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THIRTY-THIRD ANNUAL INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE
Teton Village, Jackson Hole, Wyoming
February 3 -- 8, 2008
Organizer: George Sperling, University of California, Irvine
http://www.socsci.uci.edu/HIPLab/AIC
CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT - CALL FOR PAPERS
The THIRTY-THIRD ANNUAL INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE will meet in
Teton Village, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, February 3 - 8, 2008.
The conference covers a wide range of subjects in what has come to be
called cognitive science, ranging from visual and auditory physiology
and psychophysics to human information processing, cognition, learning
and memory, to computational approaches to these problems including
neural networks, artificial intelligence, and, most recently, brain
imaging. The aim is to provide overview talks that are comprehensible
and interesting to a wide scientific audience -- such as one might
fantasize would occur at a National or Royal Academy of Science.
The Conference begins with a reception on Sunday evening, February 3,
at 5:00p followed by a half-session. Regular sessions meet from Monday
through Friday at 4:00p to 8:00p; the rest of the day is free. After the
last session on Friday, there is a banquet for participants and guests.
Paper submissions are hereby invited. The deadline for submissions is
November 2, 2008. In 2008, in addition to the regular sessions, AIC-33
will feature two special sessions: (1) Individual differences (mainly in
sensory perception), organized by David Peterzell
and (2) Auditory attention, organized by Shihab Shamma .
If your submission falls into one of these categories, send a title and
abstract to one of the organizers (and a copy to sperling@uci.edu). All
other submissions need go only to sperling@uci.edu. In addition to a title
and abstract, the submission must include the completed registration form
at the AIC website http://www.socsci.uci.edu/HIPLab/AIC/registration.html.
This may be sent electronically or as hardcopy to:
Annual Interdisciplinary Conference
c/o Prof. George Sperling
Department of Cognitive Sciences, SSPA-3
University of California
Irvine, CA 92697-5100
Submissions are not finally accepted until registration is complete and
the registration fee of $150 ($160 after January 1, 2008; $75 for students)
is paid. Conference registration is payable by check made payable to
"Annual Interdisciplinary Conference" (no credit cards) mailed to the
address above. The registration fee includes daily snacks and refreshments
plus the closing banquet on Friday evening (February 8).
Applicants will be notified on or before Nov. 16, 2008 of the
acceptance of proposed presentations. Registration fees for speakers
are nonrefundable after Nov. 16; registration for non-speaking
participants is refundable at any time.
The 32 previous programs, photos, and hotel information are published on
the AIC website; the 2008 program will be posted and updated as it
becomes available. If you received this email, you will receive future
electronic mailings automatically unless you opt out by writing a note
to lrhaines@uci.edu (who maintains the AIC list).
The conference hotel, previously the Best Western Inn at Jackson Hole,
was sold after the last AIC meeting. The new owners, who also operate
an adjacent hotel, will take over on October 1, 2007. They plan to
continue operations exactly as before, at least for the time being.
The only change that I am aware of is a name change back to an earlier
name, "The Inn at Jackson Hole." The hotel will no longer be
associated with the Best Western organization.
The conference hotel is at the base of the ski slopes, a short walk
from the tram and other ski lifts. The Conference has arranged special
room rates for registered participants. To reserve lodging, telephone
The Inn at 800-842-7666 or 307-733-2311 and ask the desk to verify that
you are on their list of registered participants in the Annual
Interdisciplinary Conference (AIC). Many other hotels, restaurants,
ski rental facilities, shops, and cross country ski trails, are within
walking distance. There are frequent direct flights to Jackson Hole
AP from Denver and from Salt Lake City, and there are occasional flights
from several other major cities. It is then a 40-min bus or taxi ride from
the airport to the hotel. (Alternatively, Jackson is a five-hour drive
from Salt Lake City.)
Additional information about the conference, travel, and skiing
opportunities is available at the website.
UCI UPDATE
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In 2007, UCI made five new faculty appointments in the Department
of Cognitive Sciences and the department may initiate additional
faculty searches this fall. There are also two concurrent assistant
professor searches in Mathematical Behavioral Sciences with an Oct 10
deadline. See http://www.socsci.uci.edu/fac_employment.php. UCI is
continuing with its plan to approximately double its size although
California's well-publicized budget problems are slowing the growth rate.
The new Cognitive Sciences faculty are:
John Serences (Ph.D., John Hopkins) fMRI studies of visual attention
Alyssa Brewer (M.D., Ph.D., Stanford) Visual neuroscience, retinotopic
organization of visual cortex
Jeff Krichmar (Ph.D., George Mason) Computational neuroscience,
neuromimetic algorithms in robots
Lisa Pearl (Ph.D., U. Maryland) Computational studies of language
acquisition
Jon Sprouse (Ph.D., U. Maryland) Experimental studies of psycholinguistic
processing of syntax and semantics
In line with a University-wide initiative in Cognitive Brain Imaging,
4T and 3T magnets are now available for fMRI research studies. UCI's
expanding graduate program in Cognitive Sciences invites applications.
See http://www.cogsci.uci.edu.
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