PIERS —— A global symposium committed to
advancing photonics and electromagnetics for the benefit of humanity.
Starting from PIERS 2025 Spring, we encourage all students to join this EM Academy's educational program and compete for the Best Student Presentation Awards (BSPTA).
As part of our EM Academy's education effects, we encourage professors to train their students well in both effective oral presentation and poster presentation. Thus, we encourage all graduate students to participate in a 3-minute Oral Presentation before the Poster Session on the same day. If the presenting author is a student, the paper (if accepted and selected) will be scheduled in a mini-oral presentation session before the Poster Session where a committee will interact with these students with questions on the same day. To encourage graduate students to participate this activity, a sufficient number of students who did well in both the oral presentation and the poster presentation will be selected for awards. The committee will discuss and vote for the winners of the Best Student Presentation Awards in the same day. Each winner will receive a cash award and a banquet ticket to attend the Award Ceremony. The total number of final winners will increase based on final program enrollment.
A student competing for best student presentation award must be listed as the first author as well as the presenting author of a paper submitted for ORAL presentation. A full-length paper is not required. A one-page abstract is required before the abstract submission deadline. For a short-oral talk, a 3 - 8 pages oral presentation file is required to be submitted at least 2 weeks before the conference. A poster is also required to be posted onsite.
The BSPTA applicants are strongly suggested to pay attention to the followings.
1. On stage (In Oral Session), a student candidate can use about 3 sentences to present the important problem the student wants to solve (importance, main drawback of existing methods, their goal with significant advantage). Better in plain language that high school kids/ general public can also understand. Then use 2 minutes to present clearly what's the novel ideas and the excellent results. Students should be trained in effective oral presentation, introducing their work in the shortest time (e.g. 3 minutes). 3-minute is enough to get the committee and the audience interested and go to the poster session to learn the details.
2. Off stage (In Poster Session), the student interacts with the committee and participants, and uses the charts on the poster to present the details and good answers to their questions.
