Guidelines for attendees, speakers and session chairs

information for attendees

Attendance is via Zoom.
Please keep your microphone muted during the presentation, and only unmute yourself to ask a question. We would like to encourage you to turn your camera on, while you are asking a question.
Questions will only be handled through the chat (see below), not by handraising.
If you would like to ask a question, please type "hand" into the chat. Do this not earlier than the speaker has started to thank the audience. The session chair will then select questions in the order of appearance in the chat.
If you would like to have your question read out by the session chair, please type it into the chat.

The talks will be held on Zoom (link was already sent to you).
20 minutes is allocated for each talk, followed by 10 minutes for Q&A (40+20 for keynotes). If you run over time with your talk, the question period will be reduced accordingly.
Please make sure that you pin the session chair's video during your talk on your screen (before sharing your slides) so that you can see the remaining time.
The chair of your session will be in charge of choosing the questions.
We encourage all presenters to provide a link to their slides in the Zoom chat at the beginning of their talk. That way attendees could revisit the talk and possibly formulate their questions more easily. (Obviously you will share your slides on Zoom while you are presenting anyways, this would just be an addition.) You could share the slides via Dropbox, Google, your webpage, TinyURL or whatever other depository of your choice. If you do not know how this could work but want to make your slides available to the audience, we can set up the URL for you (just send the slides in advance to: fdsl14@uni-leipzig.de). If you rather not share the slides at all that is also ok.
If you like, you can send your presentation to us (fdsl14@uni-leipzig.de) so that we are able to screen-share them on Zoom in case of an emergency.

The talks are held on Zoom.
20 minutes is allocated for each talk, followed by 10 minutes for Q&A. If the speaker runs over time with their talk, reduce their question period accordingly.
Please come to the Zoom room 5 minutes before your session begins so that you can check with the first speaker that their screen-sharing works, and show them how you will signal the remaining time. You might prepare for it sheets with 10, 5, 2, 1 minutes and ‘stop’ information.
You will be in charge of choosing the questions.
Questions are handled through the chat, typing "hand".
Select questions in the order of appearance in the chat.