Paper Title Team member names Paper authors Paper
Paper Title Team member names Paper authors Paper citation (venue, year, etc)
Problem statement • What is the problem addressed in the paper • Give gist of problem attacked and insight found (What is the one idea you want people to leave with? This is the "abstract" of an oral presentation. ) • Sometimes an example helps here
Talk Outline • Give talk structure
Background (~1 -6 slides) • Motivation • Why should anyone care? Don’t overestimate how much the audience knows about the problem you are discussing. Give all the basics. • Related/Prior Work • Only include work that you need to explain the paper you are presenting. In some cases this can be omitted from the talk (never the paper).
Methods (~1 -3 slides) • What scientific, mathematical or engineering tools were used in the paper
Results (~4 -8 slides) • Present key results and key insights. This is main body of the talk. Its internal structure varies greatly as a function of the researcher's contribution. (Do not superficially cover all results; cover key result well. Do not just present numbers; interpret them to give insights. Do not put up large tables of numbers. )
Summary (~1 slide) • Summarize the main “take-aways” of the paper
Future Work (~0 -2 slides) • Optionally give problems this research opens up
References • If you have mentioned other papers in your talk, provide full citations for them to make your talk “self-contained” • This is good scholarship
Backup Slides • It is good practice to try to anticipate things that might be unclear and on which you may get questions. • The talk up to this point must not be over 25 or so slides (expect you’ll spend at least 1 min/slides and often more so my advise is to aim for 15 -20 slides). • Backup slides are not counted in your talk total and are used to answer expected questions. (Likely question areas: ideas glossed over, shortcomings of methods or results, and sometimes future work. )
- Slides: 10