[Eeglablist] EPIC XV at Indiana University, April 22 to 25, 2009

[Andreas Widmann]

EPIC XV: Initial Announcement

Fifteenth International Congress on Event-Related Potentials of the Brain
April 22 to 25, 2009

Indiana University
Bloomington, Indiana
USA

website: http://www.epicxv.indiana.edu/home.html
email: epicxv at indiana.edu

We invite scientists, students and professionals working in the field
of event-related potential (ERPs) to the Fifteenth International
Congress on Event-Related Potentials of the Brain.    The meeting will
be held at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, USA from April
22 to 25, 2009.  The campus is easily accessible from the Indianapolis
airport and offers a wide array of cultural and recreational
opportunities.  The conference venue will be in the Indiana Memorial
Union, which offers outstanding facilities for large presentations,
poster sessions, dining, workshops, small breakout meetings, and hotel
accommodations.  (Campus tour - http://www.iub.edu/tour).

The Program Committee invites submissions of papers and symposia for
EPIC XV on a wide range of topics.  Themes include cognition and
memory, sensory and motor processes, emotion and personality, motor
control, neuropsychiatric disorders, functional genomics, cellular
mechanisms, intracranial recording, multimodal imaging, and signal and
source analysis.  Presentations will include single papers and
symposia. All abstracts will be submitted through the website link
above. The deadline for receipt of symposium submissions is Monday,
November 17, 2008, and notification of decisions can be expected by
January 15, 2009.  The deadline for receipt of abstracts for single
papers is Monday, January 12, 2009, and notification of decisions can
be expected by February 28, 2009.

EPIC XV Themes


Cognition and Memory
Sensory Processes
Motor control
Emotion & Personality
Psychiatric Disorders
Neurologic Disorders
Time-Frequency Analysis
Source Analysis
Cellular mechanisms
Functional Genomics
Multimodal imaging
Animal models


Registration at:

http://www.epicxv.indiana.edu/register.html

Deadline for discounted online registration: Monday, March 16, 2009
(Professionals: $290, Students: $190)
Regular online registration begins: Tuesday, March 17, 2009
(Professionals: $350; Students: $250).
On-line registration closes: Thursday, April 17, 2009

Paper and Proposal Submission at:

http://www.epicxv.indiana.edu/proposal.html

Registration includes:

• Participation in all conference general, poster and concurrent sessions
• Opening Poster Session and reception
• Morning and afternoon refreshment breaks
• Friday evening reception at the Indiana University Art Museum with
refreshments and music
• Poster Sessions with beverages and snacks

Invited Speakers

Michael D. Rugg, University of California, Irvine: “Memory Retrieval:
What Have We Learned from ERPs?”

Daniel Dick, Virginia Commonwealth University, “Identifying Genetic
Influences on Brain Function”

Samuel Sutton Award Lecture

Pre-Conference EEGLAB Time Frequency Workshop

The conference will be preceded by a three day workshop on
Time-Frequency Analysis using EEGLAB by Scott Makeig, Julie Orton, and
Arnaud Delorme (April 20 to 22).

Sixth Samuel Sutton Award for Early Distinguished Scientific
Contribution to Human ERPs and Cognition.

	We are requesting nominations for the Samuel Sutton Award for Early 
Distinguished Scientific Contribution to Human ERPs and Cognition.  The 
nomination should be made via email addressed to David Friedman:
df12 at columbia.edu. Full description of the award can be found at
http://www.epicxv.indiana.edu/sutton.html.  The award carries a stipend
of $2000, and will include a keynote address at EPIC.  The deadline for
receipt of nominations is September 30, 2008.

We welcome your participation in EPIC XV.

Brian O’Donnell
Chair, EPIC XV Organizing Committee

Local Organizing Committee
William Hetrick, Thomas Busey, Aina Puce, Colleen Brenner, Patrick
Skosnik, Linda Smith, Sean O’Connor, Peter Finn, Sandra Morzorati,
Rowan Candy, Bennett Bertenthal, Anantha Shekhar

International  Organizing Committee
Colleen Brenner, Brett Clementz, Emmanuel Donchin, Thomas Elbert,
Judith Ford, David Friedman, Talma Hendler, Riitta Hari, Yoshio
Hirayasu, Ryusuke Kakigi, Hirata Koichi, Jun-Soo Kwon, Robert McCarley,
Pat Michie, Gregory Miller, Wolfgang Miltner, Anna Kristina Nobre, John
Polich, Bruno Rossion, Bernhard Ross, Pedro Sosa, Onitsuka Toshiaki



Brian F. O'Donnell, Ph.D.
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Indiana University
1101 East 10th Street
Bloomington, IN 47405
USA