Feeling anxious about an upcoming international conference? Is public speaking one of your greatest fears? Unsure how you will sound in front of an audience of experts? The aim of this workshop is to help you plan and deliver an effective academic presentation in English. The workshop will be divided into two parts:

Part 1: the nuts and bolts of an effective academic

Part 2: interactive and practice session with attention to both rhetorical devices and non-verbal communication strategies.

The workshop’s ultimate goal is to help you gain a sense of comfort and confidence while presenting your research in public. Participants are encouraged to bring a sample presentation of their own for practice.

Objectives:

- Identify and review rhetorical and oral presentation strategies
- Develop confidence and poise for the effective delivery of your research results
- Help you develop your own presentation style

Prerequisites:

No prior knowledge by the participants is necessary to participate in this course and it is intended for all scientific audiences. Participants are required to bring their own laptops to work on during the course. Network access (e.g. through Eduroam) is recommended.

Summary:

The Unix shell is a powerful tool that allows people to do complex things with just a few keystrokes. More importantly, it helps them combine existing programs in new ways and automate repetitive tasks so they aren’t typing the same things over and over again. Use of the shell is fundamental to using a wide range of other powerful tools and computing resources. The course will include hands-on live coding sessions where participants exercise the learned commands on their own computers.

Version control is the lab notebook of the digital world: it is used to keep track of what was done and to collaborate with other people. Its use is the state of the art in software development projects of all scales. However, it is not limited to software: books, papers, small data sets, and anything that changes over time or needs to be shared can and should be stored in a version control system. The course will include hands-on live coding sessions where participants exercise the learned commands on their own computers.
Learning Objectives

After the course participants will:

- Have a fundamental understanding of how and why to use the Unix Shell
- Be comfortable with handling files and directories using the command line
- Have experience with advanced usage of the shell e.g. loops, pipes, redirects etc.
- Know how to write their workflows as reusable shell scripts
- Understand the benefits of using version control
- Understand basic git terminology
- Have a good working knowledge of common tasks in Git
- See how Git repositories can help them to move towards practicing Open Science