Conferences

Preparing Conference Presentation Posters.

Poster presentations

  • A1 size or 8 A4 PPT slides (which together make an A1 poster)
  • Directions: After putting up your poster, you will stand by it and answer questions from attendees for about 30-45 minutes (but you can wander around and view other poster presentations when there are no questions)
  • A4 Slide Structure:
    1. Title (title, authors, affiliation)
    2. Abstract and Keywords
    3. Introduction (background, motivation, problem statement)
    4. Methods (how you did it)
    5. Methods II or Results I
    6. Results (what you found)
    7. Conclusion (summary, limitations, future work)
    8. References

Oral presentations (less common), usually 10-15 minutes long

  • Same slides as above, but in a different format (e.g., 10-15 PPT slides)
  • Be prepared to answer questions from the audience
  • Don’t be afraid to say “I don’t know” if you don’t know the answer (the whole point is to learn what you don’t yet know, so you can continue researching)