Poster sessions: Your poster should attract the viewer's attention and suggest the scope of the work and the most important results. Avoid unnecessary details. The fine points of the research can be developed during one-on-one discussions. Authors are encouraged to devise presentations that are best suited to the work and are given considerable latitude in the presentation of their results.

In the Poster session, You are to be provided the following items;
a. Poster boad
The size of your poster boad is a hight of approx. 3m and a width of 2.4 m. Thus, the poster size of 1.8 m in its width and 1.5 m in its height will be suitable. Your poster should be put up with thumbtacks that will be provided by the conference secretariat.
b. One foldable desk
The size of the foldable desk is 1.8 m times 45 cm. Its hight is approx. 80 cm. You can use it to display some kind of small specimen, to distribute some technical brochures, and so on.
c. Two foldable chairs

You are required to make presentation and discussion with other participants during your session. Please do not leave your poster alone ;-)

The schedule of the preparation and removal of the MVP session is as follows;
P1: Preparation should be 08:30 - 09:00, Tuesday, Sep. 9th
Note that you can also prepare your poster on 11:30 - 13:00, Monday, Sep. 8th
Removal should be 11:40 -, Tuesday, Sep. 9th
P2: Preparation should be 09:00 - 09:30, Wednesday, Sep. 10th
Removal should be 17:00 -, Wednesday, Sep. 10th (after the session MVP2)

MVP sessions: "MVP" session is an abbreviation of "Mutual Visiting type Poster" session. This session aims to encourage and improve the presentation and discussion abilities of attendees, and give a chance to discuss other poster presentations. The object presenter is under 35 years old as of the end of August, 2008. Therefore, the researchers under 35 years old who want to present their work at the poster sessions have to apply their age at the submission of their abstracts.

In the MVP session, attendees are required to present their poster not only to the attendees who do not present in the MVP session but also to the other presenters of the MVP session. All the attendees of the MVP session, that is all the presenters of the MVP session have rights of voting the good presentation, definite replay in discussion, and beautiful poster. The excellent presenter(s) will be awarded in the banquet.

At the beginning of the MVP session, the program committee will explain how to execute the MVP session and distribute the rating list. After that, attendees of the MVP session will explain their poster to the other attendees. The presentation time will be around 5 minutes excluding discussion. The discussion time will be 5 minutes following to the explanation. During presentation and discussion, other attendees may mark the presentation, replay and understandability of poster. The rating list will be withdrawn after the MVP session and be made up. The excellent presenter(s) will be awarded in the conference banquet.

In the MVP session, you are provided the following items, which are completely the same as those in Poster session mentioned above.
a. Poster boad
The size of your poster boad is a hight of approx. 3m and a width of 2.4 m. Thus, the poster size of 1.8 m in its width and 1.5 m in its height will be suitable. Your poster should be put up with thumbtacks that will be provided by the conference secretariat.
b. One foldable desk
The size of the foldable desk is 1.8 m times 45 cm. Its hight is approx. 80 cm. You can use it to display some kind of small specimen, to distribute some technical brochures, and so on.
c. Two foldable chairs

The schedule of the preparation and removal of the MVP session is as follows;
MVP1: Preparation should be 11:30 - 13:00, Monday, Sep. 8th (during lunch break),
Removal should be 11:40 -, Tuesday, Sep. 9th (during lunch break)
MVP2: Preparation should be 09:00 - 09:30, Wednesday, Sep. 10th (The same duration of the preparation for the poster session P2)
Removal should be 17:00 -, Wednesday, Sep. 10th (after the session MVP2)

The flow of the MVP session is as follows;
1. The flow of the MVP session is explained.
2. Presenters of the MVP session will be grouped into several groups. One group has 6 to 7 presenters.
Note: the grouping has finished and your group number is shown on the program on the conference web site.
At the opening of the MVP session, the grouping will be confirmed.
A group consists of the young researchers in as the similar field as possible.
3. All the presenter break into small groups confirmed, then you are required to give your poster presentation to the other member in your group. The presentation duration should be 5 minutes at most. After the presentation, the time is open for discussion. The other member in your group will give you some question, so please answer the question appropriately.
4. After your presentation, the other member in your group will give his/her poster presentation. The presenter will change in turn.
Note: During the presentation and discussion, the other attendees may mark the presentation, replay and understandability of hit/her poster. The rating list will be withdrawn after the MVP session and be made up. The excellent presenter(s) will be awarded in closing ceremony of the conference.
5. The rating list will be collected by the Coordinator of the group.
6. Then, the coordinator will take his group to the SS session (Exhibition by companies).
The presenter of the SS session will explain latest topics in their research and development.
Some companies are planning to show you the actual measuring systems and some experimental specimen.

As mentioned above, the presenter should give his/her presentation to about 6 researchers in the same time, although the presenter should give his/her presentation to only 1 or 2 researchers.

Here, please note that a coordinator will chair your group. The coordinator is basically Japanese University professors and Japanese company researchers. The aim of the coordinator plays roles of a time keeper, activation of the discussion, etc. like a session chair in an oral session. Thus, if you have any question about the MVP session on site, please ask to your coordinator.

Your poster can present on the normal poster session.
If your presentation is nominated to session MVP1, you can present in the poster session P1.
If your presentation is nominated to session MVP2, you can present in the poster session P2.

Oral sessions: Oral presentations must be concise and to the point. The length of your oral presentation must be less than 20 minutes,including discussion and change of presentation. If you are nominated in an in-session invited talk, the presentation must be less than 25 minutes including discussion and change of presentation.

In order to make a oral presentation, your presentation material should be prepared in Microsoft PowerPoint 2000 or Adobe PDF. You are required to submit your presentation material to the presentation submission desk besides of the conference registration desk, until the day before your presentation. In the submission, you can check your presentation on the desk, and if it is OK,the conference secretariat will transfer your presentation material to the appropriate personal computer in the presentation room.

If you do not want to submit your presentation material on ahead of your session and you want to give your presentation with your computer, please consult to the presentation submission desk. In that case, you may require some more minutes to change the computer, so the effective presentation time would be shorter.