Call for e-Posters

E-Posters must highlight research work rooted in at least one of the following areas of the UT Austin Portugal Program:

• Advanced Computing;
• Nanotechnologies;
• Medical Physics;
• Space-Earth Interactions;
• Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

However, authors are expected to bring to the attention of the Program’s community how their research work builds on interdisciplinarity.

A maximum two-page proposal in a Word file (reference font size: Times New Roman; minimum font-size: 11 points) should be sent to events@utaustinportugal.org with the subject “Poster proposal – UTA PT Conference” and must necessarily include the following information in English:

• Main author’s name, affiliation and short bio;
• Main author’s preferred mode of contact (to be publicly available);
• Title of the e-poster;
• Core Area (pick one of the Program’s five Knowledge Areas);
• Summary of the research work to be addressed in the e-poster (only plain text with no images or graphics). The summary should be concise and give an overview of the research background (problem/opportunity/need); the hypotheses driving the research or the solution envisaged; the methodology used; the expected or achieved results; the interdisciplinary nature and the (potential) implications of the research work to its respective scientific field and/or application domain;
• Other authors and their respective affiliations (if applicable).

Please note that at the proposal submission stage, applicants must not send any version of their posters yet.

The Program will review proposals after September 3 and authors will be notified about the outcome by e-mail between September 13 and September 14, 2021.

Selected authors are required to send by e-mail no later than October 9 with the version of their digital posters for validation to events@utaustinportugal.org (MP4 format).  The e-mail subject must be “Poster – UTA PT Conference – Proposal ID”, i.e., the ID provided by the Conference organisers to the author(s) upon reception of the proposal. Should the versions sent need to be fine-tuned, the Program will contact the respective authors to ensure that posters on display meet Conference’s Virtual Poster Exhibition standards.

Selected authors must use the Program’s template for e-posters, which will be made available here after the submission period.

E-posters must not exceed one page in landscape format. The blank area in the template to be provided will be divided into three main sections that authors can use freely to cover the topics addressed in their 2-page poster application and build a text-imagery narrative. Nevertheless, authors should always remember that the purpose of the poster is not to simply stick every information used to create the poster summary but to give an overview of the research work using a balanced and effective combination of text, imagery and figures to capture viewers’ attention.

Please note that you are required to add/embed an audio file to the e-poster to walk viewers through its content. Nevertheless, you should avoid reading the e-poster and instead create a script that helps viewers understand the big picture and gain insights into the presented research work. Therefore, posters and audio recordings should be coupled together to work as a single, integrated, full presentation. Therefore, we suggest you write a script of the content you’ll be presenting; find a location free of noise; get a good quality microphone; and maintain the same distance to the microphone throughout the recording.

Concrete details on creating an e-poster are available on the Program’s template.

All posters and audios must be in English.

Authors interested in presenting work-in-progress related to UT Austin Portugal’s 2019 Exploratory Research Projects and Strategic Research Projects should not apply for this Call for Posters. Their e-posters are automatically accepted for presentation at the Annual Conference according to the guidelines to be provided.