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Golden Rules of the Colloquium Speaker

• Underestimate, as much as humanly possible, the expertise (but not the intelligence) of the audience.
• Make the first 10-15 minutes of your colloquium intelligible to non-physicists. For guidance, consider how you might explain your work to a relative.
• Make the next 10-15 minutes intelligible to undergraduate physics majors.
• Let the third 10-15 minutes be sparklingly clear to graduate students and to professors who are not specialists in your area.
• Use the last part of the talk to impress the experts