DiscMathMeeting: Battlezone (Johannes Lengler, "Liar Games and Burst Errors")

DMM-Battlezone: We regularly had practice talks in the Mittagsseminar,
where speakers would present a talk they planned to give at a
conference and then hope to get useful feed-back. However, my feeling
is that in many cases the audience was too shy or too lazy to give the
appropriate feed-back. As discussed in the previous DMM, I hope to
overcome this with the following event.

The DMM-Battlezone (thanks to Martin for this name and
enthusiastically coorganizing) is a subseries of the
DiscMathMeeting. Here, volunteers may give a practise talk, which
subsequently is thoroughly analyzed by the audience. It is hence
understood by all participants that

- the speaker asks for clear comments on all aspects of the talk. To
make this most effective, he/she is well-prepared to the utmost he/she
is capable of on his/her own (in other words, we don't prepare your
talk, and you don't start to cry if we don't like your talk);

- the audience attends to learn how to give talks and to helps others
to give good talks. To this end, no-one should be shy to give also
negative feed-back. Martin and I facilitate this event, but we are not
the teachers here (though, of course, we may also give comments),

- the DMM-Battlezone does not replace the Mittagsseminar as means of
communication recent own work. The speaker will present his/her work there
or at another appropriate meeting as well (presumably some time after
the Battlezone).