The title of the proposed course should be concise and accurately reflect the content of the course.

Identify one person as Lead Instructor. Future correspondence with the conference organizers will be conducted through the Lead Instructor, who will be responsible for communicating with the other instructors. Conference Organizer will communicate logistics to short course participants. Participant list will be shared to Lead Organizer. Instructors must have demonstrable expertise in the discipline (qualifications to be included in the proposal). Each instructor's role in the course should be clearly defined. Please list any previous short course experience.

State the objectives of the course in a few sentences.

The description, 250 words maximum, must cover the purpose of the course and the main topics to be discussed.

Include a concise listing of topics to be presented.

Short courses are generally offered in half-day (4 hours), full-day (8 hours) or 2-day (16 hours) format.

List the products to be distributed and their format (e.g. hardcopy of course notes, PDF files distributed on thumb drives, etc.). Instructors will be responsible for producing course materials for distribution.

Please list any additional equipment or special requirements you need to run your course so these can be used to establish a final registration fee. Also list items that you expect participants to bring (laptop computers, for example).