Presentation Notes

Presentation Notes for the Austin Symposium

You will find the day and time of your presentation on this webpage under the entry "Conference Schedule," which will be finalized by February 6, 2023. Authors are strongly advised to send their presentations by email before the beginning of the conference to the following email address: ekraka [at] smu.edu. The technical staff will have one PC and one Mac computer available for your presentation with software for PowerPoint, Keynote, OpenOffice, and PDF presentations.

In order to identify the presenter and the session, please name the file of your presentation: LASTNAME_SessionX For example SMITH_Session3, would indicate that the name of the presenter is Smith and that his presentation belongs to the third session.

If you do not send your presentation before the beginning of the conference or if your presentation exceeds 25MB, you can give it via USB flash memory drive to the technical staff. If you are presenting in a morning session please give your presentation to the technical staff the day before your presentation. If you are presenting in an afternoon session, please give your presentation to the technical staff the morning of the day of your presentation. They will help you loading your presentation onto one of these computers. Use of personal laptops for your presentation is strongly discouraged.

Technical Instructions:

  • The poster must be a maximum 36" wide x 48" high (portrait orientation) for best fit onto the poster boards. Landscape orientation is not recommended.
    Poster Dimensions
  • The posters will be mounted in alphabetical order on the poster boards provided on the second floor of Hughes-Trigg center, starting Saturday, February 18 at noon.
  • Each presenter will receive a number tag when they check in.
  • Material for mounting the poster will be provided.
  • Please note that each presenter has the opportunity to introduce their poster in a maximum 2-minute oral presentation in front of the audience, starting Saturday afternoon at 4:30 pm, see “Conference Schedule”.
  • Posters have to be taken down by Sunday morning at 9.30 am.