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The Seminar Seminar

The Seminar Seminar. Every Talk is a Job Talk. Two Types of Seminar. Conference Presentation Short time (15-20 min) Narrow Audience (usually) No Audience participation (usually) Research Seminar (job talk) Longer (45-90 min) Often very broad audience Many questions/comments.

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The Seminar Seminar

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  1. The Seminar Seminar Every Talk is a Job Talk

  2. Two Types of Seminar • Conference Presentation • Short time (15-20 min) • Narrow Audience (usually) • No Audience participation (usually) • Research Seminar (job talk) • Longer (45-90 min) • Often very broad audience • Many questions/comments

  3. Conference Presentation:The Infomercial Version • Motivation: why is your paper of interest. • Innovation: what did you do differently • Results: Highlights, what do you find. Short on detail, long on Intro/Conclusions. Don’t show me proofs. No big tables.

  4. Goals for Conference Presentation • Motivate interested people to read your paper. • Develop relationships with others with similar interests. • Get feedback on your work to improve it prior to submission. • Get them to hire you.

  5. Keys • Motivate • Who’s done related work • What your work ads • Why your work is important • Get to the Point • Tell them early what you find. • Skip the details.

  6. Slides for Conferences • Keep them Big: size matters. • The people in the back need to read them. • Keep them simple: I’m usually hung over… • One or two points per slide. • Get to the point: I’m usually hung over… • You should have your main finding in the first few slides. • About 8-12 slides for a conference presentation, depending on how dense.

  7. Being a Discussant • Read the paper. • Your time is limited, don’t get elaborate. • Don’t go long (really, no one listens to the discussant). • Two “Best Things” you can do: • Give your discussant your comments in writing. • Have something that will improve the paper.

  8. Other Tips • Time: • Don’t go long (in fact go short). • If you’re last, you might not get your full time (deal with it). • Be there early, introduce yourself. • Back up media: be able to deal with technology failure.

  9. Research Seminar:Teaching to Faculty • Motivation, Motivation, Motivation. • How does it fit into the literature? (e.g. why should I care). • General Audience, don’t assume too much. • What do you do that’s new and exciting? Develop your results more completely. Keep an eye on the why. Think of it as teaching. (well, it is…)

  10. Goals for a Research Seminar • Motivate and sell your research as advancing knowledge. • Inform your audience of your work and the related work in the area. • Get feedback on your paper and work prior to submission to a journal. • Get them to hire you.

  11. Keys • Motivate your work • Why is it important? • How does it advance the literature? • The motivation should be for a general audience. • Get to the Point early, then develop the point. • The Details • Be sure the details help develop your research.

  12. It’s not a Mystery Novel • Your audience needs to know what you are doing early. • Your conclusions slide goes in the first few minutes (and then again at the end). • Keep your audience engaged by referring back to the main results. • They should not be surprised by what you find.

  13. Slides for Research Seminar • Keep them Big: Size Matters • People in the back need to see. • Keep them Simple: The after lunch nap… • Have a main point for each slide, supporting comments • Get to the Point: Keep me interested • About 25 slides for 75 min talk. • A trick: you can have “appendix slides” at the end.

  14. Tables • Focus tables on your main coefficients of interest. • Graphs are good! • Have a point to each table and a main focus of each table. • Make them big enough to see from the back.

  15. Handling Questions • Don’t be rude. • It’s OK to say “I don’t know” • but have a thought. • Write down the comment. • Don’t let it deteriorate into a group discussion. • YOU should answer, don’t let the audience take over. • Don’t let someone take over your talk. • The audience wants to hear YOU talk, don’t disappoint them.

  16. More Handling Questions • Don’t get off on tangents • If it’s tangential, give a quick answer. • “That’s an interesting idea, perhaps we can discuss it later.” • Don’t get ahead of your talk • “I’ll cover that in a minute” • Be sure you do.

  17. Tips • Don’t go long: finish on time. • Don’t skip your conclusions (get to them, no matter what). • Future research can be an important slide • Establishes your “turf” • Shows you are thinking ahead • You’re not Monte Python: “now something completely different” is bad.

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