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Two Minute Madness

Dates and Deadlines

April 17 Submission deadline for 2-Minute Madness PowerPoint slides
June 27 PowerPoint slides to be uploaded to the GRAND Forum


2-Minute Madness is a rapid-fire overview of each Phase TWO project in GRAND. This is an opportunity to introduce your new projects to the broader GRAND community in a manner that is both fun and informative. Presentations should not discuss Phase One projects, except as a way of introducing new projects. As in previous years, presentations should emphasize engagement with partners and receptors, in addition to communicating the project’s research objectives.


Submission Process and Format

Each project is expected to prepare its presentation and determine who will deliver it. There is no formal submission process, however, all presentation materials must be sent to the 2-Minute Madness coordinators prior to the conference so they can be consolidated into a single slide deck.

Attendees will have a wide variety of backgrounds in GRAND. Please take that into account when you plan your presentation. You are free to design the 2-Minute Madness PowerPoint slide(s) however you choose, but be mindful of the two-minute time limit. Please include the GRAND logo in your presentation. GRAND logos are posted here for your convenience. 


FOR THOSE SUBMITTING MADNESS SLIDES, HERE ARE THE RULES:

  • Please submit only ppt or pptx slides 
  • Please limit yourself to three to five slides, at the most. The time will go quickly - more is generally not better for this event. * Please include the GRAND project name on each of your slides. 
  • You will only have two minutes! We will be cutting you off if you continue over that time, so please plan accordingly. 
  • Projects can be presented either by a single speaker or by an ensemble: no tagging out between speakers! 
  • If you embed videos in your slides, ensure that the videos are embedded from the same directory as the PowerPoint file. This will help avoid linking problems when we import your slides into our master deck. In this case, please upload a zipped directory of the presentation and video. 
  • Be wary of your font choices. We may be showing your slides during Madness on a stock Windows machine with the default selection of fonts. When in doubt, use images instead. 
  • If you construct your slides on a Mac, you should test playback on a Windows machine (and vice versa). 
  • Do not include content in the slide master. When we import your slides into our deck, content from the slide master will likely be lost or corrupted. 
  • NOTE: If you do not have access to PowerPoint, try OpenOffice, Google Presentations or Keynote, which allow you to save a PowerPoint file.


FOR THOSE SUBMITTING MADNESS SLIDES, HERE ARE THE TO-DOS:

  • Direct any questions regarding the madness session to Derek Reilly <reilly@cs.dal.ca>
  • Send Derek Reilly the name of your project and who will be presenting the madness talk as soon as this determination has been made. 
  • Send Derek your slide(s) by Thursday, April 17, for them to be put into the slide deck. Slide decks without video or audio content, should be keep to under 3MB. If your file is in excess of 10MB, then, rather than emailing the file, please post it online and send the link via email. See Best Practices (below) for maximizing your slides while keeping file sizes to a minimum.

Best Practices for Powerpoint

IMAGE FILES

Use appropriately sized image files within the presentation, otherwise your file has the potential to be unnecessarily enormous. Best practices requires some simple math, and saves having to go into the presentation and resize every image. 

  • The standard projector display resolution is 1024 x 768. If an image is to take up half the screen, then the resolution of that image should be half the maximum- 512 x 384. An image that should occupy a quarter of the screen should have a resolution of a quarter of the projector resolution – 256 x 192. The calculations don't have to be exact- a general estimate will decrease file size and improve slideshow performance.
  • All image files in the presentation should be in JPG or PNG format to reduce file size.

VIDEO FILES 

After the conference, all 2MM presentations will be archived on the Forum. Any PowerPoint presentation containing a video file will have to be converted to a MPEG movie file if it is to play correctly on the Forum. GRAND Central can do the conversions, but following the instructions below will make this a simple process:

  • The best format to insert into PowerPoint presentations is MPEG. 
  • Video files do not become part of the PowerPoint file, they are always linked—to avoid linking issues, keep video files in the same folder as the PowerPoint presentation. 
  • Calculate video resolution in the same way as you would an image.


Travel and Accommodation Policies Subsidy

There is no additional travel and accommodation subsidy for presenters because a subsidy is already provided to all Principal Network Investigators (PNI).

GRAND 2014 Travel and Accommodation Subsidies Policy


Venue and Time

2-Minute Madness presentations will be held Wednesday, May 14 at the Westin Ottawa Hotel. Each presentation will last no more than two (2) minutes.


Email Address

Please direct any questions regarding this session to Derek Reilly <reilly@cs.dal.ca>.


2-Minute Madness Organizers

Chair: Derek Reilly
Assistant: <TBA>

Registration

Early Bird Rates:
(until Mar 31, 2014)

GRAND Researcher: $250
GRAND Student /Postdoc: $125 

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Important Dates

Regular Registration
Apr 01 - Apr 30

Call for Conference Volunteers Deadline:
Apr 04

2-Minute Madness Submissions (Email submissions to Chair):
Apr 17

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