1. The time for your lecture should be the time allotted in the program, minus 5 minutes for questions and discussion. Time limits will be strictly enforced. In preparing your lecture, choose the material according to the time available.

2. The preferred format for slides is a Microsoft Power Point presentation. The lecture hall will be equipped with a PC running PowerPoint under Windows, with a display mounted on the podium, and a projector. Using this projector, all of the participants will have a clear view of the screen, without the lecturer blocking the view of anyone.

3. If you intend to use a computer presentation based on a program other then PowerPoint, your presentation should be in the form of a self-executing file capable of running on a Windows equipped PC.

4. If some other equipment is required (e.g. viewgraph or 35 mm slide projector), please contact the local organizing committee at hardcoat@eng.tau.ac.il.

5. We prefer to pre-load all computer slide presentations, both to insure that they run OK on our equipment, and so as not to waste time setting-up between speakers. Speakers using computer presentations are requested to send their presentations using this link to us by 21 February 2006. We will confirm that we received it, and that it can be displayed OK on our computer. Bring a back-up on CD or memory-stick, just in case.

1. If you cannot send us your file in advance, please bring your presentation on a CD or memory stick, and pre-load it during registration or the evening prior to your presentation.

2. We will also have facilities for you to plug in your own portable PC. If you are using a Macintosh, bring the requisite adaptors.

3. Any time lost in getting your equipment and presentation to run, if it is not sent in advance for pre-loading, will be included within your slotted presentation time.

6. Insure that all slides are legible from the rear of a large auditorium:

1. Do not use workshop diagrams or un-enlarged photographs from books or journals – they are never legible.

2. Do not show the first page of journal articles – they are neither legible nor interesting.

3. Use different colors to show different parts or subsystems in experimental apparatus, and different curves in multi-curve graphs

4. Absolute minimum letter size on slides (e.g. for subscripts) – 14 points. Use PowerPoint default options to insure adequate letter size (44 points for slide title, 32, 28, 24 points for text in decreasing order of importance).

7. Rehearse your presentation with your work group prior to the conference. Have someone check the time of the presentation. If your presentation is overtime, cut material. Do not try to make-up time by hurrying.

8. Remember that the effectiveness of your presentation is mediated by the audience’s ability to absorb what you present:

1. Do not flash slides covered with nothing by equations – it’s boring, and the audience cannot follow them. Instead, present the names of the principle equations used, and concentrate on the results obtained, and their significance. If you present an equation, take the time to explain it.

2. Do not project bibliographical information – no one in the audience can identify a reference according to a page number in a journal in real time, and no one has either the time or the inclination to write down references.

3. Do not write complete sentences on your slides. The audience should concentrate on listening to you as you speak, not on reading your slides. Instead, write only key words on your slides.

4. Speak slowly and clearly. Take care not to let your voice drop at the end of sentences.

5. Face the audience when you speak – make eye contact with the members of the audience.

9. Do not use a laser pointer. The “dancing dot” is annoying, and its use forces the speaker to turn his back on the audience.

1. If you are using the computer projector (preferred), use the mouse to point to items on the slide, observing the result on the podium monitor while facing the audience.

2. If you are using an overhead slide projector, stand in one fixed position such that your body does not block the projector, with the projector on your right side, with you facing the audience. Place each slide on the projector in the orientation such that you can read the slide as you face the projector. Point to items on the slide by directly pointing to them on the slide itself (thus continuing to face towards the audience), using a pen or pencil.