Here is some useful advice:
- Advice To Beginning Physics Speakers by J. Garland, Physics Today, July 1999, p. 42 [pdf file]
- What's Wrong With These Talks? by N.D. Mermin, Physics Today, Nov. 1992, p. 6 --
[local pdf file]
- Technical presentations: basic rules for success by R. Gaughan, from OE Reports, July, Aug., Nov. 1995 and Jan. 1996 issues
- How to give a bad talk by B. Schwartz, an abstract from an APS meeting (?)
- Peter Norvig's powerpoint parody of the Gettysburg Address * and
here is a local version of the ppt file
- Edward Tufte's rant against powerpoint
- Absolute Powerpoint, by Ian Parker, from the New Yorker, May 28, 2001 [pdf file]
Schedule:
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Date |
Speakers |
Titles |
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Apr 6 |
Cancelled |
Cancelled |
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Apr 13 |
Zhang Bhalerao |
The Effects of Snowlines on C/O in Planetary Atmospheres ADS link Study of HMXB in M33, Bhalerao et al. 2012, in prep. (thesis) |
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Apr 20 |
Kyne Harding |
The Galway Astronomical Stokes Polarimeter (GASP) - A high-speed, full Stokes Polarimeter - at the Palomar 200 inch telescope Periodic Optical Variability of Radio Detected Ultracool Dwarfs |
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Apr 27 |
Findeisen Villadsen |
Herschel images of Fomalhaut. An extrasolar Kuiper Belt at the height of its dynamical activity, arXiv:1204.5037 The Arecibo Detection of the Coolest Radio-Flaring Brown Dwarf, arXiv:1202.1287 |
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May 4 |
Schenker Perez |
The emission line spectra of major mergers: evidence for shocked outflows, by Soto, K. et al. 2012, arXiv:1205.0083 From Dust to Pebbles: Observational Constraints on the First Steps of Planet Formation (own research) |
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May 11 |
Belli Max-Moerbeck |
A stellar dynamical mass measurement of the black hole in NGC 3998 from Keck adaptive optics observations, by Walsh et al. (astro-ph 1205.0816) Correlated radio and gamma-ray variability of blazars with the OVRO 40m telescope monitoring program and Fermi-LAT |
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May 18 |
Bottom Gauthier |
Looking Upward with Astrophotonics Empirical Constraints of Super-Galactic Winds at z>= 0.5 |
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May 25 |
Newman Gluscevic |
The Stellar Halos of Massive Elliptical Galaxies, by Greene et al. 2012, ApJ 750, 32 First DM Search Results from a 4-kg CF3I Bubble Chamber Operated in a Deep Underground Site, by Behnke et al., arXiv:1204.3094 |
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June 1 |
Krause Stevenson |
What I did for my thesis C-Band All-Sky Survey (own research) |
Last Revised: May 29, 2012 by SGD