Talks
Yesterday Paula and Thomas gave great talks. Sadly, I was spaced out (or nervous about my talk) I forgot to take pictures! Augh! Thomas and I gave a 10 minute talk. This time slot is so short that you really have to carefully organize the talk. I'd not given one of them since I was a grad student. It was fun, but I had to talk so fast (Thomas says I ran long, but the organizer didn't stop me; benifit of being "senior").
During Saturday's plenary session there was one person who hand-wrote their transparencies. These were works of art -- I managed to capture one:
Some of his plots were even more amazing. Toby gave a talk after that on his GLAST work which was really good. I got a picture, but it was dark, and he was moving, so he is nothing but a blur.
I caught fellow quantum daiarist (sp??) Makoto Fujiwara talking about his ATHENA (anti-matter -- hydrogen!!) results. Looks like he has written about ATHENA and the next generation extensively in his blog already. I'd forgotten he lived up in this neck of the woods:
He gave a great talk -- very dynamic and was able to introduce a topic that was mostly unknown to me in 10 minutes.
In general, graduate students do a lot better at these 10 minute talks than anyone else. The reason is they practice, and when they go over the 10 minutes they eliminate material. I did not practice my talk, for example. And when you are speaking the 8 minutes before the 2 minute warning goes by in a flash. The great thing to do is watch people's expressions when they get the 2 minute warning. I'm sure I looked a little odd as I realized I was barely at the half way point. :-)
At the beginnig of your "10 minute talk" there is a picture of a mountain. What is the name of that mountain and where is it located exactly?
Normand
Posted by: Normand Hamel | May 16, 2005 at 05:17 PM
I pulled that mountain off the APSNW home web page:
http://www.aps.org/units/nws/
I'm not 100% sure which mountian it is -- but I think it is Mt. Hood. The water you see in the fore-ground is the Columbia River -- I think it is taken from around Portland, Or.
Posted by: Gordon Watts | May 16, 2005 at 09:55 PM
How about Mount Rainier? Anyway, it takes my breath away! Thanks for making me discover that national treasure.
Posted by: Normand Hamel | May 20, 2005 at 06:52 PM