1. Seminar Three / Professor Hallowell
October 30, 2012
Amanda Favia, amanda.favia@macaulay.cuny.edu
ITF, Macaulay Honors College at Baruch College
*(with slides borrowed from Craig Willse, Emily Sherwood & Kiersten

2.  Understand project expectations
 Learn the basics of poster design
 Begin planning your posters

3.  Visual means for communicating research to
an academic or professional community.
 Summary of research that serves to create
interest by highlighting the most important
things.

5.  Each group must produce one poster
 Posters can be made with PowerPoint
 Poster dimensions must be 48” x 36” (or vice
versa)

6.  Registration for Seminar 3 Final Event: Nov.
5th-
9thhttp://macaulay.cuny.edu/eportfolios/semi
nar3presentations/
 Seminar 3 Final Event (poster presentations
at MHC): Dec. 5th , 6th & 9th
 Poster Printing Deadline Nov. 30th

7. What makes a poster
Succeed?

8.  Images should guide the overall layout, not
the text.
 Avoid cluttering the poster (too many graphs
or photos).
 Watch your color contrasts! Color should be
easy on the eyes.

9.  Make sure all components are aligned
properly.
 Less text is key!
 Make use of an underlying structure that
guides the viewer.
 Create a narrative that’s self-explanatory.

10.  Introduction: Hypothesis (Thesis)
 Results: What did you find?
 Discussion: What does it mean?
 Conclusion: Conclusion and future directions
 References: Text, data and images used

11. What makes a poster
Fail?

12. We present a denotational
Our compiling strategy is to
semantics for a logic program to
exploit coarse-grain parallelism
construct a control flow for the
at function application level: and
logic program. The control flow is
the function application level
defined as an algebraic
parallelism is implemented by
manipulator of idempotent
fork-join mechanism. The
substitutions and it virtually
compiler translates source
reflects the resolution
We describe the control flowand design of the control flow machine, and present the results of detailed simulations of the
programs into philosophy
deductions. We also present a
performance ofon single processing element. Each factor is compared with the measured performance of an advanced von
graphs based a analyzing flow
bottom-up compilation of
Neumann computer running equivalent code. It is shown that the control flow processor compares favorably in the program.
of control, and then serializes
medium grain clusters from a
instructions within graphs
fine grain control flow graph. We
according to flow arcs such that
compare the basic block and the
function applications, which
dependence sets algorithms that
have no control dependency, are
partition control flow graphs into
executed in parallel.
clusters.
We have demonstrated that to
achieve the best execution time We apply a parallel simulation
for a control flow program, the scheme to a real problem: the
number of nodes within the simulation of a control flow
system and the type of mapping architecture, and we compare
scheme used are particularly the performance of this simulator
important. In addition, we with that of a sequential one.
observe that a large number of Moreover, we investigate the
subsystem nodes allows more effect of modeling the
actors to be fired concurrently, application on the performance
but the communication overhead of the simulator. Our study
in passing control tokens to their indicates that parallel simulation
destination nodes causes the can reduce the execution time
overall execution time to significantly if appropriate
increase substantially. modeling is used.

13.  Color: ah!
 Text: fit & alignment
 Text: too much!
 Images: not enough
 Background: distracting

14.  Color: easier on the eyes
 Text: fit properly & justify alignment
 Images & Text: less text & more images
 Background: “compliments” images and
background color

15. Poster
Critique:
Why is this
poster
successful?

16.  Images guide the overall layout, not the text
 Not cluttered
 Good use of color
 Text & Images aligned properly
 Underlying structure guides viewer

17.  Break up text with bullets or numbers (hint:
this slide!)
 Indenting shows subordination
- Like this, see?

18.  Avoid lengthy paragraphs talking about why
you did what you did and whether you
dislike positivism because there is such a
thing as reality out there and it operates in a
certain way and we should be able to access
that in some shape, form, or fashion and
besides it’s all from some stuffy old dead guy
thinking too hard, anyway.

19.  Make sure your font color stands out against the
background.
 Be consistent with colors and use them to guide the
reader.
- e.g., you can use one color for headings, another
for body text

20.  Teeth are ideal for
studying life history  Teeth & Life
because they grow History
incrementally, are  Incremental growth
not remodeled  Not remodeled
during an  Resistant to
individual’s lifetime, environmental stress
and are not highly
subject to
environmental
stresses.

21.  Add photos and drawings
 Make your own Pie Charts, Column Charts,
Line Charts, etc.
 Excel
Tutorials:http://macaulay.cuny.edu/eportfoli
os/baruchitfs/2012/04/02/chart-tutorials/

22. Templates for Poster
Layout

23. Title & Authors

24. Centered Image & Peripheral
Explanations
Title & Authors

25.  File & select New Presentation
 Slide Layouts (or Format > Slide Layout) & select
Blank slide layout.
 Set the dimensions for your slide: File > Page Setup.
Width 48” & height 36” (or reverse it, 36 x 48)
 Note: Just click Okay on the error window when you get
this Error Message “The current page size exceeds the
printable area of the paper in the printer…”

26.  http://macaulay.cuny.edu/eportfolios/baruchi
tfs/2011/11/15/scientific-poster-template-for-
powerpoint/

27.  Make an appointment:
http://macaulay.cuny.edu/webforms/?q=node/26
 At least one person from each group must come IN-
PERSON to the printing appointment.
 DO NOT attach your file! Bring it with you (on a
flash drive or other media) to your appointment.

32.  Advice on designing scientific posters (Swarthmore
College)
 Do’s and Dont’s of Poster Presentation (American
Society for Cell Biology)
 Creating Effective Poster Presentations (NCU)
 Design of Scientific Posters (Virginia Tech)
 Scientific Development Poster Session (Apple.com)

33.  Plan ahead
 Work together & establish group goals
 Think holistically about your project

34. Seminar Three Course Site:
http://macaulay.cuny.edu/eportfolios/hallowell12/
Amanda Favia
amanda.favia@macaulay.cuny.edu
ITF, Macaulay Honors College at Baruch College