MAT 9000
Guidelines for Second and Third Seminar
Talks
- These talks (and the written reports for them) should be directed
at an your peer audience of master’s level graduate students in mathematics.
The level of the material you are presenting should be what might be found
in a special topics upper level undergraduate or graduate course. The style
of presentation should be instructional (what you would expect to see in
a lecture). The scope of each talk should be an important theorem in the
subject with necessary definitions and examples. The written report should
be lively, but essentially textbook in style.
- In preparing your presentation, remember the things that have made
lectures in your mathematics courses accessible and include them. (Also
remember the things that have made them difficult, boring or otherwise
unattractive, and exclude them.) This is a tall order.
- Since you are not teaching an entire course, just one short lecture's
worth, choose your talk topic carefully for interest value and your ability
to present it in context of (a) your seminar topic and (b) the mathematical
subject of which it is a part.
- Your talks should be a subset of a short independent study you undertake
of the mathematical subject(s) needed to better investigate and understand
technical aspects of your seminar topic. The study should comprise several
chapters of appropriate text materials that you will read, discuss and
use for exercises to gain some mastery of the subject.
Don't forget your announcement should be posted two days before you
speak, and set aside time to rehearse your talk.