Posters should be no more than 48 inches / 120 cm wide by 32 inches / 80 cm tall. You may hang your poster at any time during the day of your poster presentation, but please make sure it is up before the start of your poster session. Thumb tacks will be provided. Hang your poster in any available spot – neither poster abstracts nor the posterboards are organized by number or letter, but the poster sessions will be relatively small and easy to navigate.

Talks will be 12 minutes long followed by a 3-minute question and answer period. Please plan to be done speaking after 12, not 15 minutes. Oral presentations will be projected in the default widescreen 16:9 aspect ratio using Microsoft Powerpoint on a Windows PC. If you prepare your presentation in another operating system, please double check that your presentation displays properly in MS PowerPoint on a Windows computer.

Please use a flash drive to load your talk on the podium computer in your session room during the break before your presentation.

Please see the meeting program for presentation times and locations, and abstracts.

Instructions for Session Chairs
Thank you for agreeing to serve as a session chair. Acting as a session chair is an important responsibility and service to our community.

1. You will need a phone or watch to keep track of the time
2. Please arrive in the presentation room at least 10 minutes prior to the session start time to familiarize yourself with the audio-visual equipment and laser pointer, and to meet the presenters and verify pronunciation of their names.
   • Ask if speakers want to announce their title and co-authors, or if they prefer you do it.
3. Verify that all speakers in that session have loaded their talks on the podium computer
4. Just before the session begins, briefly introduce yourself to the audience. If the room is sparsely seated, encourage the audience to reseat themselves closer to the front of the room. If the room is approaching full, point out empty seats to those still standing. Explain the timing system to the audience.
5. Start the session on time. Announce the first presentation and author precisely when the session is scheduled to begin.
6. Strictly adhere to the timing. 15 minutes have been scheduled for each oral presentation:  12 minutes for the talk, and 3 min. for questions and answers.
   • After 9 minutes have elapsed, please hold up the “3 Minutes Left” sign (provided) so the speaker will see it
   • If the speaker has not yet concluded after 12 minutes, please hold up the “0 Minutes Left” sign so the speaker will see it
   • After 15 minutes have elapsed (if the speaker still has not concluded yet) please get up and stand near the podium (glaring at the speaker is optional)
7. If the speaker leaves time for questions, please help encourage discussion and moderate the question period. Consider asking a question to get discussion started. Make sure questions can be heard and understood, repeating them if necessary. Please ensure that all presenters (students in particular) are treated with professional courtesy. Keep an eye on the clock, and intervene to suggest extended discussions be postponed until after the session ends.
8. Please double-check the program agenda for your session. If a presentation has been withdrawn or should a speaker fail to appear, allow the preceding discussion to continue, or suspend the session until it is time for the next scheduled abstract. You may allow a speaker who misses his or her scheduled time to speak at the end of the session if time allows.

Student Presentation Awards
Anyone submitting an abstract who is a student at the time of submission is eligible to enter the Student Presentation Award competition by selecting this option during abstract submission. Entrants will have their presentations judged on the following criteria:

1. Introduction:  familiarity with topic, appropriate level, clearly stated objective &/or hypothesis, etc.
2. Methods & Results:  rigorous, clearly shown & explained, relevant to objective, etc.
3. Discussion & Conclusions: supported by data, sophisticated interpretation, clearly explained, etc.
4. Overall organization, style & clarity: visually appealing, coherent, well spoken, etc.