Publicity#

We try to give people a change to practice talks in advance and also to give as wide as possible an audience to them after they occur.

Before the Talk#

Make sure to get in touch with me (Pence) well in advance of the talk. Unless it’s a talk that you’ve given a million times before, we can arrange a practice talk (whether just in the group, or at the CEFISES WIP seminar). They’re often extremely helpful.

Note that it is expected that you will give respectful, constructive commentary. I don’t know what departments you’ve come from before, and some places really do focus on attacking papers just as hard as you possibly can. But that’s not the kind of culture we have here. You’re here to make each other’s work better, and to treat them decently as human beings.

After the Talk#

I’m a fan of posting slides online, so that attendees could consult them if they’re interested later. For my talks, at least, I do the following (and would encourage everyone else in the group to do the same):

• DIAL: slides, handout, etc. (strongly recommended)

  DIAL is the institutional archive of UCLouvain. Unlike for papers, it is not required for us to publish talk slides there, but it is strongly encouraged by the university as a record of our conference attendance.

• figshare: slides, handout, etc., and also posters (strongly recommended)

  The open data repository figshare also hosts presentations and posters, including giving them a DOI. It’s a nice site, and well known in the scientific community.