Tips on general organization of your talk:
- State the hypothesis and purpose of your research.
- Describe your methods of investigation.
- Include data collected and what was learned.
- Give conclusions based on the collected data.
- Emphasize the significance and highlights of the research.
Presentation tips:
- Prepare notes that highlight the salient points of your talk.
- Practice the delivery of your talk several times prior to your presentation along with your slide sequence, being sure to fit your talk into the time allocated.
- Use simple sentences; avoid jargon, highly specialized vocabulary and unfamiliar abbreviations.
- Think about questions you might be asked about your work and be prepared with well-thought out answers, being mindful of the limited time for discussion.
- Audio-visuals should amplify your talk, not duplicate it.
- Choose the medium that will optimally display your information - don't use words if a picture will convey it more clearly (graphs, tables, charts, etc.)
- Use line graphs to show trends; bar graphs to compare magnitudes; pie graphs to demonstrate relative portions of a whole.
- Make sure your supporting audio-visuals are concise, uncluttered, and easily read from a distance.
At the Meeting:
- Check the online program on the APS website to see if there are any changes in your session or the program itself.
- Invited talks are 36 minutes (30+6) and contributed talks are 12 minutes (10+2). Mini-symposia include an invited talk and contributed talks.
- The chair should give 5 minute and 1 minute warnings for invited talks; but only a 2 minute warning for contributed talks.
- It is important that the sessions run on time and the talks are presented in the order scheduled so that participants can move to other sessions and not miss talks.
- All talks will be presented on session laptops. To facilitate optimal functioning of the sessions, please upload your talks to the Google drive created for the meeting by the night before your presentations. The talks should be in pdf or powerpoint formats and named according to the order of the session in the epitome, https://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/DNP24/APS_epitome. Please use the title format: "Session_LastName_TalkNumber.pdf," e.g., the 5th talk in session D01 should be posted as D01_LastName_5.pdf. The folders in the google drive are divided by days and sessions. When uploading your talk, please find your respective session/folder in the Google drive and upload your talk to the appropriate folder, using the name suggested above, "Session_LastName_TalkNumber.pdf," Note that pdf is preferred but powerpoint should also work. To be sure that your files will display correctly on the session computer, please go to the speaker ready room (Exeter, on the Mezzanine Level) and check that it works. You can also do this on the day before your talk and upload it to the drive in Exeter. It is especially important to make this check if you have any animations. No talks will be shared without the permission of the speakers.
