The Ohio State University

Policies on Presentation Types

Types of Presentations and Support:     Below are the types of presentations you can apply for and the number of presenters that can be funded for each presentation. These choices will be implicit to the online application forms:

Type	Survey Talk	Report Talk	Poster
Description	10 min oral presentation	20 min oral presentation	On going poster presentation
Number of funded presenters	only one	one or two	one or two

In summary, every supported student participant is reponsible for at least 10 minutes of an oral presentation or 50% of a poster presentation. Conversely, we do not support three or more students for the same presentation, and also do not support two or more students for the same 10 min survey talk.

Note on Survey Talks:     In 2006 we only had four short talks and presumably will have only a small amount this year as well. These talks add some flexibility to our scheduling if we run low on talk slots, and/or allow us to accomodate students for whom this format works best. Most projects presented at YMC, however, should be able to fill out 20min or a poster.

Keep in mind that choosing a 10min Survey Talk will not significantly influence your chances for an invitation. The number of participants is mostly determined by our budget, and the main cirterion for invitation is the mathematical quality of the submitted project.

Multiple Participant Projects:     Occasionally, a research project is very broad and contains many components as well as many collaborators. If there are more than two students in your collaboration who wish to attend the conference you have the following options:

• The third (or fourth) student can apply to give another separate talk. The second talk should be on a different aspect of your project. This needs to be indicated by a different title and different abstracts submitted in the application form.
• The third (or fourth) student supplement the talk on your work by a poster presentation; vice-versa. As before, title and abstract should be different.
• The third (or fourth) student may attend the conference without funding.

Note, that any additional collaborators in your project (whether they attend the conference or not) can and should be mentioned in the application as well as in the confirmation/pre-registration forms.

Application:     Before applying to YMC you should give some careful thought about how to organize and/or divide your project into presentations and by presenters. Before you submit any joint online application you should also carefully communicate with your collaborator that all the information you enter for him/her is correct and agreed upon.

Joint Oral Presentation:     The 20 minute survey talks allow for two speakers to be funded as presenters. This also means that both presenters will be listed in the abstracts and are expected to be present during the presentation.

Aside from this it is entirely up to you how you will split up tasks during the presentation. You may have only one person speak, or you may take turns during the talk.

YMC 2007 is supported by NSF Grant DMS-0732622