most recent 30 from http://mathoverflow.net 2013-05-23T09:38:58Z http://mathoverflow.net/feeds/user/20753 http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/rdf http://mathoverflow.net/questions/86169/advice-on-giving-a-good-job-talk David 2012-01-20T03:57:40Z 2012-01-20T05:12:46Z

<p>Dear Mathforum, </p> <p>I am giving a job talk in the next couple of weeks and I am still struggling to come up with a suitable talk.<br> I graduated in september of 2010 and so I have been a post doc for a year and a bit. I am giving the talk at a "private, nonsectarian research university" which has roughly 25-30 faculty. I have between 5 and 10 papers on roughly 3 topics. </p> <p>I was told the talk will be a colloquim style talk and not a specialized analysis and pde talk which is my area. Also I will not be giving a seperate specialized talk. </p> <p>I am really struggling with what is the correct format I should use for my talk. In any case I will be using Beamer. </p> <p>My question is should I: </p> <p>1) pick one of my topic areas and then go through some background and then list my results (maybe giving a word or two about why they are not totally trivial)</p> <p>or </p> <p>2) Should I pick one small result and try and give a somewhat detailed account </p> <p>or ??? (I have seen both done in the colloquim portion of a job talk). </p> <p>Any comments would be greatly appreciated. </p> <p>Thanks David</p>