Practice your talks, so that the presentation is well paced and understandable. Everybody will be happier that way. :)
Scope your presentation to the graduate student audience. Yes, speakers should practice the talk they are about to give at a conference. But remember that the audience is graduate students, many without the speaker's domain knowledge. We advise speakers to create an abridged talk for the benefit of the audience.
Keep talks within the time given.
Priority sign ups. Some priority for presentation slot will be given to upper year students and/or those who have not presented before.
Optionally, we upload presentation slides so that attendees can revisit them. Sharing your slides is not necessary. (Please know that this website is public, so use caution on what you are willing and not willing to put online! For example, your research is not yet uploaded to arxiv or published.)
For the academic year 2023-24, we have three categories of talks.
Standard talks (45 min).Â
Goal: Present research and/or practice for an upcoming conference presentation.
Lightning talks (15 min per speaker). Beginning of fall.
Goal: Give a brief survey of the research areas that are active in the department. This is especially helpful for early year PhD students who are learning about research in our department.
"What is...?" talks (45 min). Spring, last week of each month.
Goal: Practice speaking even if the speaker does not necessarily have research results to present. Because this format is less familiar, a description of what is expected is detailed here.