19^th LAAS International Science Meeting

Author Instructions

Guidelines For Authors

• Abstracts may be submitted in Arabic, English, or French.
• Abstracts should be formatted as follows:
  • The font should be Times New Roman.
  • The abstract's length should be a maximum of 2 pages, in single spacing.
  • Use A4 page size, with 1 inch for the left, right, top, and bottom margins.
  • The abstract's title should be centered in bold, 14 pt, Times New Roman.
  • Leave a blank line after the title and then give the name(s) of the author(s), centered, in 12-point, bold font. On the next line(s), give the name(s) of the department, and the institution of the author(s), in 12-point, normal font. After that, the e-mail address(es) should also be listed.
  • Then, leave 2 blank lines and include the abstract's text, in 12-point and single spacing.
• Submit abstracts to: aj00@aub.edu.lb AND nmansour@lau.edu.lb by the deadline.
• Authors of accepted abstracts will be invited to present their work as follows:
  • Oral presentation: the time will be 12 minutes plus 3 minutes for questions, OR
  • Poster presentation: please use paper of size A-zero (118 cm high and 84 cm wide).

To Speakers/Authors of papers

• Please note that all conference rooms will be equipped with a Windows-based PC with USB drive plus an LCD projector for Power Point presentations;
• Please make sure that the size of the letters on your .ppt slides (or on transparencies) is large enough for clear presentation. Also, use graphics, diagrams, and figures to make your presentation clearer.
• The presentation time will be 12 minutes (+3 minutes for Q&A). Please make sure you respect the time.

To Session Chairs

The session Chairs are responsible for:

• Ensuring that the presentation equipment is ready at the time of the session and that powerpoint presentations will be downloaded before the start of the session.
• Ensuring that presentations run exactly in the order provided in the conference program.
• Introducing speakers.
• Controlling time.