Guidelines for Oral Presentations

Time Schedule for Oral Presentations

Timeblocks Time
Timeblock 1 09:00–10:30
Coffee 10:30–11:00
Timeblock 2 11:00–12:30
Lunch 12:30–14:00
Timeblock 3 14:00–15:30
Coffee 15:30–16:00
Timeblock 4 16:00–17:30
Timeblock 5 17:45–19:15

Due to author copyright privileges, it is strictly prohibited to take photos and/or copies from laptops and desktops of any scientific material without the expressed permission by the authors.

Lecture Rooms

Oral presentations are scheduled in thematic sessions. The programme gives details of the specific lecture rooms assigned for each session and the timings for presentations, which include discussion and change over.

Each lecture room is equipped with one PC projector together with a "Laptop/Desktop Station", a pointer, and one screen. This "standard equipment" is free of any extra charge!

A conference assistant will be present in each lecture room. He/she will help the chairperson and the speakers.

PC/Mac Demonstration

There are two options for a PC/Mac demonstration: either authors bring their own computer and install it at the "Laptop/Desktop Station", or they bring their own data storage device and and use the permanently installed desktop PC at this station.

The "Laptop/Desktop Station" of each lecture room is a table with 5 independent sites (A – E), each consisting of power sockets plus a VGA cable where authors can install their computers before the session starts and remove them after the session has ended.

The desktop computer will have a DVD drive and two USB 2.0 ports for memory sticks ready for any presentation provided by authors. The software installed on the desktop includes:

  • Windows 7;
  • MS Office 2010 (Power Point, Word);
  • Adobe Reader 11
  • GSview 5.0;
  • Internet Explorer 10 (no access to internet);
  • Mozilla Firefox 30.0 (no access to internet)
  • Windows Media Player 12;
  • Real Player SP 16.0.0.3.51;
  • QuickTime 7.7.5;
  • VLC Media Player 2.1.4;
  • Adobe Flash Player 14.0.0.125;
  • Adobe Shockwave 12.1.2.152.

Oral Summary of Poster Papers

Conveners or chairpersons may ask authors of (certain) poster papers from a session to provide, ad hoc, a short, (2–5 minutes) summary of their contribution (1–2 transparencies) in case a gap should occur in the oral session's time schedule and there is no stand-by paper available to fill in.