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I think the causality is probably reversed: a talk at any level is a chance to "advertise" or "promote" ideas (whether "your own" or due to a larger enterprise) far more dynamically than in a paper. T …

Crazily-enough one of my students has won some presentation prizes for super-short talks by ... as she and I said to each other... "leaving out all the math". … The only sane way to give such a short presentation is to think in terms of addressing people who already know enough so that the new parts of your work can stand on their own. …

For many different reasons, you should always give credit/citation to those who have earned it. One type of reason is that your work depends on their work. Another type of reason is to recognize their …

When teaching, including graduate courses (in math, in the U.S.), nowadays I do routinely use smiling/frowning emojis to denote success versus failure or trouble. Also, giving Zoom talks via prepared …

Rather than trying to summarize the book, or the general subject, in a ridiculously short time, (which would be pretty boring to essentially everyone), choose a specific topic/example that is understa …

At least in my field, mathematics, in the U.S. (and probably western Europe) it is stylistically quite undesirable to read from slides, because it makes a person look as though they haven't really ass …

When I give local talks of any kind, I do not at all pretend to charge a fee, nor expect an honorarium, though a dinner (or free parking?) is nice. When I give non-local invited talks, I would expect …

look at stuff "adjacent" to your specific project... pre-emptively... the same way that good-faith questioners who're engaged with your presentation will wonder about. …

There are at least two+ different issues: (1a) your suffering (1b) suffering of the other students, (2) the obliviousness or incompetence or low-energy of the individual student. The easiest argument …

An amusing issue! This sort of response can be done in a good way, or in a not-so-good way. It is rhetorically constructive to not be combative, and also to deflect potential combativeness, but/and no …

In the fore-seeable future, in mathematics the critical activity is giving talks, not posters. Thus, practicing giving talks, all the more if your subject has delicate technicalities, is critical. Thi …

Whether they intended it or not, they've posed you with an "elevator pitch" problem, namely, that you are supposed to explain something within a time limit that is wildly unreasonable. (Like "pitching …

I'd guess that there is the implicit issue that "preparing a presentation" doesn't mean just "being able to stand at the front of a room and explain things on a whiteboard or blackboard"... but means " …

With my own students, I do lots of "rehearsals" for any sort of oral exam or presentation... with lots of critique-ing, revising, and doing-it-over. …

There are two ways to interpret the issue that is being raised. One is that the people simply have accents and not completely correct grammar in spoken English... but not to the point that it seriousl …