There will be eight poster sessions: one on Monday, two on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, and one on Friday. These eight poster sessions will be held at the Hyatt in the Regency and Plaza Foyers, and additionally Regency E&F on Thursday and Friday.

Posters should be in place by the beginning of the scheduled session time, should be taken down at the end of the session, and manned for the latter 2 hours of each session. In those cases where presenters have two or more posters on both floors of the hotel, simultaneously, they are requested to split their time equally between the floors. Any posters not removed by 13:00 and 19:00 will be removed by staff and discarded.

Authors are reminded that no contributions are accepted for publication only. Any accepted contributions that are not presented in the oral or poster sessions at the conference will be excluded from the proceedings.

The Scientific Program Committee reserves the right to refuse papers for publication that have not been properly presented or staffed in the poster sessions. Manuscripts of contributions to the proceedings (or enlargements of them) are not considered to be posters, and papers presented in this way will not be accepted for publication.

Student Poster Session
A special poster session for students will take place during delegate registration on Sunday, May 3rd.

Student posters should be mounted in the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver Pacific Ballroom by 14:00 on Sunday, May 3 and manned from 14:00 to 16:00 for judging, then again from 17:00 to 19:00. In accordance with the guidelines for publication of contributions, these posters must also be displayed during the regular poster sessions, exept for those being presented as Contributed Orals.