GENERAL

• Dress
  Dress is business casual or business, whichever makes you most comfortable.
  
   

• Meals
  We will provide lunch on Seminar Day via a Graduate Student Luncheon where you will meet informally with several of our Cellular and Molecular Physiology Graduate Students.  The luncheon begins at 1:05pm and ends at 2:00 p.m.  Someone will let you know when 2pm arrives so that you will not have to watch the clock.
  
   

SEMINAR  FORMAT

• Seminar begins at 12 noon on Wednesday.  Your talk, which should last no more than 45 minutes, will be followed by a Question-and-Answer session, allowing the seminar to conclude at 1:00pm.
  
  Although open to anyone on campus, these seminars are geared toward those interested in various aspects of physiology research, including faculty, research staff, and students.
   

• Conference room set-up
  The Tinsley-Harrison Tower 740 conference room is arranged auditorium style with a slightly raised platform at one end of the room, facing several rows of cushioned theatre seats that accommodate almost 70 people.  There is a podium on the presentation platform from which the LCD project is run.  As you enter the room, the podium is on the left, audience on the right.  There is an exit door at the rear, as well as a sound booth.
   

• Auditorium equipment
  The conference room is equipped with an LCD projector for use with PowerPoint presentations.  A VCR and overhead- and carousel-style projectors are available upon request.
   

• Presentation format
  We can provide you with a PC laptop to use for your presentation.  If you use a non-PC formatted presentation, it would be best if you bring your laptop, as we do not have a dedicated MAC for this room.
  
  You have a few options about your PowerPoint presentation.  You can:
  >  bring it on a ZIP disk
  >  bring it on a CD
  >  email it to thenson@uab.edu ahead of time
  >  bring it on your own laptop
  
  Please do what is most comfortable for you.
   

• Note
  Our projection system in this conference room is NOT compatible with software run on the MS Millennium or MS 2001 Operating Systems.

FORMS

• Personal Information Sheet
  This is the first form you need to complete and return.  It provides us with the necessary information to begin the paperwork required by the University before and after your visit.
  
  You can fax it or email it to thenson@uab.edu.
   

RECEIPTS

To get reimbursed, you MUST have original, ITEMIZED receipts to turn in.

Air Fare

• A copy of the E-ticket

• boarding passes

• credit card statement showing you paid for the ticket

Hotel

• Itemized hotel bill with a zeroed out balance

• Copy of your credit card statement to show you paid for the hotel

Meals

• ITEMIZED, original receipts along with credit card receipt copy you receive at the restaurant.

• If you pay cash for a small meal, please provide the itemized receipt

UAB will not reimburse you for alcohol or for any meals you may purchase for someone else during your visit.  You can only be reimbursed for your own meals.

Things that are never reimbursed:  Alcoholic beverages, hotel room movies, personal hygiene items, laundry service, telephone calls home (if you can prove calls were related to UAB business, that is okay), snacks, etc.