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Mar. 22nd, 2010 04:56 pmCause that's just about all my life is lately.
This week I'm giving two talks; one on Wednesday in the ILLC's internal Logic and Interactive Rationality seminar series, and one on Friday in the conference Modelling Interaction, Dialog, Social Choice, and Vagueness, which involves all four of the ESF LogICCC projects that have a node in Amsterdam. This is the first time I've ever been able to reuse slides from a previous talk for a new talk; for many years this filled me with horror (what, you mean, actually give the same talk more than once?) but it no longer does once I realized that:
- it's never the same talk. You're always going to leave out some slides and add some new slides, and fix mistakes on previous slides, and change the order and stuff.
- it's almost never the same audience. If you never give the same talk more than once, you're never going to reach all the people you could reach.
Anyway, since I had 1.5 hours worth of slides from my tutorial in the Dialogues and Games workshop in February, and my talk on Wed. is 30-45 minutes and my talk on Fri. is 30 minutes (not counting discussion), it was mostly a matter of cutting slides and updating/correcting a few. I've also completed two papers on extensions of the material I presented on at the workshop (one paper stemming directly from discussion after my tutorial: Whoo, research win!), one of which I wanted to discuss on Wed. and the other of which provides a nice framework for the talk on Fri. But since the papers are already written, making slides from them is just a matter of dumping them into the beamer style file, putting slide breaks at every paragraph, and then going through and removing everything except for definitions and descriptions. This worked well for the LIRa talk; I've got 38 slides for 45 minutes (which is a bit much, but things are flexible if I run over time, as the room is booked for two hours, and at least some of the early slides I can go through quickly because they're just lists of names and dates, and some of the later slides I can likewise go through quickly, because everyone in that audience will know dynamic epistemic logic). I'm a bit worried about the MIDiSoVa slides, as I've got 34 right now, for a 30 min. talk. I really should have no more than about 25, and closer to 20. Still not sure what I can cut...
But I'm just very happy that I've gotten this much done so far (what, slides finished more than two days before the talk? Never! It's not a real talk if you're not putting final touches on your slides during the talk immediately before yours). Tonight Joel, Martijn, and I are going to see The Avett Brothers at the Paradiso (if you've not seen the video for their song Slight Figure of Speech, it is hilarious). Tomorrow I need to spend most of the day prepping for class on Thursday, since Wednesday morning is the Ph.D. defense of a friend, and then my talk in the afternoon, and Thursday afternoon is the farewell lecture of a retiring professor. After class I'll be heading straight over to the farewell dinner. Then the workshop starts Friday afternoon, and![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
leleth_faery and whynothing arrive Saturday morning; they'll be here for a week, even though I leave for Australia the evening of the 31st. And since I don't get back until the 8th, and that's the deadline for revised papers for CiE, I need to finish my revisions and send them off preferably before Saturday morning, and definitely before I leave.
This week I'm giving two talks; one on Wednesday in the ILLC's internal Logic and Interactive Rationality seminar series, and one on Friday in the conference Modelling Interaction, Dialog, Social Choice, and Vagueness, which involves all four of the ESF LogICCC projects that have a node in Amsterdam. This is the first time I've ever been able to reuse slides from a previous talk for a new talk; for many years this filled me with horror (what, you mean, actually give the same talk more than once?) but it no longer does once I realized that:
- it's never the same talk. You're always going to leave out some slides and add some new slides, and fix mistakes on previous slides, and change the order and stuff.
- it's almost never the same audience. If you never give the same talk more than once, you're never going to reach all the people you could reach.
Anyway, since I had 1.5 hours worth of slides from my tutorial in the Dialogues and Games workshop in February, and my talk on Wed. is 30-45 minutes and my talk on Fri. is 30 minutes (not counting discussion), it was mostly a matter of cutting slides and updating/correcting a few. I've also completed two papers on extensions of the material I presented on at the workshop (one paper stemming directly from discussion after my tutorial: Whoo, research win!), one of which I wanted to discuss on Wed. and the other of which provides a nice framework for the talk on Fri. But since the papers are already written, making slides from them is just a matter of dumping them into the beamer style file, putting slide breaks at every paragraph, and then going through and removing everything except for definitions and descriptions. This worked well for the LIRa talk; I've got 38 slides for 45 minutes (which is a bit much, but things are flexible if I run over time, as the room is booked for two hours, and at least some of the early slides I can go through quickly because they're just lists of names and dates, and some of the later slides I can likewise go through quickly, because everyone in that audience will know dynamic epistemic logic). I'm a bit worried about the MIDiSoVa slides, as I've got 34 right now, for a 30 min. talk. I really should have no more than about 25, and closer to 20. Still not sure what I can cut...
But I'm just very happy that I've gotten this much done so far (what, slides finished more than two days before the talk? Never! It's not a real talk if you're not putting final touches on your slides during the talk immediately before yours). Tonight Joel, Martijn, and I are going to see The Avett Brothers at the Paradiso (if you've not seen the video for their song Slight Figure of Speech, it is hilarious). Tomorrow I need to spend most of the day prepping for class on Thursday, since Wednesday morning is the Ph.D. defense of a friend, and then my talk in the afternoon, and Thursday afternoon is the farewell lecture of a retiring professor. After class I'll be heading straight over to the farewell dinner. Then the workshop starts Friday afternoon, and
leleth_faery and whynothing arrive Saturday morning; they'll be here for a week, even though I leave for Australia the evening of the 31st. And since I don't get back until the 8th, and that's the deadline for revised papers for CiE, I need to finish my revisions and send them off preferably before Saturday morning, and definitely before I leave.
