A special session on animal bioacoustics is being organized for the 12th International Conference on Theoretical and Computational Acoustics (don’t be intimidated by conference title) in Hangzhou, China, October 11 to 16, 2015. The Chinese are keen on getting more involved in animal bioacoustics. There is a list of international invited speakers. The session is now being opened to contributed speakers. You can find out more on this meeting by going to the website (http://ictca2015.com).
The deadline for early registration is May 31, 2015. The abstract due date is May 31, 2015. Early registration fee is $500 US. Unfortunately there is no financial support or student registration for this meeting. For all contributed speaker have a sentence at the left hand corner of below your abstract “*contributed speaker: Animal Bioacoustics Special Session*.” Invited speakers and their country of origin are as follows: Tomanori Akamatsu, Ikuo Matsuda - Japan Songhai Li, Yu Zhang , Wang Ding - China Rolf Muller – USA/China Mattias Hoffman-Kuhnt - Singapore Annemarie Surlykke, Ole Larson - Denmark Yossi Yovel - Israel Rob McCauley - Australia Cristina Giacoma - Italy Hans Slabbekoorn – The Netherland Darlene Ketten, Paul Nachtigall, Whitlow Au - USA This promises to be a very interesting meeting in the city that Marco Polo described as "The City of Heaven”. -- Whitlow W. L. Au, Ph.D. Marine Mammal Research Program Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology 46-007 Lilipuna Road Kaneohe, HI 96744 808-247-5026
