PREPARING YOUR PRESENTATION

Below you'll find some guidelines on how to present your work. Please read this information carefully.

Oral presentations

Every speaker is allotted 30 minutes. You'll have 20 minutes for your actual presentation, and 10 minutes for discussion. Don't run out of time! If you talk too long, the chair will ask you to stop. It would be a shame if you cannot state the most important results of your work because there isn't any time left. So make sure you practice your presentation!

Keep in mind that you speak to an interdisciplinary audience, coming from the areas of language, logic, and computation. Try to make clear to everybody what your work is about and what your main contribution is. Of course, not everyone needs to be able to grasp every detail, but avoid speaking for researchers from your own area only.

We recommend that you use visual aids during your presentation. In previous years, almost all speakers in the Student Session gave a presentation using slides (made with Power Point, or LaTeX). There will be a beamer and laptop available (but you can also bring your own laptop).

Finally, it is a good idea to structure your talk. Give a short outline at the beginning of your talk, and state your conclusions at the end.

The best oral presentation will be awarded a prize of 500 euro to be spent on books published by Springer!

Here are some useful links to information about giving a good talk.

How to give a good talk by Patrick Blackburn
How to talk
How to give a bad (good) talk

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Poster presentations


Your poster should be no bigger than A0 size (=841 mm x 1189 mm). Please do not just print out your paper and hang it on the wall, but make something nice! Your poster should be readible from a distance of 6 feet (2 meters). So choose a big enough font size.

A poster is a visual way to convey your message. So minimize text and use images and graphs instead. Avoid using full sentences, but rather use phrases. Organize your poster well.

You may want to bring a handout which contains more detailed information, since you cannot put everything you have to say on your poster.

Don't wait until the last minute. Creating and printing an effective poster presentation takes time.

The best poster presentation will be awarded a prize of 500 euro to be spent on books published by Springer!

Here are some useful links to information about giving a good poster presentation.

Creating Effective Poster Presentations (Many instructive examples!)
Do's and Dont's of Poster Presentation
How to create a poster that graphically communicates your message (Lots of examples of good and bad posters!)
Effective Poster Presentations (Includes links to sites about making a poster with LaTeX and Power Point.)


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Your poster will be hung at a central place, close to where the coffee breaks are held. Your posters will be displayed there for two weeks, so that the entire ESSLLI audience has a chance to look at your work. We will provide the tools for hanging your poster.

As last year, we will organize a special poster session. During this session, the authors get the chance to present their work in max. 5 minutes in order to advertize their posters. Give the audience an impression what your work is about, and what your main conclusions are. Make them want to see your poster and learn more about your work! There will be a beamer and laptop available for your presentation. After your presentations, we will walk to the place where the posters are displayed and you will stand next to your poster. The audience will walk around and come up to your poster and ask questions. This year's poster session will be held on Friday, August 4. You can find the program here! We will also organize a short poster session during one of the coffee breaks of the second week. The short session only requires that you stand next to your poster to answer questions (so you don't have to give a presentation then).
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