How to Present Three Years of Research in 30 Minutes – Prof. Hank Smith, MIT
Oral Presentation Guidelines Regular oral presentation is 20 minutes (15 mins for the presentation and 5 minutes for Q&A) in length. Invited oral presentation is 30 minutes (25 mins for the presentation and 5 minutes for Q&A) in length.
Please use large fonts (20 or above). The text should be legible from the back of the room.
Please avoid using dense text, tell the story in graphics, diagrams, and pictures.
Present the high-level objectives, approaches, and conclusions in succinct ways.
Use the slide title effectively to communicate the main content of the page.
Start your talk by introducing the motivation instead of a presentation outline. Audience attention can be captured better this way.
As a great speaker once said: “Life is too short for an outline …”. (H.S. 2005, Germany)
Poster Presentation Guidelines
Posters can be designed in Microsoft PowerPoint by setting the slide size to 4 feet (48 inches) wide to 3 feet (36 inches) tall.
Since this will be a virtual session, you will be asked to submit your poster as a high-resolution graphic in PNG format which is possible using PowerPoint by saving as a PNG.
Please use large fonts (24 or above), especially for the session titles.
Like normal posters, please avoid using dense text, tell the story in graphics, diagrams and pictures as much as possible.
The objective is for visitors to understand the “main point” of this work, not to condense a full paper into poster format. Interested visitors can always get the full paper as references.
Poster main ideas should be clearly spelled out in the INTRO & CONCLUSIONS sections. The main point of the work should be crystal clear from spending only a few moments reading these sections.
