Inspired by the XKCD comic in which the author describes the Saturn V Rocket using only the thousand most common words in English (http://xkcd.com/1133/), we ask speakers to present very short (5-minute) scientific talks using only a limited vocabulary (determined using the Up- Goer Five Text Editor: http://splasho.com/upgoer5).
Why? When you cut down the number of words you use to explain what you do, you: Find out what is at the heart of your work. Can now tell ANYONE what you study, because you know how to make things as simple as they can be. Show that it matters to explain what you do so others can understand, even if it's hard. (And that's just as important as explaining what you study.) Have fun, and make the people you study with laugh. A lot. (Second section written using the Up-Goer Five Text Editor.) Submit abstracts here: https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm17/preliminaryview.cgi/Session23758
