Guidelines for Oral Presentation

Contributed papers are allocated 20 mins for the presentation, including 3-5 minutes for questions.

Only presentations in Powerpoint or PDF electronic format will be allowed. Transparencies and slides cannot be used.

Please use only standard fonts vailable in Microsoft Windows ME/2000 in English.

The presentations will be made available on the ESSDERC web-page after the conference.

The facilities in the lecture halls will be optimized for electronic presentations and each room will be equipped with a beamer and a terminal (PC) to run the presentations. The use of private laptops for the presentation will not be allowed. Slides cannot be used. Overhead projection will only be allowed in case problems with computer projection arise. Therefore, authors are kindly requested to carry a backup copy of their presentation on Overhead trasparencies. The use of private PCs for computer projection will not be allowed.

To prepare the sessions we ask you to e-mail your presentation to Elena Gnani before 23 August 2002. You may use a zip program to compress the size of your file.

To maximize the impact of your paper, please observe the following guidelines:

Page Preparation

1. Use horizontal (landscape) format.
2. Avoid too much information on a page. Do not use thin lines or small fonts
   (use font sizes 24pt).
3. Use a white background with black or dark colors for the figures and text.
4. Prepare a title page for your talk.
5. If a page is used more than once in a presentation, make a duplicate copy.

Speaker Briefing

Authors should meet their session chairperson in the lecture hall 20 minutes (10 minutes after the Keynote plenary presentations) prior to the beginning of their respective sessions.

Presentation

1. Begin your talk with an outline of the presentation, including an introduction and conclusion. Put this outline on a slide.
2. Make clear which part of your talk you are now presenting.
3. Focus on the most important parts of your work. Emphasize what is new and how it compares with previous work.
4. The information in each page should be recognizable by the audience in a few seconds.
5. Don't make too many pages: 15 pages are close to optimum for the 20 minutes allowed.

Organization

1. Fax the Copyright Form (PDF and Microsoft Word) to Elena Gnani before 3 June 2002.

Ms. Elena Gnani
DEIS-ARCES
Via Risorgimento 2
I–40136 BOLOGNA
ITALY
Phone: +39 051 209 3773
Fax: +39 051 209 3779
E-mail: egnani@deis.unibo.it

2. Mail your presentation before 23 August 2002 to Elena Gnani.
3. Meet the session chairman in the designated lecture hall 20 minutes before the beginning of the first talk in your session.
4. Ensure that your session chairman has a copy of your biography.