What is a Poster session?

Why? And examples

Weekly meetings at the Royal Society started in 1660

See the story of Henry Cavendish on wikipedia

Solvay Conference : Brussels 1911 (Radiation and the Quanta)

Solvay Conference : Brussels Oct1927(Electrons and Photons)

10 days380 pages

August 1981

6 international institutions

15 authors

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Making a poster

• Absolutely all the required info is here http://www.ncsu.edu/project/posters/NewSite/

Poster session

• subject of the poster in week 4 • talsources• All posters must be printed (21st century) – A3

is OK – less than 2 euros (price of A2???- use 2 A3)

Using power point to produce poster, change the page size from:

To A3 paysage:

Use the option "guides" in power point to line up your text boxes / images

Lots of references on this page http://colinpurrington.com/tips/academic/posterdesign

And pics herehttp://www.flickr.com/groups/368476@N21/pool/

Poster Session

• Posters up – in silence everyone goes round the room taking notes on posters and deciding questions to ask (5-10 mins)

• Students A stays with poster to answer questions, Student B goes round asking questions – then swap.

• Drinks and biscuits

Bring your course-log with you to the poster session, and then send

me the account of the poster session by email

Reading exam date : Friday 14th March 17h30