PRESENTER'S KIT



Oral and poster presentations are two equally important and valuable methods for presenting papers at the VIMS Symposium.



ORAL PRESENTATION

Oral presentation consists of 25 minutes for presentation of the problem, the background, the innovative approach, the new results and the comparative evaluation. Additional 5 minutes are available for discussion with the attendees.

The presenter should prepare a reasonable number of transparencies or slides, so as not to exceed the 25 minute time. Typically, 1 transparency is presented in 1 minute. Additional transparencies could be prepared to support possible answers to attendees' questions.

Each transparency should not be overcrowded by text and graphics.

Too much text should be avoided: transparencies should support the presentation, they should not be simply read by the presenter.

Graphics help in communications, are more understandable, and point out the basic ideas.

Use large fonts so as they are readable without efforts: typically 18-20 point fonts should be used.

Presentation should be clearly structured.

Begin with a title page.

The index of the presentation should outline of the presentation.

The basic problem should be clearly stated, as well as the application area.

The background and previous work should be summarized to provide a prospective for the results presented in the paper.

The innovative approach should be clearly stated.

The application of the approach to the application problem should be described, by pointing out the main features and characteristics, the problems and the solutions.

The results should be clearly outlined and evaluated. Appropriate comparisons with previous results should be presented.

Conclusions should summarize the work performed and point out the main innovation and results. Future work and developments could also be sketched.



POSTER PRESENTATION

Poster papers will be mounted and may be viewed over a period of several hours prior to the poster session per se. Authors are expected to be in attendance during their designated poster sessions, which will be immediately after the oral sessions containing related papers.

The poster board and push pins for mounting the poster components on it will be provided by the workshop. All the poster components will be provided by the author(s).

The poster board will be 36 in (90 cm) horizontal by 48 in (120 cm) vertical; its usable area will be 36 in (90 cm) by 40 in (100 cm).

The heading should list the paper title (3 cm font), author(s) name(s) (2 cm font) and affiliation(s) (2 cm font). It should occupy the top 20 cm of the poster, across the full horizontal width of the poster board. It should be in bold face type and readable from a distance of 2 m.

A photograph (at least 7.5 cm x 5 cm) of the author(s) should be mounted near the top of the panel so viewers can identify the author(s) for conversation.

The abstract should summarize the pertinent results and conclusions.

The introduction should state the purpose of the work in relation to previous work in the field.

The results section should indicate the most important findings.

The conclusions should give the interpretation and the significance of the results.

The references to previous work may be appropriate.

The font size for the headings of the abstract, introduction, results, conclusions, references, and any other sections should be 2 cm, and the text and the captions for figures and graphs should be 0.8 cm. A small amount of highly specialized material that is intended to be read only by participants who are very interested in the poster may use a font size as small as 0.4 cm.

While the poster paper does require some text, e.g., in the abstract, conclusion and references sections, at least one-half of the poster area should be devoted to figures, graphs or photographs: the adage about one picture being worth 10,000 words is relevant in this case.

Authors are encouraged to check their poster's correctness via a trial run with their colleagues at their home institutions rather than seeing it for the first time at VIMS/2002.