How to Access Virtual Conference Venue

Virtual Conference Venue

To participate in the conference program including tutorial workshops, first log in to the registration system with your registration number and password notified in the registration confirmation email.

To locate the email containing the URL, the registration number and the password of your registration "My Page", search for the email subject "IFAC MICNON2021 Registration - New -".

On "My Page" ("Confirmation/Payment"), you can find the link to PaperCept Live Program (the virtual conference venue). Click on the link and log in with PASSCODE shown on the "My Page", which are used as both "username" and "password" for the virtual venue.

For live participation, to go to session and lecture rooms, click on Zoom links in the virtual venue. Turn off your microphone and camera except when joining Q&As. For on-demand participation, pre-recorded presentation videos, slides and papers can be viewed at anytime during the conference period and about 10 days after the conference.

The link to download MICNON 2021 Preprints can be found in the virtual conference venue. Select "Preprints" in the "Information" pull-down menu.

Virtual Information Desk

Those who have questions can visit the ~~information desk~~ during the following period:

Sep 14, 2021: 07:30–10:45, 11:45–16:45 (UTC)
Sep 15, 16, 2021: 11:30–16:30 (UTC)
Sep 17, 2021: 11:55–16:45 (UTC)

Instructions for Presenters, Chairs and Co-Chairs

For chairs and co-chairs:

Click on the Zoom link of the session.
Set your display name as "Chair - Your name" or "Co-Chair - Your name".
Turn on the camera and unmute when you are speaking to chair your session.
Before the session start, the chair and the co-chair decide who introduces which paper.
The active (co-)chair declares the session start and introduces each presentation.
Videos are played by a“Video Operator”.
After each video, the active chair initiates Q&A time.
The active chair watches the clock to close Q&A for letting the next video start on time:
conference program
If there are no questions and the session is behind schedule, move on to the next presentation without spending 15 minutes. However, each presentation cannot start before its scheduled time.
In Q&A time, to go back to a slide page, ask the presenter to share the presenter's PC screen instead of asking the Video Operator.

For presenters:

Click on the Zoom link of the session.
Set your display name as "Presenter - Your name".
Turn off the camera unless you are answering questions.
Mute unless you are answering questions.
Your video will be played by a “Video Operator”.
After your video, unmute and answer questions.
You can share the screen during the Q&A.
To go back to a page in your slides, click on "share screen" and choose your slide window on your PC.
There are 15 minutes allotted for your presentation including the video and the Q&A time.

Complementary discussion space (September 15,16,17)

Free to use MICNON 20212 SpacialChat [~~LINK~~]

to continue discussion after sessions and lectures;
to meet people in the field of nonlinear systems and control.

Disclaimer: MICNON 2021 is not responsible for any malfunctions, contents, and troubles which arise from the use of this discussion space.

Instructions in an Emergency

In the event that the Video Operator is disconnected due to a network failure of more than three minutes or so, the presenter can play the video by clicking on "share screen" and choosing the presenter's video window on the presenter's PC, or continue Q&As.

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