A Message from the
EMG Officers
January 2008
What are the responsibilities of the
Speakers and Authors at the EMG annual meeting?
This summary provides a few of the
institutional, professional and social rules and etiquette
responsibilities of the speakers and authors. Since the EMG
Annual Meeting is a professional/technical international
meeting, speakers are expected to be mature, professional,
and practice proper social etiquette. For 90% of the
authors, this is nothing new, and they adhere to these
simple norms with excellence. I want to thank you for your
hard work, practice, and professional demeanor. I look
forward to future presentation.
Sometimes, life happens and a speaker
must cancel. It is that speaker’s responsibility to arrange
for an alternate speaker to present the paper at the EMG
Annual Meeting. It is also the responsibility of the speaker
to notify the session chair or co-chair about the change,
immediately. The range of solutions is only limited to the
imagination, innovativeness and agreements among the
speakers, alternate speakers, session chairs and co-chairs.
This greatly helps the chairs in planning the sessions and
ensures a smooth flow of papers at the assigned times in the
sessions. If an alternate speaker cannot be found to present
at the EMG Annual Meeting, or the alternate speaker cannot
present the paper, and the presentation must be cancelled,
it is the responsibility of the speaker to notify the
session chair/co-chair immediately. This is absolutely
necessary so the session chair can make the necessary
changes to the session. This needs to be done weeks or
months prior to the session.
Now onto the hard part of this summary.
If a speaker fails to notify the session chair of the
cancellation in a timely manner, or just does not show up,
then this adversely affects the session, leaving gaps in the
presentations, disrupting the schedule of presentations,
greatly disappoints the attendees who travel to hear the
speaker, and greatly upsets the other speakers,
chair/co-chair, and officers of the EMG, Particle Technology
forum, and the AIChE. The author has violated institutional,
professional and social rules and etiquette
responsibilities. It reflects poorly on the author’s
character, and is noticed by everyone in the session and the
EMG annual meeting. Needless to say, the EMG is willing to
work with the speaker/authors to avoid this incident and
resulting embarrassment.
The EMG greatly appreciates the authors
and speakers who operate in a professional manner.
Dilhan Kalyon
Chester Clark
Jan Puszynski
Bruce Cranford
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