General Information for Speakers

Our goal with the Science Seminars is sharing to the international and to the Mexican community what the students of University of Birmingham are doing in their areas of research. We are encouraging the community to work towards a reproducible and open science where anyone, anywhere can get the benefits of Science.

As a speaker of the Science Seminars of the Mexican Society, we are kindly inviting you to share your research advances in an enthusiastic, engaging and provocative talk for a general audience. We essentially require you to share the following information before your talk:

• (1) Title of the talk.
• (2) a short abstract of the talk (maximum 150 words),
• (3) three keywords,
• (4) a short biography (maximum 200 words).
• (5) a 20-minute presentation in PDF, and

Requirements

(1) Title of the talk

Put a bit of imagination and create a provocative title. We want that our audience feel the power of science and the creation of new knowledge.

(2) Abstract

We recommend you to write an abstract of approximately 150 word. How to construct a Nature summary paragraph is a good reference of both well written and well structured abstract.

(3) Keywords

Provide from three to five keywords going from general to specific areas of your research.

(4) Short Biography

Create a short biography of maximum 200 words. We also encourage you to share your contact details such as Webpage, twitter, Facebook, github and e-mail. This is optional, but it would be nice if you have a photo to add you in the data base of the presenters.

Some tips for a short biography are: Use formal style; Tailor it for a specific occasion; Be concise; Define yourself in the first sentence and afterwards establish your credentials; Use clear terminology that your audience will understand; Spell out abbreviations; Use strong action words to convey your experiences and illustrate your qualifications with phrases like “Dr. Scientist has a strong background in” and “Dr. Scientist identified X species for the first time” (Puljak, 2008).

(5) Presentation

The presentation should be 20 minutes followed by 10 minutes of questions and answers. The presentation is in English language and is targeted for a general audience. If possible, the presentation should cover introduction to the topic highlighting the novelty and contribution to knowledge, the methodology used in the research, results and conclusions.

Your presentation is going to be available in the Science Seminar’s website for which we require that the content of your presentation is under the creative commons licence.

We recommend you to read these general points on how to structure your presentation (Corticalia 2016).

Video

As long as you agree, you are going to be video recorded and the video will be upload to youtube in order to share your talk to our global audience.