Information for Seminar Speakers: Thank you for agreeing to come to Hopkins Marine Station to give a seminar. We have a fully equipped LCD projector and internet ready computer at your disposal in a lecture hall pictured below. Seats one hundred comfortably, but we usually get 20-40 for a typical Friday seminar, more for a Friends seminar.
Podium Computer Specs: 1.6 Ghz Pentium 4 with 256MB RAM and 20 GB of hard disk space. DVD, CDRW, ZIP250/100. Flash drives - USB2.0 on podium. Internet access over a T1 line [1.4MB/sec.]. LCD Flat panel display on the podium at 1024 x 768 resolution, in sync with projector. Not the most powerful beast, so it helps to compress your images in Power Point first. Mac users should bring their own laptop to avoid translation errors. Software on Podium Computer: Windows XP with Office XP [Word, Powerpoint and Excel]. Quicktime can be used if not embedded in the PPT file. Will run with AVI, MPG and GIF animations embedded. Best to stick to "normal" fonts, such as Ariel/Helvitica and Times Roman. Some symbols do not transfer over from the Mac environment. Images embedded in PPT files should ALL be JPEG or GIF. Has trouble with some Mac formats [PICT, TIFF]. Projector Specs: Sharp LCD projector with native 1024 x 768 resolution capable of syncing up to 1600x1200, NTSC capable, with remote switching of sources, black screen, laser pointer. [VCR with VHS and SVHS capability tied into this projector] Syncs with most laptops with VGA out. Mac people remember to bring your adapter. Wise to set up ahead of time as different computers have different ways of dealing with external output. Please turn off screen savers and power savers on laptops. 110 VAC available. Slides and Overheads: We have a Kodak 440 carosel projector with extra bright bulb for 35mm slide projection and an overhead projector for overheads. NOTE: we are not cabable of dual projectors or dual projectors with dissolves. Only one screen in the center of the room. Recording your talk We are able to record sound and video to a standard DVD format disc for up to two hours per disk if you would like a copy of your talk. Let us know ahead of time as this takes a little longer to set up. Grunt quality, not Hollywood. Lights You have control of the lights from the podium area. Typically we use the one switch on the wall behind you that cuts the front half of the room. This is dark enough to see whatever is projected without encouraging people to fall asleep. Questions: Call Chris Patton (650) 655-6216, cpatton@stanford.edu You can email your presentation as an attachment [<30MB] to Chris ahead of time to test out if unsure. We can also set up a temporary secure FTP server to transfer larger files. Ask Chris above. |
