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Oral presentations: preparation of slides, preparation of the talk, delivery…
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Are religious invocations in academic presentations appropriate?
I think this is a good question.
Let me propose some guidelines:
1) A religious invocation should occur at the beginning of the talk or the end of the talk, but not in the middle of the talk.
Peopl …
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Giving a talk on a paper whose authorship is not finalized
In a talk you report on work done, not (directly) on the contents of a paper. Since Z was involved in the work you are reporting on in a way that you find significant, you should certainly mention hi …
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How to manage very weak students presenting problem solutions?
(ii) The fact that students will be presenting in front of others usually makes for more work on any given problem and improves the quality of their presentation. …
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When should I tell a collaborator about a mistake in their work?
On the other hand, if I leave it until the talk, it means that I have to bring it up in front of the rest of the research group, and he has no time to prepare a response.
Not necessarily. You ha …
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If you're given an hour, is it bad to finish a job talk in half an hour?
Giving such a short job talk is a negative rather than a positive. Generally the point of a job talk is to engage and impress the audience with (i) your research and (ii) you as a potential research …
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Presenting a talk on two parallel sessions of the AMS meetings
The American Mathematical Society may or may not have a rule against it, but even if they don't I think this is a prohibitively bad idea.
At a conference, especially a big one like an AMS or AMS/MAA …
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How many times can you present the same material at different conferences before it becomes ...
How long can one talk about the same material in the conference loop until the talk becomes stale?
As other answers have pointed out, certainly the answer is not going to be "N months" for any va …
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Is it inappropriate to explain why I really want to live where the university is located in ...
Just to put what's already in the comments into an answer:
Yes, you should convey the information you've told us to the hiring faculty. If you've gotten a campus interview for a faculty position, t …
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Is it a bad idea not to use slides in my Ph.D. oral defense?
If I use whiteboard, what if the committee have questions about the contents that I have already erased in my presentation? … I don't see any fundamental difference between a thesis defense and any other math presentation. …
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Useful strategies for answering "dumb" questions in a talk?
Since the OP specifically mentions the case of job talks and none of the other answers do, let me concentrate on that in my answer.
1) In a job talk, unless you specifically know otherwise, you sh …
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Is it ethically problematic for an internal candidate to attend the job talk of a candidate ...
First, as I inquired about in the comments, most job interviews have both public and private aspects. Public means that they are open to the entire department (or maybe, and probably in some formal s …