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GETTING TO THE GCAGS MEETING

The Technical Plan volition be held on the 3rd floor of the George R. Brown Convention Center in downtown Houston. Please attend the Session/Awards Anniversary, Sunday September xx, 5:00-vi:00 pm in Room 310ABC. The Speaker Ready Room (330AB in the Yard. R. Brown Convention Center) volition be open Lord's day 1:00-5:00 pm.

The Technical Program rooms will exist near the Exhibit Hall B3 area and the luncheon rooms. Yous may accept attended AAPG meetings at the George R. Chocolate-brown Convention Center before. The divergence will be that all GCAGS activities will be on the 3rd floor, whereas the AAPG was spread between the 1st and third floors.

The George R. Brown Convention Centre website has maps and parking data, including updates on downtown Houston construction projects that may bear on parking.

SPEAKER, POSTER, AND SESSION CHAIR BREAKFAST

We encourage you to attend the Speaker and Affiche Breakfast on the day of your talk. The Speaker and Poster Breakfasts are served from 7:00 am to 8:00 am.

Monday Breakfast location: Bush Yard Ballroom, 3rd floor, George R. Chocolate-brown Convention Center
Tuesday Breakfast location: Room 360 ABDE, George R. Brown Convention Centre.

Why you need to attend: You can meet the session chairs for your session, pick up your speaker gift, get a speaker ribbon, and upload your PowerPoint presentation in the Speaker and Poster Ready Room (330AB on the third floor of the G.R. Dark-brown Convention Center).

ORAL PRESENTATION GUIDELINES

The room, twenty-four hours and time scheduled for your presentation have been emailed to you lot and likewise printed in the 2015 GCAGS Announcement Brochure. The technical program is Mon, September 21 and Tuesday, September 22. The schedule is as well available online in the Oral Programme Overview. Click on the blood-red championship to see the details of each session.

Oral talks should be 20-22 minutes long, and cannot exist longer than 25 minutes. The exception is the Tuesday Education Forum, in Assembly Room A, which will accept 40-minute talks. All other sessions will accept 25 minute talks. Please practise your timings.

Slides will be advanced past the speaker from the podium. You can utilize the laser pointer provided on the slide advancer, or bring your own light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation pointer. Programme on staying near the podium while y'all speak to the audience. You will NOT exist able to go in forepart of the screen to signal to slides.

Notation: There will Not be internet connections in the session rooms.

SLIDE FORMAT REQUIREMENTS

Use a contempo version of PowerPoint (2007 or afterward).
Save your presentation in PowerPoint and equally a PDF, so you take both versions.
The convention uses PC computers.
Format your slides in Mural 4:three format, standard size, not widescreen size.
If you want to embed a video in the PPT, put the video file (.MP4 or .AVI or .MOV) in a folder with your .PPT and exam it alee of time in the Speaker Set Room. Tell your session chair you plan to use videos or animations, so they can be aware that your presentation is "multimedia."

UPLOADING SLIDES FOR YOUR TALK Alee OF TIME

Bring your PowerPoint presentation on a removable USB drive to the Speaker and Poster Ready Room (Room 330 AB, George R. Chocolate-brown Convention Center) on Sunday from 1 pm to 5 pm. You tin can besides upload information technology Mon morning before viii am. Fifty-fifty if you are speaking on Tuesday, we would like you to upload your presentation on Monday.

DON'T bring your PowerPoint to the session room earlier your talk, because information technology tin can't be uploaded in that location. If you have a conflict with early arrival at the George R. Brownish Convention Eye, the GCAGS Technical Chair will upload your PowerPoint on your behalf.

Make arrangements to submit the latest version of your presentation by ftp or using Dropbox, earlier Sunday Sept 19, past emailing linda.sternbach@gmail.com. PowerPoints will be stored in a protected and confidential site.

PRESENTATION ADVICE

Here are some tips so your talk will be a candidate for a best presentation laurels.

Read the tips on the AAPG website:
https://www2.aapg.org/meetings/kits/electronicallyspeaking.pdf
The proper noun of your PowerPoint should starting time with your last name and part of the title, for example: Smith_John_DeepwaterField.ppt
Credit any images that testify other authors' piece of work. The credit should name the previous writer, year, and publication.
Don't crowd more than ii or 3 images on each slide.
Employ 18 point or larger font.
Use standard fonts like Arial or Calibri.
Don't become backwards to previous slides during your talk. If y'all want to return to a previous slide, just copy the slide and place it in the slide evidence twice.
Visitor logos should just appear on the showtime and terminal slide, not on every slide. Remember you lot are giving a scientific, technical talk and the audience is non expecting to exist shown any sales promotions for software or hardware.

SESSION CHAIRS ARE THERE TO Assistance Yous

Please go to the session room at least 10 minutes before the session starts and makes sure the Session Chairs know you have arrived, and your PowerPoint is loaded on the calculator organization.
Tell your Session Chairs if you have a video in the slideshow or need to switch to a video.
Let the Session Chairs know how you lot would like to be introduced, (Dr . Smith, or Professor Smith), and help them with pronouncing your offset and final name and company name.
The Session Chair will call for audience questions, or enquire yous a question, if time permits.
Session Chairs will remind the audience that there is no audience photography or video recording permitted during technical talks.

CONVENTION REGISTRATION

All oral and poster presenters should register for the 2015 Convention by Baronial 16, 2015. At that place is a discounted price of $200 for professional registration that includes the Sunday Icebreaker, all day Mon, and all day Tuesday access to the technical sessions and Exhibit Hall. Student oral presenters can annals for $35. After August 16, the registration toll increases to $300. Register Now.

Hotel Reservations are available at the Hilton Americas-Houston hotel and tin be made during the online registration. Alternatively y'all tin can phone call ane-800-Hiltons equally ask for the group code 1GS. Speakers tin can stay at any downtown Houston hotel, but exist aware GCAGS is non running buses between hotels.

Whatsoever other questions on the oral or poster sessions?
Please email linda.sternbach@gmail.com or
phone call Linda Sternbach at 281-679-7333 ext 2.