INSTRUCTIONS FOR POSTER PRESENTATIONS

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.

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

The poster board area will be 37.4 inches (95 cm) horizontal by 78.75 inches (200 cm) vertical; its usable area will be 36.8 in (93.5 cm) by 59.1 inches (150 cm).

The heading should list the paper title, author(s) name(s) and affiliation(s) . It should occupy the top 7 3/48 inches (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 6.2 feet (2 meters).

A head-and-shoulders photograph of the author(s) should be mounted near the top of the panel so viewers can identify the author(s) for intellectual interchange.

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 the conference.