments, to shrink/expand everything to get things to fit nicer.

\usepackage[orientation=landscape,size=custom, height=91.44, width=121.92, scale=1]{beamerposter}

%The following code, when uncommented, redefines the references section to have each reference follow directly on from the last (no line breaks) and puts a bullet in between each reference; saves you a lot of space on a poster.
%It should go after you load natbib.

% \usepackage{paralist}
%   \let\olditem\item
% \renewenvironment*{thebibliography}[1]{%
%  \section*{\refname}
%  \let\par\relax\let\newblock\relax
%  \renewcommand{\item}[1][]{\olditem[ \textbullet]}%
%  \inparaenum}{\endinparaenum}

\title{Title} %Goes in big along the top
\author{Author} %Goes in small under the title, followed by a bullet, and then the institute
\institute{University of Massachusetts Amherst}
\date{Conference, Date} %Goes in bottom left

%Your email address goes in the bottom right, but unfortunately you have to put this directly in your copy of beamerthemeumass.sty, where it says YOUR EMAIL HERE. I'm sure there is a cleverer way of doing this but I don't know what it is.

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}{}

%Content begins here.

 \begin{columns}[t] %I have three columns of blocks here, but you can have as many as you like by adding more column environments.
 
  \begin{column}{.30\linewidth} %Play around with this parameter to set the width of the columns, obv.
   
   \begin{block}{First block}

Text goes here. Put in more blocks by using the same syntax.

\end{block}
   
   \end{column}
   
 \begin{column}{.30\linewidth}
 
 


 \end{column}
 
  \begin{column}{.30\linewidth}
 
  
 \end{column}
 
\end{columns}
   
\end{frame}

\end{document}