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Hi again,

I've gotten quite a bit further on this, but it still doesn't work. Below is a MWE.

I am now trying to modify the code for \defbeamertemplate in beamerouterthemesidebar.sty, which I've included in the preamble of my document between \makeatletter and \makeatother using ...

The way I do this is to add them into one of the existing fields, e.g.
\author{M.Y. Self\\[2\baselineskip]
Supervisors: So and So}

You'll have to fiddle with spacing to get what you want.

As for positioning, you could specify the layout of the titlepage by hand, adjusting spacing as you see fit ...

Hi,

I am preparing a lecture with beamer, using the suggestion in the docs to use one file with lectures separated by \lecture{}. I would like the lecture title (instead of the course title) to appear in the sidebar.

In beamerbasesection.sty, I found the following line for parts:
\addtocontents ...