COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY 25th CONFERENCE Conference date: 【L1】________ Conference

(H=Harold     A=Assistant)
A: School of Computing Technology. Professor Dylan’s office. Good morning.
H: Oh! Good morning. I was wondering if you could give me some information about the forthcoming Computing Technology 25th conference? Dates, enrollment procedures, cost... that sort of thing?
A: Certainly.
H: When exactly is the conference?
A: Well, the conference runs for four days from the 15th to the 18th of September.
H: 15th to 18th September... Oh, good. I’ll still be here then and urn..., where exactly is it being held? Is it at the university as in previous years?
A: No, it’s actually being held at the Pacific Hotel — we’ve rather outgrown the university conference facilities so we’ve altered for this new venue.
H: Right, Paradise Hotel.
A: No. Pacific Hotel.
H: Oh, right. And presumably, we can get accommodation at the hotel?
A: Yes, but you’ll need to contact them directly to arrange that. I’ll give you the number for hotel reservations. Have you got a pen ready?
H: Yeah, go ahead.
A: It’s area code (07) and then 9 triple 4 12 double 3.
H: 0-7-9 triple 4 1 2 double 3. And what’s the registration fee?
A: Individual fees are $360 for the 4 days, or $100 a day if you only wanted to attend for one day.
H: Are there any student concessions?
A: Oh, sure. There’s a 50 per cent concession for students, andthat’s $180 for the four days, or $50 a day.
H: And am I too late to offer to give a talk?
A: Oh, I’m pretty sure you’ve missed the deadline for that.
H: Oh, really? But I’ve only just arrived here in Australia — is there any way I could have a paper accepted?
A: Well, you’d need to talk to Professor Dylan. He’s the person organising the conference this year. I can put you through if you’d like.
H: Oh, yes please. That’d be great. Oh, and can I just check the spelling of his name? Is that Dylan? D-Y-L-A-N?
A: Yes, that’s correct.

(H=Harold        D=Professor Dylan)
D: Professor Dylan speaking.
H: Oh, hello. My name’s John Harold. I’m a computing technology student at London University. I’m here in Australia for three months, looking at the educational applications of computing and information technology.
D: Right.
H: I’m interested in giving a talk on my research at the conference, but I believe I may have missed the deadline.
D: Well, strictly speaking, you have. The closing date was last Friday.
H: Oh, no!
D: However, we may be able to include your paper if it fits into our programme, but you’ll have to be quick.
H: OK. What do I need to do?
D: Send me an outline of your talk, and make sure you include an interesting title, something to attract the delegates’ attention.
H: OK. Interesting title. Right.
D: The outline should be no more than 300 words, though.
H: Right. I should be able to keep it down to 300 words, but would 400 be OK?
D: No, not really, because we have to print it in the proceedings, and we just don’t have the space.
H: Sure, I understand.
D: And, also, can you send me a short CV — the usual stuff — name, age, qualifications. That sort of thing.
H: Right, Include a brief CV.
D: Actually, you can e-mail it to me. That’d be quicker.
H: Sure. What’s your e-mail address?
D: Well the best thing would be to send it to the conference administrative officer. The address is admin — in lower case. You know, in small letters.
H: Right.
D: So that’s A-D-M-I-N at annuconf dot E-D-U dot A-U.
H: Right. I’ll do that straight away. Thank you very much. You’ve been very helpful.
D: OK. Well, we hope to see you in October, then.