General Chair(s) — Local Arrangements
The Local Arrangements Committee (comprised of subcommittee chairs) will be headed by the General Chair who must delegate responsibilities early in the game. It is desirable that the GC be headquartered in close enough proximity to the meeting site to permit easy personal contact with hotel and convention facility staff at all times. The GC is expected to be heavily involved, increasingly so as the meeting approaches, and will need to devote nearly full time to coordinating activities in the year leading up to the annual meeting. The subcommittees of the Local Arrangements Committee are recommended as follows:
Program Chair(s)
Under guidance from the President in the year of the conference, and in coordination with the Local Arrangements Chair, assembles and administers the program for the annual Society meeting. The Chair is selected four years in advance. The Chair, plus an indefinite number of others as desired by the AFS President and the Chair, help set the technical agenda of the meeting by soliciting and selecting symposia. The Program Committee is also responsible for soliciting, managing, and organizing, and implementing all technical presentation and poster sessions. In the case of the 2011 Seattle meeting, the total number of presentations could approach 2,000, in 20-24 concurrent sessions plus the poster sessions.
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