For use in class with M1 students

1. What is a Poster session?
Why? And examples

2. Weekly meetings at the Royal Society started in 1660
See the story of Henry Cavendish on wikipedia

3. Solvay Conference : Brussels 1911
(Radiation and the Quanta)

4. Solvay Conference : Brussels Oct1927
(Electrons and Photons)

5. August 1981
10 days
380 pages

8. 6 international institutions
15 authors
annotated image
No blocks of text

13. Missing images

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

15. 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)

17. Using power point to produce poster, change the page size from:
To A3 paysage:

18. 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 here
http://www.flickr.com/gro
ups/368476@N21/pool/

19. 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

20. 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