Important Note about Social Media- Members of the SOC or other organizing committee members may be taking pictures and making posts about certain presentations and oral sessions throughout the event. If any individual speaker or presenter does not wish their work or talk to be talked about or reported on via social media, it is within the responsibility of the speaker or presenter to make such a request prior to or at the beginning of their presentation/oral session. 

Speaker Guidelines —

Oral presentations are scheduled for 15 minutes per talk. We will give you a 2-minute warning 13 minutes into your talk. At the end of each oral session, there will be a 10-minute Q&A session to address any questions from the audience. Speakers are required to upload their slides by 10/22/25 by 10:00 pm CT. 

Poster presenters can choose to give an optional lightning talk, up to 1 minute total, including transition to the next speaker. The slide will auto-advance after 1 minute. Lightning talks are limited to a single slide, and speakers are required to upload their slides by 10/22/25 by 10:00 pm CT. 

Poster Presenting Information

Presenter poster location assignment guides will be provided at the conference registration desk. Presenters should check their assigned poster location number carefully.

Poster Information

Posters must be a maximum size of 3.5 feet in height (42" or 107 cm) and 6 feet in width (72" or 183 cm).  The TAPs meeting will provide the following materials for hanging posters: binder clips.

Creating Your Poster

Posters should be professional standing presentations of one's work. For examples on how to best prepare a poster presentation, the following materials are helpful:

Fixing Academic Posters: the #BetterPoster Approach 

How to Create a Research Poster: Poster Basics

How to Design an Effective Science Poster