Subject: The 2nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Bioacoustics: Call for Abstracts From: Kazuo UEDA <ueda@xxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2015 22:20:01 -0700 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>The 2nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Bioacoustics 12--13 December 2015, Fukuoka, Japan Meeting Announcement and Call for Abstracts You are cordially invited to the 2nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Bioacoustics, which will be held in Ohashi Campus, Kyushu University (4-9-1 Shiobaru, Minami-ku, Fukuoka 815-8540, Japan) from Saturday through Sunday, 12--13 December 2015. Most of the contributed papers will be presented as posters. Oral presentations are given by invited senior researchers and a couple of selected junior researchers. Presentation awards are granted to excellent presentations given by students or researchers who got their degrees within three years. The banquet will be held on Saturday, 12 December 2015 at a Japanese restaurant near the conference venue (pre-registration is necessary for reserving your seat). Please refer to the PDF pamphlet which could be downloaded from the Webpage of the Society <http://bacoust.org/?page_id=227&lang=en> for more detailed information about the Meeting, including transportations, travel directions, accommodations, and the size of a poster board. You could also download the abstract template from that page. We are looking forward to seeing you in Fukuoka!! 1. Key dates. [15 September 2015] Pre-registration deadline for corresponding authors and abstract deadline for oral presentations. All the authors who would like to present a paper at the Meeting, either as a poster or a lecture, have to submit a title, author(s), and affiliation(s) by this date. Submitting an abstract at this point is mandatory for the author(s) who would like to apply for the oral presentation slots. [30 September 2015] Notification of acceptance of contributed oral papers by e-mail. [15 October 2015] Abstract deadline for poster presentations. Pre-registration for all participants will be closed and the program will be announced. [27 November 2015] The attendees who are living in Japan should transfer their total amount of expenses before the date. If you come from abroad, you could pay the registration fee and the banquet expense on site in Japanese yen (cash only). 2. Joining the Society. You have to be a member of the Society for Bioacoustics, in order to present a paper at the Annual Meeting. If you have not yet joined the Society, please contact the Secretariat through the Web page of the Society <http://bacoust.org/?page_id= 13&lang=en> at your earliest convenience (by the end of August 2015 at the latest). 3. Abstract submission. Submission of an one-page abstract is required for all corresponding authors. A Microsoft Word template for an abstract is provided at the Webpage of the Society. 4. Contacting address. Please send an e-mail message to the Secretariat of the Organizing Committee of the 2nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Bioacoustics <bainfo [at] bacoust.org>. 5. The Organizing Committee and Programing Committee. The Organizing Committee consists of Kazuo UEDA (Chair), Wen-Jie SONG (Accountant), Chihiro HIRAMATSU, and Yumiko WATANABE (Secretariat). The Programing Committee consists of Ikuo MATSUO (Chair), Hiroshi RIQUIMAROUX, and Takuma TAKANASHI. Cosponsored by the Society for Bioacoustics, the Organizing Committee of the 2nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Bioacoustics, Faculty of Design, Kyushu University, Research Center for Applied Perceptual Science, Kyushu University, Physiological Anthropology Research Center, Kyushu University, the Kyushu Chapter of the Acoustical Society of Japan, and the Research Committee of Bioacoustics, the Acoustical Society of Japan. -- Kazuo UEDA, Ph.D. Visiting Associate Professor School of Audiology and Speech Sciences The University of British Columbia c/o Valter Ciocca 2177 Wesbrook Mall Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3, Canada Phone +1 604 827 5579 Fax +1 604 822 6569 -- Associate Professor Dept. Human Science, Unit of Perceptual Psychology/ Research Center for Applied Perceptual Science Kyushu University, 4-9-1 Shiobaru Minami-ku Fukuoka 815-8540, Japan e-mail ueda@xxxxxxxx