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Dear All I am organising a stream on "OR in Sport" at the Operational Research Society annual conference, 13-15th September 2005, University College Chester, UK. If you are interested in presenting a paper in this stream then please email me an "expression of interest" and a tentative title. The theme "OR in Sport" is to be interpreted liberally here and includes topics on sport, games, pastimes and gambling considered from a mathematical, statistical or decision modelling perspective. Further details of the conference can be found at http://www.orsoc.org.uk/conf/or47/main.htm A short guide for presenters which has been produced by the OR Society is given below. Apologies for cross-postings. Thanks in anticipation. Phil _________________________________________________ Dr. Philip Scarf Senior Lecturer in OR and Statistics Centre for Operational Research and Applied Statistics University of Salford Salford Manchester M5 4WT UK tel: 07747 764 202 fax: 0161 295 4947 email: [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask] GUIDELINES FOR PRESENTERS OR47 3th- 15th September 2005 University College, Chester The OR Society has produced a short guide to help presenters at its Annual Conference. Please read carefully. 1 Your presentation will form part of a thematic stream. A typical stream contains between 8 - 12 papers and these are normally scheduled in blocks of three or four papers in a session. 2 Wherever possible, speakers are asked to submit the details about their presentation via the ORS website http://www.orsoc.org.uk/ 3 Each presenter should produce an abstract of up to 200 words. This will appear in the conference handbook given to all delegates. Remember, the abstract should be phrased in a way to attract people to your presentation. Abstracts should not contain mathematical symbols, graphs, tables, or references. The abstract should state if the paper is theoretical, practical, or a mix of the two. It should indicate important methodological information and major results. 4 Each presentation should last no more than twenty minutes. An additional five minutes should be allowed for questions. Keynote/Tutorial papers have a double slot in the programme i.e. 55 minutes. It is hoped that each stream will attract one Keynote/Tutorial and these authors would be asked to write a paper for publication, although it isn’t compulsory. 5 A five-minute comfort break is scheduled between papers to enable people to change streams and to allow some set up time for the next speaker. 6 A chair will be appointed for each session by the Stream Organiser. The role of the Chair is to ensure that papers run to time, manage the questions from the audience and ensure that the five minute inter-paper gap is observed. 7 Unless the presenters are keynote/tutorial speakers, it is not necessary to produce formal papers. Contributors may wish to distribute printed material, but they must produce and organise this themselves. Presenters are encouraged to post a copy of their presentation in the FreeXchange part of the ORS website after the conference. 8 An overhead projector and computer projector will be available for presenters. Any other materials required should be requested on submission of abstracts. Please note: WE ARE UNABLE TO PROVIDE COMPUTERS 9 Conference fees will be published with the Invitation Programme and on the website at www.theorsociety.com. Unfortunately, there is no fee reduction for presenters. Key Deadlines 15th April 2005 Submission of paper title and names of the authors in time to appear in the Invitation Programme for the conference. 17th June 2005 Final revision of paper abstract. Normally abstracts are submitted at the same time as the paper title, but there is scope to make changes up to this date. 22nd July 2004 Presenter to have booked their place at the conference, thereby ensuring their talk will appear in the final programme. The conference committee reserve the right to exclude papers if bookings are not made by this date. Last Updated: 19th October 2004