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NEWS
8 April 2004--Robert O'Shea
EPC'04 AV facilities and on-site
registration
We've added to the Local Information <http://psy.otago.ac.nz/epc/Local%20Information.htm>
page details of the audiovisual facilities of all conference rooms,
and tips about arrival and departure.
We've changed the place and time of on-site
registration for Thursday night. It's now in room 2.07, Commerce
Building, corner of Clyde and Union Streets, 5:00 to 8:00 pm, Thu 15
April 2004.
Have a good Easter break and see you soon.
7 April 2004--Robert O'Shea
Final programme for EPC'04
We have placed the final version of the programme of the 31st
Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference (EPC'04) on the
conference web site <http://psy.otago.ac.nz/epc/Programme.htm>.
We are sorry that this is a little later than we advertised.
If you are presenting at the conference, you should check that all is
well with your presentation. To find it:
Go to the section called ABSTRACTS
Click on the link corresponding to the first letter of the first
author's surname
Use your browser's search facility to find your abstract.
This will show the day, room number, and time of your presentation,
along with title, author(s), affiliation(s), e-mail address, and
abstract.
We have made some changes to
the times and streams of some talks from what you saw in the draft,
although we have tried to keep these to a minimum. If we have placed
your talk somewhere that is impossible for you (e.g., because of your
travel arrangements), or failed to place your talk in the programme,
let us know immediately.
To see your talk in the context of others, go to
the section called FULL PROGRAMME, and click on your talk's session.
We're looking forward to seeing you soon in Dunedin. Bon voyage and
bring plenty of warm clothes (we've been having a cold snap recently)!
19 March 2004--Robert O'Shea
Refunds
If your circumstances change preventing you from attending the
conference, let us know immediately. Prior to 1 April, 2004, you can
get a 50% refund of registration fees. After that date, applications
for a refund are at the discretion of the members of the Committee.
People who are given a refund have their registrations cancelled, and
receive no conference materials.
If you do not attend the conference and receive no refund, we will
mail you the conference materials.
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March 2004
We received 188 abstracts. We declined a few
(mainly because their methods or areas fell outside how we defined
experimental psychology) and a few were withdrawn. We drafted a
six-stream programme to take the remaining abstracts for oral
presentations (see the
Programme).
Yesterday we discovered that the programme was not particularly easy
to read for people using PCs. Check the new PC-friendly (and still
Mac-friendly) version now. Let us know if there are any serious
problems with it before 22 March, 2004. We are aiming to show the
final version of the programme by 31 March, 2004.
10 March 2004--Jamin Halberstadt
We sent out messages to all authors whose abstracts had
been accepted for oral presentation at the 31st Australasian
Experimental Psychology Conference.
Please consult the EPC website at
http://psy.otago.ac.nz/epc/Programme.htm to find the day and time
of your talk. If for some reason you are unable to present at your
scheduled time, contact us as soon as possible before 22 March, after
which the program will become final.
9 March 2004--Robert O'Shea
I've placed a draft of the EPC'04 Programme at <http://psy.otago.ac.nz/r_oshea/EPC04/EPC04prog.html>.
Until we organize something more snazzy, to find out whether your
abstract was accepted into the programme you'll have to search for
your surname over all three days. We accepted most of the abstracts we
received; you should have heard from us if yours was declined. If you
expected your paper to be there but cannot find it, or if we have made
some other error, please let me know.
3 March 2004--Robert O'Shea
1. Deadline for early registration
The deadline for early receipt of registration is 12 March 2004.
To register, follow the instructions on the registration form, which
you can download from <http://psy.otago.ac.nz/epc/GIF/registration%20form.pdf>.
Note that payments can be made by enclosing a cheque or bank draft in
NZ$, or by giving credit-card details on the form.
Conference Fees (received before 12 March, 2004):
NZ$135 (Full time student registration)
NZ$185 (Other registrations)
Conference Fees (after 12 March, 2004):
NZ$50 extra for registration
The Conference Dinner is NZ$65/person, but spaces are limited. Tickets
are sold first-come-first-served.
2. Deadline for applying for student grants-in-aid
The deadline for receipt of student grant-in-aid materials is 12 March
2004.
To
apply, follow the instructions on the application form, which you can
download from <http://psy.otago.ac.nz/epc/GIF/Grant-in-Aid%20Application.pdf>.
Note that the form and other material can only be faxed or mailed and
must be received by 12 March 2004.
3. Programme
We received 185 abstracts for oral presentations.
To accommodate most of these into 30-minute slots, we have established
a six-stream programme, beginning at 9:00 on Friday, 16 April, and
ending with the Business Meeting from 14:00-15:00 on Sunday, 18 April.
We are on schedule to publish the first draft of the programme on 8
March. On-site registration will be open from 20:00-22:30 on Thursday,
15 April, 2004.
4.
Keynote address
Professor Michael Corballis's keynote address will be at 17:30 on
Friday, 16 April.
5. Media Coverage
We expect to have some media interest in the conference. Let us know
now if you do not wish to have contact with the media about your
research. Let us know also if you think your research is particularly
newsworthy!
6. Publication of Abstracts
The abstracts from the conference will be published in a supplement of
the Australian Journal of Psychology later in the year.
Thank you for your overwhelming interest in EPC'04. The other
committee members and I are looking forward to seeing you at
University of Otago in April.
2 February 2004--Jamin
Halberstadt and Robert O'Shea
Student Grants-in-Aid
Thanks to a grant from the Australasian Society for Experimental
Psychology, a limited number of merit-based awards are available to
subsidize conference expenses for students who are presenting papers
and who have registered for the conference. If you wish to be
considered, you must be a full-time Masters or PhD student at a
recognized tertiary education institution. To apply, mail or fax the
application form along with an expanded abstract of your presentation
(1000 word maximum, including figures and tables), your CV, and a
letter of support from your supervisor to:
EPC
2004
Department of Psychology
University of Otago
P O Box 56
Dunedin
New Zealand
Fax +64
3 479 8335
All material must be received by 12 March 2004. Applicants will be
notified about the status of their applications by 19 March. The
number and magnitude of awards will depend on the number and quality
of applications received.
You can
download the Grant-in-aid Application Form (Adobe PDF format) from <http://psy.otago.ac.nz/epc/Registration.htm>.
23 December 2003
To submit an abstract, please download the Abstract Submission form,
fill it in, and e-mail it back as an attachment in Microsoft Word
format. If your paper is part of a symposium, send the completed
Abstract Submission form to the symposium organizer. If your paper is
part of the general programme, send the completed Abstract Submission
form to us.
Abstracts should describe empirical, theoretical, or methodological
work in experimental psychology, defined as research that allows
causal inferences to be drawn about basic processes such as sensation,
perception, memory, thinking, language, learning, attention, motor
control, emotion, drug effects, and decision-making in humans and
animals.
Abstracts are due Friday 30 January 2004. We will
review the abstracts and show the accepted papers in a draft programme
by 8 March, 2004.
19 December 2003--Robert O'Shea
EPC'04 Abstract submission: Whoa!
Kate
Stevens assured me that you would all submit your abstracts on the day
of the deadline (30 Jan, 2004), so it was with a mixture of pleasure
and alarm that I find some of you have been trying to submit abstracts
now. We are not quite ready to receive abstracts, mainly because we
have been pioneering a system to allow submission via the web.
If you have already e-mailed an abstract to the conference address or
were contemplating doing so, can I ask that you wait for a few more
days until we have our system completed and then submit via it? I'll
send you a message as soon as I can say ``Go!''.
11 December 2003--Robert O'Shea
Please make sure you join the EPC'04 mailing list. You do
so by e-mailing your name and contact details to epc@psy.otago.ac.nz.
That will ensure that you receive future mailings.
We have set the registration fee: for those registering on or before
12/03/04, it is NZ$135 for a full-time student and NZ$185 for others;
for those registering after 12/03/04, the fee is $50 more.
We have
revised the web site. It now contains News, Local Information
(including About Dunedin, Maps, Accommodation, Local Climate, What to
Wear, Tours, and Useful Links), and General Information (including
About EPC, About the Society, About New Zealand, Exchange Rates, and
whether you need to apply beforehand for a visa to travel to New
Zealand [you probably won't]).
The
information on the history of the conference and of the Society is
quite scanty. If you can fill in any of the gaps, I'd be delighted to
hear from you.
5 November 2003
Virgin Blue officially launched its new international carrier, Pacific
Blue, in Christchurch today. It will start daily flights between
Brisbane and Christchurch in February 2004 with various cheap fares.
See <http://www.travelbiz.com.au/articles/57/0c01a057.
asp>.
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October 2003
The New Zealand Commerce Commission rejected the proposed Alliance
between Qantas and Air New Zealand. This means the two airlines will
continue to compete, which should be better for consumers. See <http://www.comcom.govt.nz/publications/display_mr.
cfm?mr_id=1261>.
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September 2003
Virgin Blue will commence
flights between east-coast airports and Christchurch from February
2004 <http://www.abc.net.au/business/mnb/content/s
947746.htm>.
The new service, top be called Pacific Blue, will have all fares less
than about NZ$189 one way. Qantas also recently announced 30% discounts
on fares for the same routes.
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August 2003
I have been heartened to see
the first shots in what I hope will become a fare war across the
Tasman. Air New Zealand has announced fares of NZ$189 (plus taxes and
levies) for a one-way trip between Sydney and any major NZ airport
(Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch). These fares take effect in
October. I'm hoping this prompts the other airlines travelling across
the Tasman (Freedom Air, Qantas, Virgin Blue?, United Emirates) to
enter a war that will be most intense around April.
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