Presentations

Here, I list a list of suggested topics. You can start emailing me your choice of partner (another student) and topic    

  -----  Monday Oct. 28th (8am to 11:59pm), first-come-first-served -------

after which I will assign you a partner + topic if you haven't decided. If you want to present a topic different from these, you have to get my approval before the same deadline The mid-term grades will be posted on Oct. 25th, and the last drop date is Nov. 4th.  So if you drop the course, please be kind and inform your partner in-time.


Presentation Requirements:

1) Two people in the group may have their work partitioned as: one person does the presentation and the other answers questions. The total time allotted to each group is 6 minutes, out of which ~ 4 minutes are for talk and ~ 2 minutes are for questions/discussions. Penalty (not award) incurs if your talk runs overtime.

2)  Be physical in your discussion -- this is a presentation by a science major so I don't expect to see only descriptive words. Ask whys and hows, and answer them by synthesizing the information you've found.

3) You will fare better if you can produce an estimate -- an estimate that discloses the essence of the phenomenon and gives your audience a good quantitative understanding.

4) I would discourage using slides --- you've got only a short time and have to be physical in your discussion. However, if you insist, you can email it to me at least a day ahead and I can project it using my laptop.

5)The audience are encouraged/required to ask questions. You can get up to 2 bonus marks (above the full 5 marks for presentation) if you ask particularly interesting questions. In the past, this has been the most fun part and both audiences/speakers learn from it.


Suggested Presentation Topics