Guidelines for choosing the article
A paper that is can be skimmed in 30 min-1 hour is preferred. If the paper is long, please select sections to focus on.
Please avoid review papers
Guidelines for the talk
The journal club is a small but very diverse group with students from Physics, Applied Math, Mechanical Engineering, QSB and Material Science. Please keep in mind that some of the terms used in the paper may not be understandable by everyone. So expect to get questions which might seem very basic.
Assume that there is at least one person among the audience who hasn’t read the paper.
Follow the standard structure for the talk
Introduction
Background information.
Establish the knowledge gap.
Questions that the paper hopes to answer.
Methods: briefly in a way that non-experts can understand.
Results
Explain the results and explain how it answers the questions that were posed in introduction.
Future directions
How will you take this research forward? / Come up with a way to integrate this to your research / Ideas for industrial application to this research?
Feel free to use any method for presentation that is convenient for you. You can display the paper on screen and talk or use whiteboard (mark and talk!) or do a PowerPoint presentation.
Useful Resources:
http://blogs.nature.com/naturejobs/2017/01/11/scientific-presentations-a-cheat-sheet/
How to give a scientific talk? https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~mernst/advice/giving-talk.html
How to give a dynamic scientific presentation? https://www.elsevier.com/connect/how-to-give-a-dynamic-scientific-presentation
How to Present a Paper in Theoretical Computer Science: A Speaker’s Guide for Students? http://ianparberry.com/pubs/speaker.pdf