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Call for Presentations: Instructions
17th Annual Meeting
Thursday – Saturday, October 25 – 27, 2007
Canberra, Australia
C. Submitting Your Proposal
1. Presentation proposals must be completed (abstract submitted and all mandatory questions answered) electronically by March 1, 2007.
2. Log in to the submission system when your abstract is completed and ready to send. To log in, enter your email address and the password you chose when you registered.
3. When you click the “Log in” button you will be taken to a new screen and the submission process will begin. Please read the instructions on this screen carefully. If you have not yet submitted an abstract to the system you should click the link that says “Click here to submit a new abstract.”
4. Submitting an abstract is a multi-step process. Each step asks several questions:
• All steps: Note that certain questions are marked “required.”
• All steps: If you do not know the answer to a question (for example, you may not be sure what Presentation Type to select) you can skip the question and return on a later occasion to complete it.
• Step 1: Copy the abstract title from your word processing document and paste it into the “Title” field on the submission form.
• Step 1: Click the “Browse” button and locate your abstract file on your computer’s hard drive. Fill in answers to any other questions on this screen and then click the “Next” button. Your abstract file will be sent to our system – this can take a few seconds if you have a fast internet connection, but it may take longer if your connection is slow or you have included lots of graphics in your abstract. Please be patient!
• Step 5: Enter the first and last (family) names of the authors, their highest degrees (two degrees maximum per author), and their organizational affiliations (one affiliation only per author). Please give this information for all authors. You may indicate that up to two authors will be presenting. For the primary presenter click the button in the first column under “Presenter(s)” and for the additional presenter (if applicable) click the button in the second column.
[Note that for “Poster Presentations” and “Brief Scientific Presentations,” only one presenter will receive the presenter discount, even if two or more authors are presenting.]
• Step 6: Once you have completed this step click the “Finish” button. Please be patient while your information is transferred! If you have answered all the mandatory (required) questions, then your abstract will be assigned a reference number and you will receive email confirmation. If you have NOT answered all the mandatory questions, then your abstract will be held in temporary storage until you return later and complete all the questions.
5. You must complete your proposal (answer ALL mandatory questions) before the March 1, 2007 deadline – otherwise your proposal will be automatically rejected.
Deadline:
Presentation proposals must be completed by March 1, 2007.
Notification will be made by early May 2007 to the email address you provided when you registered for on-line submission.
If you have not received notification by May 31, 2007, please contact Donna Krasnow at ConferenceDirector@iadms.org
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