WOW! You've got a POSTER at NT'04!

You will find poster sessions at NT'04 different from other conferences. We want your contribution to 'play the first violin'. To make this possible, we kept only the mornings for invited talks, and reserved the afternoons for contributed presentations. We believe that structured, interactive poster sessions are the best forum for contributed presentations.

We intend to sort contributions into poster sessions with a unifying theme. At the beginning of each poster session, the chairperson will briefly introduce the significance of the new results. In the "Poster+" session, each poster will be allocated a 2 viewgraph / 2 minute (sharp!!) plenary oral presentation. This presentation should summarize the problem addressed and motivate the participants to discuss more at the poster site. Contributed submissions may further be elected for a 15 minute oral "Poster++" presentation. Following the Poster+ and Poster++ presentations, ample time will be provided for further asynchronous discussions at the posters.
(Poster board size is 2.0 m wide x 2.4 m high.)

Presenting authors will know, when they are expected to "man their poster", and when they are free to move around. At the chairperson's choice, the poster session may be concluded by a focussed panel discussion, or in a different way.

Multiplying the expected number of posters (400) with the oral presentation time (2 minutes) amounts to more than 10 hours total for Poster+ presentations only. We believe that this time, which will be spread over the conference afternoons, will be time very well spent!

Suggestions for your "Poster+" presentation:

• Keep it compact - do not pack a whole talk into 2 minutes!
• Get the audience intrigued - tell the problem, not the solution!
• Consider this an "advertisement" for your poster - make it interesting and fun!