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Presenter Instructions

Please check the date and time of your presentation a few days before the conference in Epitome or the meeting mobile app. Times and room locations may have changed since you received your author notice.

Session presentations

Focus sessions and contributed papers are limited to 10 minutes, with two additional minutes for discussion. This is followed by one minute for the transition to the next paper and the introduction of the next speaker. During the talk, the monitor will indicate at eight minutes that the speaker has to finish in two minutes. At 10 minutes, it will indicate that the speaker’s presentation time is over. At 12 minutes, it will mean that transition to the next speaker must occur.

Minisymposium talks are 26 minutes long, including questions and transition. The talks will consist of 20-22 minutes for the presentation, with three to five minutes for discussion and one minute for transition. However, note that the time monitor in the room will keep the regular 13 minute schedule.

Invited lectures are 30 minutes long with an additional five minutes for discussion (total 35 minutes) except the following:

  • The Otto Laporte and Stanley Corrsin Lectures are 40 minutes with five additional minutes for discussion (total of 45 minutes).
  • The Andreas Acrivos Dissertation Award and François Frenkiel Award Talks are 17 minutes with an additional three minutes for discussion (totaling 20 minutes).

Visit the Speaker Ready Room, 151D, in the Salt Palace Convention Center to practice your presentation.

Arrive at your assigned presentation room 30 minutes before the session.

All session rooms are equipped with the following AV equipment:

  • PC
  • LCD projector
  • Projection screen
  • Lapel microphone
  • Laser pointer
  • Slide advancer (clicker)
  • HDMI switcher (please bring your adaptor if necessary)

If you have questions or need additional equipment, please email APS Meetings.

Poster presentations

The maximum size for printed posters is 8 feet wide by 4 feet tall; smaller sizes are permitted.

Review Tips for Designing Poster Presentations and Tips for Presenting a Scientific Poster.

Bring your poster to the Exhibition Floor at or after 10:00 a.m. on the day of your presentation.

View additional information on poster presentations.

DFD-Interact Presenters

Interact presenters should read through all the detailed instructions below. You can also download a PowerPoint tutorial with voiceover that walks you through the steps.

Physical poster set-up

1) Please arrive at least 15 minutes before the start of the session to set up your materials. The session Chair will direct you to your appropriate location when you arrive. You will give a one-minute flash talk, followed by a ninety-minute poster discussion and networking.

2) For the flash talk, prepare a PowerPoint or PDF file with a single slide and bring it to the session on a USB drive where it will be loaded onto the presentation laptop.

Note: You will be assigned a presentation number by the A/V staff, and flash talks will be delivered in order of presentation number.

3) You will also need to prepare a printed poster (maximum size 4 ft by 8 ft but smaller sizes are accepted), and set it up in the session room during the break immediately before the session. Materials to hang your poster (pins or adhesive) will be provided.

4) The following Interact sessions will have physical posters:

  • C02. Interact: Machine Learning in Fluids
  • C03. Interact: Non-Newtonian and Granular Flows
  • C07. Interact: Multiphase Flows
  • C08. Interact: Innovations in Flows in Porous Media
  • C09. Interact: Swimming and Flying at Moderate and High Reynolds Numbers
  • C10. Interact: Active Matter
  • C13. Interact: Wind Energy: Wakes and Wake Interactions
  • C15. Interact: Boundary Layers: from Laminar to Turbulent
  • C16. Interact: Rotating and Non-Rotating Rayleigh-Benard Convection
  • C30. Interact: Reacting Flows
  • C31. Interact: The Dynamics of Vortices
  • C34. Interact: Supersonic and Hypersonic Flows and Shocks

ePoster set-up

1) Please arrive at least 15 minutes before the start of the session to set up your materials. The session Chair will direct you to your appropriate location when you arrive. You will give a one-minute flash talk, followed by a 90-minute ePoster discussion and networking. 

2) For the flash talk, prepare a PowerPoint or PDF file with a single slide and bring it to the session on a USB drive where it will be loaded onto the presentation laptop. 

3) You will be given a large LCD monitor to which you can connect your computer. Although you could simply display on the monitor a digital version of a traditional printed poster, we encourage you to use the format creatively–for example, you could support your presentation with videos or animations, or have a few slides that allow you to present more details of your research when needed. With a monitor and your computer, you can mimic the back-and-forth you might have while discussing your research with a colleague in your office.

Acceptable formats for Flash Talks and e-Posters

USB drives:
Acceptable:
EXFAT, FAT32, and NTFS formatted USB drives. PowerPoints or PDFs file formats.
NOT Acceptable: MAC OS Journaled formatted USB drives. Keynote files, links to Google Drive or PREZI.

Laptops/Tablets (for e-Posters):
Acceptable:
Latest Windows or Mac operating system. HDMI port or an adapter for HMDI. Your laptop must be capable of video output. Ensure your device can properly power the file size of your e-poster.m
NOT Acceptable: Outdated operating system. Keynote files, links to Google Drive or PREZI.NOTE: Although laptops are preferred, phones or tablets may be used for your e-poster. The same guidelines as laptops apply: latest operating system, HDMI port or an adapter for HMDI, capable of video output, can properly power the file size of your e-poster.

PLEASE FULLY CHARGE YOUR DEVICE BEFORE ARRIVAL AT YOUR SESSION!

1) The following Interact sessions will have ePosters:

  • C01. Interact: Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluids
  • C04. Interact: Particle-Laden Flows
  • C05. Interact: Physiological and Biomedical Flows
  • C06. Interact: Drop and Bubbles
  • C12. Interact: Turbulence
  • C33. Interact: Aerodynamics from Seeds to Metamaterials

After presenting your talk

Once the Interact session completes at 12:50 p.m. you will have the option to take down your poster to keep. If your poster is not removed by Sunday, Nov. 25 at 5:50 p.m., then it will be taken down and thrown away by event staff.

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