Timeline for How do I prepare a slide talk presentation for conference in mathematics?
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| Apr 9 at 5:19 | comment | added | bubba | There’s a certain type of lying that is very useful, IMO. You make a statement that’s untrue because you’ve simplified it by ignoring special conditions and corner cases. An almost-true statement that’s easy to digest is much more valuable than incomprehensible complete truth. I learned this from one of Knuth’s books, which begins by saying “this book contains lies”. The lies are of the type I described. | |
| May 24, 2022 at 18:27 | comment | added | Flydog57 | Oh, one other thing. If you can anticipate questions (but don't want to spend time on them unless they are asked), prepare slides for them, and put them after a blank ending slide. That way, you can say "Oh, I thought someone might ask that" and pop up the optional slide | |
| May 24, 2022 at 18:25 | comment | added | Flydog57 | These are great points, particularly about telling a story and what you say is way more important than what's on your slides. The slides should act as an outline for your talk, mostly the high points (the points you want to make). You should be able to do your talk without ever looking at your slides. Anecdote: once someone switched the order of two of my slides before a talk. I never noticed until I got "hey what are you talking about" comments from the audience. It completely threw off the story. | |
| May 24, 2022 at 18:01 | comment | added | Oбжорoв | @GregMartin I would strongly advice not to lie about anything during your talk. It can discredit all the rest you say. | |
| May 24, 2022 at 17:59 | comment | added | Oбжорoв | @MAS i Find it better to address a question immediately, but don’t it distract your talk. So give a fairly short answer. If the answer is rather long, you can always suggest to meet during a break. If you get too many questions, then you can relegate them to then end of the talk. | |
| May 24, 2022 at 15:50 | comment | added | learner |
I have a question at your 9th advice. You said leave a bit of time for q&a and answers questions directly, don't wait until the end. Do you mean to do it at the end of my talk or at the middle of my talk as well ?
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| May 24, 2022 at 7:22 | comment | added | Greg Martin | Great advice. I can't emphasize enough the point that the speaker is telling a story. Whatever it takes to get the audience to understand the story (including lying about irrelevant mathematical points!) is what should be in the slides. We want the audience to leave the room able to tell their friend who missed the talk what the speaker's story was. | |
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| S May 23, 2022 at 16:22 | history | answered | Oбжорoв | CC BY-SA 4.0 |