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Guidelines

There will be two kinds of PhD student presentations at the MiCom 2021. The organizing committee invites you to submit abstracts of your contributions!​
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PhD Talks
  • Duration: 15 min. presentation + 5 min. discussion with the audience
    Please time yourself and have an appropriate number of slides to finish within time. You will be interrupted if the presentation time exceeds 15 min.
  • Language: English
  • Format: Microsoft PowerPoint or Adobe PDF
    • Use common fonts (e.g. Arial, Calibri, Times New Roman, Verdana). Special fonts might be changed to default.
    • If you add videos to your presentation, please use a common movie format (e.g. AVI or WMV) and send the video to us together with your presentation file.
    • Preferably insert JPEG pictures in your presentations and not TIFF.
    • Add slide numbers (which will facilitate the Q&A discussion)
    • You may add the MiCom2021 logo to your presentation if you wish.
    • Name your file according to the following format:
      student_session_lastname_firstname.fileextension
      Example:
      • student_natural_products_Baker_Tom.pptx
      • student_environment_Appleton_Anne.pdf
  • Send your presentation file to micom@uni-jena.de if your abstract was accepted. No changes will be possible once you sent your presentation file to us.
    Deadline: March 21, 2021
  • A test run will be offered in order to ensure that the technical set-up works out during the conference. This test run is mandatory for all presenters.
Lightning Talks

As a new feature of MiCom 2021, Lightning Talks replace the usual poster sessions.

  • Duration: 3—5 min. presentation + 3—5 min. discussion with the audience
    • Please time yourself and have an appropriate number of slides to finish within time. You will be interrupted if the presentation time exceeds 5 min.
    • Recommendation: 6—7 slides
      • 5 slides for presentation (including front slide)
      • 1 slide for acknowledgements
      • (1 slide for references)
  • Language: English
  • Format: Microsoft PowerPoint or Adobe PDF
    • Use common fonts (e.g. Arial, Calibri, Times New Roman, Verdana). Special fonts might be changed to default.
    • If you add videos to your presentation, please use a common movie format (e.g. AVI or WMV) and send the video to us together with your presentation file.
    • Preferably insert JPEG pictures in your presentations and not TIFF.
    • Add slide numbers (which will facilitate the Q&A discussion)
    • You may add the MiCom2021 logo to your presentation if you wish.
    • Name your file according to the following format:
      lightning_session_lastname_firstname.fileextension
      Example:
      • lightning_natural_products_Baker_Tom.pptx
      • lightning_environment_Appleton_Anne.pdf
  • Send your presentation file to micom@uni-jena.de if your abstract was accepted. No changes will be possible once you sent your presentation file to us.
    Deadline: March 21, 2021
  • A test run will be offered in order to ensure that the technical set-up works out during the conference. This test run is mandatory for all presenters.

Please find details on these and all our other events in our Program overview.