Seminario de hoy sobre el Mecanismo de Higgs, a mi parecer arruinado por una mediocre ponencia de un reconocido investigador SNI III.
— Pedro Figueroa (@p_fold) October 4, 2013
En realidad es frecuente que las ponencias sean malas aunque los temas sean excitantes y/o los ponentes sean buenos investigadores.
— Pedro Figueroa (@p_fold) October 4, 2013
Pues eso. Con tal motivo, acá cito el siguiente texto de John Baez:
People should leave your talks feeling happier and wiser than when they came in. So often it's the opposite. Be an exception. Your talks should be clear, concise, fun, exciting, and never ever run over time. For each extra minute your talk runs over, 10% more of the audience will decide you are a jerk and start fantasizing about you falling down a trap door.
Practice your talks! Give them in front of a video camera and see how silly you look staring at the overhead projector, blocking the view for the audience with your own shadow, mumbling "omega squared phi times psi cubed d theta" like some mad scientist when you could actually be looking at the audience and telling them something cool. Watch yourself struggling to turn on the laser pointer, tripping over the microphone wire, fumbling around for the next transparency, struggling to slowly slide a piece of paper down the transparency in a pathetic intellectual striptease, desperately struggling against Microsoft to get your Powerpoint presentation to work, engaging in all sorts of pointless antics that distract from the subject matter, wasting precious time, boring people to death. And resolve to do better!
You are on stage: be entertaining! Don't show people equations they don't really need to see - that's what journal articles are for. Convey your wisdom in memorable sentences. Be eloquent. Be formidable, yet fun. And most of all, convince people that you are someone they would like to have around. Yes, someone they would want to give tenure.
Advice for the young scientist by John Baez
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