PhD Student Tips for Preparing a Scientific Conference Presentation
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- čas přidán 26. 06. 2024
- My top tips after presenting at a scientific conference talk
This month I presented a long paper at the International Conference of Case-Based Reasoning. I also took part in the Doctoral Consortium event which meant presenting my research to a panel of experts and PhD students. Both of these involved a 20 minute presentation with a 10 minute Q&A. I also had to do two 5 minute presentations this month: one for my start-up and one for my research. So I wanted to share my tips for preparing for a presentation with all of you because I know from experience that it is very daunting to do this for the first time. My tips are based on some feedback I got from my supervisor when developing my slides and some other things I learned in these presentations such as the appropriate number of slides, how to structure the presentations, where to find good images, what kind of style/theme is appropriate, practicing and recording you presentation as well as sticking to the timing and prepping for the Q&A section. All of the timestamps are in the video description if you are looking for specific info. I hope this will be helpful for you and I would love if you would share any of your tips in the comments section.
Timestamps
00:00 - intro
0:30 - life update
4:05 - about the conference
5:25 - how many slides
7:08 - presentation structure
10:27 - images with pexels.com
11:46 - text / font
13:23 - themes
14:57 - practicing your presentation
17:30 - recording your presentation
18:30 - timing
19:08 - prepping for Q&A
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It's interesting how your university is diversifying the activities for PhD students. You are learning, teaching, summer school, etc. I feel really happy for you to have this great opportunity because, in other universities, people are just reading articles, doing experiments and writing articles. And as every video you are sharing good stuff, so thank you.
Yes it definitely depends on the university! Typically I think there will be some teaching activities for most PhD students. But definitely because my programme is structured and is a CRT there tends to be more activities. Glad you are enjoying the content!
Thanks so much. This has been so useful for my research. Just preparing for a conference which is more about asking research questions than answering them. Got a lot of tips from your presentation including not doing the whole "this is my work" intro.
Wonderful! So glad that this helped you!
it's a pleasure to see you again all your posts are useful for us, thanks for all your efforts , keep up the good work .
Glad you find it useful!
Very helpful video. Thanks for sharing the tips.
Glad you think so! Thanks for your comment!
Thank you for your advices. Your content is interesting
Glad you think so!
Thank you. Your content is really great and we can learn a lot from it.
Thanks! Hope I can continue to provide useful info!
Songbird garden! I am so sorry I realised now editing my video that I missed one of your questions yesterday about building relationships with students and supervisors. To be honest I am a bit anti-social in the workplace so I am not the best person to ask ;) but in my university we have a office lunch area that makes it easy to have quick chats with other PhD students and supervisors. At the moment my university is holding coffee mornings and things like that over zoom since we are still working from home. I think also joining some clubs or societies can be helpful. As well, twitter is probably the biggest social media for researchers to connect (but I don't fullllly understand twitter yet)
@@PhDandProductivity Thank you so much!!! I am grateful to you for your response given. Yes I also think joining some clubs and societies will help to socialize with people around. more power to you!!!
Very interesting. Thank you Ciara
Thanks Naoufal! Glad you enjoyed it!
Good work. May I ask how did you record this video?
Research Beast with my iPhone 11
As a fellow AI phd student, I really love your channel!! Super helpful xx
Could you create a video about how you write neat academic ML code that can be added to a paper and the tool/technologies you use? I always struggle with that.
Thanks so much for your comment. I actually don't put my codes into papers. But I do with algorithms, and since I write my papers in latex I use their built in commands for this. www.overleaf.com/learn/latex/algorithms
Hi, sorry for my English because I'm not a native speaker 😅 I meant to ask if you could make a video/explain how you write clean code for academic purposes and what tools you're using, how is your project built etc. I think it could be really helpful ☺️
@@funkysapir I use Jupyter notebooks with python so that way I can add some notes in the markdown.
I like it before watching it💙
Thanks Emine !!
Great content. I always refer back to your videos. Could you please share the link to the photo website you mentioned?
www.pexels.com/ this site has totally elevated my presentations !