Timeline for Describe the desired features of a "Mathematics Colloquium"?
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| Jun 13, 2015 at 20:15 | answer | added | Stefan Kohl♦ | timeline score: 4 | |
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| Jun 7, 2015 at 23:09 | comment | added | paul garrett | @LukeOeding, I edited your title to reflect (to my understanding) your intentions. Please do revert if I've misrepresented your intention... | |
| Jun 7, 2015 at 23:08 | history | edited | paul garrett | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 27, 2015 at 19:29 | comment | added | Mark Meckes | A former department chair of mine used to say that if you asked colloquium speakers to prepare talks appropriate for undergraduates, then there was a chance some of the faculty would understand. | |
| May 4, 2015 at 15:17 | comment | added | Luke Oeding | Yemon: I'm interested in a definition to strive to attain. And due to budget constraints, the quality/prestige of the speaker should increase sharply as the distance from my university increases in order to justify the cost. | |
| May 4, 2015 at 2:55 | comment | added | Kimball | I'm not sure the notion of ideal colloquium should be well defined in general, but will depend upon the department. It should, of course, fill some need not covered by usual seminar series, but the kind of audience and their expectations (both in practice and in principle) may vary from department to department. (That said, I agree with many of the comments, but I question the existence of a universal answer to this question as stated.) | |
| May 3, 2015 at 13:13 | comment | added | Name | A relevant question academia.stackexchange.com/q/40260/12871 | |
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| May 3, 2015 at 6:32 | comment | added | Christian Remling | For something I found on my homepage, see here: www2.math.ou.edu/~cremling/misc/colloquium.html | |
| May 3, 2015 at 3:08 | comment | added | Alain Valette | My advice for colloquium speakers, is to target 1st year graduate students in the audience. | |
| May 3, 2015 at 2:41 | comment | added | Deane Yang | My experience is that if you manage to convince the speaker to prepare a talk for an audience of non-mathematicians, then it will be a perfect talk for mathematicians who are not experts in the field. | |
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| May 3, 2015 at 1:57 | comment | added | Gordon Royle | @Jeremy, that article is pretty good. Only one I disagree with is "don't use an overhead projector" (well, data projector nowadays). | |
| May 3, 2015 at 1:49 | comment | added | Jeremy Rouse | I recommend the article How to give a good colloquium, which has advice for both speakers, the audience, and organizers. | |
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| May 2, 2015 at 16:25 | comment | added | Lennart Meier | Ideally, a mathematically colloquium is like as seminar, with two differences: 1) Speakers are usually more renowned and experienced; it is often (especially) hard to give a good colloquium talk if you just start out in a field. 2) A colloquium talk should be more accessible than a seminar talk; ideally to every math faculty member (or grad student), in practice at least 70% should be understandable to at least 70% of the faculty. If condition (2) is violated repeatedly, only specialists will continue to attend colloquium and the colloquium culture has died. | |
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| May 2, 2015 at 15:18 | comment | added | Yemon Choi | For instance, in some places there aren't time or resources to run separate seminars for separate specialisms, so one might invite speakers to a "department colloquium" with an agreement between the various divisions that everyone gets their turn to have "their" speaker say something slightly technical | |
| May 2, 2015 at 15:17 | comment | added | Yemon Choi | Luke: are we interested in a definition that is an ideal to aspire to, or a description of what actually happens? And what geographical variations are you or aren't you interested in? | |
| May 2, 2015 at 14:35 | comment | added | Liviu Nicolaescu | See Lesson 1 in Gian Carlo Rota's 10 lessons alumni.media.mit.edu/~cahn/life/… | |
| May 2, 2015 at 14:25 | history | asked | Luke Oeding | CC BY-SA 3.0 |