Last week I wrote about talk content. It’s time for round two of talk advice: delivery. These points are largely aimed at technical talks given on projected slides, since that is the overwhelming majority of the talks I’ve attended in the past ten years. First, addressing slides or boardwork: Don’t put too much on a […]

I started compiling advice for conference and colloquium talks some time ago, writing notes to myself while attending talks, prompted by good and bad features of the talks I was listening to, as well as from my own experiences. This installation of advice is aimed at the content of the talk; next week I’ll have […]