301387 – RPPGS
Dr Ivan Bojičić
SHORT TIPS
ON PREPARING
PAPER
PRESENTATION
1) PICK A PAPER
2) PREPARE OUTLINE
– you need to know what you talking about (i.e. read
the paper)
– make an outline (summarise the most important
parts of the paper)
– what is the general topic
– what is the specific scope of the paper
– what is the research question
– what is the methodological approach
– how is the data collected (experiment, survey,…)
– what are the main findings
– are there any problems/open questions
– what is your opinion of the paper
2) CONSTRUCT PRESENTATION OUTLINE
– now make the outline of your presentation
– Introduction: why you picked this paper (what is
the topic and why is important)
– Methodology: what exactly authors of the paper
did to solve the research question
– Results: what are the main findings of the paper
– Conclusion: do you agree or disagree with some
(or all) of the presented findings, do you think
they can be improved, do you have some cool
idea for a future study on the same topic
2) CONSTRUCT PRESENTATION
– Title Page: (obviously a title of the paper, authors
and your name) 1 slide
MNRAS 455, 3249–3262 (2016) doi:10.1093/mnras/stv2561
The Planck–ATCA Co-eval Observations project: analysis of radio source
properties between 5 and 217 GHz
Marcella Massardi,1‹ Anna Bonaldi,2 Laura Bonavera,3 Gianfranco De Zotti,4,5
Marcos Lopez-Caniego3 and Vincenzo Galluzzi1,6
1INAF, Osservatorio di Radioastronomia, Via Gobetti 101, I-40129 Bologna, Italy
2Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, School of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
3European Space Agency, ESAC, Planck Science Office, Camino bajo del Castillo, s/n, Urbanizacion Villafranca del Castillo, Villanueva de la Ca ´ nada, ˜
E-28692, Madrid, Spain
4INAF, Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, Vicolo dell’Osservatorio 5, I-35122 Padova, Italy
5SISSA, via Bonomea 265, I-34136 Trieste, Italy
6Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Universita di Bologna, via Ranzani 1, I-40126 Bologna, Italy `
Accepted 2015 October 29. Received 2015 October 27; in original form 2015 July 21
ABSTRACT
The Planck–ATCA Co-eval Observations (PACO) project has yielded observations of 464
sources with the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) between 4.5 and 40 GHz. The
main purpose of the project was to investigate the spectral properties of mm-selected radio
sources at frequencies below and overlapping with the ESA’s Planck satellite frequency bands,
minimizing the variability effects by observing almost simultaneously with the first two Planck
all-sky surveys. In this paper we present the whole catalogue of observations in total intensity.
By comparing PACO with the various measures of Planck Catalog of Compact Sources
Presented by
Ivan Bojicic (1000000)
Western Sydney University
03/09/2020
2) CONSTRUCT PRESENTATION
– Introduction:
– how did you find this paper
– why the topic is important
– use the parts of their introduction in combination
with material from other papers,
– use images/figures which “gently” introduce the
topic to general audience,
– if it relates to every-day issues, use it
– 1-2* slides
2) CONSTRUCT PRESENTATION
– Research Question/Objective:
– paraphrase the exact question/objective from the
paper (usually in the introduction of the paper)
– clearly state what they wanted to do in as much
technical language as possible (this is now
material for the “experts”)
– you can also briefly state findings
– 1-2* slides
2) CONSTRUCT PRESENTATION
– Methodology:
– clearly explain how they collected the data (show
excerpt of a table, instrument, survey page, etc),
– what statistical methods did they use,
– are there any interesting plots/graphs showing
results from the analysis
– YOU DON’T HAVE TO PRESENT ALL FIGURES
just pick the most interesting/useful ones
– 2-4* slides
2) CONSTRUCT PRESENTATION
– Results:
– what are the conclusions of the paper,
– do they make any sense
– are they in agreement with stated hypothesis,
– are the results in agreement with current
paradigm,
– how important are the results (how influential this
paper is by your opinion)
– 1- 3* slides
2) CONSTRUCT PRESENTATION
– Conclusion:
– your personal comments
– critique (misinterpreted results, speculative
language, statistics ambiguous etc)
– compliments (readable, well presented,
informative figures, etc)
– References
0-1* slides
3) TECHNICAL
– Text
– use the same font everywhere
– use different colours to emphasise something
important not to make slide pretty
– font size should be minimum 18 (24 is even
better)
– less text is better, if possible avoid text
completely
– reading from slides is bad!
3) TECHNICAL
– Images
– must have caption and image source*
– if it’s there you must talk about it
– avoid having more than 3 images on a slide (1 is
the best, 2 is ok, 3 is doable)
* for the “real life” presentation, in this case if the image is from the paper you presenting the
source is not required
Global digital terrain HEALPix example.
Image Source
3) TECHNICAL
– Tables
– must have caption and source
– if it’s there you must talk about it
– do not show long tables (show just few rows as
an example)
– do not read all numbers from tables (but you talk
about ranges or specific and interesting values)
– explain most important columns (not all columns
please)
3) TECHNICAL
– References
– format is not important as long as it’s clear
– place a bibliography at the end
3) TECHNICAL
– Use any software but I strongly recommend
Zoom
– Do not record yourself presenting (the file will be
too large for upload)
– If you using PowerPoint check your audio files
