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The registration fees will cover meeting room rental, A/V costs, breakfast both days, snacks and refreshments, and a reception on the evening of May 8th.

Revision as of 20:44, 18 April 2014

The 2014 Context and Episodic Memory Symposium (CEMS), now in its tenth year, will be held on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA, on May 8th and 9th, 2014.

The symposium is designed to be a forum for the exchange of ideas among colleagues working on theoretical and empirical approaches to the study of context and episodic memory, broadly construed.

Announcements

  • We are pleased to announce that Dr. Gordon Bower will be giving the keynote presentation at CEMS 2014!
  • Registration and abstract submission instructions are posted below; bookmark this page for future announcements.
  • Please visit the page for CEMS 2013 for information on the previous year's symposium, a group photo, and info on the student presenter award.


Location & Hotel

The symposium will be held at the Inn at Penn, a Hilton hotel, which also serves as the host hotel for the conference.

Click here to view this location on Google Maps

Hotel

Our Inn at Penn group rate is online. Reservations can be made until April 23 at this link or by calling with the group code "DOP". (The group code is good for the nights of the 7th and 8th.)

Please note that our room block will be released on April 23rd.

More info on the Inn at Penn can be found on their website.

Travel

The University of Pennsylvania is served by Philadelphia International Airport and Amtrak 30th Street Station, and is a short train or taxi ride away from both.

From the Airport

  • Towncar
    • Uber is a on-demand towncar service that you can summon using an app on your iPhone or Android device, or from m.uber.com, or by texting an address and city to UBR-CAB (827-222).
    • Airport flat rate to and from Center City (including Penn campus) is $60 for a towncar (up to 4 people comfortably) or $85 for a luxury SUV (up to 6 people comfortably)
    • Normal rates for a towncar are a $7.00 base fare plus $3.75 per mile, or $0.85 per minute of wait time, with a $15 minimum fare. SUV rates are higher.
    • Link a credit card to your account. No need to pay your driver directly, and tip is included.
    • You must create an account first. Sign up using this CEMS 2013 link and receive a $10 bonus credit towards your first ride.
  • Taxi
    • Taxi fare between Center City Philadelphia (including Penn campus) and the airport is $28.50 each way for one passenger.
    • For trips to Center City from the airport, there is an additional $1 fee per passenger. Most cabs hold up to 3 people.
    • The trip takes between 15-30 minutes depending on traffic.
  • Regional Rail
    • The airport is served by SEPTA's Airport Regional Rail line, which stops at each terminal.
    • In Center City, you may use either the University City or 30th Street stops on the Airport line.
    • Tickets are $7.00 per person each way.
    • The train is scheduled to run every 30 minutes.
    • The trip takes 15-20 minutes depending on terminal, and the weekday schedule may be found here.

From 30th Street Station

Driving/Parking

  • The University of Pennsylvania is close to both I-76 and I-95.
  • The Inn at Penn offers valet parking Charge at $39.00 for overnight parking with in and out privileges and 20.00 for daily event parking (prices subject to change).
  • Self parking is available at a garage at 38th & Sansom, one block from The Inn At Penn. More garages may be found on this map.

Campus/Surrounding Area

More information about the University of Pennsylvania and its environs will be available soon.

Getting Around

  • SEPTA subways, trolleys, and buses run all over Philadelphia.
  • Taxis are plentiful.
    • Fares are a $2.70 flag drop plus $0.23 per 1/10 mi or 38 seconds of wait time.
  • Uber is a on-demand towncar service that you can summon using an app on your iPhone or Android device, or from m.uber.com, or by texting an address and city to UBR-CAB (827-222).
    • Normal rates for a towncar are a $7.00 base fare plus $3.75 per mile, or $0.85 per minute of wait time, with a $15 minimum fare. SUV rates are higher.
    • Link a credit card to your account. No need to pay your driver directly, and tip is included.
    • You must create an account first. Sign up using this CEMS 2013 link and receive a $10 bonus credit towards your first ride.

Registration

Registration is available at this link.

Early registration fees (until and including April 30th)* for CEMS 2014 are:

  • $210 for faculty
  • $180 for postdocs
  • $150 for students

* Starting May 1, late registration fees (above plus 25%) will apply. Registration will be available at the welcome desk of the conference via credit card.

The registration fees will cover meeting room rental, A/V costs, breakfast both days, snacks and refreshments, and a reception on the evening of May 8th.

Students and advisors: We have several student travel awards available, similar to last year. In 2013, the awards took the form of registration fee waivers. If you are interested, please DO NOT use the registration link above; instead, e-mail the committee at context.symposium@gmail.com.

Abstract Submission

The format of CEMS is to have a relatively small number of spoken presentations each followed by a commentary given by a scientist working on related problems. The program committee aims to identify submissions that highlight major new theoretical and/or empirical advances. Papers not selected for these spoken presentations can be given as poster presentations. In previous years, posters have been a major highlight of the meeting and have been very well attended. The Bennet B. Murdock award will be given for the best poster or spoken presentation by a young investigator, as determined by the committee.

Abstract submission for talks is closed; the list of featured talks can be found below, and the organizing committee will be finalizing the structure of the program shortly. Please e-mail context.symposium@gmail.com if you have any questions.

List of featured spoken presentations

First author will be presenting unless otherwise noted.

  • Samuel J. Gershman, Noah D. Goodman (MIT, Stanford): Amortized inference in probabilistic reasoning
    • Discussant: Alan Stocker, University of Pennsylvania
  • Uri Hasson, Janice Chen, Christopher J. Honey (Princeton, University of Toronto): Hierarchical active memory: an ecologically and biologically plausible model of neural processing
    • Discussant: Marc Coutanche, University of Pennsylvania
  • Pernille Hemmer, Kimele Persaud (Rutgers): The relative contribution of global versus local context on free recall for natural scenes
    • Discussant: Mariam Aly, Princeton University
  • David E. Huber, Trygve Solstad (UMass Amherst, Norwegian University of Science and Technology): A Memory Model of Grid Cell Responses
    • Discussant: Joshua Jacobs, Drexel University
  • Lynn J. Lohnas, Sean M. Polyn, Michael J. Kahana (NYU, Vanderbilt, Penn): Expanding the scope of memory search: Modeling intralist and interlist effects in free recall
    • Discussant: Simon Dennis, University of Newcastle, Australia
  • Sean M. Polyn (Vanderbilt): A neuro-cognitive model of retrieval dynamics in free recall
    • Discussant: Janice Chen, Princeton University
  • Lili Sahakyan, Branden Abushanab (UNC Greensboro): Accelerating contextual drift through contrasting context retrieval in the list-before-last paradigm
    • Discussant: TBA
  • Adam E. Hasinski, Brandon M. Turner, Per B. Sederberg (presenting) (Ohio State, Stanford): Total (Free) Recall: A Bayesian framework for trial-level analysis of memory models
    • Discussant: Michael Lee, University of California Irvine
  • Mikail Katkov, Sandro Romani, Misha Tsodyks (presenting) (NYU, Weizmann Institute): Long-term memory representations limit the capacity of free recall of unrelated words
    • Discussant: Karl Healey, University of Pennsylvania

Past Symposia

For information about previous years' CEMS, please click here.