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Guidelines for invited speakers

As a guest speaker you are free to organise your presentation as you wish. Hereby you will find some information about our group meeting and a few guidelines based on our past experience.

1. The Stellar Astrophysics Group normally gathers every Thursday at 13:30 and the meeting lasts one hour.

2. The meetings are meant to be informal. What we try to achieve is a conversation directed by the speaker and open to the everyone. Therefore, several times during your talk you can expect people interrupting you to ask questions.

3. In this spirit of informality, please feel free to talk about subjects that are still a work in progress and do not feel obliged to deliver a "canonical" presentation, from introduction to conclusions, as it would be for a conference.

4. We normally suggest speakers to consider an effective time for the presentation of about 30 minutes (≈ 15−20 slides) so that enough room is left for questions and discussions. Also, we noticed that the response of the audience is usually more fruitful when one subject is discussed in some depth rather than several different topics are quickly covered one after the other.

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