Questions tagged [presentation]
Oral presentations: preparation of slides, preparation of the talk, delivery…
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Introduction slide of myself on first slide (after title page) in faculty job seminar [closed]
I have a faculty job seminar coming up in a few weeks. Since this seminar will be attended by most faculty members in the department, I am wondering if it would be good to start the first slide (after ...
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What affiliation(s) to list in an oral presentation at a conference?
I'm a doctoral candidate at a big university and am teaching as an adjunct at a smaller university. I'll be graduating with my PhD in a few months and I'm hoping to get a tenure-track job at the ...
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Is it better to lecture with a board or a document camera?
I will be teaching my first class this fall. The course will be an undergraduate engineering course, so there will be some derivations and other math.
I am trying to decide if I should present with a ...
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How to structure presentation to avoid getting questions that will be answered later in the presentation?
In the past when I've given presentations at my lab and conferences, I've not had to deal with this problem. But at my new institution I'm constantly dealing with the following phenomena.
I'm ...
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How do you convey your idea when you can't convey your idea? [closed]
I am PhD student works in a computer science. I have given lots of presentations in the institute level and one or two at the conference level. I have been told by my fellow researchers that they did ...
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How to prepare a ten-minute presentation for a PhD interview?
I've got an interview for a Ph.D. position and I need to give a ten-minute presentation for my recent research. I have completed two projects and right now I am doing another research which has a ...
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How should I reference my own previous work in a talk to a general audience?
I have to give a presentation to a general scientific audience (specifically, an interview talk). As part of the presentation I would like to highlight some of my previous work.
I work in ...
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Citing own results which were obtained under former name
I'm giving a talk about results I obtained in my MSc thesis, some time after which I changed my last name. The result will be published under my former name. How should I state it during the talk? I ...
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Tips for managing a panel at a conference
My advisor invited me to host a panel at a conference next week because she is on vacation and of course I said yes right away without thinking.
But now I realize I should asked more questions, ...
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How to convey your full length paper in conference through slides?
I am a PhD student works in computer algebra(Theoretical computer science). I have published one research paper recently, I am currently making slides for the paper. It is my first time and believe me ...
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Dealing with misconceptions when proposing a new idea as an outsider to a field [duplicate]
I have some ideas related to computer architecture/electrical engineering on which I would like to get feedback from academics.
A professor at a university I visited has the belief that something I ...
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Struggling to present results from long papers in short time slots
Most of my work thus far comprises two rather long and detailed papers that rely on a common underlying framework. (I know this is not great for a young academic, but it is what it is right now.) ...
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Ethics behind communicating research after end of project and unemployment
So I have joined my first job in research as a research assistant on an industry-academia collaboration and I am supervised by some professors and a representative from industry is managing the ...
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Preparing a very short presentation for a PhD interview [closed]
I have an interview for a PhD position for which I have to create a presentation. They say:
In this first stage interview you will be asked to give a four minute presentation on a project you have ...
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Asking to present paper as first author, when the second author's travel has already been booked
I recently published a paper at a technical conference in computer science as the culmination of my bachelor thesis. I'm the first author for it, and my 2 supervisors are the other co-authors.
I ...
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Should I give a talk about an insignificant result?
I wrote a paper with some coauthors who are more senior than me (I am a grad student) and it got published although not in a top journal. I thought I understood it and followed the proof line by line ...
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can a poster paper and poster presentation have different title?
I have submitted a poster paper for publication. Now its time to present the poster presentation at the conference.
I am presenting my key idea and results after my work rather than the actual results ...
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Abstract in poster presentation
There are a few formats for a poster presentation. IEEE provided a sample which has Abstract as a heading.
My question is,
Abstract of the poster presentation is same as Abstract written in
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Tips to organize LaTeX presentations for a semester
I am giving my first course this fall and, as a LaTeX enthusiast, plan to prepare my slides in LaTeX for all the usual reasons.
For those of you who also do this, I wonder what resources you use to ...
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Discrediting young academic in a conference
I'm an early-career scientist and I attended a conference 2 years ago organised by a local university. I presented the results of one of my first funded research projects and I included my assistants ...
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How to make a great faculty interview presentation? [closed]
I have a faculty job interview coming up in a few months.
I am trying to prepare the presentation that includes my past (PhD and postdoc) research and future research. I am looking for some sample ...
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I am taking a Bachelors in Information Technology, but I have a massive fear of public speaking
So I am attending a polytechnic(Tech school), getting a Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, I am wondering if I am expected to do presentations/speeches and if so, am I able to somehow not do ...
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Former collaborator presenting joint research as his own
Two years ago, I collaborated* (briefly) with a professor (whom I will call Professor Jim) on some research in mathematics. At the time, I was a PhD student and Prof. Jim was on my dissertation ...
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Could the conference presentation be a part of my abstract？ [closed]
I wrote the abstract according to my thesis but realized that it's too much for a conference presentation. Could I use a part of the abstract to present？
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whether to make a tenure track faculty job talk interactive
Is it appropriate to give a tenure track faculty job talk in an interactive way, like posing some questions, asking for audience opinions?
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Poster Presentations: Is it acceptable to present an update to a currently ongoing project as a poster at a conference?
The project has been going on for about 5 years, but we have made large strides in the past year. We already presented the project last year at the same conference, but would it be acceptable to ...
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What to do with wrong results in talks?
Suppose one is giving a talk about one's work (in pure mathematics), and another researcher(s) in one's field has published a paper claiming to be an improvement or generalisation of one's result, but ...
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Standards of making slides in a presentation [closed]
I have heard many things about making a good set of slides for a presentation. For example, one of my professors at the university told us that the background for all the slides should be black or ...
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any limit of putting too many videos/animations in presentations
In the context of applied maths, physics and engineering. Videos/animations beat pictures and thousands of words, as is known to all. Is it bad to put too many videos/animations in a presentation? It'...
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Acceptable length for thesis defense presentation in mathematics
I'm a Masters' student in maths and it's close to my thesis oral defense. As such, I'm preparing my slides to present them. However, I'm feeling that my presentation has too many slides (albeit my ...
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Giving a career talk in my old university, how prominently should I tell students my salary?
I have offered to do a talk at my old university’s 'employabilty fair' ten years after graduation, where am I now. With some advice on traps to avoid, how to make the transition from university to ...
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How valuable are poster presentations for new Ph.D. student?
I have submitted my first paper in a very top conference, but the paper was accepted in the poster section instead. I am ok with that, as the reviews were very helpful.
However, is it interesting to ...
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Slide Show Titles [closed]
I have a question about the proper way to format a title. If I have a slide with the following title, "Motivation". Then suppose on the next slide I have the same title, "Motivation".
What is the ...
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Can i copy a slide from another presentation or is it plagiarism?
For my seminar work i want to use a slide which i found in a presentation available on the internet. Now i wonder whether it is considered plagiarism if i copy the slide into my presentation while ...
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Goal for 20min. presentation at math conference
I've been invited to give a 20 minute talk at a mathematics conference in a couple months. The audience members all work in my field, so they will be familiar with most of the terminology and ...
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Does giving an easily-understood talk make the audience think you did something simple? [closed]
Alice and Bob both go to a conference. Alice gives a great talk, and most people understood it. Bob gives a much more technical talk filled with jargon which almost everyone failed to understand. Do ...
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How to evaluate conference applicants (presentations, panels, etc.) for a small conference?
I am assisting in arranging a small conference in a highly mixed topic. There will be hard scientists, soft scientists, makers/creators/artists, researchers from many different fields etc.
I'm ...
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Research with intuition's with proof's or without proof's
I am currently a PhD student (after mid stage) working in computational mathematics. I am currently writing and solving a couple of research problems. I feel very excited whenever I get new results, ...
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Giving a test lecture, what should I keep in mind? [duplicate]
I hold a PhD in computer science. I've been travelling to conferences presenting my papers and sometimes as part of my teaching assistance duty, I had to give some very simple lectures to students.
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How to deal with a famous speaker that gives a terrible, factually incorrect talk? [closed]
I often attend talks given by famous presenters in which I’m pretty sure that the presenter has no idea about the topic. By have no idea I mean if you are an attendee that just attracted to this talk ...
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How to put website links in “Used literature” slide of the presentation?
I'm preparing a presentation for my class. Last slide should be the list of resources I've used for the material, e.g.
Sherwani N., Algorithms for VLSI Physical Design Automation, Kluwer Academic ...
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Presentation of 'relevant research' for a postdoc interview, when switching fields
I have been invited to interview for a postdoc position, and as part of the interview I've been asked to give a 30 min presentation of my relevant previous research.
This particular position would be ...
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Should I cite or credit images I found online for a conference presentation?
I am going to do a conference presentation on so-called Smart Cities
As you can imagine, the concept of a Smart City is best conveyed using pictures (it is worth a thousand words).
I found a picture ...
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Can a professor use his/her student's work as his own work?
I'm studying in a college in India. I have a course with a professor who is insisting that we submit our presentations in ppt format so that he can use them as his own ppts for his later batches.
Is ...
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Pros and cons of including mathematical equations in presentation slides
As a researcher in CS, I give often presentations, where I always ask about the feedback from my colleagues. I personally don't like to put equations in my slides because I believe that nobody will ...
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Conference proceedings and talks on a CV?
I come from a multidisciplinary background, mostly biostatistics and bioinformatics. I'm currently updating my CV to apply for a post doc and I'm wondering how do people include conference proceedings ...
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Content for slides of theoretical project
I was assigned a project of reading a unit of a textbook for 3 months and I need to present it by making a project report.
Since my mentor didn't ask for any hands-on, I just studied the particular ...
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Is it good to have slides that may be skipped during a presentation?
I am preparing a seminar talk. Currently the presentation contains some theorems and some proofs. Probably, I will not have time to explain all the proofs - I will have to skip some of them. My ...
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What does “contributed paper session” mean?
It may be a silly question, but what it the general definition of the "contributed paper session" (especially in the mathematics community)? In particular, I am not sure of the following:
If I ...
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Is it normal that my adviser presented my work at a conference while I was there?
A couple of month ago, I was in a conference with my adviser. I had a poster and he had a talk. His talk was about my project. In fact, it was newer results that I presented in my poster. After he ...
