Instructions
for Paper Session ChairsEach
Paper Session is scheduled for 75 minutes
and includes three or four papers.
Paper sessions must be organized as follows:
2 minutes for introductory comments by the
Session Chair
15 minutes per paper presentation, including
any questions following each presentation
13 minutes for discussion at the conclusion
of the five scheduled papers
All presenters should send final versions of
their papers to their Session Chair
at least ONE WEEK prior to the conference.
Chairs should load all presentations
on their laptop and connect the laptop at
least 5 minutes prior to the session.
Each presenter should also bring his/her own
presentation on a memory stick/flash
drive, as a back-up.
All presenters should send a brief (1-2
sentence) bio to their Session Chair so
that the chair can provide introductions
prior to each presentation.
Instructions for
Symposium ChairsEach Paper Session is
scheduled for 75 minutes and includes four
papers or three papers and a discussant.
It is up to the discretion of the Symposium
Chair on how to divide the time between the
presentations, but there must be at least 15
minutes reserved for discussion at the end
of the session.
All presenters should send final versions of
their papers to their Session Chair
at least ONE WEEK prior to the conference.
Chairs should load all presentations
on their laptop and connect the laptop at
least 5 minutes prior to the session.
Each presenter should also bring his/her own
presentation on a memory stick/flash
drive, as a back-up.
All presenters should send a brief (1-2
sentence) bio to their Session Chair so
that the chair can provide introductions
prior to each presentation.Instructions
for Poster PresentationsThe
dimensions of poster boards are 4' (high) x
8' (long).
At the conference, poster boards will be
numbered. Please hang your poster on the
corresponding poster board. Your number will
be in the program book. Please use the
number listed in the official version of the
program book that you receive at the
conference.
NOTE: Poster presenters should bring with
them and plan to use pushpins to hang
posters. Presenters are responsible for
putting up and taking down their posters in
a timely manner.
Instructions for
Moderators of Discussion SectionsEach
Discussion Session is scheduled for 75
minutes and includes three panelists and a
Moderator.
The session should be allocated 45 minutes
for discussion among the panelist and 30
minutes for discussion with the audience.
Discussion Sessions should not include
individual presentations from the panelists,
and use of Powerpoint slides is strongly
discouraged. Rather, the Moderator should
prepare a series of questions to be posed to
the panelists for discussion. No less than a
month prior to the conference, the Moderator
should provide the panelists with the
questions (between 4-7 questions) so that
the panelists have sufficient time to
prepare their remarks.