Lightning Talk Example

During the summer school, each poster session will begin with lightning talks from the presenters. A microphone will be passed around the room and each presenter will be given 1 minute to speak. These talks will be timed and a there will be a hard cut-off at 1 minute.

Audience

The summer school brings together a very diverse audience of graduate-level students in many different scientific disciplines. The most successful lightning talks discuss at a very high-level the scientific challenge being explored and why someone in the general public should care. 

Script Preparation

Due to the 1-minute limit, many presenters find it helpful to prepare a script. At most, this script should be 150 words long. It should begin by introducing yourself and your area of research.

Examples

The following scripts are examples that should take under 1 minute to present.

My name is Elsa Gonsiorowski and I'm from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York. I am a 4th year graduate student in computer science. My research focuses on building massively parallel discrete event simulations, particularly for modeling circuits.