INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS: ORAL PRESENTATIONS
Each Contributed Oral is permitted 15 minutes. You should arrange your talk so that your presentation lasts 12-13 minutes, with 2-3 minutes available for questions. Each Invited Oral is permitted 30 minutes. You should plan for 25 minutes for the presentation and 5 minutes for questions. You are expected to notify the session chair of your presence just before the start of the session so that he/she knows you are present. There will be no rearrangement of papers within an oral session to accommodate absences or cancellations, so the time you have been assigned within the oral session is fixed.
If you need to make changes or withdraw your abstract from the program BEFORE THE CONFERENCE, please contact the Abstract Program Manager, Annett D'Antonio, at e-mail: cecicmc05@centennialconferences.com. Please be sure to include your Session ID Number on any correspondence. If you need to make changes or withdraw your presentation from the program ON SITE AT THE CONFERENCE, please contact the Managing Editor, Melinda Menard, in the Publication Room located in Castle Peaks 1 on the 2nd floor of the Keystone Conference Center.
All oral presenters are required to submit an electronic version of their presentation by 7:00 pm of the day prior to their presentation on site at the conference in Keystone. Presentations must be submitted in Microsoft Power Point format (but may be saved as a PDF) and should be turned in at the Speaker Preparation Room which is located in Castle Peaks 3 on the 2nd floor of the Keystone Conference Center, (see schedule below.) It is strongly recommended that presenters save their Power Point presentations with True Type fonts attached. Acceptable media include: CD, USB flashdrive and 100 MB zip disks. All presentations will be scanned for any viruses and subsequently loaded on the appropriate computer for the following day's presentations.
The CEC/ICMC 2005 will offer computerized projection facilities for oral presentations. Please read the following carefully to acquaint yourself with the specific procedure being adopted for the CEC/ICMC 2005 in Keystone, Colorado.
All session rooms will be equipped with an LCD projector, a computer, an overhead projector and a screen. Presenters are required to submit a Power Point copy of their presentation to the Speaker Prep Room (Castle Peaks 3 at the Keystone Conference Center) 7:00 pm of the day prior to their presentation. These files are then reviewed and downloaded onto the computers in the session rooms. Presenters are not allowed to make changes to the file that has previously been submitted and has been downloaded to the computer in each session room. Nor are they allowed to use their own personal laptops. The laptops in all oral session rooms are not equipped to accommodate audio sound.
If a presenter has failed to submit his/her presentation by 7:00 pm of the day prior to their presentation, he or she will be required to give the presentation using transparencies and the overhead projector.
Mac computers will NOT be available in any of the session rooms. Authors using a Mac platform will need to ensure that their files operate compatibly in the PC environment.
Authors are strongly encouraged to bring a duplicate copy of their presentation in the form of transparencies. You may also want to bring an additional electronic copy for added security against unanticipated software/hardware anomalies.
The Speaker Prep Room is in Castle Peaks 3 room located on the 2nd floor of the Keystone Conference Center. The Speaker Prep Room will be open according to the following schedule:
| Sunday, August 28th | 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm |
| Monday, August 29th | 8:00 am – 7:00 pm |
| Tuesday, August 30th | 7:00 am – 7:00 pm |
| Wednesday, August 31st | 7:00 am – 7:00 pm |
| Thursday, September 1st | 7:00 am – 7:00 pm |
| Friday, September 2nd | 7:00 am – 12:00 pm |