Bioastronautics Investigators' Workshop Presenter Abstract Information

ABSTRACTS AND INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS:
Follow these links to an online Abstract Submission Form and additional instructions for authors. The deadline for abstract submission was October 1, 2002. If you have missed this deadline, please contact the Workshop Coordinator at 281-244-2010.

PUBLICATIONS:
An abstract volume will be distributed at the Workshop. Proceedings will include the abstracts and plenary presentations, and will be published online following the Workshop.

ORAL PRESENTATIONS:
Oral presentations will be organized according to discipline groupings and will be limited to 15 minutes with an additional 5 minutes for questions. They will be open to all attendees.

A Mac and a PC laptop and LCD projector will be available in each session. Specifications of requirements and equipment are detailed below.

POSTER PRESENTATIONS:
Posters must fit within an area of 92" x 44." Unfortunately, we will not be able to offer skirted tables, electrical outlets, and extension cords to poster presenters. We will provide push pins and Velcro tabs for the boards.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION: Electronic presentations must be sent to USRA on CD-ROM (CD-R) by close of business (5:00 pm Central Standard Time) on December 20, 2002. The CD-ROM should be labeled with the speaker's name, title of presentation, and platform (Mac or PC). Send to:

USRA/DSLS
Bioastronautics Investigators' Workshop
3600 Bay Area Boulevard
Houston, Texas 77058
281-244-2010

Please include a printed version of your presentation with which to verify your electronic one. Presentations will be copied and tested for readability by USRA personnel. Presenters will be notified as quickly as possible if problems are encountered. After readability is confirmed, presentations will be loaded in speaker order on Workshop laptops.

Revisions to presentations will not be accepted after the presentations have been loaded. If revisions to presentation content are necessary, presenters must bring the revisions on overhead transparencies.

Personal laptops cannot be plugged into the projectors in the meeting rooms. Internet connectivity is not available in the meeting rooms. Dual projection will not be available for electronic presentations.

Hardware
One PC laptop with Intel Pentium III 800 MHz cpu
Memory: 256 MB
Video: 1024 x 768 at 24 bit color depth

One Mac G4 laptop 400MHz cpu
Memory: 256 MB
Video: 1024 x 768 at 24 bit color depth

These suggestions are not meant to deter your creativity or use of the best data you have available, but they provide options in case of difficulty.

PowerPoint can display pictures and text generated with the program or inserted from other sources. If the outside source is a sound file over 5KB or any video file, the original file is not saved within the presentation. Source files meeting these criteria must be available on the computer where the presentation is going to run. Please copy any source video and sounds files to the CD-ROM with your presentation; if you are in doubt, include the file.

Fonts should be standard fonts such as Times New Roman, Arial, or Courier. If you must use a non-standard font, please embed it in your PowerPoint presentation.

Embedded charts, graphs and object-oriented graphic files can be difficult to work with. These file types usually are influenced by the version of the program used to create them, often making them translate strangely on a different system. It is recommended that charts or graphics be inserted into your presentation in a standard graphics format such as .gif, .jpg, or .bmp.

Movies: Movies saved as AVI's have the best chance of success on a Windows machine. QuickTime's best compression algorithm, the Sorenson CODEC, does not play within PowerPoint. To avoid problems, convert QuickTime files to the Cinepak CODEC.

HTML presentations: Make sure that your files are portable (use relative links). Data will be copied from your CD-ROM to the laptop's hard drive. If files are not portable, you could lose links between pages.

Web Server: There will be no web server and no internet connection available, so plan accordingly.

Plug-ins or Active X controls: These cannot be installed at the meeting. If your presentation takes advantage of a function not built into IE 6 or the Plug-Ins mentioned above, you will have difficulties.