Program Practices for 4S Annual Meeting

The following notes are for Program organizers. They represent guidelines based on past practices of the Society and recommendations of the 4S Council that should be followed where possible.

Session organizers are requested not to change the order of the presenters in their session.

Two appearance maximum. Program committee should restrict appearances by one person to two. The problem has been that some individuals have appeared up to six times and this restricts participation by others.

One single authored paper and one co-authored paper (or discussion, etc.) is established as the limit by council (chairing a session is not included in these guidelines).

Meetings

Publications committee meeting should be held from 1-3PM on Wednesday (the day preceding the meeting). The general council meeting should follow the Publications committee meeting from 3-6PM. The general business meeting should be held before the banquet (Friday night). Simultaneous sessions should be kept at a minimum. The most desirable program arrangement is to maximize the number of time slots as follows: Thursday - 4 Friday - 4 Saturday - 4 Participation in Sunday sessions is very low, and these are not advisable.