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24th International Nuclear Graphite Specialists Meeting (INGSM)

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Presenter and Attendee Information

Presenter Information

Oral Presentations

  1. Before the start of your session, please name your file “TS#.# [presenter name] [brief title]” (See Program for your TS number), and Upload your Presentation File Here

  2. Oral presentation will be 15 minutes in length followed by a 5-minute discussion period.
  3. Presentations should be in .pdf or .pptx format.
  4. Technical session rooms will have the following equipment: Laptop computer, LCD projector, screen, microphone, VGA cable, USB C, and HDMI Cables for computer connections to the projector.

Poster Presentations

  1. Posters will remain on display in the CITRIS Atrium from Monday 2pm through Wednesday at 6pm. Please set-up your poster during the morning break and lunch time period on Monday. Please take down your poster on Thursday morning.
  2. Please plan to be in front of your poster during your assigned poster session time.

  3. Before the start of your session, please name your file “PS#.# [presenter name] [brief title].pdf” (See Program for your PS number) and Upload A PDF of Your Poster Here.

  4. Poster format and size is at the discretion of the authors. Easels and poster boards able to accommodate posters of various sizes are available in the conference venue.
  5. Some local poster printing services:
    • Copy Central | https://copycentral.com/
    • Fedex | https://local.fedex.com/en-us/ca/berkeley/office-5145
    • UPS Store | https://locations.theupsstore.com/ca/berkeley/1400-shattuck-ave/poster-printing
    • RushMyPrints | https://www.rushmyprints.com/

Attendee Information

Student Awards

Student awards for Best Oral Presentation and Best Poster Presentation will be awarded during the Conference Banquet. Student oral and poster presentations will be evaluated by members of the organizing committees and scored based on:

    1. Impact. Well-stated and well-motivated research question, stating the engineering or scientific impact, and citing relevant prior literature to illustrate the current state of knowledge.
    2. Methodology. Methods are described reproducibly, relevant prior literature is cited, methods are appropriate and appropriately adapted.
    3. Interpretation. Interpretation of the results is clearly stated; include status of the current research progress and likely next research steps if research continues; include challenges. Discuss engineering and scientific impact.

Photos

If you take photos during the conference, please Upload Your Photos Here, for others to enjoy them as well. Thank you!

Food, beverages and pencils

There will be tea on coffee served. Please bring your conference mug every day, so that we can keep our consumables to a minimum, and also so that you can maybe enjoy your beverage even more than in a paper cup. Fellow mugs are ceramic-coated steel on the inside, and have a thin lip; the removable splash guard will keep your tea bag in place, or filer tea leaves. Customize them with a Berkeley removable sticker so that they don’t get mixed up with your colleague’s mug.

  • Coffee for the conference is provided by Mind coffee. They roast their own beans.
  • Tea bags are from The Tao of Tea.
  • Pastries for the conference are provided by Third Culture Bakery: mochi muffins and mochi donuts.
  • In-season fruit are grown in California, and they more or less follow a blue and gold color theme for the UC Berkeley colors. The one exception are the there types of bananas, which were not grown in California, but we thought it would be interesting to be reminded of the biological diversity of bananas. Fruit were bought from Berkeley Bowl (an iconic Berkeley grocery store) and displayed in Sara Kersten Ceramics.

Blackwing Pencils are made from California Incense Cedar and Japanese graphite or Japanese wax blue color core. You can customize the color of the eraser – please help yourself to an extra eraser. If you need to use a pencil sharpener, you will find several at the registration desk; they are two-step sharpeners. Please return the pencil sharpener after you are done using it. 

Lunch options

There is a cafe in the Sutardja Dai building (one level below the Banatao Auditorium), and are many other options for lunch within five minutes walking from the conference venue, at the intersection of Euclid and Hearst.

Parking

Parking is extremely limited on the Berkeley campus. You can find information here and also here.

Better options are ride share, walking, and taking the campus shuttles. The “Cory Hall Stop” is immediately adjacent to the Sutardja Dai Hall conference venue.

Visiting

Places to Visit on the Berkeley Campus

  1. The UC Berkeley Botanical Garden
  2. The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) | See also their movie theater screenings & their showings on their outdoor screen (on Tuesday they are showing the US presidential debate).
  3. The Free Speech Cafe has translated first pages of newspapers around the world, posted outside.
  4. If you like swimming, Spieker Pool is open for lap swimming in the evenings and you can purchase a day pass. UC Berkeley had 21 swimming athletes at the Paris Olympics, and across all sports Cal Bears won 28 medals at the Paris Olympics.
  5. If you like hiking, the Fire Trail is a hike you can start from the Berkeley Campus (you can start from strawberry canyon, which is behind the stadium).
  6. Cal Athletics – games that you can see on campus.
  7. events.berkeley.edu is a campus-wide calendar of events going on on the UC Berkeley campus.

Places to Visit and Things To Do and Shows to See in the Bay Area

  1. Climbing is a really popular sport in the Bay Area and there are many top-rope and bouldering gyms nearby. Great Western Power Company is the easiest to get to via public transportation, and it’s a top-roping and bouldering gym inside what used to be a Steam Generation Plant.
  2. The Exploratorium is extraordinary. It was started by Frank Oppenheimer. It has a beautiful view of the bay, a cloud chamber, a remarkable map room, a restaurant, and it’s easy to get to (BART to Embarcadero, then walk along the water from Ferry Building to The Exploratorium). You can spent the whole day there. “it breaks the science museum mold.”
  3. The Asian Art Museum is a great reason to be in the heart of San Francisco Downtown, right in front of Civic Center. It’s a beautiful building, it houses a wide range of exhibitions and permanent collections, and it often has events and workshops (there are two this week). Take Bart to Civic Center in San Francisco.
  4. Other wonderful San Francisco museums (Montgomery Bart): MOMA (Modern Art), MoAD (African Diaspora), CJM (Contemporary Jewish Museum).
  5. Performance venues (really really good shows): Yoshi’s in Oakland (Jazz), SF Jazz Center, SF Symphony, SF Opera, KQED Live Events (journalism).
  6. City Lights Bookstore (walk from Montgomery Bart Station). Iconic publisher and bookstore, founded by beat generation poets (its story is captured well in a book called “Howl on Trial: The Battle for Free Expression“). They also host literary events.
  7. Search art events in the Bay Area: https://www.sfarts.org/
  8. Ask Raluca if you’re interested in any particular topic, and she’ll be happy to add more to this list.