King Abdullah University of Science and Technology and the United States National Science Foundation (NSF) are jointly organizing the KAUST-NSF Research Conference on Electronic Materials, Devices and Systems for A Sustainable Future, February 14 to 16, 2015.
Submission Deadline: Abstracts and posters must be sent to sustainability@kaust.edu.sa in pdf format by January 17, 2015.
The goal is to assemble the global scientific community to stimulate discussion on electronic materials, devices and systems that will help make our future more sustainable. The conference will gather the world’s leading researchers and creative scholars from academia and industry to exchange ideas and foster a collaborative framework.
Open to KAUST students, postdocs and research scientists. Posters will be selected before the conference. Poster submissions must represent sound science and engineering. After internal review, submitters will be notified of the results on Thursday, January 29, 2015.
Accepted posters will be listed in the conference website in addition to their displays in the conference venue during the conference days. Finally, each presenter will present their poster during the conference.
Criteria to Participate in the General Poster Session:
- Electronic Systems for A Sustainable Future (presented on 14th February 2015)
- Electronic Materials for A Sustainable Future (presented on 15th February 2015)
- Electronic Devices for A Sustainable Future (presented on 16th February 2015)
All abstracts should be informative and contain the following sections:
- Background: A brief statement of study’s objectives
- Methods: A concise statement of methods
- Results: A clear presentation of results which should be “data rich”
- Conclusions: A closing statement of conclusions (do not state “Results will be discussed.”)
Additional Criteria:
- Citations are not allowed within the abstract text and will be removed
- Abstracts that show lack of care or quality control as evidenced by grammatical, punctuation, spelling, and typographical errors are reviewed less favorably. Work must be proofread carefully before submission
- Research proposals are not acceptable
- Abstracts must be ‘successfully submitted, by the Abstract Submission Deadline
- “Incomplete” and “pending” status abstracts will not be accepted
- Use title case for the title of the poster. Abstracts are limited to 2600 characters
- Please type in or paste in abstract as a single text block (indents and line breaks will be removed).
Poster Presentation
Individuals may present and be senior or presenting author, for only one poster per day. All posters must be displayed on the 8-foot display board provided. Computer display equipment (strictly battery driven) is permitted. Bring your own push-pins or Velcro to affix your poster material to the display board. All material must be removable. You may not write, paint, or paste on the display board.
Each day at 11:30 a.m., presenters will introduce their posters. All posters must be set up in the time allotted before the session and must remain up until the session ends. Materials must then be removed promptly from the board and your area cleaned up. We will not be responsible for material left on boards after any of the poster sessions. A useful link with many examples of similar presentation: http://threeminutethesis.org/
Poster Design Suggestions
- Allow ample time to prepare your poster
- Use a crisp, clean and strong title. Do not tell the entire research history
- Present only enough data to support your conclusions and show the originality of the work
- The best posters display a succinct statement of major conclusions at the beginning, followed by supporting text in later segments and a brief summary at the end
- Limit the size of your poster or poster sections to A1 glossy paper (841mm X 594 mm)
- All posters should feature a title, your name, and the name of the institution where the research was performed and should credit others, as appropriate
- The title lettering should be about 2” to 3” (5 cm to 7.5 cm) with subheadings ½” to 1’ high (1.25 cm to 2.5 cm)
- All lettering should be legible from about 5 feet (1.5 m) away
- Text material should be approximately 24 points (1/4”/.625 cm)
- Poster elements should be mounted with and adhesive on 1/8” (.313 cm) foam-core board. Boards thicker than this will be difficult to pin up
- Covert tabular material to graphic display, if possible
- Use color to add emphasis and clarity
- Make illustrations simple and bold. Enlarge photos to show pertinent details clearly
- Displayed materials should be self-explanatory, freeing you for discussion
- Handouts of your abstract should be available for interested viewers
- No demonstration experiments, three-dimensional displays, or table top displays are allowed in a poster session
A very handy link for great scientific posters: http://www.sciencemag.org/site/products/