Math 196 - Student colloquium (Winter 2020)

• Lecture times and location: W 12:00PM - 12:50PM, AP&M B412
• Instructor: Steven Sam email
• Office hours: none officially, but feel free to speak with me after class or email for an appointment

• Be absent at most 1 time. If there is a legitimate reason you have to miss more, email me and we will make other arrangements.
• Present a mini-lecture. Based on enrollment sizes, approximately 4 classes will be for student presentations.
  Each one will be 15-17 minutes (so we can fit 3 in a lecture) and done in groups of 2.
  We could also do some groups of size 3-4 with longer presentation times, just let me know.
  The following text offers many suggestions for presentation ideas: link
  Sub-requirement: email me by Jan. 22 with a proposed topic (and a backup topic) and who you will work with.

• Have a clear goal and state it early on: this is probably the statement of a theorem and its proof.
• Go in a logical order: present definitions and examples when appropriate.
• Write and speak clearly. Only focus on things which are needed to reach your goal. Also, you don't have to prove every detail since you may not have time.
• A common mistake is to write too little. You should assume that people only process about half of what you say, so redundancy is a good thing.
• PRACTICE! It is difficult (especially when inexperienced) to actually stay within a time limit.

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