Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Is to
Give the audience a
sense of what your
idea/work is
Make them want to
read your paper
Get feedback on your
work
Keep in mind
They
might be tired
They can read
They are thinking Why should I listen?
Non-experts will tune off within 2 minutes
Experts after 5 minutes
Use examples
Examples are your weapon to
Motivate
your work
Illustrate the basic intuition
Show your solution in action
Highlight extreme cases or shortcomings
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Preprocessing
Preprocessing
Filtering
Filtering
Texture
Texture Extraction
Extraction
Decision
Decision Trees
Trees
Classification
Classification
Related work
Be familiar with all related work
Dont list each paper you read
Mainly talk about results that are
immediately related to what you did
References at the end of the talk or better
in the paper itself
Acknowledge co-authors (title slide)
The skeleton
What is the problem
Motivation and goals
Relevant state of the art
What is your key idea/contribution
Why is your approach good/better
What I just said and what I want to do next
Fonts - Good
Use a decent font size
Use different size fonts for main points
and secondary points
this
font is 24-point, the main point font is 32point, and the title font is 44-point
Fonts - Bad
If you use a small font, your audience wont be able to read what you have written
Color - Good
Color - Bad
Using a font color that does not contrast
with the background color is hard to read
Using color for decoration is distracting and
annoying.
Using a different color for each point is
unnecessary
Background - Good
Use backgrounds such as this one that
are attractive but simple
Use backgrounds which are light
Use the same background consistently
throughout your presentation
Background Bad
Avoid backgrounds that are distracting or
difficult to read from
Always be consistent with the background
that you use
Graphs - Good
Graphs - Bad
January February
Blue Balls
20.4
27.4
Red Balls
30.6
38.6
March
90
34.6
April
20.4
31.6
Graphs - Good
Items Sold in First Quarter of 2002
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Blue Balls
Red Balls
20
10
0
January
February
March
April
Graphs - Bad
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90
90
80
70
60
Blue Balls
50
Red Balls
38.6
40
34.6
31.6
30.6
27.4
30
20.4
20.4
20
10
0
January
February
March
April
Graphs - Bad
Minor gridlines are unnecessary
Font is too small
Colors are illogical
Title is missing
Shading is distracting
Handling questions
clarification
Suggest something helpful
Want to engage in research dialog
Show that he/she is better than you
Steal
Some resources
http://research.microsoft.com/~simonpj/pa
pers/giving-a-talk/writing-a-paperslides.pdf
http://wit.tuwien.ac.at/research/tips/good_r
esearch_talk_slides.pdf
http://research.microsoft.com/~simonpj/pa
pers/giving-a-talk/giving-a-talk-html.html
Some resources
http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/howt
owrite.html
http://www.iasted.org/conferences/formatti
ng/Presentations-Tips.ppt
Abstract
2-Aminoaryl ketones undergo condensation with
-methylene ketones in the presence of a
catalytic amount of Y(OTf)3 at room temperature
under
mild
conditions
to
afford
the
corresponding polysubstituted quinolines in
excellent yields.