Australasian Conference on Optics, Lasers and Spectroscopy and Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology 

in association with the International Workshop on Dissipative Solitons

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PRESENTER INSTRUCTIONS - updated Tuesday, 27 October 2009

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Oral Presentations

Plenary presentations are 45 minutes, keynote presentations 40 minutes and all other oral presentations 20 minutes all including 5 minutes Q&A. 

1. Equipment 

Each session room will be equipped with a data projector (for use with a laptop computer eg PowerPoint or PDF presentation) and an IBM compatible laptop. We will supply the computer pre-loaded with MS Office and Acrobat. Please advise the Conference Secretariat before Monday 16 November 2009 if you require any additional audiovisual aides and equipment eg MAC, video, DVD (the provision of additional equipment is at the discretion of the Organising Committee). 

2. Room Set up 

Each session room will be set up theatre style where appropriate. 

3. Bringing Your Presentation To The Venue 

When you arrive at The University of Adelaide, check in at the Registration Desk in the Union Building. Staff will direct you to the Speakers Support Centre. 

If you using PowerPoint, laptops will be provided by the organisers in each session room. There will be no provision for presenters to connect their own laptop. This will ensure the optimum presentation environment. 

Your presentation must be given to the Speakers Support Centre Technician on a CD or USB storage device. Alternatively, you can bring your own laptop from which your presentation can be extracted. 

Supported file format is Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 or below, for IBM/PC compatible machines. Special arrangements need to be made for Apple Mac or other specialist software support. You will be asked to verify your presentation on a local computer. The presentation will be then transferred. The transfer might take a little while - please allow this time, plus a few more minutes to verify your presentation. 

Please note the Speaker Preparation Room computer facilities are for verification. Also, when saving your presentation ready for this conference, please save any non true-type fonts into the presentation. For all true-type fonts, this process is not required. Note PowerPoint will not support all types of true type fonts. If you are using an uncommon font type it is recommended you save the font style separately with the presentation and bring it to the Speaker Preparation Room. 

4. Speaker Preparation Room Hours (preliminary) 

Sunday 29 November 4.00 pm-5.30 pm 

Monday 30 November 7.30 am - 5.00 pm 

Tuesday 1 December 7.30 am - 5.00 pm 

Wednesday 2 December 7.30 am - 5.00 pm 

Thursday 3 December 7.30 am - 2.00 pm

Poster Presentations

Poster boards will be numbered to correspond with the paper numbers shown in the program (not the number assigned to your abstract at the time of submission). Please ensure you place your poster in the correct position. 

The recommended poster size is A0 portrait style 841mm wide by 1189mm high - please ensure your poster does not exceed 841mm wide. Poster boards are Velcro compatible and the organisers will supply Velcro.

Set up and Breakdown

Posters scheduled for Monday 30 November 

Set up: Monday 30 November 8.00am-10.00am 

Break Down: immediately after the conclusion of the final session Tuesday 1 December 

Posters scheduled for Wednesday 2 December 

Set up: Wednesday 2 December 8.00am-10.00am 

Break Down: immediately after the conclusion of afternoon tea Thursday 3 December and before 5.00pm Thursday 3 December.

ACOFT Post Deadline Session Submissions

ACOFT is accepting a limited number of post deadline papers for presentation. Post deadline papers provide attendees the opportunity to learn about new and significant research in rapidly advancing areas of optical fibre research Papers must be two pages with the same format as the ordinary contributed papers. 

The deadline for submission is Friday 20 November 2009. 

To submit your post deadline paper for review, please follow the instructions Call for Papers instructions below [How to submit a paper/Format]. Please be sure to read the submission guidelines before proceeding.

Call for Papers

The Call for Papers has closed.  

Two page papers are now invited for the Australasian Conference on Optics, Lasers and Spectroscopy (ACOLS) and Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT) in association with the International Workshop on Dissipative Solitons (DS-2009) Sunday 29 November to Thursday 3 December at the University of Adelaide.  The call for papers closes 3 August 2009.