Call for Posters

All conference participants are welcome to contribute posters.

What is a poster?

A poster is between one and three large pieces of paper (or a flight of smaller sheets pieced together). A poster is an opportunity to publish a very short article and discuss it with your peers. It may be an overview of a technical topic, problem, question, product, or case study. It may include drawings, text, code fragments, or whatever you need to make your point.

The typical poster is not just a shortened version of a conference talk (although those are acceptable!); posters are less formal, more interactive, and may provoke argument. Your poster will be on view throughout the conference, so the main ideas should be clear without explanation.

Why posters?

• Increase the variety of points of view aired at the conference
• Encourage two-way communication
• Allow detailed and/or esoteric presentations
• Provide a forum for “small” presentations (ideas shorter than a conference paper, of interest to only a few people, or which are best communicated graphically)

Technical specifications

From one to three poster-pages, with text large enough to read easily from 2 to 4 feet away. No need to be fancy; hand-written with markers is fine! Use paper (or card stock) not Foam-Core (it is very difficult to thumb-tack thick material to the bulletin board).

No more than the equivalent of 3 poster-pages per presentation, with each poster-page 22" x 28" maximum (56 by 71 cm).

The conference will supply the following:

• Bulletin-board style display boards
• Push pins, for mounting plain paper posters
• Blank flip-chart pages, for ad hoc posters
• Colored markers, for ad hoc posters

Poster presenters must print their own posters and bring the posters to the conference, or create hand-written posters on-site using paper and markers. Presenters who need any additional supplies or equipment (such as special pins for posters on foam-core) to display your poster must provide these supplies for themselves.

If you have any questions on Baliasge posters send email to Debbie Lapeyre or call +1 301/315-9633. If you plan on doing a poster presentation please send email to help us ensure that there will be adequate space.