Thanks to Mike Emeigh for posting this.

Just wanted to underscore -- we're just looking for abstracts right now; you don't need to complete the presentations (or even the research!) until the convention.

Hell, some presenters are still putting their presentations together during the convention . . . or so I've heard.

I am looking forward to ningxiaoyan's presentation.

some presenters are still putting their presentations together during the convention

I had not heard this, and am disturbed by it. Considering the review process, that is a surprising claim.

some presenters are still putting their presentations together during the convention

I had not heard this, and am disturbed by it. Considering the review process, that is a surprising claim.

I may be missing sarcasm here, but I don't know why this should be disturbing.

If you've done a presentation, you know the biggest problem is figuring out how to pack everything that you want to say into 20 minutes. It is not easy for anyone who's spent weeks or months on a project to condense it to 20 minutes, and sometimes the convention is the best place to do that, believe it or not - life tends not to get in the way as much.

-- MWE

Knowing the way Giacalone constructs his presentations, I'd suggest that he and TomH are talking past each other. As a frequent collector of PowerPoints to be placed on SABR's laptops prior to a presenter's talk, I can attest to Anthony's perpetual last-minute "improvements". It's not that he's still getting his ideas and images together. On the contrary, his problem is deciding which 75% of his materials needs to be removed in order to keep the talk under 25 minutes. :-)

If he ever had his file ready for us to load more than, say, two hours before his scheduled slot, I'd suffer palpitations.