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The 2012 Context and Episodic Memory Symposium (CEMS), now in its ninth year, will be held on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA, on May 9th and 10th, 2013.

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.

The list of featured presentations can be found below. The program committee will be in touch with potential discussants soon.

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

The page for making reservations at the CEMS group rate is available. Click here to book your hotel reservation at the Inn at Penn. If you book over the phone, please use group code "DOP".

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.
  • Link a credit card to your account. No need to pay your driver directly, and tip is included.
  • Sign up using this CEMS 2013 link and receive a $10 bonus credit.
• 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.
    • University City is a pleasant 0.6 mi walk through Penn's campus, while 30th Street Station is a less-pleasant 0.8 mi, but easier to hail a cab if desired.
  • 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

• The walk from 30th Street Station to the Inn at Penn is roughly 0.8 miles and goes through the campus of Drexel University.
• There is a taxi stand immediately outside the East doors of the station.
• SEPTA's trolley and bus lines connect at 30th Street Station and cost $2.00 (exact change only, or you may buy tokens).

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.
  • Normal base rate is $2.00 cash (exact change only), or a token. More information about fares can be found here.
  • You may find a complete system map here. You can also find transit directions on Google Maps.
• 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. (SUV rates are higher.)
  • Link a credit card to your account. No need to pay your driver directly, and tip is included.
  • Sign up using this CEMS 2013 link and receive a $10 bonus credit.

Registration

Click here to register unless you are University of Pennsylvania faculty, postdoc, student, or staff and paying with a grant or other research funds. See below for Penn affiliate registration instructions.

Registration fees have been lowered (as of 2/15) thanks to grants from Penn's University Research Foundation and the School of Arts and Sciences:

• $220 for faculty
• $180 for postdocs
• $140 for students

In addition, these grants will allow the Organizing Committee to give student travel awards. See below for more information.

The registration fees will cover meeting room rental, A/V costs, breakfast both days, snacks, and a reception on the evening of May 9th.

Student Travel Awards

A grant from the University of Pennsylvania's University Research Foundation (URF) will allow us to give student travel awards to defray the costs of registration, travel, and lodging. If you are interested in applying for one of these awards, e-mail the committee at context.symposium@gmail.com.

Penn Affiliate Registration

Instead of paying via credit card on the above registration page, please send the following information to context.symposium@gmail.com:

• Registration type (faculty, postdoc, or student/staff)
• Preferred salutation (Professor, Dr., Mrs, Ms., Mr.) (optional)
• First name
• Last name
• Address
• City, state, zip
• Phone number
• E-mail address
• Any dietary restrictions (optional)

You will then receive further instructions on paying for registration with a Penn fund number.

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 is closed. Please e-mail context.symposium@gmail.com if you have any questions.

Data Blitz Talks

If you submitted an abstract that was not accepted as a featured talk, we invite you to attend the meeting and to present your work in one of two ways:

1. as a poster, or
2. as a short (5 minute) “data blitz” talk

The data blitz session is a new feature of the meeting this year. In other yearly meetings of comparable size (e.g., the Memory Disorders Research Society meeting), 5-minute data blitz talks have proved to be a very popular and effective way to convey new findings and ideas, and we are excited to incorporate this presentation format into the CEMS meeting.

Our advice for presenters is as follows: If you think that you can effectively convey your main finding in just a few slides, then you should consider doing a data blitz talk (note that 5 minutes is a very, very short period of time). However, if your results are more complex (e.g., if you are presenting modeling work or multiple experiments), the poster format will probably work better.

We are expecting the poster session and the data blitz session to be central parts of the meeting, with many senior investigators presenting, including members of the program committee.

If you submitted an abstract and you plan to give a poster or a data blitz talk, please let us know your preference for poster or data blitz (if you have not already done so) by emailing context.symposium@gmail.com.

Schedule & List of Featured Talks

The symposium will be held May 9-10, 2013. We expect that the schedule for the first day will be approximately 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., with a reception and poster session following that. The second day will be approximately 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., with the symposium "business meeting" following. More details will be available soon.

List of Featured Talks

• Youssef Ezzyat, Lila Davachi: Neural mechanisms supporting the temporal organization of episodic long-term memory
• Christopher J. Honey, Janice Chen, Erez Simony, Olga Lositsky, Daniel Toker, Kenneth A. Norman, Uri Hasson: Temporal receptive windows in natural perception: a topographic map of mental context
• Gregory J. Koop, Amy H. Criss: Response dynamics as a measure of bias and strength in recognition memory
• Isabel A. Muzzio: Effects of emotion on hippocampal contextual representations
• Robert M. Nosofsky: Discrete-slots models of visual working memory response times
• Sean M. Polyn: Incorporating neural signals into computational models of memory search
• Alison R. Preston: Building new knowledge through memory integration
• Maureen Ritchey, Andrew P. Yonelinas, Charan Ranganath: Medial temporal lobe subregions interact with functionally distinct systems
• Karthik Shankar, Marc W. Howard: Optimally fuzzy memory
• Geoff Ward, Cathleen Cortis, Rachel Grenfell-Essam, Jessica Spurgeon, Lydia Tan: Why do participants initiate their immediate free recall of short lists of words with the first list item?

The program committee will be in touch with potential discussants soon.

Past Symposia

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