Dates and deadlines

• Opening abstract submission: December 15^th, 2009, 24:00 CET*
• Abstract submission deadline: March 1^st, 2010, 24:00 CET*
• Notification to authors: April 1^st 2010, 24:00 CET*
• Deadline for registration for presenting authors: May 1^st 2010, 24:00 CET*

 ^{* CET = Central European Time}

Submission

To submit your abstract you first will be asked to create your Antalya 2010 account. However, the creation of your Antalya 2010 Account does not mean you have registered for the congress but will allow you to send abstract(s) directly from your account using the Abstract Submission Form (will be available in your Antalya 2010 Account).

An author may submit a maximum of two abstracts as first author (only one of these abstracts can be submitted in the preferred format of oral presentation). The submitted abstract must be presented at the congress by the first author. It is possible to appear as co-author on other abstracts. Please note that after your submission further changes can not be accepted.

Congress registration for the first author is obligatory before May 1^st 2010.

Abstract

The Abstract must be typed into the Abstract Submission Form. Abstracts are restricted to 3000 characters (including spaces, title, authors and institutions). It may not contain any tables or graphs and is restricted to ASCII-characters only**. Please note, that an abstract prepared in a program like Windows Word may contain non-ASCII characters.

References in the text have to be cited at the end of the abstract (they must fit in the 3000 characters).  All content of the abstract is in the sole responsibility of the author(s) of the abstract. You can preview the abstract during the submission process. Abstracts will be printed exactly as they appear in the preview. Only at this stage editing of your abstract will be possible. The receipt of your abstract submission will be confirmed by e-mail.

All accepted abstracts will be published in the proceedings of the 15^th Annual Congress of the ECSS, preconditioned the first author is registered.

** = Hint: To make sure your abstract only contains ASCII characters, copy-paste the text first to a text-editor like Windows Notepad, then "Save As..." and set Encoding to  "ANSI".

Please find an abstract submission example here .

Reviewing

All abstracts will be reviewed by Scientific Committees, which will make recommendations as to the type of presentation (oral or poster).

The author may state preference for the type of presentation (oral or poster). The final decision however lies upon the Scientific Committees.

Presentation

Presenters (= first author) must be registered for the congress at the latest by May 1^st 2010 to guarantee publication of the abstract in the proceedings. Later registrations will lead to an exclusion of the abstract.

Oral presentation format is PowerPoint. Oral presentation time will be 10 minutes plus 5 minutes of discussion. Oral presentations must be pre-uploaded in the Speakers Ready Room afore.

Poster size is A0 (height: 120 cm, width 90 cm). Poster format is portrait. Poster presentation time will be two minutes plus one minute of discussion. Posters shall be put up in the morning for the Poster Presentation Slot A. For Poster Presentation Slot B posters shall be put right after Poster Presentation Slot A. Please see details in the Programme Structure.

Young Investigators Award (YIA)

All abstracts that should be considered for the YIA must be labelled appropriately on the submission form. Please check detailed information on the YIA. Please note that supplementary material must be submitted additionally to successfully apply for the YIA.