Cosyne is an inherently interdisciplinary meeting, and its success relies on the effort that participants make to communicate across disciplinary boundaries. These include neurobiology, psychology, medicine, physics, engineering (biomedical, electrical, mechanical), applied mathematics, statistics.

Please: try to avoid unnecessary jargon and excessive amounts of mathematics, and where it is necessary, define it and provide intuitive explanations/interpretations.

SLIDE SESSIONS

Slide sessions are arranged in a single track, and thus most meeting attendees will be at your talk. As such, it is critically important that your talk be designed for a general audience and not for experts in your subfield.

Invited talk slots are 45 minutes; contributed talk slots are 15 minutes. This includes time for questions AND switching between presentations, so you should aim to finish your talk in about in 35 minutes (invited) or 10 minutes (contributed) (with 2 additional minutes for questions). These times will be strictly enforced by the session chair.

The general session room can seat about 1,000 people. When viewed from the back of this room, your projected slides will subtend roughly ten degrees of visual angle (the width of your hand at arm's length). Please verify that your slides will be legible when viewed at that size. Projectors are set for 16:9 (widescreen) aspect ratio.

Please bring your laptop to the projectionist during the break before your talk session, to connect it and verify that settings are appropriate. Video adaptors (Mac/VGA/HDMI) will be available. However, if your laptop requires an adaptor to connect to a projector, please remember to bring it.

Because you will be using your own laptop, you may use any software you like to make your presentation.

If you have technical questions about projecting your slides, please contact meeting [at] cosyne.org for assistance.

POSTERS

Poster boards are 4' x 8' (122 cm x 244 cm, height x width). The horizontal display area for posters is 3.75 x 7.6 feet (114.3 cm x 231.1 cm, height x width). All poster content should fit within the allotted space. Each board will be labeled with the poster number (e.g., II-42), which you will find on the online program listing, and also on the conference app. Push pins will be provided.

At least one author is expected to present the poster during the scheduled session. Posters for session 1 may be put up any time between 5:00 p.m. and the start of the session (8:30 p.m.). Posters for sessions 2 and 3 should be put up during the morning break. All posters should be taken down by 10:00 a.m. the following day, or the expo staff will discard them.

Use large fonts (suggested minimum: 30 point), and do not overload the poster with text. The poster should be comfortable to read from a distance of five feet. Use your poster as a visual aid, much the way you would use slides.