Poster Sessions
We recommend that poster presenters bring their printed poster with them to the conference.
Presentation Details
The poster session for graduate students is scheduled for Thursday, July 23 at 6:00pm. If you are not staying on or near campus, please bring your poster with you to the conference that morning. The graduate student poster session will include a reception with food and drinks. Presenters should stay near their posters to take questions and comments and talk with other members of the Society. The poster session for faculty posters is scheduled for Friday, July 24 at 2:00pm.
Posters accepted for presentation will be archived on the PolMeth website. We also encourage you to submit the associated paper to the Society's working paper archive.
Format
We will provide you with space to display your poster, as well as push pins and tape. The poster should be landscape and no larger than 3ft x 4ft. Tips on preparing and designing your poster are given below.
Guidelines and Tips
What should you present?
For students far along on their dissertation, this is an opportunity to get members of the methods section to review your thesis work. For others, this is a chance to get an enormous amount of feedback on future conference, working, or late-stage papers. Given that the topic has already been submitted as part of your application and approved by the program committee, the question is really what part of this research will prove to be the most useful as a poster in this setting. In general, the audience will be interested in your application of methodologies (broadly defined) to some data-analytic problem. No matter what is presented, don't be afraid to highlight areas that are not totally worked out, since this is exactly where you might get the most benefit from feedback.
What makes a good poster?
In general, you can think of your poster as a set of presentation slides. As such, tables and figures should play an essential role, and bullet points should be used to highlight main points. You will be verbally explaining your research to others rather than having them read every sentence on your poster. Keep it simple, but make sure your poster gets your research across in a brief and effective manner.
How should one make a poster?
A good poster is seldom constructed from filling the poster board with standard 8.5 by 11 inch printouts. We strongly suggest designing and producing the poster as a poster. The following provide helpful advice about structuring and organizing a good poster:
Designing Effective Posters: Jeff Radel at the University of Kansas
Do's and Dont's of Poster Presentation: Steven M. Block (1996)
There are a variety of software packages that can be used to design posters including Microsoft Power Point, LaTeX, and Adobe Illustrator. Below are some links to get you started:
Microsoft Power Point: Link 1, Link 2
LaTeX: Link 1, Link 2, Link 3
Adobe Illustrator: Link 1, Link 2