INSTRUCTIONS TO SPEAKERS


Three types of projection equipment will be available:

1. An Overhead Projector for Transparencies
2. An LCD projector for computer presentations (Powerpoint)
3. A slide projector

Powerpoint talks (from a single conference computer) are preferred.

 

We would like to have all presentations (invited and contributed) in electronic form so that we can make a conference CD later.


If you don’t prepare a Powerpoint but use transparencies instead, please leave your original materials with us so that we can scan them and make a pdf file. Or you can do that yourself and email the pdf file to us.

 

Given the very tight schedule of talks, it would be best to ensure that each Powerpoint presentation is loaded into the conference PC prior to the meeting. If you have some special animations that require your own laptop, that is OK. But please come up to the podium during the question period for the previous speaker and set up quickly. Set up must come out of your allocated time slot.

 

To get all the talks ready in advance, we need to have your .ppt file by noon on Thursday, March 31.

 

Please e-mail or FTP your presentation to us before you arrive.


*** Please name your presentation: lastname.ppt or lastname-description.ppt.


FTP: ftp://gateway.astro.ucla.edu/

E-mail: becklinfest@astro.ucla.edu

 

For assistance, please send an e-mail to becklinfest@astro.ucla.edu. Chris Johnson will be happy to assist you.

 

TIME RESTRICTIONS

The SOC has tried to give everyone that has asked to speak at this fun meeting the chance to do so. However, please be mindful of the duration of your talk.

 

Slots are either 30 minutes or 15 minutes, but we need time (5 minutes) for questions and discussion, and perhaps laughter too!

 

Restrict the number of slides, give highlights, and make sure that your talks recognize our theme. Unless you were invited to give a review, please do NOT review the field. Instead, just pick a couple of interesting highlights and present those. It is particularly important that the Contributed talks be short and sweet. Please don't try to pack a 50 minute colloquium talk into 10-12 minutes! The whole schedule will be messed up by the person that deliberately tries to run over their allotted time.

 

The idea is that the sum total of all the talks will provide a very interesting view of the past “40 years of Infrared Astronomy” and the outlook for the future.