Instructions for your 15-minute oral presentation

Congratulations on the acceptance of your abstract for oral presentation at the Forest Adaptation 2008 Conference.  These guidelines are offered to assist you with providing consistency in the delivery of presentations.

All oral presentations should be accompanied by a presentation in Microsoft PowerPoint format.  If you work in some other software, please arrange to convert it to PowerPoint prior to submission. Neither 35mm slides nor overhead transparencies will be an option.

To upload your final version of a presentation in advance, please attach the PowerPoint file and email to  forest-conf@arbetsplats.slu.se . If you need to make updates please send the revised version from the same email address as the first time. The name of the PowerPoint file should start with the paper ID, followed by the first author's name, as in "ID389_Jones_et_al.ppt".
Also bring a personal copy of the file either on a USB memory stick, USB memory drive or compact disc or DVD. Make sure you have some back up in case of loss.

In Umeå, provide your presentations to the conference registration desk as soon as possible.

All presentations will be made from the in-room computers. An LCD projector and a podium will be provided for each session.

In order for the conference to flow smoothly, we must adhere to the schedule. Each speaker will have a total of 15 minutes (keynote speakers in morning plenaries will have 30 minutes). Ideally, talks should be limited to about 12 minutes, leaving about 3 minutes for one or two questions. Session chairs will be tasked with monitoring the length of each presentation to be sure that we stay on schedule and will be instructed to cut off talks that exceed 15 minutes.  Presenters are requested to rehearse their presentation to be sure that they have a talk of predictable length. Restrict the number of slides to the minimum number necessary. One slide per minute is a rule of thumb that is sometimes used.

There are several web sites that provide advice on how to prepare a PowerPoint presentation.  In short, however, the trick is to keep your slides simple, use as little text as possible and use large legible fonts for what text you use, illustrate with pictures or simple graphics as much as possible, and avoid large complex tables and equations. Some of the rooms will be rather elongated and small numbers or letters may not be readable from the back.