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Poster Tips

A poster session is a presentation in which materials such as maps, photographs, graphs, charts, and/or tables are posted on a display board along with brief textual summaries of your work. Ideally, a well-constructed poster will be self-explanatory. Successful poster presentations are those that achieve both coverage and clarity.

Coverage: In addition to title/author and abstract, most successful posters provide brief statements of introduction, method, subject, procedure, results, and conclusions. Ask yourself the following:

  • Have you provided all the obvious information?
  • Will a casual observer walk away understanding your major findings after a quick perusal of your material?
  • Will a more careful reader learn enough to ask informed questions?
  • What would you need to know if you were viewing this material for the first time?

Clarity: People attending a poster session are free to move about from poster to poster and often must view a poster from a distance, making it difficult to read excessive text and small fonts. With this in mind, we recommend you do the following:

  • Use large fonts and limit text to essential information. Place your major points in the poster and have the nonessential, but interesting, sidelights for informal discussion.
  • Keep content simple and communicate clearly.
  • Consider whether the sequence of information is evident. Indicate the ordering of your material with numbers, letters, or arrows when necessary.
  • “A picture’s worth a thousand words.” Imaginative use of captioned illustrations, photographs, graphs, or other types of visually appealing material is an extremely effective mode of communication in a poster presentation.
  • Make your final conclusions or summary a concise statement of your most important findings.

Each poster display should include a lettered sign giving the title and name(s) of the presenter(s). This sign should be 6” in height with letters at least 2” high in a bold font.

Authors are provided a 4-foot-high x 8-foot-wide (122 cm x 244 cm) bulletin board on which to display their poster. Authors must remain near the bulletin board for the duration of the session (45 minutes) to answer questions. Note that poster presenters are not supplied with audiovisual equipment or electricity.

Helpful Online Resources for Poster Creation

How to Prepare a Poster, SIAM News

MegaPrint printing services

Key Dates

  • November 8, 2023 – December 19, 2023
    Online Session Proposal Submission - for Parallel Sessions and Short Courses
  • January 16, 2024 – March 28, 2024
    Online Proposal Submission for Roundtables
  • January 16, 2024 – April 9, 2024
    Online proposal submission for Posters
  • April 10, 2024 – May 16, 2024
    Invited Abstract Submission Open for Accepted Parallel Sessions
  • June 13, 2024
    Conference Early Registration Opens
  • July 9, 2024
    Student Travel Grant Deadline
  • August 14, 2024
    Conference Early Registration Ends
  • August 29, 2024
    Best Poster Award Deadline
  • September 3, 2024
    Hotel Reservation Deadline
  • September 25, 2024 – September 27, 2024
    2024 ASA Biopharmaceutical Section Regulatory-Industry Statistics Workshop