Important Deadlines for Authors
September 1, 2009First Call for Papers (abstracts) January 1, 2010Second Call for Papers April 1, 2010Third Call for Papers June 30, 2010Deadline for abstracts September 1, 2010Authors will be informed about contribution's acceptance January 1, 2011Deadline for submission of manuscripts (draft) January 2, 2011Session registration opens (early reduced rate, $650, through June 12, 2011) February 1, 2011Distribution of all manuscripts to local committee for peer review* April 1, 2011Notification to authors of peer review results May 1, 2011Secondary review of revised papers June 1, 2011Deadline for Final (revised) manuscripts June 13, 2011Session registration continues (intermediate reduced rate, $800, through August 12, 2011) July 1, 2011All accepted papers delivered to publisher for printing August 13, 2011Session registration continues (full rate, $1000) September 1, 2011Proceedings printed (preliminary copy) September 12, 2011Conference begins (registration, tours, hospitality) September 15, 2011Conference ends (closing ceremony at noon, tours in the afternoon) December 1, 2011Proceedings printed (final copy). Only papers with authors fully registered will be included in final copy. *Papers may be accepted "as is", "edited" or "rejected". Papers that are "edited" will be returned to authors for corrections. All accepted manuscripts will be sent to the book publisher on July 1 provided that the presenting author has submitted registration (and payment). The local committee peer review is a very important part of the process and authors are requested to respect the January 1 deadline as posted.
Last Revision: January 31, 2011