Presentations

 

Oral presentations

 

Contributors will have 20 minutes for their talks, questions included. Speakers are requested to strictly adhere to the prescribed time limits for their presentations and to allow time for questions (5 minutes) within those limits.

 

Notebook PCs, data projectors, overhead projectors, screens and write-on boards will be available for the oral presentations. MS Office (Powerpoint) running under MS Windows XP will be available on the notebook PCs. It may be possible to make other software available on request.

 

Speakers should bring an electronic copy of their presentation with them to the Conference on disk (eg CD-R or USB Flash Drive).

 

Poster presentations

 

Posters will be displayed in a central venue. Contributors are expected to be reasonably available (beside their posters) during session break times to respond to questions pertaining to their posters.

 

New information - The dimensions for posters should be as follows: Size A0 (841 mm x 1189 mm) (portrait)

 

Poster presenters are encourages to bring A4 copies of their poster, including contact details of authors, to make available near their poster.

 

Abstracts will be reviewed by the international Programme Committee and authors will be notified whether their papers have been accepted for oral or poster presentations by 15 January 2010.

 

 

 Call for Abstracts

 

Refer to Call for Papers on this website for details for submitting abstracts. Please use the abstract submission form provided to submit your abstract.

 

Book of Abstracts

 

Abstracts of accepted oral and poster presentations will be published in a Book of Abstracts, available online and in hard-copy format at the event. Authors must therefore assure that abstracts submitted are publication-ready.

 

Conference Proceedings

 

Conference proceedings will be published as a special edition of the Acta Academica, an accredited South African journal publishing independently refereed research articles. Authors will be notified of the details for preparation of papers for publication by 15 January 2009 and will be expected to submit a draft version of their paper for publication in this journal to the Programme Committee by 9 April 2010. Final versions for review by the journal editorial board and subsequent publication must be submitted by 7 May 2010.