Simultaneous sessions?
Comments received after the first draft program schedule was sent out asked whether we wanted to have simultaneous sessions. Rooms reserved at Monona terrace will allow for simultaneous sessions and plenary sessions.
At present, we have six focus areas for symposia and seminars, and nine topic headings for program chairs.
The current draft program would allow for four plenary lectures (45 minutes each), four symposia (with five 30-minute lecture sections each) and four seminars (90 minutes each, which would accommodate approximately 4-5 20 minute lectures).
Planning thus far has called for the plenary lectures and symposium lectures to be by invitation and the seminar speakers to be selected from abstract submissions.
We have rooms to accommodate two simultaneous sessions on Mon, Tues, and Wed.
If we are to keep the seminar slots for submitted papers, and if we keep all the program chair topics, we will need to go to simultaneous sessions for the symposia.
If we have a small turnout focusing on traditional topics, it might be possible to get by with all plenary sessions, but if, as we are planning and hoping, the fungal and plant genome, and industrial sessions bring in a wider audience, we will need the additional sessions to accommodate all of the speakers.
What do you think?
At present, we have six focus areas for symposia and seminars, and nine topic headings for program chairs.
The current draft program would allow for four plenary lectures (45 minutes each), four symposia (with five 30-minute lecture sections each) and four seminars (90 minutes each, which would accommodate approximately 4-5 20 minute lectures).
Planning thus far has called for the plenary lectures and symposium lectures to be by invitation and the seminar speakers to be selected from abstract submissions.
We have rooms to accommodate two simultaneous sessions on Mon, Tues, and Wed.
If we are to keep the seminar slots for submitted papers, and if we keep all the program chair topics, we will need to go to simultaneous sessions for the symposia.
If we have a small turnout focusing on traditional topics, it might be possible to get by with all plenary sessions, but if, as we are planning and hoping, the fungal and plant genome, and industrial sessions bring in a wider audience, we will need the additional sessions to accommodate all of the speakers.
What do you think?
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