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Help Page for Abstract Submissions

The submission process has three pages: an online form, a preview page, and a final confirmation page. You will be able to go back-and-forth between the form and preview pages until you are satisfied that your submission is complete, and then you should proceed to the final page.
If you want to make changes to your abstract after a final submission, please contact the particular conference organizers, not Atlas.

Submission deadline

If there is a submission deadline, the form will close at midnight at the end of that day (local time in Toronto, Canada). Please contact the conference organizers, not Atlas, about late submissions.

Speaker (or presenter or first author)

This is the name of the person making the presentation at the conference. When producing a list of all names, our software alphabetizes according to the last word appearing in the name (except for any commas), so your name should be in the format "Firstname Lastname" or "Lastname, Firstname". Please use the same format as all the other speakers at the conference. Titles such as Dr., Prof., Ph.D., ... are not needed. Do not use all capitals.

Affiliation (or address, of speaker)

This is the name of the university, institution or company where the speaker is affiliated. You can even write only a geographic location. You are not expected to include a complete mailing address.

Email

Please give one email address for the speaker. All submissions must provide one email address.

Title

This is the title of the presentation. Do not use all capitals.

Coauthors

Please list all coauthors. Do not include the speaker. Please try to use one line per author in the in the submission form box. You may give a coauthor's affiliation, but you are not expected to give a complete mailing address. For example,

Marie Sklodowska-Curie (University of Paris) Albert Einstein (Institute for Advanced Study)

Abstract

Please provide your abstract as a short piece of text. If you have already prepared your abstract with another application then simply copy and paste the text of your abstract into the box on our form. If you use the previewing feature, the size of the box will grow to fit the length of your abstract.

Do not repeat the title and author in the abstract; this information is collected elsewhere. However, you may include (long) complete mailing addresses in the abstract.

Our processing software expects abstracts to be plain unformatted text or text formatted in (any version of) the typesetting language TeX.

If you are using TeX, here are some hints.

• Please note that our tex-to-html conversion software may not convert all of your TeX code.
• Your abstract should not be a complete TeX document. It should be only the fragment of text that would appear within a \begin{abstract} ... \end{abstract} environment.
• Your abstract will be inserted into a larger LaTeX document, a booklet of all abstracts, so your TeX code should be portable and self-contained.
• Consider simplifying the TeX code by using descriptive language in place of commands for symbols.
  • more TeX: $\forall x \in {\mathbb R}$
  • less TeX: for each real number $x$
• Do not use any of these commands.
  • spacing: \hspace \hfill \vspace \vfill \quad \, \: \; \!
  • classes, styles, input: \documentclass \usepackage \input \include \maketitle
  • definitions: \newcommand \newenvironment \newtheorem \def
  • sections: \chapter \section \paragraph
• Instead of a theorem environment, consider starting with {\bf Theorem}.
• Most list enviroments will work properly - enumerate, itemize, array, tabular - but they may not be displayed exactly as you expect, because HTML formatting rules are quite different from LaTeX.
• The bibliography enivronment should be avoided, because our software cannot process it properly. Also, when your abstract is combined with others in the booklet, the multiple bibliography envirments will interfere with eachother. Consider writing your references or bibliography as a plain list, without using TeX's bibliography features.
• Avoid using \frac{x}{y} for fractions; try x / y.

Contact

The abstract submission form has been designed for your convenience and to be useful for a broad variety of conferences. All comments are helpful and should be sent to info@atlas-conferences.com

Revised: November 2005.

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