Category Archives: Presentations and seminars

Scientific meetings are important, so plan your summer now

Posted on February 8, 2012 by

Some meeting deadlines have already passed. Others are hard on us. Choose a meeting now and figure out how to get to it. If you are a student, or postdoc, find all the competitions you can enter and do it. … Continue reading →

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What we look for in a new faculty candidate

Posted on December 13, 2011 by

I think we are generally pretty good at not just picking our friends, but we prefer that your advisors, or people on your committee, be people who have contributed to the field enough that we have read their work, or know their ideas. … If we think you are doing things just like your advisor, and have not branched out, have not read widely, we will worry about what you will be doing in five years. Continue reading →

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Lose the laser pointer! Let your slides speak for themselves!

Posted on October 7, 2011 by

So many speakers use fiddling with the little red or green light as a kind of scribbling on the slide, distracting the audience from the very thing he, or she, wants us to look at. … It would be great if you could have a first figure that just shows the predicted pattern, so we can get used to the way you present the data before we see the actual data. Continue reading →

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