INSTRUCTIONS FOR SPEAKERS OF DIS'03, ST.PETERSBURG, APRIL 23-27, 2003


LOCATION

All plenary and summary talks will take place at the main conference 
hall of hotel "St.Petersburg", the conference site of DIS'03.

5 parallel sessions will take place in the main conference hall
and 4 lecture halls of hotel "St.Petersburg".

The lecture halls and the starting times assigned to all  
talks will be shown on the final program. 
This information can also be found on the DIS'03 website: 
www.desy.de/dis03.


THE DIS'03 INTERNET CENTER

For Internet connection there will be organized DIS'03 Internet 
Center at a small hall near the main conference hall. 
It will be equipped by 6 desktop PCs and 4 laptop connectors 
for laptops (no printers, sorry). Also, one special PC 
will be assigned for DIS'03 Organizing Committee purposes.
Opening hours of the DIS'03 Internet Center:
8:00 - 22:00 hrs


MODE OF PRESENTATION

Speakers will be equipped with a microphone and a laser pointer.
Each of DIS'03 lecture halls will be equipped by a beamer 
(multimedia projector) and by an overhead projector.

We prefer that speakers prepare their talk for projection via 
a beamer, either in PowerPoint, PDF or Postscript format. 

NOTE: Even if you choose for presentation entirely by beamer, 
you must bring with you copies of your slides on overhead 
transparencies for emergencies. 


GUIDLINES FOR BEAMER PRESENTATION

For PowerPoint, any version of Microsoft Office XP, 2000 or before 
can be used.

If you submit a PDF (preferred) or Postscript file, we shall simply 
use the full-screen mode either of the Acrobat, or 
Ghostview, or XPDF viewer.

NOTE: Speakers who prepared their talk by PowerPoint also should 
present their talk in PDF format for posting at the DIS'03 Website.

We suggest to use font size 28 or larger. 
We also recommend to use primary colors (no green or yellow). 
The beamer has a resolution of 1024x768 pixels. 
You should use landscape mode.

To avoid possible hardware compatibility problems with private 
laptops, there will be a fixed laptop in each lecture hall. 
We ask speakers to preview and submit their presentations at 
the DIS'03 Internet Center that we will set up at the conference. 
The DIS'03 Internet Center will already open 
on April 22 during registration. 

The presentation-file submission can be done by e-mail: 
dis03talk@pnpi.spb.ru
with subject: name of speaker

During the conference the presentation file submission can be done 
also by a CD, a floppy disk, or by direct connection of your laptop 
to the special Organizing committee desktop PC 
at the DIS03 Internet Center.  

Assistants at the DIS03 Internet Center will copy your talk on a CD, 
and ensure that your talk ends up in the correct lecture hall 
on the laptop connected to the beamer. 
An assistant will stand by in your lecture hall to start the talk, 
and help to resolve on-site problems.


DEADLINES FOR ELECTRONICALLY PREPARED PRESENTATIONS

Transferring all talks of a given session in the correct order 
on a CD and installing it on the laptop in the lecture hall 
requires some time and coordination. 
We therefore ask you to preview and submit your presentation 
well in advance either by e-mail or during the conference 
at the DIS'03 Internet Center: 

Speakers at the morning session of each day can submit 
their presentation on the preceeding day before 18:00 hrs; 
Speakers scheduled for an afternoon session can submit in 
the morning of the same day before 11:00 hrs. 

NOTE: Speakers who have not submitted their presentation before 
these deadlines are assumed to use overhead transparencies only.


TALKS ON THE DIS'03 WEBSITE 

All presentations prepared electronically will be posted
at the DIS'03 website. Those who prepared their files
in PowerPoint format also should provide PDF file.


PRINTING

Unfortunately, the DIS'03 Organizing Committee cannot offer 
participants facilities for printing COLOR transparencies.
However, black & white option will be available at 
the DIS'03 Organizing Committee room.


PROCEEDINGS

Talks presented at the DIS'03 sessions will appear in the Proceedings 
of DIS'03. Instructions for preparing the contributions for 
the proceedings will be sent to all speakers at a later date.


IF YOU HAVE A TECHNICAL PPOBLEM RELATED WITH YOUR PRESENTATION AT DIS'03, 
PLEASE DO NOT HESITATE TO CONTACT VICTOR KIM (dis03talk@pnpi.spb.ru) 
OR HIS ASSISTANTS