Scientific presentations will be held either as oral presentation or by poster. Presentations will primarily be given in English. Presentations with a German abstract will be given in German.

Oral presentation

Usually, presentations will have the following durations. For exact information, please refer to your division.

• Contributed talks are 15 minutes including discussion and speaker change(12 min talk + 3 min discussion/speaker change)
• Invited talks are 30 minutes including discussion and speaker change (25 min talk + 5 min discussion/speaker change)
• Plenary presentations are 45 minutes without discussion

All lecture halls and seminar rooms are equipped with a projector and computer. The speakers will be asked to upload the slides on the conference website the day before the corresponding session. An e-mail with the access and upload limits was sent to the speakers in advance. Student assistants will be available to help with uploading.

As file formats for all sessions PDF (preferred) and PowerPoint (ppt and pptx) files will be accepted. It is not possible to use own laptops. Furthermore, the lecture should be recorded onto a USB stick as back-up in PDF and power point format.

Student assistants will be available to answer questions and to help with uploading presentaion in teh conference office.

Poster

The poster boards will be marked with the number according to the scientific program. Authors are asked to  mount  their  poster  before  their  session.  Each  poster  should  display  the  number  according  to  the scientific program. Each poster should be no larger than 90 cm x 120 cm (DIN A0). For the mounting of the poster  please  use  the  provided  mounting  material  at  the  poster  frame  or  contact  the  student  staff available at the poster area. The presenting authors should be at hand for discussion at their poster during at least half of the poster session and should note this time at the poster.
 
The  posters  have  to  be  removed  after  the  session.  Any  posters  remaining  on  poster  boards  will  be removed  early  in  the  next  morning  and  disposed  without  requesting  your  permission.

The conference management cannot assume any liability!