Contribution and Presentation Formats

We're looking forward to your talks and posters! Alumni are invited to give insight into their current activities within the poster sessions. Master & PhD students may win an award for the best talk or poster, for more information click here. Scroll down to find advice on what to consider when you design your contribution.

1. Oral Presentations

In general, the time slot for oral presentations is 15 minutes. Talks should not be longer than 12 minutes to leave time for questions. Adobe Reader, Microsoft Power Point and OpenOffice Presenter are available as presentation software.

2. Poster Sessions

There will be a poster exhibition during the whole workshop day including Poster Coffee times. Recommended poster format is DIN A0 Portrait. Please put up your poster during registration time - the poster number is shown on each board, pins are provided.
Check out the BayCEER templates for presentation slides and conference posters that we provide in the public section of the BayCEER Cloud.

Lightning Talks

It is highly recommended for all poster authors to present their subject in a short "lightning talk" to the plenary. Here you have one minute and one slide to present your poster. The intention of lightning talks is to give all participants a quick overview on the topics and to draw the audience´s attention to your poster.

The presentation file must be submitted online (Login + Password from the registration mail). Deadline for submission of presentation files is Thursday, 10 October 2024, 9:00 a.m. Only pdf-files will be accepted. You should indicate the poster number on your slide (cf. slide template here). All submitted pdf-files will get merged into one large pdf-file, a missing file implies that you do not want to take part in the lightning talks.

3. Beyond BayCEER: Alumni activities

We invite former BayCEER members to give an insight into their current activities! 

We will provide space in the foyer for your research poster, for photos of your work, flyers of your projects or products, for exhibits. Please choose "Poster" as format and use the "abstract" text field in the registration process to provide us with some information what you plan to show and what you need for this.

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Know Your Audience

Please note that the target group in this workshop is interdisciplinary. Contributions should allow researchers from all disciplines within BayCEER to get your point, so please:
Explain the background of your research and why it is significant/ exciting! Justify your methods without getting bogged down in details. Be aware of technical terms in your discipline! Test your abstract/ poster/ talk on someone with different background (BIO/ GEO sciences). Point out your findings/ take-home-message more than clearly - so it will be just clear enough for the audience.

Abstracts and Keywords

All submissions are registered electronically providing an abstract with a max. of 2000 characters (including spaces) and a list of keywords until 2nd September, 2024. Generally, the abstract should be written in English. We strongly encourage the abstract to be structured and contain the following sections: Introduction/ Material & Methods, in which you clearly address the objective of your study and lay out the methods you used; and Results/ Conclusions, in which you report the specific results of your study and discuss them in a broader context. It is expected that your abstract addresses a research question and contains a take-home-message.

An abstract booklet will be provided in electronic form and sent to all participants prior the meeting. Additionally, the abstracts will be published on the workshop website.