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PROPOSAL AND
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION
Abstracts for contributed oral
and poster presentations are now being called. For indivudals interested
in presenting a contributed oral or poster, please read the guidelines
below carefully. Proposals for symposia, organized
oral sessions, special sessions, and workshops are no longer being
called.
Abstracts for contributed oral
and poster presentations:
- The deadline for submission of abstracts for
oral and poster presentations is 4 March 2009.
- Abstracts will need to be sent via the electronic submission
form that is now available on-line (please see link below).
- Abstracts will need to address the themes of
the conference (see Scientific Program).
- Abstracts should briefly introduce the study topic,
outline the major findings and the conclusions.
- Abstracts will need to be included inside the box of the electronic
submission form and will conform to the preset format.
To avoid any text loss, we recommend that you create your
abstract in a word processing program such as Word, and
once complete, please copy and paste into the abstract box.
- Abstracts will be limited to 250 words.
- Abstracts will be reviewed by the Program Chair and Organizing
Committee.
- Abstracts not conforming to instructions will be rejected.
- Once abstracts are reviewed, authors will be notified
of the status of acceptance by 1 April 2009.
- The Chair and Committee reserves the right to limit the number
of presentations and change the presentation type from oral to poster
presentation.
- More than one abstract can be submitted. To ensure maximum participation,
each individual is allowed to present only one oral presentation,
however, an individual may be a co-author on several abstracts for
oral presentations. There will be no limit on the number
of poster presentations that the main author can present.
Please use the electronic submission form for each submission by
sending the proposed abstracts independently.
- Before submitting an abstract, authors should be confident
that they will be attending the meeting and making the presentation.
If circumstances prevent attendance, the author should attempt to
find another individual to make the presentation. If cancellation
is unavoidable, the author should notify seri2009@bgpa.wa.gov.au
as soon as possible.
Please, submit abstracts using the electronic
submission form. Should you have any abstract queries, please e-mail seri2009@bgpa.wa.gov.au
4 March 2009 |
Abstract Submission Deadline |
1 April 2009 |
Abstract Acceptance Notification |
Proposals for symposia, organized
oral sessions, special sessions, and workshops:
- The submission of proposals for four session
types: symposia, organized oral sessions, special sessions and workshops
closed on 17 October 2008.
- Proposals needed to be prepared in a word document
and follow the format provided in the Call
for Proposals.
- Within the description of the session, proposals were to include
background information, goals, objectives, importance, and interest
of the session to the membership of SER in 300-400 words.
Proposals had to address the evaluation criteria.
Please refer to the Call for
Proposals.
- Queries on proposals should be sent to seri2009@bgpa.wa.gov.au.
- Proposals have been reviewed and selected by the Program
Chair and the Organizing Committee.
- Organizers of proposals have been notified.
- Prior to proposal submission, organizers needed to be confident
that they will be attending the meeting and fulfilling on their
obligation to organize and conduct their session.
- Prior to proposal submission, organizers should have obtained
firm commitments from their invited speakers, minimizing
the number listed as tentative or suggested.
- For symposia only: organizer/s must submit a final symposium
summary description by 31 January 2009. Please refer to
the Call for Proposals.
Latest news - However, all session organizers are now being
invited to submit a final session summary description, if any details
have changed since the proposal submission.
- For symposia and organized oral sessions only: organizer/s are
responsible for ensuring that each session speaker submits
an abstract of his/her talk by means of the Abstract Submission
site (available now) by 4 March 2009.
Latest News - However, all session
organizers are now being invited to request their speakers to submit
an abstract, if the nature of the session presentations is formal
and warrants this.
- An individual is allowed to be an organizer (either a principal
organizer or a co-organizer) for only one symposium or organized
oral session.
- Persons agreeing to present papers in a symposium, can also present
a paper in an organized oral, contributed oral or poster session.
- A moderator for any session cannot serve as a speaker in that
session.
Please refer to the Call
for Proposals for full description and information to
assist you in developing your session proposal. Should you have any
proposal queries, please email bhalvors@ag.arizona.edu
or seri2009@bgpa.wa.gov.au.
15 July 2008 |
Call for Proposals opens |
17 October 2008 |
Call for Proposals closes |
21 November 2008 |
Acceptance notification to organizers (all four session types) |
31 January 2009 |
Finalised summary description
due for all sessions |
4 March 2009 |
Submission of invited abstracts
for all sessions |
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