Some tips for preparing your paper presentation First, organize your talk: Read the entire paper at least 3 times. You need to be able to explain the details in the paper (even the ugly tricky notation) You need to be able to provide a critical analysis of the paper Check out references in the related work section of the paper. (this will help you put the paper in context of a larger body of work and will help you critique the paper's results/contributions) Look at Paper Reading Advice for more details. Find the important ideas A paper has many details but only one or two main ideas; structure your talk around these main ideas. Create a Talk Outline Your talk should be organized in a top-down manner. You should have the following main sections in your talk: Introduction, The Big Picture: what, why, how, and why we should care (motivation). Be sure to include: a statement of the problem being solved (what) motivation and putting the work in contex...