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-# pyked-ncm-2017
-2017 National Combustion Meeting Paper for PyKED
+# 2017 US National Combustion Meeting LaTeX Template
+
+This repository contains the (unofficial) LaTeX template for the
+United States Sections of the Combustion Institute. It has been
+tested with TeXLive 2015 and is expected to work with any newer
+versions of TeXLive and MikTeX. The template uses the following
+packages that must be installed with their dependencies:
+
+* biblatex
+* biber
+* calc
+* fontenc
+* inputenc
+* mathptmx
+* titlesec
+* authblk
+* hyperref
+* geometry
+* fancyhdr
+
+The source for this template can be found online at
+https://github.com/pr-omethe-us/ussci-latex-template
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.