The Society of Rheology: 75th Annual Meeting (Oct 2003) Student Poster Competition Guidelines

In conjunction with the poster session, the SOR is sponsoring a student poster competition to encourage student presentations and participation in the meeting and to recognize excellence. To participate in the competition, in addition to normal abstract submission for the poster session, students must also submit either a two-page extended abstract describing their research or a PowerPoint pre-print of the poster by September 5, 2003.

A panel of judges will select up to 8 finalists based on the entries, with the final selection of the winner to be made by the judges at the poster session. An award of $200 will be made to the winner at the conclusion of the poster session.

Please note that:

First author must be a student.
First author must attend and be available to discuss the poster at the poster session.
In addition to the normal Web-based abstract submission (by August 8, 2003) either an extended, 2-page abstract or a MS-PowerPoint preprint of the poster must be received by the Poster Session Chair by September 5, 2003 for the purposes of selection of the finalists. The 2-page extended abstract should be prepared using a 10 point font or larger, and should be attached to an e-mail to sbhatia@ecs.umass.edu as either a PDF file or as a MS-Word file. Alternatively, the student may submit a MS-PowerPoint preprint of the poster attached to an e-mail. The PowerPoint files should contain no more than 20 slides or panels. All files must be no larger than 2 MB.

The finalists will be notified by e-mail prior to the meeting.