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Ask them to have a word with X and get him to tone down his aggressive questioning, both during your own presentation and during others'. … A couple of other thoughts: From your description of X (describing the thesis committee as a bunch of idiots, making a nuisance of himself during presentation, etc.), I'm guessing he won't last long …

At the very least, including a prop of this sort in your presentation will add an unusual and memorable element to your talk that would set it apart from the hundreds of other talks that come and go in …

I have never seen this done, and only heard of it being done to accommodate very famous people who have difficulties with travel (e.g., Stephen Hawking, Edward Snowden). So I suspect extremely uncommo …

Does that make it more probable that: The organizers of Big Name Conference VI are more likely to invite her as a speaker; Yea, obviously a person who develops a reputation for giving great talks is …

If I were on your thesis committee I would be most happy with your slides if they were your original work and represented your own personal tastes and sensibilities. Therefore I would be more impresse …

If the author of the copied slides gave his/her permission for your professor to use the slides, we could reasonably have a debate about whether this is plagiarism. I would be on the side of those arg …

Giving an effective and engaging presentation, whatever your chosen mode of delivery, requires a combination of several skills: A good level of fluency in, and mastery of, the language you are presenting … A high level of mastery of the specific skills pertaining to your chosen mode of presentation (e.g., good blackboard technique for a blackboard talk; good knowledge of PowerPoint if that's what you're …

I doubt that you showing or not showing the slide will make much of a difference one way or the other, but as a general rule, if I were one of the professors at your defense, I would not expect or wan …

I agree that you should cancel the talk, for pretty much the reasoning that you explained, except that I think you are overestimating the extent to which canceling the talk will make you look bad to t …

Problems such as: nervousness up to the extent that language gets incoherent, people who do not speak the language required for the presentation well, people with voice problems. …

First, you should know that since your results appeared first (as you stated in a comment), you don’t actually have a strong self-interest to try to make the follow-up results of the other researcher …

- they are effectively playing the role of a voice actor, and since they are presumably very familiar with their own characters and the meaning of their text, they can probably give quite an engaging presentation …

To add to @BryanKrause’s excellent answer, the conference organizers are being somewhat sloppy in using the unit size “pixel”, which has no standard physical size, when they probably mean “point” inst …

On a few occasions where coauthors of mine gave talks about our joint papers, I heard later from colleagues who were there that my coauthors said extremely positive things about me and how essential m …

Canada is a country where people generally hold free speech in very high regard. Even in the extremely unlikely event that the student will be successful in his efforts to get you disciplined by your …