Abstract Submission Guidelines

• All abstracts must be submitted through congress website www.icpt2011.org. Abstracts send by Fax OR EMAIL WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED
• All abstracts must be in English with the maximum of 250 words. Table and image are not allowed.
• The text and the title should be free from abbreviations, except those commonly used (e.g. LVEF, CABG, VSD, ASD etc).
• The title of the abstract should be printed in CAPITAL LETTERS.
  
• The name(s) of the author(s) must be in format of “Last name First name” The name of presenting author is bold. There should be no more than 5 authors. The order of authors and affiliation will be appeared as your set up.
• The abstract must contain original material, not published or presented at any other international congress prior to the 7th ICPT.
  
• An acknowledgement or the receipt of the abstract submission will be sent automatically to the log-in person, the presenting author and the corresponding author by e-mail upon the online submission successfully.
  
• The confirmation of acceptance by the Scientific Committee will be sent to the author by 15 November 2010. ONLY author with accepted abstract will receive the confirmation via submitted Email and announced in the congress website.
• All the authors of accepted abstracts will be required to submit the full papers.
• The confirmation of acceptance of the full paper and presentation style (oral or poster) will be sent to the author by 1 April 2011. ONLY author with accepted full paper will receive the confirmation via submitted Email and announced in the congress website.
• ONLY presenting author who registered and paid by 15 July 2011 will be added in the program and proceeding book.

Topic Area

1. Design and Analysis

2. Materials

3. Planning and Financing

4. Management Systems

5. Construction

6. Maintenance and Rehabilitation

7. Testing and Evaluation

8. Operational Characteristics and Performance

9. Economic and Environmental Issues

Best Paper Awards for Student:  Students are invited to apply for Best Paper Awards, which are in recognition of outstanding original research work. The 7th ICPT registration fee will be waived to the successful candidates. Applicants should submit their oral presentation abstract by 5 November 2010.

For further information, please contact the organizer office at 662 956 1580 or E-mail to conference@icpt2011.or

Chair Instruction

• One session chair is assigned to each session (In the unfortunate case you cannot be present, please inform the scientific committee as soon as you can, so that we can arrange a substitute Chairman.)
• One technical assistant will be stationed in each session room, providing you assistances for presentation files and audio visual equipments, and one room manager, responsible for overall smoothness of the session.
• Please appear at your session room at least 15 minutes prior to the session.
• It is advised to check the presence of all presenters before the start of the session.
• Keeping presenters on time is crucial for smooth and on-time proceeding of the program.
• In the event of cancellation of presentation(s), please propone the next presentations in line and allow the session to finish earlier than originally scheduled.

1. At the beginning of the session, you are allocated with 5 minutes, where you are advised to:
   1. Introduce yourself to start the session
   2. Give a brief introduction to the session, with brief description of the session’s theme, number and title of the presentations.
   3. Inform the audience of the time allocated for each presentation is as following: Oral Presentation: 20 minutes (15 mins for presentation, 5 mins for Q&A)
2. Before each presentation, please briefly introduce each presenter, with name and a short bio.
3. A time keeping equipment is assigned to each session room for time management. Presenters will be notified of their remaining time by the following rule.
   • 15 minutes remaining out of 20-minute presentation
   • 5 minutes remaining out of 20-minute presentation
   • Out time for presentation
   • Out time for 5 minutes Q&A
   Thereafter: for every minute elapsed, please encourage your presenters to end presentation when significant overtime elapsed since the second signal.
4. If no questions were raised from the floor during Q&A session, please make a couple
   from the chair to the presenters as time permitted.
5. It is desirable that you sum up presentations and discussions made in the session, and present a brief summary at the end of session as time permitted.

Oral Presentation Guideline

Preparing your presentation

Presentation Format

• Microsoft PowerPoint 97-2007
• Universal fonts, such as Arial and Times New Roman are preferable for the PowerPoint presentations.
• The video included in the presentation shall have the following extensions: .avi, .mpeg, .mov, .wmv. The size of the video files to be used during the presentation should not be larger than 50 MB.

**Please note that you are requested to view your slides to ensure that everything will be displayed properly.

Presentation Time

• Presentation duration for Oral Presenter will be 20 minutes.
  • 15 minutes presentation
  •   5 minutes question and answer
• The time keeper sign shall be counting down once the first slide started.

Presentation Present

• You are requested to be present in the session meeting room at least 15 minutes before the session is due to start and identify yourself to the room manager.
• A room manager will stand-by to assist you in the room if necessary. A technician will take care of the audiovisual equipment in the room.

Standard audio visual equipment for speaker in meeting room

• Notebook equipped with Microsoft Office
• Projection screen
• LCD projector
• Remote control for slide flipping and pointer
• Time Keeper

Slide Preview Room
Location: Auditorium Supporting Area, (Zone A) ground floor, Queen Sirikit National Convention Center
2 August 2011, Tuesday                                                    13:30 - 17:00 hrs
3 August 2011, Wednesday                                              08:30 - 17:30 hrs
4 August 2011, Thursday                                                   08:30 - 17:30 hrs

*Note:     Congress badge is required to be presented to the congress staff in order to enter Slide Preview Room.
Please download your presentation at least 8 hours before your session begins based on the following time table:

Please bring your electronic presentation on CD-Rom or USB memory drive only to download onto the laptop PC provided in the Speakers’ Room.

*Note: Do not leave your audio-visual materials with a conference staff. The conference organizer will
not be responsible for your materials.

Registration Desk
Location: Stair Foyer, (Zone A) 2nd floor, Queen Sirikit National Convention Center

For any other inquiries, please do not hesitate to contact the 7th ICPT Congress Secretariat at conference@icpt2011.org.

Poster Presentation Guideline

Preparing your poster

General Information

• Poster Presentation will start on August 3, 2011 until August 4, 2011.  Please note that the time for poster presentations as indicated in the below table.

• Poster presentations will be held at Reception Hall during the above hours.  Presenting authors are requested to present their poster during the whole presentation time.
• Authors are encouraged to prepared sufficient amount of one-page handout to give to interested participants.
• All poster presenters should be in the poster area 15 minutes before the start of the poster session to prepare their poster presentation. 
• Please bring your own scissors, masking tape.

**Remark

• Please note that poster presenters are responsible to set up their own presentation.
•  Please also be responsible to remove your poster after your time slot, if in case the poster presenter was unable to remove his poster after the time allotted, PCO has the right to remove the poster but will not be responsible of the lost of the poster.

Format

• The poster board is 100 cm in width x 250 cm in height. 
• The suitable poster size is within 90 cm in width x 120 cm in height.
• The abstract title, author names and the institutions in large letters should 2.50m. be placed at the top of the poster followed by the headings: Introduction, Methods, Results, Conclusion to identify your poster layout.
• Poster presentation will be running by no. from lowest to highest according to the poster no. assigned and sent to out by the congress secretariat.