A Dissertation defense is unlike any other talk you'll ever give. They HAVE to be there, they HAVE to follow what you're presenting, and they've seen the document for a week (at least) beforehand. Given that the crowd will all have scientific backgrounds and will know much of the relevant background and/or a common scientific training, you can pump a lot more information down their eyeballs than in a more open forum. And the talk is for them, not the wider audience - this is particularly true in your case, with that obscure, arcane crap ;)
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Date: 2005-10-19 05:27 am (UTC)A Dissertation defense is unlike any other talk you'll ever give. They HAVE to be there, they HAVE to follow what you're presenting, and they've seen the document for a week (at least) beforehand. Given that the crowd will all have scientific backgrounds and will know much of the relevant background and/or a common scientific training, you can pump a lot more information down their eyeballs than in a more open forum.
And the talk is for them, not the wider audience - this is particularly true in your case, with that obscure, arcane crap ;)