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Capstone Talk PHYS 4300

• Date
• Author
• Advisor
• Acknowledgements

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Outline

• Motivation
• Background
• e.g. Maxwells Equations
• e.g. Relativistic Corrections
• Viewgraph Formatting
• Power Point Tricks
• Backgrounds, and Font, Size, Color, Style
• Bulleted/enumerated lists and hierarchy
• Images, Graphs, Schematics, and Cartoons
• The Perfect Viewgraph
• Conclusions
• Appendix Prof. John Wilkins Rules for Physics
  Talks

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Motivation

• Make it simple and interesting -lose them here
  and they are gone for good.

• General Motivation
• save the known world
• Specific
• Graphics are important here

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Background
Know your audience! - use this to get them up to
speed.

• Maxwells Equations
• Use equation editor for simple equation or import
  as objects from pdf etc. or cut and paste using
  ltPrint Screengt
• Relativistic Corrections

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Viewgraph Formatting

• Font
• Size - depends on room
• Color - depends on background
• Style - font, italics, bold, shadow, underline
  etc.
• Backgrounds keep them simple
• Bulleted/enumerated lists and hierarchy
• Images, Graphs, Schematics, and Cartoons
• The Perfect Viewgraph

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Viewgraph Formatting Font Size

• Depends on room and on font
• Can you read me now? (36)
• Can you read me now? (32)
• Can you read me now? (28)
• Can you read me now? (24)
• Can you read me now? (20)
• Can you read me now? (18)
• Can you read me now? (16)
• Can you read me now? (14)
• Can you read me now? (12)
• Can you read me now? (10)

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ON VIEWGRAPH FONTS TNR 40
Tools for Clarity TNR 28

• Hierarchy is crucial. TNR 24
• Group ideas logically, but be consistent. TNR
  20
• This adds needed order to a viewgraph. TNR 16
• But too much hierarchy is confusing. TNR 14
• For example, can you read this? TNR 14, 12, 10

• Colour too is useful. TNR 24
• Be consistent within and between viewgraphs. TNR
  20
• But to not be frivolous. TNR 16
• Over use of colour is distracting. TNR 14
• And some colours really do not work well. TNR 14

• Other tricks include distinctive fonts and
  highlighting. TNR 24
• Italics, bold, underlined, shadow and
  combinations? Be consistent TNR 20
• And do not over use. TNR 16
• For this can be very distracting Arial16, To
  say the least Alg..D 16
• Too much of this is bad.

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Demonstration PowerPoint

• Use the predefined blank.pot
• Bulleted items are formatted correctly
• you must use the Title and Text layout to get
  this bullet layout
• Addition bulleted text boxes should be a copy of
  this
• Go no deeper than this (and this is too deep)
• Keep text above 16 points (18 preferred) if you
  want the audience to be able to read the text
• Group graphical objects together as it makes it
  easier to modify the layout
• Use multiple groupings
• text and arrow
• text and scale bar
• etc.
• Then group the groups to have a composite drawing
• Name your PowerPoint Well DescriptiveTitle-YearMo
  nthDate.ppt
• i.e. DemonstrationPowerPoint-20050610.ppt

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Power Point Tricks

• Use Master Page it does save time!
• I like Font size to be defined by me, and the
  text box to fit around it.
• ltRight Clickgt ltFormat Place Holder..gt ltText Boxgt
  ltResize Autoshape ..gt
• Tricks to minimize white space.
• Use ltViewgt ltRulergt to minimize bullet-text
  separation
• Use ltFormatgt ltLine Spacinggt - minimum settings
  of 0.85 line and 0.15 before/after works.
• Maximize figure size. ltCopygt ltPaste Special, as
  Picture pnggt Very useful.
• If bulleted item is gt 2 lines you are probably
  being too verbose.
• For graphs, when you create the plots using
  whatever software package, use sensible colors
  (e.g. Bl R G B, and stay consistent!), thick
  enough lines, and large enough fonts.
• Fonts be sensible Arial is clean and Times New
  Roman dense.
• Graphics need a title and caption!
• Stealing graphics on the web ltPrint Screengt,
  ltPastegt and crop! But you must cite best cite
  below the figure.

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Single-Wall Nanotube Thin Films

• Combine electrical and optical properties
• Potential Applications
• Transparent Electrodes
• LCDs and Touch Screens

Transmission vs. l for SWNTs Deposited from
Various Solutions
Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) image of SWNTs
deposited on to glass
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Conclusions

• Often a summary and conclusions
• Future
• What will be done on the project after you
  leave/graduate

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Prof. John Wilkins Rules for Physics Talks

• Rules for preparing talk/viewgraphs
• Decide on take-home message.What do you want
  listeners to carry away? Design talk to that aim.
  
• Pick figures and illustrations that deliver
  take-home message.
• On each viewgraph, put
• Title that summarize subject of viewgraph.
• Carefully formulated argument.
• Conclusion of argument at bottom of viewgraph.
• Practice for
• Length. Shorter is better.
• Connectivity. Cleanly segue from one viewgraph to
  the next.
• Clarity . Formulate your ideas accurately and
  concisely.
• Segue
• To move smoothly and unhesitatingly from one
  state, condition, situation, or element to
  another.
• "Daylight segued into dusk" - Susan Dworski.
• How do the world's most celebrated adolescents
  sc. the Rolling Stones segue into middle age?
• http//www.physics.ohio-state.edu/wilkins/writing
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