Welcome
HCSNet is pleased to bring you the 2007 SummerFest, to be held at The University of New South Wales (UNSW) from
3-7 December. We have a terrific program of events this year…lots of the old stuff we know you enjoy but also plenty of new events and activities to keep you up-to-date with the ever changing world of Human Communication Science.
Keynote Speakers
We have our biggest line-up of keynote speakers ever this year! Over the 5 days of SummerFest we will be featuring 12 keynote speakers, including international and local experts and a Supreme Court judge. More details can be found
here.
2007 SummerFest Events
- The HCSNet Summer School will consist of twelve 3 hour topics spread over Monday 3 and Tuesday 4 December. Sample topics include: corpus linguistics, communication disorders, speech processing and text generation. Please remember that our Summer School is not just for students, it’s open to all SummerFest participants.
- The Student Poster Evening will be held on the evening of Monday 3 December. The poster session is a great way for students to showcase the research they have been working on over the past year and the evening is always a lot of fun. A relaxed social event for everyone! Submissions now closed.
- The HCSNet Speed Papers session is one of our favourites! We’ll be aiming to get through as many 4-minute “speed papers” as possible during the morning of Wednesday 5 December. Come along and give a speed paper… you won’t be disappointed.
- The International Conference on Music Communication Science will be brought you by HCSNet and AMPS and held over 3 days from Wednesday 5 to Friday 7 December. We are really excited about this conference which promises to deliver first-class research papers and enchanting performances. Submissions are now closed for ICOMCS.
- Our annual Conference Dinner will be held on the evening of Thursday 6 December. This is always a great night with plenty of good food, wine and friends. We encourage all SummerFest participants to come along and enjoy the evening.
- HCSNet is teaming up with HXi to bring you a 2 day workshop on Collaboration and Communicative Tools for Distributed Communities to be held Thursday 6 and Friday 7 December. The workshop will be brought to you by Barbara Kelly from the University of Melbourne and Robert McArthur of the CSIRO. Submissions now closed.
- Our final event is the very exciting Forensic Speaker Recognition Workshop to be held over 2 days on Thursday 6 and Friday 7 December. This is shaping up to be one of our best workshops ever with presentations by five highly renown speakers and Supreme Court Justice David Hodgson. Submissions now closed.
Detailed Program
A full program of events for both SummerFest '07 and ICoMCS is now available for download.
Please click here for Program
Important Details
Registration for SummerFest (and all associated events) is now open. Please click on the registration link to the left and proceed via the online form. We look forward to seeing you at SummerFest ’07!
Post SummerFest
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