Guide for Presentations

See our list of confirmed speakers.

See our list of accepted posters.

Plenary Sessions:

• Each of you will have time for a 30-minute talk followed by a 5-minute open forum, for a total of 35 minutes.
• To help you keep track of time, an assistant will signal how much time you have left for your presentation.
• Please give a copy of your presentation on CD to us when you register for the convention, to give us enough time to load and check your presentations.
• Please arrive at the venue 5 minutes before the concurrent session begins, and introduce yourself to the moderator.

Concurrent Sessions:

• Each of you will have time for a 10- to 12-minute talk followed by a 3-minute open forum, for a total of 15 minutes.
• To help you keep track of time, an assistant will signal how much time you have left for your presentation.
• Please give a copy of your presentation on CD to us when you register for the convention, to give us enough time to load and check your presentations.
• Please arrive at the venue 5 minutes before the concurrent session begins, and introduce yourself to the moderator.

Young Scientists Forum Session:

1. There are six contenders. The order of presentation will be determined through drawing of lots.
2. Each presentor will be given a maximum of 15 minutes to present. Two bell rings will be made to alert the presentor - the first after 10 minutes and the last after 13 minutes.
3. Five minutes is alloted for Q&A after each presentation. Priority will be given to the judges.
4. In case there are still questions after 5 minutes, two additional questions may be accommodated.

Additional reminders:

• Please give a copy of your presentation (in CD) when you register on site.
• Please be in the room at least 10 minutes before the start of the YSF Session.
• Please introduce yourself to the moderator.

Poster Guidelines:

1. Size of posters: Maximum of 90 cm wide by 120 cm tall
2. Posting materials, e.g. tacks or tape: to be provided by the Secretariat.
3. Posting schedule:
   1. Set-up (ingress): Thursday, November 29, 7 am to 8:00 am (the first day of the convention)
   2. Take-down (egress): Friday, November 30, 5:30 pm onwards (the second day of the convention)
   3. See the program for details of the convention schedule, including poster sessions.
4. Contents
   1. title
   2. authors (with presentor's name underlined)
   3. affiliations with addresses (referenced to authors)
   4. abstract
   5. introduction (background, significance, and objectives)
   6. methodology
   7. results & discussion
   8. conclusions & recommendations or future directions
   9. references
   10. acknowledgements
   11. graphs and figures with informative captions
5. Font size: The text must be readable at a distance of one (1) meter
6. Presentor's presence: The presentor should stand beside the poster during poster viewing sessions to answer the questions of viewers and judges
7. Location codes of posters: See the list of accepted posters. The list will also be posted at the convention site during ingress.