1. How to Make a Presentation ?
Wing-Kai Hon (韓永楷)
National Tsing Hua University
Aug 04, 2008

2. Overview How to make a presentation How to make a better presentation
(Focus of Today’s Talk)
How can we do even better ?

3. Making a Presentation (The Usual Format)
Title
Overview
Motivation
Problem Definition
Your Results
Conclusion

4. Making a Better Presentation
Big Question:
Why people come to your talk ?

5. Making a Better Presentation
Possible Answers:
You are Bill Gates
You look like a movie star
They are trapped
Better than not to come

6. Making a Better Presentation
Know your audience
Select your focus
Help your audience understand
Help your audience memorize

7. Knowing Your Audience Very important
Greatly affect what you should talk
For the same topic, very different if you are presenting in
Individual Meeting
Group Meeting
Conference

8. Knowing Your Audience Good Test What should we do ?
Most audience can fully understand
first 1/3 of your presentation
People with similar background can
fully understand up to the end
What should we do ?
Keep this in mind when making slides

9. Selecting the Focus Most important reason why your audience are here
Why don’t they just read your paper ??
Give them the juice
instead of the orange

10. Selecting the Focus What should we do ?
No need to show every lemma or result
Spend more time on main results
(It helps to be precise and concise)
Mention the key concepts

11. Helping Audience To Understand
There are many ways
First trick :
A picture worths millions of words !

12. A slide used in 2007

13. An extra slide used in 2008

14. Helping Audience To Understand
Second trick :
Use More Pictures ^_^ !!

15. Explaining 9-point circle

16. Explaining 9-point circle

17. Explaining 9-point circle

18. Explaining 9-point circle

19. Helping Audience To Understand
Third trick :
Examples and Counter-Examples

20. Explaining a Complete Graph
Not a Complete Graph

21. Helping Audience To Understand
Fourth trick :
Put Related Things Together

22. Explaining Perfect Number
Perfect Numbers:
6 =
28 =
Amicable Pairs :
220 =
284 =

23. Helping Audience To Memorize
Avoid Details
Summarize from time to time
Choose your notation cleverly

24. How Can We Do Even Better ?
More Practice
More Preparation
Make your slides available
Distribute handouts
Downloadable after the talk

25. Can we do better ? More Interaction Learn from others
Slides by Charles Berndt [link]
An Interesting Talk by Don McMillan [link]
Dave Liu’s talk: The Beauty of Computing
Add a joke or two
if you are really good at it ^_^