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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