some guidelines for your talk
William Stein
The presentation schedule for talks on your projects this week is
given below. You'll have about 10 minutes to talk, including getting
ready. If you want to use a computer to be faster, that's fine -- you
might even want to give me a pdf ahead of time.
Definitely don't worry that you have to tell me everything about your
topic in 10 minutes! You'll also have a paper that you'll hand in,
which will have much more details. The point of your talk is to:
- state what your final project paper is on (you might state a
definition or definitions here).
- explain something about why this topic was so interesting to you,
i.e., why did you decide on this topic when so many others were
available?
- briefly mention any surprises are especially exciting things you ran into.
Think of this as a sort of "advertisement" to get the other students
in class to be interested in reading your paper. Formally, since I
didn't mention the presentation on the syllabus, I will _not_ base
your final project grade on the quality of your presentation. That
said, a good presentation will probably make it much easier for me to
understand and appreciate your final project when I do grade it.
--
William Stein
Professor of Mathematics
University of Washington
http://wstein.org