The conference opening and plenary session will start at 17.00 on Tuesday 1 September 2009. The regular sessions will start at 9.00 on Wednesday 2 September 2009. The conference will officially close at 16.00 on Friday 4 September 2009. The registration desk will be open 15.00-19.00 Tuesday, 8.15-17.00 on Wednesday to Thursday and 8.30-15.30 on Friday.

The presentation time for contributed papers is 12 minutes, followed by 3 minutes for questions. Presentations will only be possible using data projectors (not OHP or 35mm slides).

There are two ways to deliver your presentation at CC2009 & CSC2009:

• Prepare a PDF or Powerpoint presentation and take it with you on a USB memory stick. Presentation laptops and projectors will be available in each room. You will have the opportunity to copy your presentation onto the presentation laptop during the break immediately preceding each session. Alternatively you can run your presentation directly from the memory stick.
• Bring your own laptop and connect it to the projector in the presentation room. But please note that the delays from connecting your laptop and setting up may shorten your presentation time.

Please note that there will be NO 35mm slide projectors and NO overhead transparency projectors. Only PC-based presentations are allowed.

If you wish to make use of the presentation laptops provided by the conference organisation, please read the following instructions carefully:

• The presentation PCs will have the Windows Vista (Business with Sevice Pack 2) operating system. They will have Microsoft Powerpoint 2007 and Adobe Acrobat Reader 9 installed.
• The presentation laptops are not networked and do not have access to the internet.
• The video projectors have a resolution of 1024*768 (XGA). Please take this into account when designing your presentation.
• To avoid incompatibilities, please use only default fonts (times new roman, arial, tahoma, etc.) or embed all fonts (see the powerpoint/acrobat help system for instructions).
• Please make sure all media objects in your presentation are embedded and not linked.
• If you use videos in your presentation, please check which codec was used to create the video file. Only standard video codecs will be installed. Please test your presentation on a different computer that is not part of your immediate workgroup and that does not have your specialized software installed to ensure that your videos works properly. If in doubt please bring your own laptop.
• While image files are usually embedded in a presentation, videos are not. Please include your videos on the memory stick. Put videos in the same directory as the presentation. Do not use subdirectories.

If you wish to make a computer presentation that is not PDF or Powerpoint, you are advised to bring your own laptop to the conference. Please note that there may be delays because you will have to swap video cables. Please make sure you know how to switch your laptop into external display-mode. Your presentation time may be shortened as a result of this delay.

If you have any questions regarding these presentation facilities, please contact production AT civil-comp.com

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