Information for Participant

Submission of the manuscript for publication in Acta Horticulturae
The proceedings of the symposium will be published by the ISHS in its series Acta Horticulturae.
All authors of accepted abstracts (both oral and poster presentations) are requested to submit a full paper for Acta Horticulturae.
A manuscript should be submitted to the Symposium secretariat via e-mail (isea2011@convention.co.jp).
Full papers must not exceed 8 pages including all tables, figures, and references. We encourage all non-native English speakers to seek a language check of their manuscript before submission.
Please carefully follow the Acta Horticulturae manuscript preparation guidelines, which can be found at http://www.ishs.org/wri/pap1.htm.
The deadline for receipt of manuscripts is January 31, 2012.

Submissions that do not meet the formatting guidelines will be returned to authors.
Each manuscript will be peer reviewed and acceptance/revision/rejection of manuscripts will be communicated to authors.
 
Oral Presentation Information
Timing:
  • The presentation time for a key note speaker is 25 minutes including 5 minutes for questions or discussions. A general speaker is given 20 minutes including 5 minutes for questions or discussions.
Equipment:
  • Each oral session room will be equipped with a Windows PC.
  • The operating system will be Windows XP and Vista, and Microsoft PowerPoint 2002/2003/2007 versions are installed.
PC Preview Center:
  • The PC preview center will be open:
      Sunday, May 20, 2012   4:00pm through 7:00pm on the 4th floor
      Monday, May 21, 2012   8:00am through 0:00pm on the 4th floor
    1:00pm through 5:00pm on the 7th floor
      Tuesday, May 22, 2012   8:00am through 5:00pm on the 7th floor
      Wednesday, May 23, 2012   8：00am through 11:00am on the 7th floor
  • All speakers should check their presentation [30 minutes] in advance to verify the presentation will function on the equipment provided.
  • All presentations will be loaded onto a server (in the PC preview center) and distributed to the appropriate session room at the appropriate time via a LAN.
PowerPoint Presenters:
  • Bring your presentation on a Windows readable USB flash Drive or CD-ROM (CD-RW is not acceptable).
  • When you create a CD, make sure that you close or "finalize" your presentation. If you omit this step, you cannot access the CD from any other computer.
  • Use standard fonts (e.g., Times Roman, Helvetica, Arial, Times New Roman) to avoid conversion errors.
  • Include any external files utilized, e.g. movie files in the same folder as your presentation data. Copy and save the entire folder to a USB flash Drive or a CD-ROM.
  • The computers in the session rooms and PC preview center will support Windows PC only. (No Macintosh Computers)
Users of Macintosh Computers:
  • Please bring your own Macintosh computer because there are many issues that can arise when PowerPoint files created on a Macintosh are run on a Windows computer.
Laptops:
  • Speakers using their own laptops MUST HAVE a VGA D-sub15pin female output. Some laptops have special video output cables to get to the D-sub15pin required for connecting to external monitors and data projectors. If this cable is not with the laptop being used there is no way to connect to a data projector. The laptop output resolution should be no more then XGA (1024x768). The native resolution on the data projectors is 1024x768 so higher resolutions will force the data projector into a compression mode possibly losing some information or not projecting.
  • The Symposium Secretariat is not responsible for any projection troubles caused by computer technical difficulties. We recommend that all presenters bring back-up data in a USB flash Drive or a CD-ROM.
  • All energy-conserving functions such as screen-savers, sleep/power-saving modes and virus check function should be disabled on computers to be used in the presentation.
 
Poster Presentation Information

  • Presentation data must be brought in by oneself.
  • Pins are provided at the reception desk in front of the poster presentation room. Using the pins, please post your posters in the allocated space.
  • Posters should be posted after 11:00am on May 21, and removed by 4:00pm on May 22.
  • Poster presentation time is from 1:00pm to 2:20pm on May 22. During this period, presenters are requested to stand in front of their own posters and answer questions from the participants.
  • Remaining posters after the removal time will be disposed by the Symposium Secretariat.
A poster panel indicated below will be set up.
The Symposium Secretariat will prepare your poster number and presenters are asked to prepare the rest.
  • Presenters are required to preside at their poster panel for discussion with the participants.