Call for Abstracts Abstract submission closed on 12 March 2010. Contributed abstracts for poster presentation are solicited through electronic submission, and must be received on or before 12 March 2010. Automated email acknowledgment of submission will be provided, and manual verification will be made up to a few days after submission. Notification of acceptance will be provided by March 30, 2010. Abstracts should be written in English, and are required to fit on one US letter (8.5 x 11 inches) page with 1 inch margins on all sides in a single-spaced, single-column format. Please use the Verdana font family at 10 points. Non-US submitters should take care to ensure they are producing US letter sized output. Figures may be included in the abstract, but must fit within the single page and within the margins; the minimum font size for figure labels and legends should be 8pt when scaled for inclusion. Use of templates provided below is required. Do not adjust any page, paragraph, line spacing, font, or other formatting setting. Support, acknowledgments, and references sections should appear below the abstract, and must fit within the one-page limit. Figures, in particular, should not be created at a larger size and scaled down, but rendered at the intended size. Axis labels should be no smaller than 8 pt font; otherwise, axes should be left blank. Figure captions should be clear and describe the figures appropriately. Figures should never be scaled or cropped using features of the word processor used for creating an AREADNE abstract, as this creates compatibility issues; instead, please create the figure as it is intended to appear, or, if absolutely necessary, use specialized image processing software to scale and crop. Figures should be rendered at 300 dpi for printing. As not all abstracts will be accepted for presentation at the conference, we encourage authors to concentrate on aspects of their work that are relevant to the conference mission, namely, the encoding and decoding of ensemble activity, or how multiple neurons interact. Experimental, theoretical, and methods work is all encouraged. Abstracts will be judged based on relevance to the mission, scientific merit, and importance of results. Send us your best work! Abstracts must be submitted in both PDF and either DOC (not DOCX) or TeX. (Why both?) If you need to convert a file to PDF, Adobe has a free trial service at createpdf.adobe.com. Please note that we are being more restrictive about the format of submissions than for previous meetings. In particular, documents produced using Apple Computer's Pages software have had compatibility issues in the past, so are discouraged for 2010; we strongly recommend using freely available OpenOffice software instead. Please see the template files below for additional detail. Abstracts that do not meet these guidelines will not be considered. Please submit at most one abstract per first author. A ZIP archive for DOC abstracts is available from http://www.areadne.org/2010/AREADNE-2010-template-doc.zip. A ZIP archive for LaTeX abstracts is available from http://www.areadne.org/2010/AREADNE-2010-template-tex.zip. Both archives contain a checklist to help avoid common formatting problems. Submissions should be sent via email to submissions@areadne.org, using "AREADNE 2010 poster submission" as the subject line. Attach the PDF file and the DOC or TeX file to a message that includes the corresponding author's name, affiliation, email address and phone number. For accepted posters, the first author will be expected to be the presenting author. Only one poster per first author, please. For additional information, please send email to info@areadne.org. AREADNE | Email | Archive |
