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Best Student Posters will be selected among students presenting posters in Beijing. The submission and selection rules are outlined below. Students are encouraged to submit posters.

1. Awards

· First place: $600, certificates for each co-author

· Second place: $400, certificates for each co-author

· Third place: $200, certificates for each co-author

· The cash award is meant to be shared among all co-authors of the posters except the professors.

· Awardees will be announced on 8/5 morning and presentation will be made at the Banquet on 8/5.

2. Abstract

· Authors need to follow the format in the template (attached in Abstract and Biography Submission).

· Submission deadline: 5pm (Pacific Time), 6/1/07.

3. Poster Presentation

· All posters will be presented by students and post-docs.

1. Each poster should be uniformly 1.2 m high and 0.9 m wide. (no specific requirement on the format of poster used).

2. Speakers should bring their posters to Tsinghua University, Peking University or Lanzhou Jiaotong University for display and viewing.

· Each poster will be allocated a 3-minute slot for oral introduction

1. Speakers can use up to 3 power-point slides during presentation.

2. The slides need to be submitted on line (use same link as abstracts) by 7/22/07.

· Poster viewing times are in one of the three sessions in Beijing: Session 1 (7/30), 2 (7/31), 3 (8/3); and Lanzhou (not included for the competition).

4. Selection Process

· Posters will be judged based on research quality and poster presentation.

· A 5-member external panel will be invited to evaluate the posters.

· Score will be collected before 8/4, and decision announced after the morning coffee break on 8/5.