How to give a good research talk

"How to give a good research talk," Jones et. al.




As a new graduate, I have no experience to present my work at the stage since I do not have work. I only have the experience to present other person's work at meeting. Therefore, I feel hard to understand some suggestion of the paper such as don't put outlines in the start of the slides, don't start preparing slides early.



I summarize the paper as below.


What to say?

• Using examples to prevent your talk from too abstract, since your talk will persuade your listeners to read your paper.
• Do not waste time on an abstract description of what the talk is about, just try to jump straight in with an example.
• Be honest to talk about the difficulties in this paper, let the audience help your research!

How to prepare slides?

• Don't start with contents slidessuch as outline, it wastes your precious minute.
  
• Use some aids such as overhead projector.
• Don't start writing slides too early.
  

When giving the talk,

• Try steady, deep breathing and relaxation exercises beforehand, and make your eyes contact with audience on the stage.
• Do not over-run.

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How to Read a Paper

"How to Read a Paper," Keshav, ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review 2007



I think this paper provide a good way to survey papers.

I use the two steps to survey paper before.

• First, try to read abstract, introduction, and conclusions to see if the idea is interesting to me.
• Second, read the contents carefully.

However, I always get stuck in the second step, and I found the reason after I finish reading this paper. The most problem is that I still not have sufficient knowledge to catch the paper, since I never read the reference. I will try to use the third pass to read paper from now on.

As doing a literature survey, I always go to the top conferences' website to see the recent interesting topics and the relative paper.


I summarize the paper as below.

The Three-pass apporach

• 1st pass
  To read title, abstract, introduction, and conclusions, try to get the overall idea of the paper.
  => Able to answer five Cs : Category, Context, Correctness, Contributions, Clarity.
• 2nd pass
  To grasp the content of the paper, including the related figures and diagrams.
  => Summarize the main idea of the paper, and then go to 3rd pass if in need.
• 3rd pass
  To try to virtually re-implement the paper.
  => The most difficult step, but will be really realize the paper after this pass.

Doing a literature survey

1. Use academic search engine (Ex:Google Scholar) to find some recent papers.
2. Find shared citations and repeated author names.
3. Go to website for some top conferences and look through their recent topics.

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It's the blog about the class AMMAI.



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