For speakers:
- Unless otherwise stated in the programme, talks are 12 minutes long, with an additional 3 minutes reserved for questions from the audience (15 minutes total).
- Presentations need to be accessible to a broad audience, not only those who work in your field of Astronomy. This is especially the case for plenary talks.
- We support presentation slides in Powerpoint or PDF format as we will be using Windows laptops.
- We will distribute surfdrive links where everyone can upload their slides.
- For ease of use, please try to stick to a maximum filesize of 100 MB.
- Please stick to the following filename convention:
<Lastname>_<Firstname>_<Title> - We recommend you upload your slides by the end of Sunday of May 25. We can not guarantee your slides to be ready if uploaded only minutes before the start of your session.
- We will show your presentation with our SLOC laptop(s), and it is not possible to connect your own laptop or device to the audio-visual setup.
- We will provide the opportunity to test your slides at the venue in the break or ~ 30 minutes before each session.
- We will supply a wireless presenter / clicker.
For posters:
- Size: A0 or smaller.
- Only the portrait poster-format will be supported.
- Each poster is associated with a Poster_ID which you can find here:
https://indico.kna-rnas.nl/event/1/page/10-scientific-program-overview - Please print the poster yourself and arrange, for example, a poster tube for ease of transport.
- We will provide poster boards, along with means to stick your poster to the board (e.g. tape, thumbtacks).
Choose the poster board with the correct Poster_ID. - For eligibility for the RNAS Poster Prize and to help the jury in its discussions, please upload a digital version (pdf or png) by Friday evening (23 May). Please stick to the following filename convention: <Poster_ID>_<Lastname>_<Firstname>.pdf/png, e.g. NW1-23_Doe_John.pdf
You find the Surfdrive upload link in the email from 16 May. - In order for the jury members to have enough time to approach you, please aim at being at your poster already in the first two poster sessions (Monday afternoon & Tuesday morning) as well as during the dedicated poster session (Tue, 12:15-13:00).
- Apart from receiving the "Great Dodecahedron," the poster prize winner is asked to present their results in a 5-min plenary flash talk on the last day of the conference.
- The main criteria for the poster prize are:
- Verbal presentation.
- Scientific content and impact.
- Structural completeness.
- Information clarity.
- Visual clarity and originality.
- In case of questions feel free to reach out to us.
