Seminar Three / Professor HallowellOctober 30, 2012

Amanda Favia, amanda.favia@macaulay.cuny.eduITF, Macaulay Honors College at Baruch College

*(with slides borrowed from Craig Willse, Emily Sherwood & Kiersten Greene)

Understand project expectations

Learn the basics of poster design

Begin planning your posters

Visual means for communicating research to an academic or professional community.

Summary of research that serves to create interest by highlighting the most important things.

Each group must produce one poster

Posters can be made with PowerPoint

Poster dimensions must be 48” x 36” (or vice versa)

Registration for Seminar 3 Final Event: Nov. 5th-9thhttp://macaulay.cuny.edu/eportfolios/seminar3presentations/

Seminar 3 Final Event (poster presentations at MHC): Dec. 5th , 6th & 9th

Poster Printing Deadline Nov. 30th

What makes a poster Succeed?

Images should guide the overall layout, not the text.

Avoid cluttering the poster (too many graphs or photos).

Watch your color contrasts! Color should be easy on the eyes.

Make sure all components are aligned properly.

Less text is key!

Make use of an underlying structure that guides the viewer.

Create a narrative that’s self-explanatory.

Introduction: Hypothesis (Thesis)

Results: What did you find?

Discussion: What does it mean?

Conclusion: Conclusion and future directions

References: Text, data and images used

What makes a poster Fail?

We describe the philosophy and design of the control flow machine, and present the results of detailed simulations of the performance of a single processing element. Each factor is compared with the measured performance of an advanced von Neumann computer running equivalent code. It is shown that the control flow processor compares favorably in the program.

We present a denotational We present a denotational semantics for a logic semantics for a logic program to construct a program to construct a control flow for the logic control flow for the logic program. The control flow program. The control flow is defined as an algebraic is defined as an algebraic manipulator of idempotent manipulator of idempotent substitutions and it substitutions and it virtually reflects the virtually reflects the resolution deductions. We resolution deductions. We also present a bottom-up also present a bottom-up compilation of medium compilation of medium grain clusters from a fine grain clusters from a fine grain control flow graph. grain control flow graph. We compare the basic We compare the basic block and the dependence block and the dependence sets algorithms that sets algorithms that partition control flow partition control flow graphs into clusters. graphs into clusters.

Our compiling strategy is Our compiling strategy is to exploit coarse-grain to exploit coarse-grain parallelism at function parallelism at function application level: and the application level: and the function application level function application level parallelism is implemented parallelism is implemented by fork-join mechanism. by fork-join mechanism. The compiler translates The compiler translates source programs into source programs into control flow graphs based control flow graphs based on analyzing flow of on analyzing flow of control, and then serializes control, and then serializes instructions within graphs instructions within graphs according to flow arcs such according to flow arcs such that function applications, that function applications, which have no control which have no control dependency, are executed dependency, are executed in parallel.in parallel.

We apply a parallel We apply a parallel simulation scheme to a simulation scheme to a real problem: the real problem: the simulation of a control flow simulation of a control flow architecture, and we architecture, and we compare the performance compare the performance of this simulator with that of this simulator with that of a sequential one. of a sequential one. Moreover, we investigate Moreover, we investigate the effect of modeling the the effect of modeling the application on the application on the performance of the performance of the simulator. Our study simulator. Our study indicates that parallel indicates that parallel simulation can reduce the simulation can reduce the execution time execution time significantly if appropriate significantly if appropriate modeling is used.modeling is used.

We have demonstrated We have demonstrated that to achieve the best that to achieve the best execution time for a execution time for a control flow program, the control flow program, the number of nodes within the number of nodes within the system and the type of system and the type of mapping scheme used are mapping scheme used are particularly important. In particularly important. In addition, we observe that a addition, we observe that a large number of subsystem large number of subsystem nodes allows more actors nodes allows more actors to be fired concurrently, to be fired concurrently, but the communication but the communication overhead in passing overhead in passing control tokens to their control tokens to their destination nodes causes destination nodes causes the overall execution time the overall execution time to increase substantially.to increase substantially.

Color: ah!

Text: fit & alignment

Text: too much!

Images: not enough

Background: distracting

Color: easier on the eyes

Text: fit properly & justify alignment

Images & Text: less text & more images

Background: “compliments” images and background color

Poster Critique:

Why is this poster

successful?

Images guide the overall layout, not the text

Not cluttered

Good use of color

Text & Images aligned properly

Underlying structure guides viewer

Break up text with bullets or numbers (hint: this slide!)

Indenting shows subordination- Like this, see?

Avoid lengthy paragraphs talking about why you did what you did and whether you dislike positivism because there is such a thing as reality out there and it operates in a certain way and we should be able to access that in some shape, form, or fashion and besides it’s all from some stuffy old dead guy thinking too hard, anyway.

Make sure your font color stands out against the background.

Be consistent with colors and use them to guide the reader.- e.g., you can use one color for headings,

another for body text

Teeth are ideal for studying life history because they grow incrementally, are not remodeled during an individual’s lifetime, and are not highly subject to environmental stresses.

Teeth & Life History Incremental

growth Not remodeled Resistant to

environmental stress

Add photos and drawings

Make your own Pie Charts, Column Charts, Line Charts, etc.

Excel Tutorials:http://macaulay.cuny.edu/eportfolios/baruchitfs/2012/04/02/chart-tutorials/

Templates for Poster Layout

Title & Authors

Centered Image & Peripheral Explanations

Title & Authors

File & select New Presentation

Slide Layouts  (or Format > Slide Layout) & select Blank slide layout.

Set the dimensions for your slide: File > Page Setup. Width 48” & height 36” (or reverse it, 36 x 48)

Note: Just click Okay on the error window when you get this Error Message “The current page size exceeds the printable area of the paper in the printer…”

http://macaulay.cuny.edu/eportfolios/baruchitfs/2011/11/15/scientific-poster-template-for-powerpoint/

Make an appointment: http://macaulay.cuny.edu/webforms/?q=node/26

At least one person from each group must come IN-PERSON to the printing appointment.  

DO NOT attach your file! Bring it with you (on a flash drive or other media) to your appointment.

Advice on designing scientific posters (Swarthmore College)

Do’s and Dont’s of Poster Presentation (American Society for Cell Biology)

Creating Effective Poster Presentations (NCU)

Design of Scientific Posters (Virginia Tech)

Scientific Development Poster Session (Apple.com)

Plan ahead

Work together & establish group goals

Think holistically about your project

Seminar Three Course Site:http://macaulay.cuny.edu/eportfolios/

hallowell12/

Amanda Favia amanda.favia@macaulay.cuny.edu

ITF, Macaulay Honors College at Baruch College