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==Scientific presentations: Talks and Posters==
==Scientific presentations: Talks and posters==


===Designing talks===
===Designing talks===

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Physics & Astronomy journals

News & Views

General Science

General Physics

Reviews

Applied Physics

Nanoscience & Nanotechnology

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Space and Plasma Physics

Mathematical and Computational Physics

Physics Pedagogy

Searching the scientific literature

Physics and Astronomy conferences and workshops

Major conferences repeated every year

Examples of summer schools and workshops

Student membership in professional organizations

Ethics in science

  • A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world. (Albert Camus)
  • Categories of unethical behavior in science:
    • Plagiarism.
    • Falsification of data.
    • Redundant (duplicate) publication.
    • Drawing far-fetched conclusions without hard data, for early publicity.
    • Gift authorship (receiving as well as giving).
    • Not giving sufficient attention and consideration to scholars and postdocs.
    • Self promotion at the cost of team-members.
    • Treating colleagues (overall all juniors) in a feudal way.
    • Machiavellianism (cunningness and duplicity in general conduct and push to positions of power and pelf).
In 1632, Galileo Galilei published his Dialogue on Two World Systems, in which he defended a heliocentric theory of the solar system, a view that 
contradicted the Catholic Church’s position that the Earth does not move but that the Sun moves around it. In 1633, Galileo appeared before an 
inquisitor from the Catholic Church. He refused to recant his views and was sentenced to house arrest for the remainder of his life. The Church banned 
his book. In 1992, 359 years after Galileo’s arrest, Pope John Paul II formally apologized for its treatment of Galileo.

Scientific writing

N. D. Mermin

LaTeX templates

LaTeX packages

  • Overleaf (Online LaTeX)
  • MikTeX (LaTeX implementation for Windows)
  • TexStudio (TeX Editor for Windows, Linux, or Mac OS)
  • JabRef (organizer for BibTeX references)
  • Beamer (LaTeX alternative to PPT)
  • QuickLaTeX (prepare LaTeX equation images for inserting into PPT talks)

Cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience

 
Cognitive research shows that the amount of new material presented in a typical class is far more than a typical person can process or learn. 
People’s brains function in a way somewhat analogous to a personal computer with very limited random-access memory. The more things the brain is 
given to process at the same time – the cognitive load – the less effectively it can process anything. Any additional cognitive load, 
no matter what form it takes, will limit people's abilities to mentally process and learn new ideas. This is one of the most well-established and 
widely violated principles in education, including by many education researchers in their presentations. Cognitive  load  has  important  implications  
for  both classroom  teaching  and  technical  talks.  To  maximize learning, instructors must minimize cognitive load by limiting the amount of 
material presented, having a clear organizational  structure  to  the  presentation,  linking  new material  to  ideas  that  the  audience  already  
knows,  and avoiding unfamiliar technical terminology and interesting little digressions.

Scientific presentations: Talks and posters

Designing talks

Giving talks

Designing posters

Templates

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