Most research students don’t seem to attend seminars. When asked, they usually say the seminars are not on their topic, or they don’t understand them, or they find them boring, or some other similar reason. I think this is because students don’t understand the purpose of research seminars, and have not learned how to listen [...]
Posts about seminars
Attending research seminars
Oct 14
It seems everyone has 7 secrets to success, and now someone has hopped on the 7-secrets bandwagon with something for PhD students. Thinkwell is an Australian company offering a seminar and associated work book on “The 7 secrets of highly successful PhD students”. I bought the book out of curiosity, but “book” is a gross [...]
With conference season almost upon us, it is timely to discuss what makes a good conference presentation.
Here is a suggested structure.
A motivitating example demostrating the problem you are trying to solve.
Explain existing approaches to the problem and their weaknesses.
Describe your main contributions.
Show how your ideas solve the problem/example you started with.
That won’t necessarily work for [...]
