Session organization

Preparations to a session are two pronged They are focused on the participants and on the preparation of the creative space, on the physical environment for the session. Both are equally important and require a lot of time and careful attention. The session may take 23 minutes, but the preparations may last for weeks. In the United States, it is possible to hire consultants who specialize in organizing and running brainstorming sessions. The Creative Education Foundation in Buffalo, New York, can provide their addresses and should also confirm their credentials. This is an effective although expensive way to organize a brainstorming session. 

All group members are equal, but we need a leader (the chair), who will know more about brainstorming than the other participants and will have a secret list with all the questions to be used to initiate the session and to restart it or redirect it later. Osborn (1953) also recommended the selection of an associate chair who would act as an idea collector. Osborn s second recommendation was absolutely critical in the 1950s, but today the entire session may be digitally recorded and obviously this is a far superior way to record ideas than to use a human recorder, who will often disrupt the session with clarifying questions and may destroy the momentum of a rapidly evolving session. More details about the selection of group members are 

Before a session begins, the chair should prepare a number of solutions to the problem. His or her solutions could be realistic or absolutely crazy they will be used only to begin the session (crazy solutions will work best) or to restart it when the session significantly slows down or the chair wants to change the direction. In any case, they should not be imposed on the group. 

When everybody feels comfortable and relaxed, a short mini presentation should be given by the chair to review the fundamentals of brainstorming and to provide the basic facts associated with the problem. The chair or experts could answer several questions but not more than two or three. Everybody should be aware that the presentation s goal is to provide the big picture, not all the details that could be more harmful than helpful for the final session s success. At the end of the introduction, the chair should make an unexpected announcement about numerous awards waiting for 

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During the practical session, organize your bench space — make sure your lab book is adjacent to, but not within, your working area. You will often find it easiest to keep clean items of glassware etc. on one side of your working space, with used equipment on the other side. 

We gratefully thank the Division officers in the ACS Division of Food and Agricultural Chemistry, especially Carl Frey, the sessions organizer, who kept us on task and informed. We also thank our many speakers and contributors who managed to submit their manuscripts according to our deadlines, and we also thank the reviewers for their extra efforts. Peter Winterhalter deserves special mention for always being the first to submit. And finally we thank the staff and owner at the... 

A total of 89 posters were selected to organize 15 workshops for oral presentation (see Appendix) by the following poster session organizers H. Miyoshi (Japan, Chair)... 

Because not all of the experimental test results in support of the EDPs were available as this report was being prepared, the committee was not able to review and evaluate them. However, committee members did attend status-review sessions organized by the PMACWA, and the committee was given access to aU available draft reports by the technology providers. 

Weeks before a presentation to structural engineers, I asked the session organizer to help me profile the audience. He provided this description The audience will be about five percent students, 40 percent owners, 50 percent designers and five percent other, including architects. We are guessing that the audience will be about 50/50 for public and private work. That was very helpful A very diverse audience. I needed to speak to all audience segments. 

S. ZUs, P. Bleith, F. Ettingshausen,]. Suffner, A. Wolz, M. Michel, C. Roth, Alternative support materials and the role of the support morphology for the electrode structure, ICCE 19 in Shanghai (2011) session organized by P. Bele on Novel Catalysts and Support Materials for Fuel Cells. 

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