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Dr. S. Gibson & Dr. S. Boogert
Presentation Skills and Teamwork: Introductory Session
! Mission & reward
! Teams
! Topics
! Talk tips
! Prepare
Outline
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Second Year post exam bonanza, June 2013
Your mission… Presentation Skills & Teamwork
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! Communicating your brilliant ideas effectively to your peers is an essential part of physics research (esp. workshops, conferences) and life in general.
! Your mission is to research, prepare and deliver a physics-related talk in teams of 4-5 people to the rest of the Second Year.
! Each member of your team will give their share of the talk.
! A prize will be awarded for the best talk…
! Learning outcomes:
• Develop your ability to research and deliver a talk on a subject, and also to listen, comprehend and question other talks on related subjects.
• To develop a capacity for independent work as part of a larger group.
• To encourage collaboration in achieving a set goal within a defined time.
• To develop interpersonal skills, particularly effective presentation and teamwork.
• To learn how to give a succinct talk on a body of physics knowledge.
The Prize for best team talk: Presentation Skills & Teamwork
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! The winning team will be treated to an all expenses paid trip to CERN, near Geneva, Switzerland.
! Aim to coincide with CERN open days in September to enable underground visit to ATLAS / CMS...
Teams and voting Presentation Skills & Teamwork
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! In the spirit of healthy competition and to avoid any unfair bias, the membership of the teams will be assigned by a random (Monte Carlo) generator.
! Random teams are part of the challenge:
• Teamwork often means getting along professionally with those you may not choose to associate with personally.
• All team members must work hard and present well for the team to win – help each other!
• Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all. ~Alexander the Great
! Each team has 25 minutes for the talk (including set up) + 5 minutes for questions (30 minutes total).
! Count on ~5 minutes per person when in teams of 5 (max).
! Please keep to time – all talks must fit within the 3+3 hours of talks on Tuesday 11th and up to 3 hours on Wednesday 12th)
! Everyone will cast their votes for the best team talk (moderated by Dr Gibson and Dr Boogert).
Talk Topics Presentation Skills & Teamwork
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! You’re free to choose the physics-related topic that your group will present.
! Some suggestions / ideas follow, or you can think up your own topic (please agree it with us).
! Please bear in mind that the topic must be:
• Related to physics(!)
• Researchable on the timescale of the project – are resources accessible?
• Easily explained at a level appropriate to your audience (who will be voting).
• Suitable for dividing the presentation into sections, one per team member.
! Types of presentation:
• Fundamental / related to 2nd year lecture topics.
• Interesting piece of exciting physics of e.g. Historical discovery, recent advances in physics.
• Grand ideas (science extrapolation).
Some ideas for topics Presentation Skills & Teamwork
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! Related to 2nd year lecture topics:
• Atomic and nuclear:
• Problems with normal QM -> QED, from Schroedinger to Dirac
• Optics:
• Photonic crystal fibres, super high power lasers, optical computers.
• Electromagnetism:
• Maxwell (wave field theory) <-> Faraday (experimentation).
• Thermodynamics:
• How to cool or heat things to extremes?
• Quantum mechanics:
• Historical overview of development / interpretation.
• Advances in quantum cryptology or quantum computing
• Mathematics that saved physics: Matrix formalism / Calculus
Some ideas for topics Presentation Skills & Teamwork
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! Related to 2nd year lecture topics:
• Particle detectors and accelerators:
• Medical applications. (anti-protons / Bragg peak).
• The Solar Neutrino Puzzle and neutrino oscillations (Ray Davis)
• ATLAS, CMS. How general purpose detectors work? Higgs discovery.
• Future accelerators: Plasma wakefield designs. Linear colliders.
• The Solid State:
• Limits on current semiconductor devices (CPU, memory)
• Astronomy:
• Large future facilities: SKA, VLT, JWST.
• High energy cosmic rays / detectors in space: AMS
• Gravitational wave searches (LIGO, LISA)
• Evidence for dark matter / energy (galaxy rotation curves) and searches
Some more ideas… Presentation Skills & Teamwork
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! Some interesting piece of exciting physics or historic discovery:
• Recent discoveries (neutrino oscillations / Higgs Boson …)
• Genetic engineering, biophysics
• Computing, progress of large scale computers
• Challenges for autonomous vehicles / robotics / self driving car.
• Nanotechnology and benefits of nanomaterials
• Recent advances in graphene
! Grand ideas: what if? (science extrapolation):
• What if the mass of the particles changed (e.g., Me = Mp)?
• Or the coupling constants changed?
• Cosmology with a different speed of light?
• Limitations on human space flight to Mars
Talk examples Presentation Skills & Teamwork
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! What in your opinion, makes a good talk?
! Who has seen a good talk?
• What was is about?
• How many people
• Who were the audience?
• What made it good?
! http://www.ted.com/
! http://www.ted.com/talks?lang=en&event=&duration=6&sort=newest&tag=24
! http://www.ted.com/talks/lucianne_walkowicz_finding_planets_around_other_stars.html
! iTunesU
! The Feynman Lectures On Physics
! ATLAS / CMS Higgs Discovery?
! https://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=197461
Scenarios Presentation Skills & Teamwork
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Think about:
! Where might you be expected to give a talk?
Scenarios Presentation Skills & Teamwork
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Think about:
! Where might you be expected to give a talk?
• Departmental seminar
• Workshop / conference
• Lecture
• Job interview
• Business meeting
• Sales pitch
• Siblings wedding…
• Prime ministers questions…
Audience and message Presentation Skills & Teamwork
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Think about:
! Who are you talking to?
! Why are you talking?
Audience and message Presentation Skills & Teamwork
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Think about:
! Who are you talking to?
• Fellow students
• Prospective employers
• Members of the public or press
• Eminent scientists…
! Why are you talking?
Audience and message Presentation Skills & Teamwork
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Think about:
! Who are you talking to?
• Fellow students
• Prospective employers
• Members of the public or press
• Eminent scientists…
! Why are you talking?
• What is the message?
• Main points of the talk
• How many? How to present them?
• What do you want people to remember about you and your work?
Choice of level and topic Presentation Skills & Teamwork
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Think about:
! Too easy
• May come across as boring or patronising…
! Too hard
• Risks losing most of your audience at slide 1.
• Don’t have to go into every detail.
! Gentle and clear introduction
• Everyone needs to know what your talk is about.
Schedule Presentation Skills & Teamwork
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TIME Mon 3 June Tue 4 June Wed 5 June Thu 6 June Fri 7 June TIME Mon 10 June Tue 11 June Wed 12 June Thu 13 June Fri 14 June
Week 1 Week 1 Week 1 Week 1 Week 1 Week 2 Week 2 Week 2 Week 2 Week 2
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13:00
14:00
17:00
09:00
10:00
12:00
11:00
15:00
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09:00
10:00
Intro session
HLT2
Review anddiscussion
MBLT
TalksMBLT
Talks and feedback
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TalksMBLT
PHYSICS TIMETABLE - SECOND YEAR POST EXAMINATIONS
16:00
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14:00
15:00
Preparation for Thursday… Presentation Skills & Teamwork
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Suggested plan for Thursday:
! Decide on your topic as a group today.
! Divide the topic into areas to research and assign members to go and research each area.
! Aim to meet regularly amongst your team before Thursday and/or use your TWiki to collate material / ideas.
! http://twiki.ph.rhul.ac.uk/twiki/bin/view/Students/UnderGraduates/WebHome
! Prepare an outline of the talk to show your progress on Thursday. We will expect to see:
• A clear plan of who is presenting which part.
• Results of research on topic areas.
• Material (pictures / references).
• Basic structure of the talk (titles, subtitles)...
! Good luck!