Reporting one’s work in an effective way is a key success factor for researchers and other professionals. This training program on effective scientific communication will help you develop your writing, speaking, and graphing skills. Specifically, and beyond a simple but solid foundation in communication, you will learn to
- write an effective abstract for a paper or for a conference proposal;
- structure and deliver presentations, create slides, and answer questions;
- optimize the graphical representation of your data.
No matter how little or how much previous experience you have with scientific communication, you can expect to gain numerous new insights from this compact yet complete program. Besides three half-days of discussion on the basis of examples you provide, some of you will have the opportunity to sharpen their skills on a practice presentation, on which they will receive feedback from the rest of the group (and the others will learn just as much, even if differently, by providing such feedback).
The program will be run by Dr Jean-luc Doumont (www.principiae.be). An engineer from the Louvain School of Engineering and PhD in applied physics from Stanford University, Dr Doumont is now a recognized expert on communication with extensive experience training researchers at universities and research institutions on all continents except Antarctica.
As support material for the program, you will receive a copy of Trees, maps, and theorems, Dr Doumont’s acclaimed book on “effective communication for rational mind”.
The training is organized on request by the PicoSEC-MCNet researchers; the participation is restricted and upon invitation.
*picture credits: CERN Document Server
