Poster Preparation

All SAM 2002 papers will be presented as posters. Poster sessions are a good medium for authors to present papers and meet with interested attendees for in-depth technical discussions. In addition, attendees find the poster sessions a good way to sample many papers in parallel sessions. Thus it is important that you display your message clearly and noticeably to attract people who might have an interest in your paper.

Follow these guidelines when preparing your poster:

• Prepare your poster well in advance of the conference. SAM 2002 will not provide materials or facilities for last minute preparation, but the hotel does have a business center, and there is a Kinko's nearby.



• For your poster, a 4ft by 6ft (121cm by 182cm) board will be provided (landscape orientation). Push tacks for mounting your poster will be provided. The boards are not made of felt, so please do not plan on mounting your poster using velcro fasteners.



• The title of your poster should appear at the top in CAPITAL letters about 1inch (25mm) high. Below the title put the author(s)' name(s) and affiliation(s). The flow of your poster should be from the top left to the bottom right. Use arrows to lead your viewer through the poster. Use color for highlighting and to make your poster more attractive. Use pictures, diagrams, cartoons, figures, etc., rather than text wherever possible. Try to state your main result in 6 lines or less, in lettering about 3/5inch (15mm) high so that people can read the poster from a distance. The smallest text on your poster should be at least 2/5inch (10mm) high, and the important points should be in a larger size. Use a sans-serif font (such as "cmss" in the Computer Modern family or the "Helvetica" PostScript font) to make the print easier to read from a distance.



• Make your poster as self-explanatory as possible. This will save your efforts for technical discussions. There will not be any summaries given at the beginning of the poster sessions at SAM 2002, so authors need not prepare any overhead slides for their poster presentations. You may bring additional battery-operated audio or visual aids to enhance your presentation.



• Prepare a short presentation of about 5 or 10 minutes that you can periodically give to those assembled around your poster throughout the poster session.