© The IMA 2013 Conference Conference program The scientific program of IMA 2013 will consist of keynote talks, invited and  oral communications, and poster presentations.  Conference program schedule (pdf) >>> Poster Sessions program (pdf) >>>  Presentation guidelines • Invited and plenary speakers should plan on a 25 minutes long talk  followed by 5 minutes of discussion.  • Oral Presentations: presenting authors should plan on a 12 minutes  long talk followed by 3 minutes of discussion.  • Presentations should be in Microsoft PowerPoint format (.ppt or pptx  file) or Adobe Acrobat Reader format (.pdf file). The file should be  electronically handed by the speaker to the Registration Desk at least  one session before his presentation.    Poster guidelines • The presenting authors should hang their posters in the morning, before  10 am, and remove them in the evening of the corresponding day.   • The preferable dimensions for posters should be 80 x 120 cm (width x  height).  • All posters are required to conform to portrait orientation. Failure to  follow this requirement will mean that the poster will not fit on the  allotted board.  • Posters should be clear and easy to read. Type size should be  sufficiently large to allow people to read from 2-3 meters.