Ph70 slide science(a few pointers)

David HitlinApril 2, 2019

Outline

• It is often useful to provide a brief outline or table of contents at the start of a presentation as well as a conclusion slide

• How to organize• Tell them what you are going to tell them• Tell them• Tell them what you told them

• This small set of slides is intended to provide some do’s and don’t’son design of the presentations you will give in Ph70

• There are many books and web sites that provided much more detailed guidance on effective presentations

• Many are listed on the Ph70 web page

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Why are you giving the presentation?

• It is most important to tailor the style and content to your audience• Seminars, conference presentations, presentations to a non-science

audience, …… have specific requirements in format, length, tone, etc.• In Ph70, you will have the opportunity to give three presentations:

• A seminar (30 minutes) aimed at a scientifically literate audience• This is a shortened version of the standard weekly seminars given all over the Institute• For example: an HEP seminar on neutrino oscillations would assume that the audience

consists of high energy physicists who are generally knowledgeable in the field, but are not neutrino specialists

• A talk (10 minutes) given at a parallel session of a conference• The audience is highly specialized: basically everyone is involved in neutrino physics• The is no need, and no time, for motivational material, or need to place your topic in

context: just the facts• A popular presentation (30 minutes) to an interested, literate audience of non-

scientists• The topic must be placed in its broad context• Use of equations and graphs is limited• Must find a “grabber”, i.e., an introduction that hooks the audience so they stay with you

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Why are you giving the presentation?

• It is most important to tailor the style and content to your audience• Seminars, conference presentations, presentations to a non-science

audience, …… have specific requirements in format, length, tone, etc.• In Ph70, you will have the opportunity to give three presentations:

• A seminar (30 minutes) aimed at a scientifically literate audience• This is a shortened version of the standard weekly seminars given all over the Institute• For example: an HEP seminar on neutrino oscillations would assume that the audience

consists of high energy physicists who are generally knowledgeable in the field, but are not neutrino specialists

• A talk (10 minutes) given at a parallel session of a conference• The audience is highly specialized: basically everyone is involved in neutrino physics• The is no need, and no time, for motivational material, or need to place your topic in

context: just the facts• A popular presentation (30 minutes) to an interested, literate audience of non-

scientists• The topic must be placed in its broad context• Use of equations and graphs is limited• Must find a “grabber”, i.e., an introduction that hooks the audience so they stay with you

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Why are you giving the presentation?

• It is most important to tailor the style and content to your audience• Seminars, conference presentations, presentations to a non-science

audience, …… have specific requirements in format, length, tone, etc.• In Ph70, you will have the opportunity to give three presentations:

• A seminar (30 minutes) aimed at a scientifically literate audience• This is a shortened version of the standard weekly seminars given all over the Institute• For example: an HEP seminar on neutrino oscillations would assume that the audience

consists of high energy physicists who are generally knowledgeable in the field, but are not neutrino specialists

• A talk (10 minutes) given at a parallel session of a conference• The audience is highly specialized: basically everyone is involved in neutrino physics• The is no need, and no time, for motivational material, or need to place your topic in

context: just the facts• A popular presentation (30 minutes) to an interested, literate audience of non-

scientists• The topic must be placed in its broad context• Use of equations and graphs is limited• Must find a “grabber”, i.e., an introduction that hooks the audience so they stay with you

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Why are you giving the presentation?

• It is most important to tailor the style and content to your audience• Seminars, conference presentations, presentations to a non-science

audience, …… have specific requirements in format, length, tone, etc.• In Ph70, you will have the opportunity to give three presentations:

• A seminar (30 minutes) aimed at a scientifically literate audience• This is a shortened version of the standard weekly seminars given all over the Institute• For example: an HEP seminar on neutrino oscillations would assume that the audience

consists of high energy physicists who are generally knowledgeable in the field, but are not neutrino specialists

• A talk (10 minutes) given at a parallel session of a conference• The audience is highly specialized: basically everyone is involved in neutrino physics• The is no need, and no time, for motivational material, or need to place your topic in

context: just the facts• A popular presentation (30 minutes) to an interested, literate audience of non-

scientists• The topic must be placed in its broad context• Use of equations and graphs is limited• Must find a “grabber”, i.e., an introduction that hooks the audience so they stay with you

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Why are you giving the presentation?

• It is most important to tailor the style and content to your audience• Seminars, conference presentations, presentations to a non-science

audience, …… have specific requirements in format, length, tone, etc.• In Ph70, you will have the opportunity to give three presentations:

• A seminar (30 minutes) aimed at a scientifically literate audience• This is a shortened version of the standard weekly seminars given all over the Institute• For example: an HEP seminar on neutrino oscillations would assume that the audience

consists of high energy physicists who are generally knowledgeable in the field, but are not neutrino specialists

• A talk (10 minutes) given at a parallel session of a conference• The audience is highly specialized: basically everyone is involved in neutrino physics• The is no need, and no time, for motivational material, or need to place your topic in

context: just the facts• A popular presentation (30 minutes) to an interested, literate audience of non-

scientists• The topic must be placed in its broad context• Use of equations and graphs is limited• Must find a “grabber”, i.e., an introduction that hooks the audience so they stay with you

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Why are you giving the presentation?

• It is most important to tailor the style and content to your audience• Seminars, conference presentations, presentations to a non-science

audience, …… have specific requirements in format, length, tone, etc.• In Ph70, you will have the opportunity to give three presentations:

• A seminar (30 minutes) aimed at a scientifically literate audience• This is a shortened version of the standard weekly seminars given all over the Institute• For example: an HEP seminar on neutrino oscillations would assume that the audience

consists of high energy physicists who are generally knowledgeable in the field, but are not neutrino specialists

• A talk (10 minutes) given at a parallel session of a conference• The audience is highly specialized: basically everyone is involved in neutrino physics• The is no need, and no time, for motivational material, or need to place your topic in

context: just the facts• A popular presentation (30 minutes) to an interested, literate audience of non-

scientists• The topic must be placed in its broad context• Use of equations and graphs is limited• Must find a “grabber”, i.e., an introduction that hooks the audience so they stay with you

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Why are you giving the presentation?

• It is most important to tailor the style and content to your audience• Seminars, conference presentations, presentations to a non-science

audience, …… have specific requirements in format, length, tone, etc.• In Ph70, you will have the opportunity to give three presentations:

• A seminar (30 minutes) aimed at a scientifically literate audience• This is a shortened version of the standard weekly seminars given all over the Institute• For example: an HEP seminar on neutrino oscillations would assume that the audience

consists of high energy physicists who are generally knowledgeable in the field, but are not neutrino specialists

• A talk (10 minutes) given at a parallel session of a conference• The audience is highly specialized: basically everyone is involved in neutrino physics• The is no need, and no time, for motivational material, or need to place your topic in

context: just the facts• A popular presentation (30 minutes) to an interested, literate audience of non-

scientists• The topic must be placed in its broad context• Use of equations and graphs is limited• Must find a “grabber”, i.e., an introduction that hooks the audience so they stay with you

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Slide design

• Backgrounds• Organization• Colors• Fonts• Figures

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Backgrounds

• It is sometimes interesting to incorporate some design elements into a background

• Can add some visual interest• Can be distracting• Can reduce the available space for text and other material

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Click to edit Master title style

Click to edit Master subtitle style

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Backgrounds

• It is sometimes interesting to incorporate some design elements into a background

• Can add some visual interest• Can be distracting• Can reduce the available space for text and other material

• Light or dark palette?

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Colors on a light background

• Don’t use yellow• Don’t use light green• Figures blend with background

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Colors on a light background

• Don’t use yellow• Don’t use light green• Figures blend with background

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Colors on a dark background

• Can use yellow• Can use light green• Figure borders don’t blend

into background• It is possible to invert figures

(not recommended)

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Colors on a dark background

• Can use yellow• Can use light green• Figure borders don’t blend

into background• It is possible to invert figures

(not recommended)

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Figures

• Figures should be large enough to be read and understood• This particularly applies to legends and labels

• Often when a figure is pasted into a presentation, the labels are too small to read and the figures/text can become illegible

• This can be helped by sharpening, e.g., with Ifanview in Windows and be (usually manually)enlarging the size of labels and legends

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Figures

• Figures should be large enough to be read and understood• This particularly applies to legends and labels

• Often when a figure is pasted into a presentation, the labels are too small to read and the figures/text can become illegible

• This can be helped by sharpening, e.g., with Ifanview in Windows and be (usually manually)enlarging the size of labels and legends

Sharpened in Irfanview

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Figures

• Figures should be large enough to be read and understood• This particularly applies to legends and labels

• Often when a figure is pasted into a presentation, the labels are too small to read and the figures/text can become illegible

• This can be helped by sharpening, e.g., with Ifanview in Windows and be (usually manually)enlarging the size of labels and legends

Sharpened in Irfanview

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Typefaces, fonts and density• Serif – ties text together – works well in explanatory text

• Garamond• Times New Roman• Gothic

• Sans serif – works well in titles• Arial• Helvetica• Calibri

• Density• How much on a slide

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Big idea or new topic

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Clear exposition• Limit the number of topics or ideas introduced on an individual slide• Keep text succinct, but use complete phases or sentences• Distinguish main and subsidiary ideas by bullets, indents, text size

• Here is first subsidiary point• Here is second point

• Do you reveal text sequentially?• Are you leading the audience with a detailed step-by-by step argument?• Do you want them to see the entire argument at once, as you state it?

• Too much text on a single pages turns it into a document, not a slide

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Clear exposition• Limit the number of topics or ideas introduced on an individual slide

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Clear exposition• Limit the number of topics or ideas introduced on an individual slide• Keep text succinct, but use complete phases or sentences

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Clear exposition• Limit the number of topics or ideas introduced on an individual slide• Keep text succinct, but use complete phases or sentences• Distinguish main and subsidiary ideas by bullets, indents, text size

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Clear exposition• Limit the number of topics or ideas introduced on an individual slide• Keep text succinct, but use complete phases or sentences• Distinguish main and subsidiary ideas by bullets, indents, text size

• Here is first subsidiary point

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Clear exposition• Limit the number of topics or ideas introduced on an individual slide• Keep text succinct, but use complete phases or sentences• Distinguish main and subsidiary ideas by bullets, indents, text size

• Here is first subsidiary point• Here is second point

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Clear exposition• Limit the number of topics or ideas introduced on an individual slide• Keep text succinct, but use complete phases or sentences• Distinguish main and subsidiary ideas by bullets, indents, text size

• Here is first subsidiary point• Here is second point

• Do you reveal text sequentially?

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Clear exposition• Limit the number of topics or ideas introduced on an individual slide• Keep text succinct, but use complete phases or sentences• Distinguish main and subsidiary ideas by bullets, indents, text size

• Here is first subsidiary point• Here is second point

• Do you reveal text sequentially?• Are you leading the audience with a detailed step-by-by step argument?

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Clear exposition• Limit the number of topics or ideas introduced on an individual slide• Keep text succinct, but use complete phases or sentences• Distinguish main and subsidiary ideas by bullets, indents, text size

• Here is first subsidiary point• Here is second point

• Do you reveal text sequentially?• Are you leading the audience with a detailed step-by-by step argument?• Do you want them to see the entire argument at once, as you state it?

Don’t make your audience wish they had not skipped their last eye exam

• 28 point• 24 Point• 18 point• 16 point• 14 point• 12 point

• 10 point

• 8 point

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Don’t make your audience wish they had not skipped their last eye exam

• 28 point• 24 Point• 18 point• 16 point• 14 point• 12 point

• 10 point

• 8 point

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Housekeeping

• Always number your slides• Either 1,2,3, …. or 4/24 …… or 4 of 24

• Provide sources for material, in the vicinity of figure or other material,and/or in a bibliography at the end of talk

• Appropriate acknowledgments

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Ph70-specific items

Ph70 Paper• You will also write a paper, at a Scientific American or Discover level

• This may or may not be on the same topic as the popular presentation• Typical length: 2000-2500 words

• As with the popular presentation, context and motivation are important aspects of designing and writing the paper

• We will approximate the method by which papers are written in the real world

• Outline• First draft• Peer review• Final draft incorporating comments

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Ph70-specific items

Grading• You will fill out a Google form for each presentation giving your impression• There will be a video of each presentation posted to the Ph70 website, along

with a copy of the slides• Part of your assignment is to view the video of your own presentations and fill out a

grading form• This can be enlightening

• If you miss a class or a presentation, you should also view the missed presentations and fill out a grading form for them

• At the end of the term I will provide you with comparison of your individual grades for each presentation, compared to the class-assigned grade

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Ph70 comparison of class and self grades