Guidelines For Workshop Presentations

Sessions

A regular session lasts 75 minutes. Each presenter during the regular sessions will have 15 minutes for their presentation, followed by 5 minutes of discussion/comments by the assigned paper discussant. At the end of each session, there will be 15 minutes of Q&A open to all participants. Audience should hold their questions to the end of the session.

WHITE discussants are encouraged to coordinate with the presenting authors to discuss the paper before the workshop, and may arrange to receive advance copies of the presentation. Both presenters and discussants should email their slides to whitepaper@rhsmith.umd.edu by midnight Oct 4 to be preloaded, or bring a USB thumb drive to the session. The format of the slides should be PowerPoint 2003/2007/2008/2010 compatible, or PDF.

Short Presentations

Each day there is a dedicated short presentation session. Each presenter will get 5 minutes and up to 7 slides (1 title slide and up to 6 content slides). It is important that presenters plan their remarks, as we will adhere strictly to the timing guidelines.

We have created a presentation template which we suggest, but do not require you to adopt. Please name the presentation file WHITE2012-SX-slides_format-to-use.ppt where SX is the number of your paper as found in the workshop program: if your presentation is s05, the file should be white2012-S5-slides.ppt. Short presentation authors should email the file to whitepaper@rhsmith.umd.edu by midnight Oct 4, 2012, so we can pre-load the slides.