Exercise for meeting(s) during the first week of May

Design a slide presentation of 15 mins length, to present a research project. Consider the audience as they will judge to decide on giving you a research grant or fellowship on the basis of your presentation. After the 15 mins of the presentation, there will be 5-10 mins of questions from the audience. Good luck!

2nd term: presentations with slides and answering questions

We had a long break but will continue training to give talks with slides (using computer) and answering questions after or during the talk.

The following links may be useful background material when preparing a talk (with slides):

• Technically Speaking (Dennison University)
• Guidelines for Mathematics Talks (by Margie Hale)
• Good presentations and how to achieve them (by Kenn Russell)

What to use to design the talk?

• LaTeX (using the beamer package - Quick guide by Norm Matloff) 
• Microsoft Powerpoint or similar (note you can use programs like LaTeXit - for Mac, I guess there are similar for windows and Linux - to generate pictures of formulas with LaTeX code)

Next week 27/10

Paulo Henrique and Joao will speak.

Meetings: wednesdays 10am in room 225, IMECC

We have decided to keep the time and place for the moment fixed at the above, until further notice.
Let me further emphasize that anyone interested is most welcome to attend.

The format of each session will be two short presentations (15 mins) by students followed by 15 mins of discussion each. Next week (20/10) Rafael and Jamir will be presenting.

Talking Maths (for PhD students at IMECC)

Welcome to this blog, which I will use to collect some useful background information on "talking mathematics" in English, including some general hints on good practise with the organization of a talk.

Some useful starters:

• How to give a good 20 mins math talk

• How to present mathematics (Edinburgh)