For your presentation

Nightmare - Yours or of the audience?

How often have you come out from a session room, wondering if you had really learnt something?
Or, in a worse case, you are bored in the middle of a talk, and start doing something else.?
Maybe I am too straightforward, but I guess we all have had such experiences. Possibly many times.
Naturally, we attend a session or a talk expecting something to learn, and we all want to avoid such phenomena.
How can we avoid this? Let us confirm the following:
1. The speaker is responsible for providing a comprehensive talk to the audience. I believe that this principle is understood by majority.
2. Nonetheless, we often encounter rather intractable talks. Why?
3. We all have the tendency that we wan to advocate that what we have accomplished is great.
4. Nothing wrong with this, but it often leads to the desire that we want to show very technical details - perhaps concerned more about the views of specialists.
5. Now let's think: how many percentages of the audience can you count as VERY specialists as to be able to understand the top technicalities you have discovered? Perhaps very few.
6. The rest of the audience are attending your session, expecting to learn things like - what is the issue, what is the whole thing all about, and how would people normally approach the problem, etc.
7. Let's think about this: How much is the chance that even a specialist can follow the detail of your proof in a conference?
8. It is very often observed that we get lost on slide No. 2 or 3. This is such a waste of time and energy. If a speaker buys a resentment as a result of this, it is literally a nightmare.

The only way to avoid this is to make your talk tutorial and comprehensive.
As I emphasized in my Invitation on the top page, I am hoping that this MTNS is one of rare exceptions in this regard. Plenary, semi-plenary and mini-course speakers already agreed upon this, and their slides are already uploaded on our Web page.
I have ventured to put up a guideline along with some examples. Please take a look at it. I hope it is helpful to you.

Bring your OWN PC, a Plug Adapter (and Transformer if necessary) .

The organizers do NOT provide PCs for your presentation.

The AC outlet is US type. A standard plug looks like this. The AC power supply in the conference site is 100V, 60Hz. You will also need a plug adapter , since it is somewhat difficult to buy an European -> US, Japan plug adapter here. (An adapter working in the other direction is easily available, though, but it would not help.) If necessary, bring a transformer AC 100V -> 220V. (Many AC adapters for PCs have multi-voltage/multi-freq. connectability; check the AC power supply of your PC.) Attendees from US will normally not need any extra care for AC power supply.

Some PC have wide screens. This may cause a problem when connected to an LCD projector. To avoid a problem, configure the resolution of your laptop to a more standard size; for example, SVGA (800x600), XGA (1024x768), etc. This can be done easily. If you use Windows (XP, 2000, etc.) just right-click on your desktop screen, choose "properties -> configure". This will give you a choice of screen size. If your laptop has a dual display functionality, you can configure the resolution of the second (external) display to a standard one.

Wireless LAN service is available at the conference site. Bring your wireless LAN card with you.