Oral presentation guidelines
Oral presentations are the centerpiece of the ISSW and offer an excellent opportunity to share your work and ideas with the international avalanche community.
Oral presenters
- We ask that you upload your presentation slides the day before the presentation, and at the very latest at 08:00 AM on the day of the presentation. You can upload your presentation in the technical room by the stairs in the lobby of the Edge.
- All presenters will wear a microphone headset before the session starts. The technical area, where the microphones are provided, is located at next to the entrance to the presentation room (i.e., behind the last seat row).
- All speakers with oral presentations and sessions chairs are expected to participate in the speakers breakfast (7-8 AM at Edge) the same days as their presentation. If you for some reason cannot attend the breakfast, please make sure that you have uploaded your presentation to the conference computers the day before your session. Please also make sure that you are present in the session room at least a few minutes before the session starts so that we can provide you with your microphone.
Format
There are oral sessions scheduled each conference day for a total of 18 sessions. Each session will have a general theme, but under certain circumstances presentations may not fit perfectly into the topic for a particular session. The oral sessions will have 6, 8 or 10 min long presentation slots, see table below. Each session ends with a 10-15 min Q&A. A session chair will host each session and introduce the theme, presenters, keep the session within the allotted time and lead the Q&As.
|
Session |
Time |
Presentation length |
Short session name |
| MonO1 | 08:15 - 10:00 | 10 min | Snow mechanics I |
| MonO2 | 10:30 - 11:30 | 8 min | Avalanche forecasting I |
| MonO3 | 13:30 - 14:03 | 8 min | Avalanche dynamics and modelling |
| MonO4 | 15:00 - 16:00 | 6 min | Glide snow avalanches and slushflows |
| TueO1 | 08:15 - 10:00 | 10 min | Risk management in engineering practise I |
| TueO2 | 10:30 - 11:30 | 8 min | Case studies |
| TueO3a | 13:30 - 14:03 | 8 min | Instrumentation, monitoring and detection I |
| Tue03b | 13:30 - 14:03 | 8 min | Decision making strategies I |
| TueO4a | 15:00 - 16:00 | 8 min | Snow mechanics II |
| TueO4b | 15:00 - 16:00 | 8 min | Avalanche education and learning |
| ThuO1 | 08:15 - 10:00 | 10 min | Avalanche forecasting II |
| ThuO2 | 10:30 - 11:30 | 8 min | Avalanches and snow in a changing climate |
| ThuO3a | 13:30 - 14:03 | 8 min | Remote sensing of snow and avalanches |
| ThuO3b | 13:30 - 14:03 | 8 min | Risk management in engineering practise II |
| ThuO4a | 15:00 - 16:00 | 8 min | Instrumentation, monitoring and detection II |
| ThuO4b | 15:00 - 16:00 | 8 min | Snow, avalanche and forest interaction |
| Fre01 | 08:15 - 10:00 | 10 min | Decision making strategies II |
| FriO2 | 11:30 - 12:30 | 8 min | Risk communication |
Preparation
Please try and make your presentation as accessible to as many members of your audience as possible. A wide range of professional and academic experience exists within the ISSW community. The impact of your presentation will depend on your ability to use common language and to illustrate the relevance of your topic to the audience.
Each presentation should strive to foster dialogue between researchers and practitioners. We encourage researchers to discuss the practical application of their topic and we encourage practitioners to discuss how research can help solve operational challenges.
Please consider:
- Focus on the main take-home points of your work in the presentation and use your proceedings paper to dive into details.
- Keep the introductory slides about past work and theory short and focus on your results.
- A maximum of 1 min per slide is often sufficient.
- Use text and equations sparingly and rather show photos and figures.
- Use 18 font size or larger. Avoid wasting space on things that the audience can’t read.
- Make sure to explain all details in a figure.
Format:
We will offer both PC (Windows) and Mac (OS X) laptops for running the oral sessions. We will not support the setting up of your own personal computers, except for the keynote speakers. We will support the following formats:
- Microsoft Power Point (PC and Mac)
- Keynote (Mac)
Standard format will be 16:9, and presenters are asked to prepare their slides in English. Computers will be available to preview and upload presentations in the Speaker Room, located close to the hotel reception. Presentations should be uploaded at least one hour before the session starts or the day before. Please name your presentation with your own name, date, and time of presentation, not ISSW 2024.