{"id":2886,"date":"2012-04-10T12:00:17","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T16:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mathgradblog.williams.edu\/?p=2886"},"modified":"2013-04-05T01:39:57","modified_gmt":"2013-04-05T01:39:57","slug":"conference-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/2012\/04\/10\/conference-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Conference Talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2887\" title=\"KYMAA Banner\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/files\/2012\/04\/kmban.gif\" alt=\"KYMAA Banner\" width=\"629\" height=\"44\" \/>I recently presented at the <a href=\"http:\/\/sections.maa.org\/kentucky\/meetings\/program_12.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">2012 Kentucky MAA Annual meeting<\/a>. It was an excellent conference held on the Bellarmine University campus in Louisville, KY. Back in October, I posted a bit about <a href=\"http:\/\/mathgradblog.williams.edu\/conference-presentations\/#more-2377\" target=\"_blank\">Beamer<\/a>. At that time, I had not used Beamer very much. I have had a little more time to try it out though (my advisor also created his first Beamer presentation for this conference). Feel free to take a look at my presentation and give me feedback. You can download it at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tylermath.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Continued-Radicals-and-Cantor-Sets.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.tylerclark12.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Continued-Radicals-and-Cantor-Sets.pdf<\/a>.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>None of the current themes are appealing to me. There are good and bad aspects to all of them. Does anyone know about any online guides for creating\/altering Beamer themes?<\/p>\n<p>On another note, one of my fellow graduate students, Elizabeth Krantz gave a very nice talk. When she had finished, our session leader shared a thought with us. He said he had heard that a good talk should have two things: one result and one joke and the audience should know the difference between the two.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently presented at the 2012 Kentucky MAA Annual meeting. It was an excellent conference held on the Bellarmine University campus in Louisville, KY. Back in October, I posted a bit about Beamer. At that time, I had not used &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/2012\/04\/10\/conference-talks\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" data-url=https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/2012\/04\/10\/conference-talks\/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advice","category-math"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3gbww-Ky","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22756,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886\/revisions\/22756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}