Society of Music Perception and Cognition Conference - August 3

Keynote Speakers

Dr. Sandra Trehub, Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto and Director of the Auditory Lab at the Infant and Child Studies Centre in Mississauga, Ontario, has conducted many ground-breaking studies on the development of music, speech, and language in infants and young children. Dr. Trehub has published over 100 articles and book chapters on her research, which ranges from infants’ sound detection and melody discrimination abilities to cross-linguistic and cross-cultural comparisons of maternal singing to infants. Her work has also been featured in many articles in the popular press.

Dr. Elaine Chew, Associate Professor at the University of Southern California, is Director of the Music Computation and Cognition Lab at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, where she conducts and directs research on music and computing. An operations researcher and pianist by training, her goal is to explain and de-mystify the phenomenon of music and its performance through the use of formal scientific methods. Her research centers on the mathematical and computational modeling of music; as a performer, she collaborates with composers to present eclectic post-tonal music. She received the NSF Career/PECASE Awards in 2004/2005 for her research and education activities at the intersection of music and engineering, and co-led a research cluster on analytical listening through interactive visualization at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study in 2007-2008.

Conference Schedule

All events will take place in the IUPUI Campus Center.

The updated conference program is available. You can also download the full program in PDF format.

Presentation Guidelines

Spoken Presentations

All talks are 20 minutes, including questions. You should aim to speak for 15 minutes and leave 5 minutes for discussion.
Computers and AV equipment (including SVGA video connection, 1/8” stereo connector, and speakers for audio files) are available in all presentation rooms at the IUPUI Campus Center.
Microsoft Office 2007 Suite is installed on all computers in the presentation rooms at the IUPUI Campus Center.
Bring your slides on a usb drive to be uploaded before each session.

Poster Presentations

The poster dimensions should at most be 4' x 4'.
Push-pins / adhesives will be provided.
Posters should be displayed from 8 am – 5 pm on their assigned dates.
Presenters should be present during their assigned poster session (T/W/Th at 3-5 pm).

Don’t forget to make hotel reservations

Don’t forget to make your reservations at the recently remodeled University Place Hotel! Here's how to:

Go to: http://www.universityplace.iupui.edu/
Click on: Guestroom Reservations
On this reservation page, the guest should pick the dates for the group block: 8/2/2009 to 8/7/2009
In the 'group code' box, enter: 0908SOCIET.

Special hotel features include:

Complimentary high-speed wired and wireless internet access
Refrigerators
Fitness Center

University Place is just across the street from the Conference and the underground garage will help reduce headaches associated with obtaining parking passes for use in campus parking lots.