Comments on: SODA 20 minute talks http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2010/01/18/soda-20-minute-talks/ Assistant Professor, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Oregon State University Mon, 06 May 2013 04:32:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: SAmir Khuller http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2010/01/18/soda-20-minute-talks/#comment-84 SAmir Khuller Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:19:58 +0000 http://www.glencora.org/?p=288#comment-84 It may become too controversial as to who gets long slots and short slots. I think some conferences have the concept of
“full paper” and poster effectively breaking submissions into these two categories. I like the fact that we have not done that. Things are already too subjective as it is in terms of which papers get in.

I think the ICALP/IPCO 30 min format is great. Its long enough that you can convey a large part of the details as well and I get a lot out of the talks on topics that I care about.
The 20 min talks need to be rehearsed and practiced very carefully and its possible to give a great talk, conveying the ideas and not the details, but its hard. As a listener if you dont focus for even one minute and miss something crucial, then you can be totally lost. However given the number of papers at SODA, the talks cannot get any longer unless we go to a 4 day conference format.

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