Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 09:33:41 -0500 From: "Lynda Ellis (LabMed)" Reply-To: Bioinformatics List To: BIOINF-GENERAL@LISTS.UMN.EDU Subject: Poster winner; Symposium Evaluations Thanks to Alison Baerwald for summarizing the Symposium Evaluations and votes for best poster. Flora Fan submitted the winning poster (poster 8). She has been contacted directly to receive her prize, a certificate and a polo shirt donated by IBM Life Sciences. Congratulations, Flora! 59 of the 100+ symposium audience members (the best response ever!) returned an evalutation form. The responses were scored 5 = Excellent, 4 = Very Good, 3 = Good, 2 = Fair, 1 = Poor. -------- -- ----- Item N Score -------- -- ----- Overall 55 4.1 Packets 57 4.0 Room 59 3.9 AV 56 3.9 Food 55 4.1 Schedule 52 4.1 Posters 52 3.7 Speakers 55 4.0 14 respondants had additional comments. Congratulations: "Great! Liked the poster session." "Excellent Symposium!" "Talks were good regarding the Scientific Background to problems under study." "Very good opportunity for building bridges." "Interesting area." Critiques: "Posters too crowded." (4) "More electrical outlets needed." "Would prefer one big screen to 2 small screens. A lot of the slides were poorly designed (colors, small fonts)." "Webcast was not interactive. It would have been nice to submit questions via the remote webcast. Interactive chat for webcast and attendees - it lets you know you're not alone." "Would be good to touch on the Computer Science aspects a bit more: algorithms and their applications to machines; what are the current challenges and constraints from a comp sci perspective." "For the future: More talk on databases, software integration and structural proteomics"