Dear Colleagues, This is to let you know that the XXI IBAC will take place in Pavia, Italy, on the 15-18 September 2007, and that for this occasion we are organising a symposium entitled “Vocal communication in mammals”. This symposium will focus on research involving vocal production, social interactions, sexual communication and species or individual recognition in both terrestrial and marine mammals (with the exclusion of underwater communication). The symposium will last 3-4 hours with 20 minutes slots for talks (15 min talk and 5 additional min for questions). If you are willing to participate in this symposium, please send your abstract to one of the organisers, Isabelle Charrier (isabelle.charrier@u-psud.fr) or David Reby (reby@sussex.ac.uk) General information concerning the conference can be found below. Please pass this email on to interested colleagues. ______________________________________________________________ XXI IBAC - International Bioacoustic Congress CIBRA, University of Pavia, 15-18 September 2007 ______________________________________________________________ The XXI International BioAcoustic Congress will be held in the historical buildings of the University of Pavia, Italy, where Spallanzani in the 18th century studied the ability of bats to fly in the dark. The Congress is organized, for the third time, by CIBRA, the Interdisciplinary Center for Bioacoustics and Environmental Research, University of Pavia. The subject of bioacoustics is principally a marriage between the fields of biology and physical acoustics. Given its multidisciplinary nature, the Congress aims to bring together, in informal settings, biologists from different specialisms (ethologists, physiologists, taxonomists, ecologists, etc) with engineers, sound archivists and amateur sound recordists, to foster discussion and exchange of ideas. During the Congress the 2nd European workshop on animal sound research and libraries will be held. The workshop will be organized by CIBRA for the European Network of Bioacoustic Collections for Taxonomy, Systematics and Conservation. The network was created based on the agreement of experts who attended the 1st workshop at the Fonoteca Zoologica (Madrid), 27-30 September 2006, to foster cooperation among institutions, researchers and interested amateurs to safeguard animal sound recordings and to optimise their use as a resource for research and nature conservation. The Congress is based on thematic symposia that will cover both the traditional research areas and new emerging themes. To date, five symposia are planned: "Advanced tools for sound recording and analysis" (G.Pavan et al.) "Vocal communication in mammals" (I.Charrier and D.Reby) "Monitoring the Environment: Bioacoustics as a tool for inventory and monitoring of biodiversity" (K.Frommolt, et al.) "The impacts of anthropogenic noise" (Y.Yan, et al.) "Animal communication networks: from behaviour to brain" (T.Aubin & N.Mathevon) Organizing Committee Gianni Pavan, Claudio Fossati, Michele Manghi, Marco Priano Scientific Committee Richard Ranft, Nicolas Mathevon, Isabelle Charrier, Thierry Aubin, Hong Young Yan, Matija Gogala, David Helweg, Dietmar Todt, Rafael Marquez, Karl-Heinz Frommolt, Gianni Pavan, Guido Pinoli, Michela Podestà Proceedings Selected paper will be published in a special Congress issue of the Bioacoustics journal. Deadlines Abstract Submission should be made no later than May, 20th. Details will be published soon. Presenting Authors should indicate their preferred presentation type, talk or poster; the final decision will be taken by the Scientific Committee; Authors will be informed within 20 days after the deadline. Registration The registration should be made by email no later than June 30th. Email address for registration: ibac@cibra.unipv.it The fees for participants who register by email are: 80€ full registration, 60€ students, 20€ for the social dinner Early registration is strongly encouraged: on-site or late registration will be 100€! Payment modalities Bank transfer PayPal On location (more expensive!) Technical/commercial exhibit Companies and Institutions willing to show and demonstrate their products and services related with bioacoustics are welcome. Information about fees and available facilities will be published as soon as possible. Isabelle CHARRIER Équipe Communications Acoustiques. NAMC-CNRS UMR 8620, Université Paris Sud, Bat.446 F-91405, Orsay, FRANCE. Tel:(33-1).69.15.68.26 Fax:(33-1).69.15.77.26 Email: isabelle.charrier@ibaic.u-psud.fr http://perso.wanadoo.fr/isa-seal/ http://www.cb.u-psud.fr/