With the 2011 Fall ACS meeting coming up in Denver next month, CINF will be hosting another round of lightning talks – 8 minutes to talk about anything related to cheminformatics and chemical information. As before, these talks won’t be managed via PACS, as a result of which we are taking short abstracts between July 14 and Aug 14.We hope that we’ll get to hear about interesting and recent stuff. Remember, this is meant to be a fun event so be creative! (You can see slides from the first run of this session last year).

The full announcement is below:

For the 2011 Fall meeting in Denver (Aug 28 – Sep 1), CINF will be running an experimental session of lightning talks – short, strictly timed talks. The session does not have a specific topic, however, all talks should be related to cheminformatics and chemical information. One of the key features of this session is that we will not be using the traditional ACS abstract submission system, since that system precludes the inclusion of recent work in the program.

So, since we will be accepting abstracts directly, the expectation is that they be about recent work and developments, rather than rehashes of year-old work. In addition, talks should not be verbal versions of posters submitted for this meeting. Given the short time limits we don’t expect great detail – but we are expecting compact and informative presentations.

That’s the challenge.

What

• Talks should be no longer than 8 minutes in length. At 8 minutes, you will be asked to stop.
• Use as many slides as you want, as long as you can finish in 8 minutes
• Talks should not be rehashes of poster presentations
• Talks will run back to back, and questions & discussion will be held of off until the end

If you haven’t participated in these types of talks before here are some suggestions:

• No more than three slides for a 5 minute talk (but if you can pull of 20 slides in 8 minutes, more power to you)
• Avoid slides with too much text (and don’t paste PDF’s of papers!)
• A single chart per slide and make sure labels are readable at a distance

When

1:30pm, Wednesday, August 31st, 2011

Submissions run from July 14 to Aug 14

Where

Room 112, Colorado Convention Center

How

• Send in an abstract of about 100 – 120 words to cinf.flash@gmail.com
• We will let you know if you will be speaking by Aug 21 and we will need slide decks by Aug 24
• You must be registered for the meeting
• Note that the usual publication/copyright rules apply
• We will encourage live blogging and tweets (if we have net access)