Instructions for Presenters

The oral format was deliberately tight. A speaker had a quarter of an hour in total: twelve minutes for the talk and three for questions.

• A session lasted one hour or ninety minutes and carried four or six talks.
• Two chairs kept time and guided the discussion.
• Chairs were told to stop anyone who ran past the fifteen minute allowance, questions included.
• Slides were landscape, in 4:3 or 16:9. The guidance suggested roughly one slide for each minute and warned against dense slides.
• The venue supplied the laptop and the projector. Presenters did not use their own machines.
• Files went to the Speaker Service Centre in Room 116 on the day before the talk. Presenters brought a copy on a USB stick as well.
• Presenters introduced themselves to the chairs fifteen minutes before the session.
• The Theater sessions were filmed. Nothing was published without the presenter's consent.

• A0 portrait, up to 841 mm wide and 1189 mm high.
• Body text at 48 pt or larger. Names at 72 pt, affiliations at 48 pt.
• The conclusion belonged directly under the title: bold capitals at 95 pt, no more than 25 words.
• The submitted abstract was left off the poster. QR codes to digital material were welcome.
• Presenters printed and carried their own poster. The venue offered no printing service.
• Each board had a number and each poster a code starting with TPS.
• A poster discussion lasted one hour or ninety minutes and carried twelve or twenty posters.
• The first half hour or forty five minutes were for viewing. The rest belonged to the group discussion.
• Presenters joined the chairs at the front and answered the issues raised.

• Same A0 portrait size and type guidance.
• Posters went up between 08:00 and 10:00 on the assigned day.
• They came down after the last session: after 17:30 on Monday and Tuesday, after 16:30 on Wednesday, and never later than 18:00.
• Anything left after 18:00 was removed and destroyed.
• Pins and other mounting materials were available in the poster area.
• Presenters stood by their poster from 15:15 to 16:15 on the assigned day.
• Student competition entries required a student as presenting author.

• Fifteen slides, twenty seconds each, five minutes in total.
• The session ran ninety minutes with twelve presentations.
• Two chairs kept time. A presenter who went past 7.5 minutes, questions included, was stopped.
• Images worked better than text. Animation was discouraged, and any animation had to fit the twenty second slot.
• Files were loaded at the Speaker Service Centre the day before, on the venue equipment.