All oral presentations will be allocated 20 minutes which include the time for discussion (usually 5 minutes).

This will be organised as a guided tour of each poster session where each paper will have 5 minutes of oral presentation in front of the poster. This new way of presenting and promoting the poster session was succefully organised since few year in the annual IEEE NSS-MIC conferences. This will allow to have a short oral presentation.

Attendance at the poster sessions is organized around conference breaks. Authors are requested to setup their posters before the morning break of the day of their assigned poster session.

Each poster board have a mounting surface of dimensions: 120cm high by 240 cm wide. The posters are attached to the surface with push-pins. Material to attach the posters will be provided by the organizers.

The poster exhibit area will be adjacent to the break refreshment area. Authors are requested to be at their posters during their poster session.

The Conference Proceedings will publish all papers that have been accepted for oral or poster presentation and have effectively been presented.

A CD of the Proceedings will be shipped within one month after the conference to all participants containing texts as well as presentations and photos of the event.

Authors of such papers have, in addition, the possibility to submit them for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science (TNS) which will publish a special issue devoted to the 2003 Real Time Conference. Papers submitted to TNS are subject to a pair review process.

For both publications the format of the paper must comply with the IEEE editing rules. Please note that the pages must not be numbered and no header nor footer information are accepted. The deadlines for submission are :

• The day before the paper presentation for the Proceedings
• One week after the last day of the Conference for TNS

- Proceedings Editors : L.Reuter,
- TNS Editor : Jean-Pierre Dufey

Submission to the Conference Record

All papers presented at Real Time 2003 will be published in the Conference Record provided :

0) the paper is within the five-page page limit,

1) the style follows exactly the IEEE publishing specifications (see below for templates)

2) a PDF file of your paper is received electronically by the Conference Record editor, Laure Reuter (REUTER@dapnia.cea.fr) by the day preceding your presentation,

3) a filled copyright form is submitted, in paper form, at the conference desk of the editor.

These deadlines will be extended only if there is a technical problem with the proof or special arrangements are made with the guest editor before the end of the conference. In no case will submissions be accepted after May 30th.

An MS-Word template for manuscript preparation is available here . More templates for other publishing standards and additional information on formatting are available here.

Submission to IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science (TNS)

A paper presented at RT2003 will be considered for inclusion in the special issue of TNS devoted to RT 2003 if a PDF version of the manuscript is received at Manuscript Central http://tns-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com no later than May 30th, 2003. The manuscript must follow exactly the IEEE publishing rules (see Submission to Conference Records above). The paper length should not exceed 8 pages.

If you have previously used Manuscript Central as an author or reviewer, please use your existing account. If you have not previously used the system, you will need to create an account and author profile.

For "Manuscript Type" select "3 Real Time Conference Manuscript"

All questions regarding Real Time submissions to TNS should be addressed to the Editor Jean-Pierre Dufey.