Jean-luc Doumont's presentations on Communications Skills - Jan 16 & Jan 18

[Dana Bresee Keeth]

Jean-luc Doumont returns to MIT! Please join us for two excellent 
presentations including his always popular Making the Most of Your 
Presentation, and a new one this year, Creating Effective Research Posters.

*Making the Most of Your Presentation, with Jean-luc Doumont*

Tuesday, January 16, 2018

1:30-3:30pm, 10-250

Strong oral presentation skills are a key to success for engineers, 
scientists, and other professionals, yet many speakers are at a loss to 
tackle the task. Systematic as they otherwise can be in their work, they 
go at it intuitively, sometimes haphazardly, with much good will but 
seldom good results. Based on Dr. Doumont’s book /Trees, maps, and 
theorems,/ about “effective communication for rational minds” this 
lecture proposes a systematic way to prepare and deliver presentations.  
Among others, it covers structure, slides, and delivery, as well as 
stage fright.  Dr. Doumont holds an engineering degree from the Louvain 
School of Engineering and a PhD in applied physics from Stanford. He 
specializes in professional speaking, writing, and graphing, and 
incorporates a unique engineering perspective.  More at 
www.principiae.be <http://www.principiae.be/>.**

*Pre-registration requested via careerbridge.mit.edu 
<careerbridge.mit.edu>, but not mandatory.  Please come!*

*Creating Effective Research Posters, with Jean-luc Doumont*

Thursday, January 18, 2018

1:30-3:30PM, 10-250

Most research posters at conferences or in university hallways seem to 
defy common sense: from two steps away, passersby can’t read anything -- 
assuming they even get past the overcrowded layout. Posters are not 
magnified one-page papers. Based on Dr. Doumont's book /Trees, Maps, and 
Theorems/, about "effective communication for rational minds," this 
lecture discusses how to create more visual posters that get attention, 
facilitate navigation, and convey messages through strict selection, 
careful phrasing, and effective layout.

*Pre-registration requested via careerbridge.mit.edu 
<careerbridge.mit.edu>, but not mandatory.  Please come!*

** Sessions are sponsored by GECD Career Services with support from the 
Office of the Vice President for Research*
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