For presentation advice (eg on screens and handouts) please see the logistics page.
The Open Sessions are across multiple rooms in Palmer and the nearby Edith Morley building.
The current timetable is at https://www.luke-elson.org/opensessions.html but I've embedded it below. If the embed doesn't work for some reason, please click the link.
Each open session takes two hours, split (in nearly every case) between four speakers.
Grouping such a large number of papers into sessions of four means for some slightly odd or arbitrary groupings; sorry about that. Sometimes this is due to speaker scheduling constraints, but it may often simply be strange choices on my part!
Five of the sessions will be in the two large lecture theatres. I know this is a bit odd, but I thought it better than going for buildings outside Palmer and Edith Morley (which are very close together). And the theatres are air-conditioned!
Many people find the Edith Morley building confusing, which I've never understood. It's a masterpiece of logical planned architecture. The first part of a room number (G/1/2/3/4) is the floor. The second part is the room. For the latter, use the numbering signs along the corridors (especially on the door frames), rather than the maps. The maps are confusing.
Traditionally, one of the speakers chairs the session.
The order of speakers below is the default (which allows people to move between sessions with some predictability papers), but by agreement you may wish to depart from it for one reason or another.
I'd advise keeping paper plus question and answer to 25 minutes, to allow for changeover and such movement.
Chairs should only tolerate follow-up questions if all other askers have had a go and there is time left.
Here's a blunter version of this advice from previous programmes:
Rules for Open Sessions and the Chairing thereof
Each half-hour slot in the open sessions starts at its allotted time whether or not anyone has started speaking and lasts for precisely 29 minutes
Experience shows that the 29 minutes is exhausted entirely by 20 minutes speaking and 5 minutes questions.
Previous chairs have observed that it doesn’t matter if speakers start speaking late; if they want any questions they stop by the 23rd minute.
There are no follow-up (or ‘finger’) questions.
There is never time for just one more question.
Chairs are instructed to interrupt speakers at the 28th minute.