UD Computational Science Day 2006

Topic Guidelines

We encourage proposals for posters and 30-minute talks that describe:

• A challenging problem whose solution requires advanced computational science techniques.
• The motivating application and how or why it involves advanced techniques and technologies.
• Lessons learned: success stories and instructive failures.
• Related works-in-progress that might encourage collaboration.
• UD computational science courses that could benefit from additional exposure and discussion at the event.

Poster Information

Posters will be grouped by common computational approaches to encourage cross-fertilization of ideas by their presenters.

To promote poster submissions, Information Technologies will print and mount one poster per presenter FOR FREE if the following conditions are met:

• The poster proposal submission is submitted and accepted by the program committee.
• The poster is exactly 30" x 40" (portrait or landscape).
• The poster file is submitted to the Anita Schwartz (anita@udel.edu) in Adobe PDF format by Jan. 27. It may be an e-mail attachment if the file is less than 5Mb. Otherwise, use the UD Dropbox (http://www/udel.edu/dropbox). You will receive an e-mail confirmation when it is received.

Guidelines for poster preparation and submission are online.

Poster Awards

At the end of the CSD 2006 program, we will present awards for best poster design and execution. A faculty committee (Drs. S. Bernhardt and W. Deering) will evaluate the posters and provide written feedback to each submitter. The six equally weighted criteria are

• Sense of purpose: Viewer quickly sees the purpose of the inquiry, the significance of the work and the major conclusions.
• Audience adaptation: Poster accomodates scientific audiences of varying levels of specific expertise.
• Visual/verbal balance: Poster has good information density; it is neither crowded nor empty, with a good balance of high level information and supporting detail.
• Design: Poster attains a balance of structuring elements (headings, divisions, white space), visual elements (color, line, texture), and expository text.
• Visuals - use of data, charts, drawings, tables, lists: Well designed and labeled visuals focus viewer attention, make an important point, and tell a clear story.
• Creativity and innovation: Poster shows a novel approach to the particular design challenge.

Facilities

All areas have wireless connectitivity.

The conference will provide speakers with a laptop with wireless capabilities and XGA projection (1024x768). The projector accepts XGA, SXGA and UXGA input.

Poster presenters will be given easels that accomodate 40"-wide posters.

Please note on your proposal submission any special technical or space needs (e.g., higher bandwidth than 10Mb/s).