[X] My Assistant

[volcanopele]

I will be giving a talk to the Tucson Amateur Astronomy Association on Friday, December 1 at 7:30pm in the Steward Observatory Lecture Hall here on the University of Arizona campus. I will be talking for an hour (plus Q/A time) on Cassini's results at Titan so far, particularly the results from the ISS camera. I will also talk a little about the results from RADAR and VIMS, but mostly ISS. I will also diverge a bit into Enceladus, but only a little. I'm sure UMSF members in the Tucson region are welcome and I would love to see you there.

Edit: yeah, I just realized that the First is tomorrow, not saturday...

[Juramike]

So is there any chance those of us located out in Webspace could get a post of the slides after you've done the presentation?

(For those of us located waayyyy out of state)

-Mike

[volcanopele]

So is there any chance those of us located out in Webspace could get a post of the slides after you've done the presentation?

(For those of us located waayyyy out of state)

-Mike

I don't know how useful the presentation file would be. There isn't a whole lot of text, and most of the images are publically released. Those that aren't, well. I would remove them from the file before putting it here. The audience for the presentation is amateur astronomers, so I figure they'll want to see lots of pretty pictures, not a whole lot of jargon (but not simplistic either), and a brief refresher on Titan and its history.

[Juramike]

I don't know how useful the presentation file would be. There isn't a whole lot of text, and most of the images are publically released. Those that aren't, well. I would remove them from the file before putting it here. The audience for the presentation is amateur astronomers, so I figure they'll want to see lots of pretty pictures, not a whole lot of jargon (but not simplistic either), and a brief refresher on Titan and its history.

A good powerpoint presentation can tell a really good story. Sometimes it's nice to see the order of the images selected by the author and how they relate to each other. A good overview and refresher to put everything together in context is also helpful.

(As a voyeuristic amateur, I feel that a quick slide presentation is much easier to digest than a full scientific article).

Hope the talk went well.

-Mike

[volcanopele]

It went well. I should have remembered to ask someone here if I can borrow a laser pointer, but luckily somone in the audience bailed me out Otherwise, yeah it had a lot of images, but I tried to organize the images in such a way that I could tell a story, but someone just picking up the presentation without listening to the talk probably wouldn't get much out of it.

[JRehling]

Off topic, but a recognized problem phenomenon of the past few years has been for people to generate PowerPoint presentations that require verbal elaboration and then to use them as reports in contexts where the verbal elaboration is absent. This has been noticed in business and the military, and I'm sure academia and research as well. Some people have suggested that the problem is so insidious that extreme measures may be necessary because authors are rarely aware of it at the time they publish their under-described handiwork.