Timeline for Advice on giving a good job talk [closed]
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| Jan 20, 2012 at 6:38 | history | closed |
Benjamin Steinberg Mariano Suárez-Álvarez Martin Brandenburg Igor Pak Qiaochu Yuan |
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| Jan 20, 2012 at 5:52 | comment | added | Matt Brin | I support Brian's comments. I also warn against planning to put in "a word or two" about anything in a talk. The only thing you can accomplish in a "word or two" is keep someone from getting hit by a bus. The best talks explain what a field is trying to accomplish, what has been accomplished in a certain direction and then an explanation of at least one of the speaker's contributions. By explanation, I don't mean proof. I mean explain enough of the statement to make it clear that it is a contribution. | |
| Jan 20, 2012 at 5:23 | comment | added | Brian Borchers | With respect to option 1, I've witnessed a talk where the speaker managed to list results from a couple of dozen papers that he'd written. He was way too proud of his publications. The talk was not well received because of his attitude and also because most of the audience wasn't impressed with a bunch of results in a narrow field. Furthermore, most of the audience was in no position to understand the results- they weren't familiar with the terminology or notation used in his field. | |
| Jan 20, 2012 at 5:12 | history | edited | Yemon Choi | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 20, 2012 at 4:54 | comment | added | Benjamin Steinberg | This forum is not really the right place for this question. Ask your thesis and/or postdoc advisor and colleagues. If you want to get a clear idea of the consensus for 1 vs 2 make this question Community Wiki and answer the question yourself twice, once ith option 1 and once with option 2 and ask people to upvote the answer they like. | |
| Jan 20, 2012 at 4:31 | comment | added | Micah Milinovich | For a colloquium style talk, maybe your first idea would be more appropriate. | |
| Jan 20, 2012 at 4:18 | comment | added | Frank Thorne | Hard to say exactly, but I would (1) try to remember some good colloquium talks you've seen outside your discipline; and (2) run a practice version of your talk by a colleague who works in a very different area than you, and ask for criticism. | |
| Jan 20, 2012 at 3:57 | history | asked | David | CC BY-SA 3.0 |