Symposia

Symposia should be composed of 4 – 5 speakers around a common theme and must include speakers from multiple institutions (ideally no more than 2 speakers from the same institution). This aspect of the proposal will play a central role in the selection of the symposia. Most speakers in a symposium should hold a faculty position and no more than one PhD or post-doc speaker can participate. An author cannot take part in more than one symposium, and cannot present an individual talk in addition to the symposium talk presentation. Any double submission will be automatically rejected. Note that this year, in order to allow more presenters to give talks, fewer symposia may be accepted than in previous years.

How do I submit my symposium proposal?

General symposium proposal: Each symposium coordinator should send, by email, a general abstract introducing the symposium topic, along with the individual speakers’ talk titles and personal details (names and email addresses). This general symposium abstract should be sent to both  Boaz Ben-David (boaz.ben.david@runi.ac.il) and Dominique Lamy (domi@tauex.tau.ac.il). Please submit the general symposium abstract by Noveber 22nd.

Upon submission, the coordinator will receive an acknowledgement and a unique symposium-talk submission code that should then be forwarded by mail to all individual presenters. They will need this code to submit their individual symposium-talk abstracts by the December 1 deadline. Please note: Receiving the initial acknowledgment and submission code does not constitute acceptance. Symposium acceptance is indicated by the acceptance of its individual symposium talks, to be announced together with the acceptance of all other individual talks and poster presentations (December 15).

Individual symposium-talk abstracts:

1. Once the general symposium proposal has been submitted and acknowledged, the symposium coordinator should forward the unique symposium-talk submission code to each of the individual presenting authors.
   

2. Each individual presenting author of the proposed symposium should submit an individual abstract through the regular submission portal , selecting “symposium talk” as the requested type of presentation category, and entering the unique symposium-talk submission code to identify the relevant symposium (deadline: December 1st).

NOTE: In considering whether to participate in a symposium proposal, please be aware that if the symposium itself cannot be accommodated, each individual symposium-talk abstract will automatically be treated as a regular-talk abstract submission (unless specified otherwise by the author during the submission process).