This year AIP-Sperimentale will provide four different types of contributions:
Mini-talks are oral presentations of 8 minutes, followed by 2 minutes for questions.
Posters are, well… posters :). More than other presentation formats, the poster session facilitates the exchange of ideas and the development of collaborations among researchers.
Symposia are full sessions of talks focused on a specific topic. Symposia last 90 minutes, with some flexibility in how proponents organize the time. For example, a symposium may include 4 talks of 20 minutes each (15+5), followed by a final slot for general discussion; or 5 talks of 15 minutes each (12+3), still leaving some time at the end for discussion.
Junior symposia will be reserved for the younger members of our community; both chairs and speakers of junior symposia must be at an early career stage (up to 4 years after obtaining their PhD).
Symposia must:
Include contributions from members affiliated with at least three different universities.
Not include more than two contributions from members affiliated with the same university.
Ensure that each member is a co-author on only one talk within the same symposium.
Submitted symposia that will not meet these criteria will be rejected.
Each symposium must have a chair, who will submit the overall symposium abstract (selecting “Overall symposium abstract” as the contribution type in the submission form). The chair may also be a speaker in the symposium, a co-author of one of its contributions, or external to the presented content. Speakers of individual talks must then submit their own abstracts, clearly indicating which symposium they belong to.
Panels: This year, we are excited to introduce panels as a new conference format. Similar to symposia, panels will last 90 minutes and will bring together a moderator and at least three speakers to discuss a shared topic from multiple perspectives (e.g., psychology and AI; gender inequalities in science, etc). Unlike symposia, panels do not require individual presentations. Instead, they are designed as dynamic, interactive discussions, ideally driven by stimulating questions posed by the moderator to each panelist, with plenty of time reserved for audience participation and open debate.
Note: Differently from the other types of contribution, for the panels only one submission for all the panelists is required. As abstract, please submit a small text (250 words) summarizing the theme of the panel, why it is important to account for it in the actual political/societal/scientific context, and motivate the choice of the panelists (e.g. explaining what the contribution of each could be to the panel). In the submission form, please write the name of each panelist as "co-author".