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Nuts & Bolts
- Each speaker is given twenty minutes to present and take questions.
- To expedite the day, all power point files will be loaded and run from a single laptop. Email me (dantwelling-at-yahoo.com) your talk ahead of time, or bring your files to me before the tutorials begin via memory stick.
- Make sure your talk is MAC COMPATIBLE!!! Use simple fonts and minimize animations. If you have movies you want to play, be sure to give me those files as well.
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General Notes
- Remember the audience is diverse in their knowlegde and field of view.
- Spell out all acronyms the first time they come up.
- Show the same excitement in your tutorial that you would have for your research! You are trying to get a PhD in this stuff!
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Session 1 speakers- The session 1 talks should be very basic. Assume that none of the other students have been introduced to the material before (many have not!) Steer clear of dense equations and too much detail. Instead, try to use figures to give a global picture of the system you are describing. Try to tell a story by walking through the system you are describing in a logical way.
Don't be afraid to talk to other speakers to help tie your material in with theirs. A frequent complaint is that there is a disjointed feeling from talk to talk. Working together can improve your talk and the talks before and after yours.
Session 2 speakers - The goal here is to build off of the first session to get everyone ready for the conference. Where as the first talks focused on things we know, the second session should focus on things we don't know.
An example would be to introduce cross polar cap potential and the mechanisms that lead up to it. Then, show data when the CPCP saturates. Why does this happen? How can we investigate this phenomena? What sessions of the GEM conference will examine this further? This could be one of a few topics covered in the session 2 MI-coupling talk. For more insight into the conference agenda, see the list of focus groups here (bottom of page) and the preliminary workshop schedule here.
Again, try to bring everyone up to speed on the topic without going over their heads. Some students have little to no experience in many of the subjects. Only use big equations or over bearing detail if it illustrates your point better than a diagram or a picture.
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