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Information for speakers

Scientific presentations will be held orally and will be given in English (conference language) or German. Usually, presentations will have the following durations:

  • For contributed talks a total of 15 minutes including discussion time and speaker change (12 min talk + 3 min discussion/speaker change).
  • For invited talks a total of 30 minutes including discussion time and speaker change (25 min talk + 5 min discussion/speaker change).
  • For plenary talks 45 minutes without discussion.

Please refer to the programme for the time frame of your presentation or the duration of the poster session. For further information on the language or length of the presentation, please contact the division or working group in which you will be giving your presentation.

All lecture halls and seminar rooms will be equipped with projectors (aspect ratio 9:16) and laptops running Windows with pdf viewers (Adobe Reader, Chrome) and Power Point version 2016. Speakers of contributed talks are requested to upload their presentation to the online contribution system until one day before the corresponding session. An e-mail with the access data and the upload deadlines will be sent to the speakers before the conference. If you require to change your uploaded contribution, you may again upload the document at the latest four hours before the session (not the talk) starts. In any case you should also bring a copy of your presentation on a USB drive as a backup. Contributed talks
are accepted in pdf or Power Point format.

All lecture halls will be opened at least 30 minutes prior to the sessions. We kindly request the speakers to be present in the rooms 15 minutes prior to the start of the session to verify with the chairperson and the technical staff that the presentation is available in the online system and to receive an introduction to the facilities in the room.

Speakers of invited talks and plenary talks are also invited to follow the upload procedure, alternatively they may connect their own laptop via HDMI ports (for all other ports, please provide an appropriate adapter).