Dear members:
Today is the last day to register for the All Hands meeting.
Best,
Cathy
From: Catherine M Bourgeois
Sent: Friday, January 13, 2017 10:43 AM
To: excitonics-sp <excitonics-sp(a)mit.edu>du>; efrc-faculty
<efrc-faculty(a)mit.edu>
Subject: Registration for All Hands Meeting - January 25
Importance: High
Hi all,
Just another friendly reminder to register by no later than Tuesday, Jan 17, if you plan
on attending. Also, if you are funded by the center that you are expected to attend
and give a 5 min presentation on your work. See the details below.
Kindly take a moment now to register.
[CLICK HERE TO REGISTER]<https://goo.gl/forms/G2BWZrgrWrM3dhu22>
Best,
Cathy
From: Catherine M Bourgeois
Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2016 10:53 AM
To: efrc-faculty <efrc-faculty@mit.edu<mailto:efrc-faculty@mit.edu>>;
excitonics-sp <excitonics-sp@mit.edu<mailto:excitonics-sp@mit.edu>>
Subject: Registration for All Hands Meeting - January 25
Dear members:
I would like to invite everyone to the 2017 All-Hands Meeting on Wednesday January 25
at the MIT Endicott House in Dedham. Please use this gathering as an opportunity to meet
and talk with your colleagues. Somewhere in the room there may well be a collaborator for
your next big result. We'll be using the same guidelines as last year for the
talks:
Each student or postdoc that is funded by the center is expected to give a 5 minute
presentation. It is important that these brief talks be comprehensible to our broad
audience and to potential funders, so we are asking presenters to craft their talks with
care. We're also asking all attendees to participate in scoring and providing
helpful comments on each presentation. This can be useful guidance for more effective
communication, an increasingly important career skill.
"Research Communication Challenge" scoring will focus on three criteria:
1. Clarity of motivation & significance: Why are you doing the work? What do you
hope to achieve?
2. Speaking style & delivery: Tell us an engaging story without too much jargon.
Can we hear you?
3. Effectiveness of slides and graphics: Can we read and understand everything that
you project? Does each slide support the message, or is there too much information
competing with the narrative for us to process in such a short amount of time?
Highest scorers in each category will win certificates and $100 cash prizes. In addition,
the highest scorer overall will receive $100.
Attached is the slide presentation template with guidelines; however, you may modify it or
design slides more suitable for your particular talk. You may use as many slides as you
think you need, but please follow the 5 minute time limit exactly. Presenters who exceed
the 5 minute limit by more than 30 seconds will be penalized in the scoring. However,
there may be some time for Q&A following each presentation.
[CLICK HERE TO REGISTER]<https://goo.gl/forms/G2BWZrgrWrM3dhu22>
Deadline to register is Tuesday, January 17.
Finally, please send your presentations by Sunday evening, January 22nd to Cathy
(cmbourg@MIT.EDU<mailto:cmbourg@MIT.EDU>) and we'll upload them and organize
them into the schedule.
We'll send links to each registered participant on Wednesday morning, Jan 25th, for
you to access the presentation scoring and feedback site via a smartphone, tablet or
laptop.
Until then,
Marc
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