LSA Linguistic Institute Workshop
Information for Talk and Poster Presenters
• If you want to distribute handouts, for purposes of deciding how many copies to
make you should know that our best guess at total attendance is 70-80; for talks we recommend
making about 90 handouts; poster presenters can adjust this figure as they see fit. If you want
to make copies after you arrive in Cambridge, please note that this canNOT be done in
the Harvard or MIT linguistics departments. There are several copy shops in Harvard Square:
the closest is
Gnomon Copy
(just across from Widener Library, virtually across the street from
the workshop site), and there is a
24-hour Kinkos very close to Harvard Square (search under Cambridge, MA).
• Talk presenters: There will be a VGA connection to the LCD projector--Mac users
and others with different video outputs, bring your dongles! We strongly recommend
bringing handouts and/or overhead slides to allow for any possible
technical difficulties with the projector. If you want to email us
your PowerPoint file ahead of time or have it on a jump drive, you can run it from Vic’s or
Carson’s laptops in the event of a problem with your own.
There will be a standard
1/8" stereo headphone connector for taking audio out of your laptop to the speaker
system.
• Poster presenters: Your poster locations will be numbered to match the numbering
in the program book (not the numbering on the web version of the program). Push pins
will be provided. Posters can be put up during the coffee break that
precedes the official start of the poster session (Saturday afternoon).
The poster boards will remain in place until the end of the workshop on Sunday,
in case people who didn't attend on Saturday (e.g. because they were at
another workshop) want to view them. So, unless you need to, there is no
reason to take your poster down before Sunday evening.
Further important information for invited speakers and discussants