TECHNICAL PROGRAM


Final Program and Timetable

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Author's Instructions

Instruction for oral presentations
1. Power Point on IBM-PC (MS Windows XP with MS Office 2003) and overhead projection are available in the plenary hall and in all meeting rooms.

2 . You will have a 15 minutes time slot for your presentation and 5 minutes to answer questions from the audience. There’s a strict time schedule and the chairman will carefully keep track of this. The session room will be equipped with computer projector.

3. Presentations should be prepared as a PowerPoint file to run on an PC compatible with Microsoft Office 2003. This program will run PowerPoint 2003 and all previous versions of PowerPoint.

4. All presentations must run on the Windows operating system. Congress computers will run on Windows XP. If at all possible, please create your presentation on the same version of Windows or at least test it on Windows XP before submitting it. Otherwise errors may occur in your presentation at the congress.

5. You will be also able to connect your laptop directly to the projector in the lecture rooms. However, please kindly check the compatibility before the Symposium / Lecture starts and be prepared to bring your file also on a transferable format (pen-drive, CD, etc.). If you have a Macintosh computer, it can be plugged in having a conventional, 15-pin socket. If your computer does not have this connection, please bring an appropriate converter with you.

Instructions for poster presentations

1. There will be two poster sessions organized in the morning of the 24th September. Please refer to the Final Program for the poster session assigned to you.

2. Posters will be on display in the Poster Area.

3. Recommended dimensions of the posters are 70 cm wide x 100 cm high.

4. Material for mounting posters will be provided in the poster area.

5. Posters should be brought to the meeting by the authors.

6. Authors are requested to be present at their posters during the poster session for which their poster has been scheduled (see the congress programme).

7. A headline strip on the poster should include the title, authors, organizations and addresses.

8. The poster should contain: Introduction, Method, Results and Discussion. The data should be understandable without oral explanation.

9. Posters should be designed in a way that everything is readable from a distance.