About the presentations

Time and Equipment:

The Technical Programme consists of 8 Plenary Lectures, 20 Semi-Plenary Lectures, 75 Keynote Lectures, 188 Minisymposia, 15 Special Technical Sessions, the EYIC Young Investigators Minisymposium, the EYIC Junior Workshop, the 14th PhD ECCOMAS Olympiad, 11 General Sessions, namely, 2578 presentations overall.

Each regular presentation is allocated 20 minutes, Plenary Lectures (PL) and Semi-Plenary lectures (SP) last 45 minutes. Due to large amount of the contributions received, some sessions are allowed to schedule 7 presentations of 17 minutes. Times include questions.

The conference will not provide computers for presentations. Speakers are kindly requested to bring and use their own laptop. An LCD projector will be present in each room. Please test your laptop with the projector in your session room during the coffee-break before your presentation.

Recommendations for your presentation:

The connector available on the projector will be HDMI. You should make sure your laptop has an HDMI port designated as your default output connection. Also note that if your computer does not have an HDMI port, we kindly request you to bring your own adapter.

In order to prepare your slides for oral presentation please take also into account that the projectors available at the venue of the conference will have a resolution of 1920x1080 pixels (16:9 aspect ratio).

If you are using PowerPoint, we recommend you to adjust the slide size in Design->Page Setup menu and choose 16:9 ratio to ensure the compatibility.

We strongly encourage you to have a backup of your presentation on a USB storage device.

Power sockets and plug converters for electricity in Portugal

In Portugal, power plugs and sockets (outlets) of type F and C are used. Plug type F is the plug which has two round pins with two earth clips on the side. Type C is similar but without the earth contacts. The standard voltage is 230 V at a frequency of 50 Hz.