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- Examples are the main weapon to illustrate concepts; related work and technical details should generally be omitted. Enthusiasm from the presenter is critical to engage the audience.
- Questions are opportunities to connect, so actively encourage them, and be prepared to truncate the talk if needed to allow for interaction.
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Trainer Kommunikation
www.hannemann-training.de
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How to Deliver a Great Presentation
10 tips aganist stagefright, how to prepare a presentation and how to deliver.
Also see youtube "Ever presentation ever: FAIL"
Dirk Hannemann, Berlin
Trainer Kommunikation
www.hannemann-training.de
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6. Common pitfalls
7. How to retain the interest of the audience
This presentation that support the young researcher in Egypt to learn how to conduct a professional presentation and discuss the key points of the presentation strcture and give tips for slides
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http://fbbr.co/preshero
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Session Overview
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- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
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How to Give a Great Research Talk
1. How to give a great research talk
Simon Peyton Jones
Microsoft Research, Cambridge
2. Giving a good talk
This presentation is about how to give
a good research talk
What your talk is for
What to put in it (and what not to)
How to present it
3. Why you should listen to this talk
Because many research talks are poor...
...and quite simple things can make your talks
much better
Because everyone benefits from good talks
Your audience is happier
You get promoted
Because a research talk gives you access to
the world’s most priceless commodity: the
time and attention of other people. Don’t
waste it!
4. What your talk is for
Your paper = The beef
Your talk = The beef
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Do not confuse
the two
5. The purpose of your talk…
The purpose of your talk is not:
To impress your audience with your
brainpower
To tell them all you know about your
topic
To present all the technical details
6. The purpose of your talk…
The purpose of your talk is:
To give your audience an
intuitive feel for your idea
To make them foam at the
mouth with eagerness to read
your paper
To engage, excite, provoke
them
To make them glad they came
7. Your audience…
The audience you would like
Have read all your earlier papers
Thoroughly understand all the relevant
theory of cartesian closed endomorphic
bifunctors
Are all agog to hear about the latest
developments in your work
Are fresh, alert, and ready for action
8. Your actual audience…
The audience you get
Have never heard of you
Have heard of bifunctors, but wish they hadn’t
Have just had lunch and are ready for a doze
Your mission is to
WAKE THEM UP
And make them glad they did
10. What to put in
1. Motivation (20%)
2. Your key idea (80%)
3. There is no 3
11. Motivation
You have 2 minutes to engage your audience
before they start to doze
Why should I tune into this talk?
What is the problem?
Why is it an interesting problem?
Example: Java class files are large (brief figures),
and get sent over the network. Can we use language-
aware compression to shrink them?
Example: synchronisation errors in concurrent
programs are a nightmare to find. I’m going to show
you a type system that finds many such errors at
compile time.
12. Your key idea
If the audience remembers only one thing
from your talk, what should it be?
You must identify a key idea. “What I did
this summer” is No Good.
Be specific. Don’t leave your audience to
figure it out for themselves.
Be absolutely specific. Say “If you
remember nothing else, remember this.”
Organise your talk around this specific
goal. Ruthlessly prune material that is
irrelevant to this goal.
13. Narrow, deep beats wide, shallow
No
Yes
Avoid shallow overviews at all costs
Cut to the chase: the technical “meat”
14. Examples are
Your main weapon your
main weapon
To motivate the work
To convey the basic intuition
To illustrate The Idea in action
To show extreme cases
To highlight shortcomings
When time is short, omit the general case,
not the example
15. Exceptions in Haskell?
Exceptions are to do with control flow
There is no control flow in a lazy functional program
Solution 1: use data values to carry exceptions
data Maybe a = Nothing
| Just a
lookup :: Name -> Dictionary -> Maybe Address
Often this is Just The Right Thing
[Spivey 1990, Wadler “list of successes”]
17. Outline of my talk
Background
The FLUGOL system
Shortcomings of FLUGOL
Overview of synthetic epimorphisms
π-reducible decidability of the pseudo-
curried fragment under the Snezkovwski
invariant in FLUGOL
Benchmark results
Related work
Conclusions and further work
18. No outline!
“Outline of my talk”: conveys near zero
information at the start of your talk
But maybe put up an outline for
orientation after your motivation
…and signposts at pause points
during the talk
19. Related work
[PMW83] The seminal paper
[SPZ88] First use of epimorphisms
[PN93] Application of epimorphisms to
wibblification
[BXX98] Lacks full abstraction
[XXB99] Only runs on Sparc, no integration
with GUI
20. Do not present related work
But
You absolutely must know the related
work; respond readily to questions
Acknowledge co-authors (title slide),
and pre-cursors (as you go along)
Praise the opposition
“X’s very interesting work does Y; I
have extended it to do Z”
22. Omit technical details
Even though every line is drenched
in your blood and sweat, dense
clouds of notation will send your
audience to sleep
Present specific aspects only;
refer to the paper for the
details
By all means have backup slides to
use in response to questions
24. How to present your talk
Your most potent weapon, by far, is your
25. Enthusiasm
If you do not seem excited by your idea,
why should the audience be?
It wakes ‘em up
Enthusiasm makes people dramatically
more receptive
It gets you loosened up, breathing, moving
around
26. Write your slides the night before
(…or at least, polish it then)
Your talk absolutely must be fresh in your
mind
Ideas will occur to you during the
conference, as you obsess on your talk
during other people’s presentations
27. Technology
Borrow a laser pointer, but avoid using it
Consider borrowing a wireless slide changer
Test that your laptop works with the
projector, in advance
Laptops break: leave a backup copy on the
web; bring a backup copy on a disk or USB key
28. Do not apologise
“I didn’t have time to prepare this talk
properly”
“My computer broke down, so I don’t have
the results I expected”
“I don’t have time to tell you about this”
“I don’t feel qualified to address this
audience”
29. The jelly effect
If you are anything like me, you will
experience apparently-severe pre-talk
symptoms
Inability to breathe
Inability to stand up (legs give way)
Inability to operate brain
30. What to do about it
Deep breathing during previous talk
Script your first few sentences precisely
(=> no brain required)
Move around a lot, use large gestures,
wave your arms, stand on chairs
Go to the loo first
You are not a wimp.
Everyone feels this way.
31. Being seen, being heard
Point at the screen, not at the overhead
projector
Speak to someone at the back of the
room, even if you have a microphone on
Make eye contact; identify a nodder, and
speak to him or her (better still, more
than one)
Watch audience for questions…
32. Questions
Questions are not a problem
Questions are a golden
golden golden opportunity to
connect with your audience
Specifically encourage questions during your
talk: pause briefly now and then, ask for
questions
Be prepared to truncate your talk if you run out
of time. Better to connect, and not to present
all your material
33. Presenting your slides
A very annoying technique
is to reveal
your points
one
by one
by one, unless…
there is a punch line
35. Finishing
Absolutely without fail,
finish on time
Audiences get restive and essentially stop
listening when your time is up. Continuing is
very counter productive
Simply truncate and conclude
Do not say “would you like me to go on?” (it’s
hard to say “no thanks”)
36. Conclusion: there is hope
The general standard is often low.
You don’t have to be outstanding to
stand out
You will attend 50x as many talks as you give.
Watch other people’s talks intelligently, and pick
up ideas for what to do and what to avoid.
37. Do it! Do it! Do it!
Good papers and talks are a fundamental
part of research excellence
Invest time
Learn skills
Practice
Write a paper, and give a talk, about
any idea,
no matter how weedy and insignificant it
may seem to you
38. Research is communication
The greatest ideas are worthless if you keep
them to yourself
Your papers and talks
Crystalise your ideas
Communicate them to others
Get feedback
Build relationships
(And garner research brownie points)