Speaker Information

Call for papers:

  • Abstracts for oral and poster presentations can be sumitted through the online abstact submission system, ultimately 15 December 2011.
  • Lecture proposals will be reviewed for quality and fit to the program by the OC Subcommittee Paper Selection.
  • Upon selection, the author will be notified ultimately 1 February 2012.
  • In case a lecture proposal cannot be accommodated in the program, the author will be asked to present his paper in poster format.
  • The final program will be set up by the OC Subcommittee Programming.
  • The full lecture program will be available on this website in February 2012.
  • COSI does not support reduced fees for authors (invited or not) only for students which either present a paper or poster and have applied for the reduction before 1 April 2012.

Conference:

  • There will be assistants available in the plenary room before (30 minutes) and during each session to help you in technical matters.
  • The lecture hall is equipped with microphones, laptop and digital video projector. We nevertheless, advice you to take printed slides with you as back up.
  • We prefer that you try out your presentation on the laptop, well before you transfer your electronic presentation to the conference laptop available in the lecture hall before the start of the session. The assistant can do this for you.
  • Please avoid delays between talks and be on time as indicated in the schedule. Please finish on time for the next lecture to start at the scheduled time.
  • Please, fill in your brief CV and send it to us before the start for the conference. This will facilitate your chairman in introducing you.
  • At the conference, a booklet of combined papers will be provided to all participants (Book of Abstracts)

Manuscript:

  • Authors are encouraged to submit a full paper (manuscript) when their lecture has been accepted for oral or poster presentation or when you have been invited to give a lecture.
  • Manuscript publication, each accepted or invited presentation will be published in a special issue of Progress in Organic Coatings, which will be sent to your home or work address, approximately February 2012. 
  • The manuscripts will be reviewed by a review commission appointed by POC. POC holds the right to refuse manuscripts if the quality is not up to standard.
  • Your manuscript must be submitted through the online COSI manuscript sumbission system which will be available from February 1st, to June 2nd, 2012. The manuscript should  comply with POC instructions.