Instructions for Authors
Before the Meeting
Send the electronic part of your talk for visual projection (i.e. the slides, not the paper) in advance by e-mail attachment.
To send your talk, put in the body of an e-mail:
Your Name
Paper Title
Session Time
Session Title
Attach the talk (no more than 6 MB), and send it to
nasm-presentations@econ.duke.edu
The deadline is 4:00 pm US Eastern time, June 19, 2007. This deadline is a little less than 48 hours before the meeting begins.
If you are giving multiple talks, please send them in separate emails.
Use either .pdf or powerpoint (.ppt) formats. We plan to have the talks ready for display before your session begins. This will leave the full ninety minutes available for the authors’ oral presentations and floor discussion. Authors are strongly discouraged from bringing their talks on a memory stick, because this will cause delay in an already tight schedule. Any such delays will be subtracted from the author’s allocated time.
Do not e-mail the paper to the address above. The papers themselves are uploaded to your Conference Maker account. Uploading of papers is enabled until early June, and that might be extended if no security problems emerge.
At the Meeting
For sessions with four (4) papers, the time constraints are 20 minutes per paper followed by 10 minutes of floor discussion.
For sessions with three (3) papers, the time constraints are 27 minutes per paper followed by 9 minutes of floor discussion.
For the plenary sessions with two (2) papers, the suggested time allocations are 25 minutes per presentation with 5 minutes for Q&A. The session moderators may make adjustments to the limits for these sessions and to one- and three-paper plenary sessions.
The entire meeting is on a very tight schedule. Please be considerate of your co-speakers and do not go over the time limit during your talk. Also, keep in mind that the session chairs are instructed to keep track of any time costs at the start of the session incurred by failure to e-mail in advance the electronic version. These time costs will be deducted from the responsible authors’ time allocations.
In case of questions, look for a volunteer assistant in a blue T-shirt.
Thank you for your part in making this meeting successful.
Instructions for Session Chairs
Arrive at the location ten minutes before the session begins. Become familiar with the operation of the A/V equipment. Greet the authors and learn the correct pronunciations of their names.
Before the session begins, find out of there are any special needs such as the use of plastic overhead transparencies instead of video data projection. There should be printed A/V instructions in the room, and the computer equipment should be able to handle presentations of authors brought on memory sticks. However, if an author failed to send in the presentation in advance, then you should deduct the setup time from that author’s time allotment.
The time limits are listed above in the Instructions to Authors section. Please enforce these limits strictly, because the entire meeting is run on a very tight time schedule.
If there are problems, look for a volunteer assistant in a blue T-shirt. He or she should be able either to help you directly, or else find the on-site IT person to help with any A/V issues.
Thank you for your help in being fair and equitable to the authors and your efforts in keeping the meeting running smoothly.
