Information Authors, Presenters and Chairpersons

Workshop Presentations

Workshop presentations will take place in standard one and a half hour chaired sessions. There will be a maximum of five presentations in each workshop. It is expected that most workshops will contain around four presentations and that presentations should therefore last between fifteen and twenty minutes in order to allow adequate time for discussion at the end of the session.

All workshop sessions will be chaired. Where the chair of a workshop is also giving a presentation they should give their paper only after all other presentations have been given.

A PC laptop (not MAC), dataprojector and screen will be available for all workshop presentations. If you have a PowerPoint presentation please bring it on a USB stick or CD.

We strongly recommend you save your presentation in PC format on a USB stick and use the PC in situ. Do not bring your presentation on a laptop. We will not be able to offer technical support where problems occur with AV equipment other than that in situ.

Please ensure you have loaded your presentation to the laptop in the room you are presenting by the start of your workshop session.

All workshop rooms are located in the same building and on the same floor as the Plenary talks and the registration desk.

Posters

The poster session will take place, over lunch, on Thursday 4 September.  Posters will be displayed in the main conference area close by the catering stations and can be displayed anytime between 0900 hours and 1700 hours on Thursday.

Posters should be portrait style and no larger than standard A0 size (i.e. max width 841 mm by max height 1189 mm). Fixing materials will be provided.

Delegates showing posters are responsible for bringing their own poster (conforming to the dimensions noted above) to the conference.  

Poster presenters should make themselves known to organisers during registration so that arrangements can be made for the hanging of posters.

Chairpersons

The chairperson's role is to facilitate the smooth running of the session and encourage and monitor debate when appropriate.

It will be the responsibility of the chair to ensure that all papers presented have an equal share of the time, speakers observe the time allocated to them and that the session does not run over the allocated time for the workshop session.

Where you are chairing of a workshop in which you are also giving a presentation you should give your paper only after all other presentations have been given.