[Clas_hadron] NSTAR Talk for Hanretty

[Barry Ritchie]

Charles, while this is a very nicely presented set of slides, a talk should not resemble an Olympic event where one tries to see how many slides can be shown in 17 minutes. Such talks will be given but they are unprofessional and ineffective. 
 
This is an opportunity for you (and others in the FROST group) to present what we in the FROST group have come up with in a manner that makes people confident of our work as a collaboration. Rapid-fire slide presentations do not inspire confidence or communicate results clearly. As I mentioned earlier, an effective presentation generally averages one slide per minute over the entire presentation, recognizing that some may be shown for more time and others for less time. The 67-slide original would not have been appropriate for a one hour talk, let alone a quarter of that time. And a slide shown for less than one second shouldn't be shown at all. 
 
Why not sit down with someone, look at what you have and start with the five slides you think are most important and then build the rest of the talk around those with no more than 15 additional slides.  Going the other way (dozens down to twenty) will take too long to iterate for a talk you want to give next week. If there is no one to help you with it before you go to the meeting, Eugene would likely be willing to help you with that once you're at the meeting.
 
---BGR
 
Professor Barry G. Ritchie
Department of Physics
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ  85287-1504
 
Telephone: (480) 965-4707
 

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From: clas_hadron-bounces at jlab.org on behalf of Charles Hanretty
Sent: Thu 5/12/2011 2:12 PM
To: clas_hadron at jlab.org
Subject: [Clas_hadron] NSTAR Talk for Hanretty


Hello all,
     I have placed the slides I plan to present at the upcoming NSTAR conference hosted at JLab in /site/www/html/Hall-B/secure/clas_hadron/presentations/2011/. The file is named "NSTAR_Hanretty.pdf". The talk will be a summary of my extractions of the polarization observables Is and Ic for gamma p->p pi+ pi- from the g8b data set as well as a presentation of my preliminary results. I realize that there are many slides in this talk. Please keep in mind that many of these slides will only be shown for a short period (especially the preliminary results). I will make sure that my talk does not go too long. 


Comments and/or suggestions are welcome.


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Cheers,
Charles Hanretty