{"id":33345,"date":"2021-01-06T08:00:35","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T13:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/?p=33345"},"modified":"2021-01-05T01:56:22","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T06:56:22","slug":"a-reflection-on-giving-online-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/2021\/01\/06\/a-reflection-on-giving-online-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"A Reflection on Giving ONLINE Talks"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Dr. Laura Colmenarejo<\/a> and Andr\u00e9s R. Vindas Mel\u00e9ndez<\/a><\/h4>\n

Acknowledgments: Special THANKS to Matthias Beck, Sophie Rehberg, and the Discrete Geometry Group\/The Villa at FU Berlin.<\/span><\/i><\/h4>\n

Dr. Laura Colmenarejo is currently a Marshall H. Stone Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.<\/h4>\n

Andr\u00e9s R. Vindas Mel\u00e9ndez is a PhD candidate at the Department of Mathematics at the University of Kentucky.<\/h4>\n

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Early in 2020 during, January and February, the second author was visiting the FU Berlin Discrete Geometry group where they held a weekly \u201csoft skills\u201d seminar and one of the topics was on how to give a good talk.\u00a0 After coming back the second author wrote \u201cA Reflection on Giving Talks<\/a>,\u201d where he compiled some feedback he received about a talk he gave and the advice presented in the soft skills seminar.\u00a0 Putting the advice into practice for in-person talks was short-lived since the coronavirus has pushed the field to modify the way seminar and conference talks are presented: ONLINE.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In November, both authors were invited to facilitate the soft skills seminar on the topic of <\/span>online talks<\/span><\/i>.\u00a0 Both authors have experience in organizing and facilitating online math conferences and seminars.\u00a0 For instance, the first author co-organized AlCoVE (Algebraic Combinatorial Virtual Expedition)<\/a> in June 15-16, and FPSAC (Formal Power Series in Algebraic Combinatorics)<\/a> during July 3-30, with 27 talks and more than 50 posters distributed during a total of 12 virtual sessions distributed among time zones all over the world.\u00a0 The second author co-organizes the Discrete Combinatorics, Algebra, Topology, and Statistics (CATS) seminar<\/a> at the University of Kentucky and the Graduate Online Combinatorics Colloquium (GOCC)<\/a>.\u00a0 Moreover, both authors participated in AIM UP (Advancing Inquiry\/Inclusion in Mathematics Undergraduate Program)<\/a>, a virtual research experience for undergraduates,\u00a0 during July 6-31 where they mentored undergraduate students on projects focusing on <\/span>parking functions<\/span><\/i>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Despite the transition to mainly online talks, much of the advice in \u201cA Reflection on Giving Talks<\/a>\u201d still holds, but we detail a few points here related to online talks with the hope that they may help others in their preparation and presentation of online talks.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Preparation Ideas:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n