Guidelines for Poster Presentations

Poster sessions will be two hours in duration. Presenters are encouraged to put up their posters fifteen minutes prior to the scheduled start time of their session.

Each presenter will be provided with a display board approximately 1.8 meters wide by 1.2 meters high and push pins for mounting posters to the display board. Each display board will have a chair or stool available for the presenter's use.

All posters within a session will be displayed simultaneously. At the beginning of each session, each presenter will be allocated one minute to give a verbal abstract of their poster presentation. One overhead transparency may be used to accompany this verbal abstract. Presenters are encouraged to prepare carefully in order to convey an enticing image of their work in a very short time.

Text and figures on posters should be sufficiently large and have adequate contrast to be easily readable from a distance of four meters.

Presenters are encouraged to prepare a thumbnail talk to guide visitors to their poster through the highlights of the work.

Well designed poster displays should:

• allow the audience to assimilate the main ideas in a brief unguided viewing
• support the presenters' thumbnail talk
• provide supporting details expected to be useful in explaining the subtleties of the work

Proceedings will be available at the conference, but it never hurts to bring a few copies of your paper to give to interested colleagues.

It is not known at this time whether electrical outlets will be readily available in the poster areas.