Authors must submit an abstract of no more than 500 words in English describing the proposed paper. The abstract should be self-contained and provide an explicit overview of the paper with a clear statement of the purpose, procedure, results obtained, and the principal conclusions reached.

Detailed instructions for preparing abstracts are available for download here as an MS Word document (Office 2003 format) that also serves as a convenient template.

Completed abstracts must be submitted via email to papers@fast2011.com no later than 29 October 2010. The Conference’s Scientific Committee will review abstracts for originality, relevance, timeliness, and significance of the proposed topic. If accepted for presentation at FAST 2011, authors will be invited to submit a full manuscript; instructions for preparing manuscripts will be provided with notification of abstract acceptance.

Questions? Contact the Organizing Committee at info@fast2011.com.

UPDATE: Instructions for manuscript preparation and submission have been sent to all corresponding authors whose abstracts were provisionally accepted. If you were listed as the corresponding author on an accepted abstract and you have not received these instructions, please contact us immediately at papers@fast2011.com or at

info@fast2011.com. Co-authors, please contact your corresponding author first.

PRESENTATIONS: A suggested PowerPoint template to use for presentations is available for download here:

  Office 2007 format

  Office 2003 format

Completed presentations should be emailed to papers@fast2011.com no later than 15 September.