"plenary talk" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to refer to a talk or presentation given during a plenary session, which is a meeting or conference attended by all members or delegates. Example: During the annual conference, there will be various plenary talks given by experts in the field of neuroscience.
Dr. Gleick, who gave a plenary talk about the challenges of collecting and using water data, pointed out that some of the acronyms even contained other acronyms.
Though anything they decided there was liable to be rejected by the all-inclusive plenary, talk of conspiratorial cabals felled the entire enterprise.
Just look at the plot for coral reefs in the Caribbean that Jeremy Jackson referred to repeatedly in his excellent plenary talk last week at the International Coral Reef Symposium (where he was given the Darwin Medal — yay!).
Plenary Talk At The Centennial Meeting Of The American Physical Society, Atlanta, Ga., March 22 , 1999
In this plenary talk several educational issues in control engineering will be discussed with emphasis placed primarily on issues faced by North American educational institutions.
WASHINGTON, D.C.--Those hoping that today's opening plenary talk of the American Astronomical Society's meeting here would deliver a stunning revelation probably came away disappointed.
The plenary talks are all on YouTube.
Dr. Shih has been invited to give more than 30 keynote speeches and plenary talks in international conferences, as well as tutorials in IEEE ICME 2001 and 2006, and ACM Multimedia 2002 and 2007.
Finally, larger meetings should include a mix of plenary talks, concurrent sessions, poster sessions, and informal workshops to maximize the chance that a presentation will find its optimal audience.
The conference began with plenary talks focusing on the key areas of discussion that included appropriate trial design (covering identification and evaluation of kidney and nonkidney disease outcomes) and sensible trial execution (with particular emphasis on streamlining both design and conduct).
In back-to-back plenary talks at the 15th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections today, Ronald Desrosiers, director of the New England Primate Research Center in nearby Southborough, said he thought that NIH--the world's largest funder of AIDS vaccine research--had "lost its way," spending too much money on developing and testing products and not enough on basic research.
