Lightning Lectures — your five minutes of fame and southern exposure

In breaking with conference tradition, we are swapping the conventional poster displays for the more interactive and innovative lightning lecture. In just five minutes, you are invited to share your science in a fast and furious manner that introduces you and your science to the audience. We believe that a lightning lecture will give you more southern exposure, with people able to put a face to a name, and be able to find you during the forum to further discuss your science. Your abstract will be published in the conference handbook along with all the others.

Guidelines

We've borrowed from Rudyard Kipling to guide your content and ensure that you and your science can make the most of your five minutes of fame:

I Keep six honest serving-men, (They taught me all I knew),
Their names are What and Where and When, and How and Why and Who.

Thus we would like you to answer 6 questions in your talk:

Who you are?
Where you are from (or where you hope to be going?)
When did you start looking at this and when do you hope to have results?
What you have discovered, or need to tell us?
Why your science will change the world?
How does the audience find out more?

Your audience should be left wanting more, ready to ask you Kipling's

One million Hows, two million Wheres, and seven million Whys!

To ppt or not to ppt?

We encourage you to be creative. Your lightning lecture could be a video, a song, a dance or a play. A picture tells a thousand words, but death by Powerpoint can drown even the most exciting message. Therefore, if you decide to have Powerpoint slides, we request you limit them to three: “Less is best, and more is a bore”. We will strictly keep you to time, so if you go over your 5 minutes, the chairperson will cut you off.

If you are planning something more eye-catching than a Powerpoint, let us know so we can arrange to have the right equipment for you.

Perhaps a one-page information sheet ready to hand out with your business card is a way of leaving your mark. So when people approach you after your fabulous lightning lecture, you'll have something to give them.

But wait, there's more!

We have a prize for the best student presentation!

If you have any questions about your lightning lecture, email us at anzcf2010@bom.gov.au. Registration has closed, as the strictly limited places have all been taken.
A provisional program is available
The forum starts on 13 October