Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction: what can go wrong?
- 2 The decision: to run or not to run
- 3 Scientific and related events: variety delights
- 4 Social events: something for every taste and budget
- 5 The program: how to accommodate pigs in a poke
- 6 Selection of the meeting site: a touch of Russian roulette
- 7 The dates of the meeting: you can't win
- 8 Publications: cruel and unusual punishment
- 9 Selection of participants: how to lose old friends and make new enemies
- 10 Committees: you have to live with them
- 11 Accompanists: you better love'm
- 12 Office and staff: don't take chances
- 13 The budget: a jungle with pitfalls
- 14 Fund raising: some would rather see their dentist
- 15 Allocation of travel support: not much fun either
- 16 Schedule of preparations: from dream to reality
- 17 Announcements, programs, and related information: clarity pays
- 18 Design of forms, nametags, tickets, signs and stickers: how about using common sense?
- 19 Satellite meetings: think twice
- 20 Checklist of important no-nos
- Appendix A Poster presentations
- Appendix B Outline of a general schedule for an international meeting
- Appendix C Excerpts from a letter to prospective panelists of a Colloquium
- Appendix D Excerpts from a letter to the moderators of Colloquia
- Appendix E Invitation to participate in a Socratic Workshop
- Appendix F Excerpts from a letter to leaders of Socratic Workshops
- Appendix G Example of a ‘statement of research interests’ for a Socratic Workshop
- Appendix H Service contract with an exposition service
- Appendix I Contract with a congress hotel
- Appendix J Suggestions for the preparation of abstracts and abstract forms for scientific presentations
- Appendix K Letter with clout to a manuscript delinquent
- Appendix L Schedule for staff of an international meeting
- Appendix M Checklist of equipment and supplies for the registration desk of a major meeting
- Appendix N Equipment and supplies for meeting rooms
- Appendix O Example of a letter/form confirming attendance of prospective participants in various events of a meeting
- Appendix P Calculation of fees
- Appendix Q Suggestions for a hotel reservation form
- Appendix R Summary of daily program schedule
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 May 2010
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction: what can go wrong?
- 2 The decision: to run or not to run
- 3 Scientific and related events: variety delights
- 4 Social events: something for every taste and budget
- 5 The program: how to accommodate pigs in a poke
- 6 Selection of the meeting site: a touch of Russian roulette
- 7 The dates of the meeting: you can't win
- 8 Publications: cruel and unusual punishment
- 9 Selection of participants: how to lose old friends and make new enemies
- 10 Committees: you have to live with them
- 11 Accompanists: you better love'm
- 12 Office and staff: don't take chances
- 13 The budget: a jungle with pitfalls
- 14 Fund raising: some would rather see their dentist
- 15 Allocation of travel support: not much fun either
- 16 Schedule of preparations: from dream to reality
- 17 Announcements, programs, and related information: clarity pays
- 18 Design of forms, nametags, tickets, signs and stickers: how about using common sense?
- 19 Satellite meetings: think twice
- 20 Checklist of important no-nos
- Appendix A Poster presentations
- Appendix B Outline of a general schedule for an international meeting
- Appendix C Excerpts from a letter to prospective panelists of a Colloquium
- Appendix D Excerpts from a letter to the moderators of Colloquia
- Appendix E Invitation to participate in a Socratic Workshop
- Appendix F Excerpts from a letter to leaders of Socratic Workshops
- Appendix G Example of a ‘statement of research interests’ for a Socratic Workshop
- Appendix H Service contract with an exposition service
- Appendix I Contract with a congress hotel
- Appendix J Suggestions for the preparation of abstracts and abstract forms for scientific presentations
- Appendix K Letter with clout to a manuscript delinquent
- Appendix L Schedule for staff of an international meeting
- Appendix M Checklist of equipment and supplies for the registration desk of a major meeting
- Appendix N Equipment and supplies for meeting rooms
- Appendix O Example of a letter/form confirming attendance of prospective participants in various events of a meeting
- Appendix P Calculation of fees
- Appendix Q Suggestions for a hotel reservation form
- Appendix R Summary of daily program schedule
- Index
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- Organizing Scientific Meetings , pp. i - viPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1997