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3.2 Lightning Rounds

Source repo: sdsc-summer-institute-2021 | Branch: main | Last synced: 2026-04-24 10:27:17.425 UTC

Overview​

Wednesday afternoon of the Summer Institute, we will be holding a Lightning Round. This is a longstanding tradition where all participants are asked to present two slides describing (1) their work or research and (2) their computational challenges and what they hope to accomplish from attending the Summer Institute. Download template.ppt and edit it with Powerpoint or Google Docs.

Feel free to alter the slides in any way you see fit using your choice of figures, text, fonts, etc. We just ask that you limit yourself to two slides and make sure that your name and institution appear on both slides. Each participant will be limited to four minutes, so please consider rehearsing before the Lightning Round. Finally, keep in mind that the Summer Institute participants come from many different backgrounds, so tailor your content for non-specialists.

Upload the slides​

  • Export the slides to PDF
  • Rename it firstname.lastname.pdf using your last name, all lowercase with no spaces.
  • Login to Github
  • Create a fork of this repository by clicking on the "Fork" button on the top right
  • This will bring you to the fork at the address https://github.com/YOURUSERNAME/sdsc-summer-institute-2021
  • Enter in the 3.2._Lightning_Rounds folder
  • Click on the "Add file" button on the top-right and select "Upload files"
  • Drag or upload firstname.lastname.pdf and wait for the progress bar to be completely full
  • Down below the optional commit message, click on "Create a new branch for this commit and start a pull request"
  • Click on "Propose changes"
  • You should now see the Open a pull request title
  • This is going to create a pull request to your own master, we want instead to send the pull request to the main repository, threfore click on compare across forks in the line just below "Open a pull request"
  • In the base fork on the left, choose the main fork which is sdsc/sdsc-summer-institute-2020
  • Click Create pull request to confirm it
  • If you made it correctly, your pull request should show up at https://github.com/sdsc/sdsc-summer-institute-2021/pulls like the example Pull Request I made: https://github.com/sdsc/sdsc-summer-institute-2018/pull/14

We will concatenate all the slides into a single deck in alphabetic order on Wednesday at 9am (PDT).