/preCUMC_panel_workshop.txt
Created Jul 23, 2019
Agenda for preCUMC Panel/Workshop
| Workshop/Panel | |
| Hour 1: | |
| Learning Objectives: | |
| By the end of this hour, participants will be able to | |
| 1. Describe a typical day at the CUMC. | |
| 2. Introduce yourself to a (math) stranger. | |
| 3. Network with other undergrads in math. | |
| 1. Introductions | |
| -Learning Objectives | |
| - Other events in this series: | |
| - Practice talks (July 16th from 3-6pm in Bahen 2155) | |
| - pre-CUMC mini-conference (Friday July 19 3pm-6pm, this room) | |
| -Introduce Panel (maybe) | |
| 2. What is CUMC? | |
| - Annual summer conference for math undergrads. | |
| - This year in Kingston. (2008 it was in Toronto!) | |
| - Students give 20min presentations about whatever math topic they like (lots of diversity, not nec. original research) | |
| - There are people from across Canada (and the world) | |
| - Presentations happen simulataneously. | |
| - You don't *have* to give a presentation (but you probably should) | |
| - There is lots of time for hanging out/socializing/networking. | |
| [See CUMC website FAQ] | |
| 3. Gather questions | |
| - Mentimeter | |
| 4. Away panelists | |
| - Read Lyra's statement | |
| - Watch Jordyn's video | |
| 5. Ask questions of the panelists | |
| Backup questions: | |
| - Dress code | |
| - What are the people like? | |
| - Did you make any friends? | |
| - How did you meet people? | |
| - What was a typical day like? Busy? How many talks did you go to? | |
| - What types of talks did you go to? What was your favourite? | |
| - What was your actual presentation like? | |
| 6. Networking advice | |
| Think-pair-share on the question "Why do we network at the CUMC? and How?". Put both questions on the blackboard and let people fill them in together. | |
| - Ask questions. | |
| - Things about the conference. (Keynotes, activities, talks they've been to) | |
| - What university? | |
| - What math they like? (Have any fun examples/problems/theorems?) | |
| - What is your talk about? (How did it go?) | |
| - Connect your personal experience with their answers. (This allows the conversation to progress.) | |
| - Say Hi to people! | |
| 7. Game 1. Networking | |
| - Find a person, and introduce yourself. I'll give you under 2 minutes, then we'll switch. (Repeat for 10 minutes) | |
| Debrief: What did you learn? What went well? What was challenging? | |
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| Hour 2: | |
| Learning Objectives: | |
| By the end of this hour, participants will be able to | |
| 1. Plan a CUMC presentation. | |
| 2. Find Abstracts of other talks. | |
| 3. Modify 3 key features (target audience, topic, LOs) of a conference presentation. | |
| 4. Ask good questions in a presentation. | |
| 1. Finding abstracts | |
| - Look at the 2017 website (they have abstracts listed). https://cumc.math.ca/2017/ | |
| [ACTIVITY: Find 3 abstracts that look interesting to you.] | |
| [ACTIVITY: Think-Pair-Share: What do you notice about the abstracts? What do the good ones have in common?] | |
| 2. Game 2: "Tell me about" | |
| - Find a person. | |
| -Person 1 will start talking about a math topic that they like. | |
| -Person 2 can interupt at any time and say "Tell me about [this thing you mentioned]". | |
| -Person 1 then talks about that. | |
| -It's okay (and expected) that the topics move around a lot. | |
| -It's okay if Person 1 stumbles, or says something that isn't exactly true. Try to keep it moving. | |
| -We'll switch. | |
| Debrief: What did you learn? What went well? What was challenging? What questions were the best? | |
| - In presentations, sometimes we ask questions to show off. Don't do that. You can always talk/discuss after the presentation. | |
| 3. What should a talk contain? | |
| [TPS: "What should a good presentation contain?"] | |
| - Proofs? | |
| - Exmples? | |
| - Motivation? | |
| - Every details? | |
| 4. Game 3. "Remixing a talk" | |
| - There are 3 main variables for a talk: | |
| - Topic | |
| - Target Audience | |
| - Learning Objectives | |
| We can vary these. | |
| Choose a topic that you could speak about. I'll give you the rest. Make a plausible plan. | |
| Activity 1. | |
| - Topic: Your choice. | |
| - Target Audience (I'll choose one, let you think, then give you a different one): | |
| 4th year undergrads | |
| 1st year undergrads | |
| Motivated Grade 9 students | |
| Very smart kindergardners | |
| Fields medalists | |
| - Learning Objectives: Draw a picture of the key idea in the talk. | |
| Activity 2. | |
| -Topic: "Things they didn't teach you in 1st year calc" | |
| -Target Audience: 2nd year undergrads (with calc and lin alg) | |
| -LOs: | |
| - Solve a very hard integral. | |
| - Generalize some 1st year calc concepts/problems into topology/analysis. | |
| - [General amazement] |
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