1.  You should meet your speakers 10 minutes before your session start time in the designated room for your session. Please collect and review the one-paragraph biographies from each presenter at this time.

2.  A session co-chair will assist you with the audio-visual equipment and anything else as needed.

3.  You should instruct each author as to the time allocated to his/her presentation. Each author should have prepared a lecture presentation that is nominally 13 minutes in length. Following each presentation, allow 2 minutes for questions and answers. However, some sessions may have extra time. In that case, each author may take proportionally more time. For example, if the session is 90 minutes, and there are 5 papers in that session instead of 6, then each author can take 15 minutes for their presentation and 3 minutes for questions and answers.

4.  You should introduce each speaker.

5.  Warn presenters by standing up just before their time limit has been reached, and then move up front right next to them if they do not conclude their presentation in a timely manner.

6.  You will need to initiate and perhaps stimulate the question and answer time.

7.  In the event of a no-show please report no-shows to the conference registration desk or the technical program chair.

8.  Please identify student presenters in your session including students who graduated in the last one year to be eligible for student paper award. Identify three non-student judges for each eligible student and provide them with evaluation forms available as part of the session chair packet given to you. Finally, collect the completed evaluation form from the judges and return to conference registration desk immediately after end of your session.

For more information please contact:

Dr. Stan Grzybowski, NAPS '09 Technical Program Chair
Tel: (662) 325 2148
Fax: (662) 325 2298
Email: stangrzy@ece.msstate.edu

Dr. Herb Ginn, NAPS '09 Technical Program Co-Chair
Tel: (662) 325 3530
Fax: (662) 325 2298
Email: ginn@ece.msstate.edu