Registration and Check in

All attendees are required to check in at the registration desks, located at the Lobby of the Cinema Palace (First Floor). They will get there their badges.

The Congress documentation will be handed over at the Multifunction Room (Cinema Palace Ground Floor, near the registration desk).

Service hours of operation:
Sunday 29 June, 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Monday 30 June, 7.30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Tuesday 1 July to Friday 4 July, 8:00 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.

Badge Distribution

Participants are reminded to wear name badges at all times while in the congress area or at congress-sponsored events. Access will be prohibited to the exhibit, break and technical session areas if a name badge is not visible.

Accompanying persons are not allowed to attend technical sessions.

Technical and Administrative Office

Located at the Lobby of the Cinema Palace (Ground Floor).
The organizing committee will answer questions regarding technical program and the overall conference.
The secretariat will be attending all the issues related to registration.

Service hours of operation:
Monday 30 June, 7.30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Tuesday 1 July to Friday 4 July, 8:00 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.


Lunch Options

1. Lunch boxes

For those who have bought the option online, lunch boxes will be distributed at the congress venue for each of the 5-days: Monday 30th - Friday 4th. The vouchers will be handed over at the check-in secretariat desks, together with your badge. The lunch box consists of a full airplane-style lunch contained in a box distributed in the congress venue, it includes first and second courses, dessert, a bottle of mineral water. Eating is not permitted inside the lecture rooms.

2. Taverna Excelsior lunch seats

For those who have bought the option online, lunch buffet seats will be available at the Taverna of Hotel Excelsior. The vouchers will be handed over at the check-in secretariat desks, together with your badge.

Internet Access

Internet access will be possible within the congress venue in two different ways:

• using one of the desktop Pcs available in the Internet Cafè, located at the first floor of the Casinò Palace;
  
  
• using the delegate own notebook computer, via wireless connection. Wireless connection will be available at the first floor and third floor of the Casinò Palace and at the first floor of the Cinema Palace.
  
  

Please, note that according to Italian laws, ALL internet connections can occur only upon release of an individual user ID and password. If you are willing to connect within the congress venue, you must obtain a user ID and password from the Congress Secretariat.

To get your user ID and password, you will have to:

1. Fill in, sign and hand in to the Congress Secretariat the request form.
2. Provide a copy of a valid IDENTITY DOCUMENT.

Please note that Italian laws are very strict and wireless connection will not be available for those people that did not register.

IF YOU HAVE ALREADY SUBMITTED YOUR FORM ONLINE, YOU DO NOT NEED TO TAKE ANY FURTHER ACTION. THE USERID AND PASSWORD WILL BE HANDED OVER TO YOU TOGETHER WITH YOUR DELEGATE BAG.

Oral Presentations

• All oral presentations should be made using the English language.
• A 15 min. presentation + 5 min. discussion time is allowed for each regular paper. Some sessions are opened by a sequence of two Keynote Lectures which are allowed a 25 min. presentation + 5 min. discussion time.
• All rooms are equipped with a PC, a screen and a LCD Projector. Please note that no overhead projectors will be available onsite. Authors with special needs are kindly requested to contact the Congress Secretariat well in advance.
• Presentation files may be created in Adobe Acrobat .pdf (recommended) or Power Point. The operating system of all PCs is Windows XP SP2. Microsoft Office 2007 PowerPoint and Acrobat Reader is installed on each computer.
• A limited number of PCs, with the same software which is installed in the lecture rooms, is available onsite in the two rooms marked as "slide room" in the maps, for testing and modifying the presentations. Authors whose presentations contain animations, videos or special effects are strongly encouraged to test the system before their session.
• A laser pointer, to be used during the presentation, has been given to each delegate together with the other registration material.

It is the authors' responsibility to check in advance that their presentation works fine with the available version of the installed software.