Wilfrid Sellars Society

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From: Sorin Baiasu <s.baiasu@keele.ac.uk>
Subject: Second CFA: Kant and the British Idealists

‘Kant and the British Idealists’ conference

Call for Abstracts

To be held at the Cave Castle Hotel, South Cave, near Hull, on 29 and 30 August 2012.

On 29 and 30 August 2012, the UK Kant Society and the Centre for Idealism and the New Liberalism at the University of Hull, UK, will host a joint conference entitled ‘Kant and the British idealists’.  The conference seeks to explore the relationship between any aspect of the philosophies of Immanuel Kant, Kantians and the British idealists.  No branch of philosophy is excluded, and papers can be either philosophical or historical.

Keynote Speakers:
Dr Giuseppina D’Oro (Keele)
Dr William Mander (Oxford)

If you are interested in attending the conference, please email your name and affiliation, the title of your proposed paper and an abstract of up to 1000 words, to appropriate person (if in doubt, please send one email to both people):

British Idealism: Dr Colin Tyler (c.tyler@hull.ac.uk)

Kant: Dr Sorin Baiasu (s.baiasu@keele.ac.uk)

The final date for proposing a paper is 2 JUNE 2012

For further information, please see the conference website: http://www2.hull.ac.uk/fass/politics/research/cinl/kant.aspx

The event is jointly sponsored by Mind, the CINL and the UKKS.
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Dr Sorin Baiasu
Reader in Philosophy
Philosophy Programme Director
Secretary of the UK Kant Society
Co-convenor of the ECPR Kantian Standing Group
SPIRE: School of Politics, Int’l Relations & Philosophy
University of Keele ST5 5BG, UK
Tel: +44(0)1782-733364
Fax: +44(0)1782-733592
Web: www.keele.ac.uk/spire/staff/baiasu
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From: Cezary Cieśliński <c.cieslinski@uw.edu.pl>
Subject: CfP: Conference “Numbers and truth”, Gothenburg, Sweden, October 19-21, 2012

Announcement and Call for Papers

Conference “Numbers and truth – the philosophy and mathematics of arithmetic and truth”
Gothenburg, Sweden, October 19-21, 2012

We are pleased to announce that the conference “Numbers and truth - the philosophy and mathematics of arithmetic and truth” (http://www.numbersandtruth.org/) will be held at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, on October 19-21, 2012. Its main objective is to permit an exchange of ideas between truth theorists, philosophers and mathematicians interested in the foundations of mathematics. It will give the researchers an opportunity both to present technical results and to diagnose their philosophical significance.

General description

Natural numbers belong to the most commonly known mathematical
entities and are studied and discussed from various angles.
Philosophers, mathematicians, cognitive scientists, computer
scientists among others conduct research having for its aim a deeper
understanding of these objects. The present conference “Numbers and
truth” will contribute to these efforts and bring together researchers
and traditions from all these areas to construct common ground for new
research.
Within recent philosophy of mathematics a couple of competitive
philosophical schools came to the foreground; importantly,
structuralism and neo-Fregeanism. Both of them espouse realism about
mathematical objects: these objects exist independently of our minds.
In addition, both espouse realism about truth: arithmetical sentences
have objective truth values. In this context a natural question arises
whether theories of arithmetical truth provide us a better
understanding of what is true of natural numbers, and in consequence,
of what natural numbers are. What is the relation between a choice of
a particular conception of arithmetical truth and one’s overall
standpoint in the philosophy of mathematics, or maybe even one’s
preferred way of doing mathematics? On a general level, the aim of the
conference is to address issues of this sort. This will be achieved by
bringing together both the acknowledged experts and outstanding
younger researchers, in order to facilitate discussion between
philosophers of mathematics, truth theorists and mathematicians.

The conference will contain 10 invited and 4 contributed talks.

The invited speakers who have confirmed their participation are (in
alphabetic order):
•       Martin Fischer (Munich)
•       Volker Halbach (Oxford)
•       Leon Horsten (Bristol)
•       Richard Kaye (Birmingham)
•       Juliette Kennedy (Helsinki)
•       Roman Kossak (New York)
•       Rafał Urbaniak (Ghent)
•       Sean Walsh (London/Irvine)
•       Konrad Zdanowski (Warsaw)

Submissions Details

We invite submissions presenting novel contributions to the area of
philosophy of mathematics, arithmetic together with its meta-
mathematics and model theory, and formal theory of truth. Both
philosophical and technical submissions are welcome; especially ones
contributing to the discussion of how truth in mathematics should be
properly explained.

Extended abstracts of 3-4 pages should be emailed as attached pdf
files to the address organizers@numbersandtruth.org. Abstracts for
submission should be prepared for double-blind reviewing, please
remove names and affiliations, and any other identifying material.
Contact details should be given separately. Presentations should not
exceed 45 minutes, including discussion time. The deadline for
submitting extended abstracts is August 1, 2012.

The organizers will cover the cost of accommodation and dinners for
all contributed speakers.

Important Dates:

Submission deadline:  August 1, 2012
Notification of acceptance:  August 31, 2012
Conference: October 19-21, 2012
Contact: organizers@numbersandtruth.org

Conference Website: http://www.numbersandtruth.org/

Organizers: Fredrik Engström (Gothenburg), Cezary Cieśliński (Warsaw),
and Paula Quinon (Lund)

Sponsors: Wenner-Gren Foundations and the Department of Philosophy,
Linguistics and Theory of Science, University of Gothenburg.

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From: Dietmar HEIDEMANN <Dietmar.Heidemann@uni.lu>
Subject: CFP: Kant Yearbook 5/2013
CALL FOR PAPERS

KANT YEARBOOK 5/2013

Kant and Contemporary Theory of Knowledge

The KANT YEARBOOK is now accepting submissions for its fifth issue in 2013. The KANT YEARBOOK is an international journal that publishes articles on the philosophy of Immanuel Kant. It is the KANT YEARBOOK’s goal to intensify innovative research on Kant on the international scale. For that reason the KANT YEARBOOK prefers to publish articles in English, however articles in German will also be considered. Each issue will be dedicated to a specific topic. The fifth issue’s topic is

“KANT AND CONTEMPORARY THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE”.

All papers discussing Kant’s theory of knowledge from the point of view of contemporary philosophy are welcome. “Theory of knowledge” is to be broadly construed. The KANT YEARBOOK practices double-blind review, i.e. the reviewers are not aware of the identity of a manuscript’s author, and the author is not aware of the reviewers’ identity. Submitted manuscripts must be anonymous; that is the authors’ names and references to their work capable of identifying them are not to appear in the manuscript. Detailed instructions and author guidelines are available at http://kantyearbook.uni.lu/ (http://philosophie.uni.lu). For further information contact the editor or the publisher Walter de Gruyter, Berlin/New York (www.degruyter.com). Paper submissions should go to dietmar.heidemann@uni.lu

Deadline for submission is:                     July 1, 2012

Editor: Dietmar H. Heidemann (University of Luxembourg). Editorial Board: Henry E. Allison (University of California at Davis), Karl Ameriks (Notre Dame), Gordon Brittan (Montana State University), Klaus Düsing (University of Cologne), Daniel O. Dahlstrom (Boston University), Kristina Engelhard (University of Cologne), Hannah Ginsborg (University of California at Berkeley), Michelle Grier (University of San Diego), Thomas Grundmann (University of Cologne), Paul Guyer (University of Pennsylvania), Robert Hanna (University of Colorado at Boulder), Lothar Kreimendahl (University of Mannheim), Georg Mohr (University of Bremen), Angelica Nuzzo (Brooklyn College/CUNY), Robert Stern (Sheffield University), Dieter Sturma (University of Bonn), Robert Theis (University of Luxembourg), Ken Westphal (University of Kent), Marcus Willaschek (University of Frankfurt). Publisher: De Gruyter Berlin/New York
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http://philosophie.uni.lu

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From: Fritz Allhoff <fritz.allhoff@wmich.edu>
Subject: JOB: Postdoctoral Fellowship in Philosophy of Neuroscience at Rotman Institute of Philosophy
The Brain and Mind Institute and the Rotman Institute of Philosophy at Western University invite applications for a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Philosophy of Neuroscience. The Fellowship will provide a new scholar in philosophy of neuroscience with a unique opportunity to pursue his or her chosen areas of scholarly research in collaboration with neuroscientists and philosophers.

Western’s Brain and Mind Institute is a leading international center for cognitive neuroscience research. Ongoing research seeks to understand the neural bases of mental abilities such as perception, memory, reasoning, attention, self-awareness, motor control, language, and consciousness. Faculty include six Canada Research Chair holders and the recipient of a Canada Excellence Research Chair.

The Rotman Institute of Philosophy is situated in one of Canada’s leading departments of philosophy, and it brings together philosophers and scientists to work on problems of global significance. Rotman faculty include two Canada Research Chair holders, and ongoing research focuses on a variety of aspects of contemporary physics, biology, and medical science.

The Postdoctoral Fellowship in Philosophy of Neuroscience has a one-year term with the possibility of renewal for a second year, and the Fellow will be co-supervised by faculty from the Brain and Mind Institute and the Rotman Institute of Philosophy. The Fellow will be affiliated with a lab in the Brain and Mind Institute and will participate in a program of ongoing neuroscience research related to his or her own philosophical interests. The Fellow will have an office within the Rotman Institute in the Department of Philosophy, and will participate fully in the research life of the Institute, including participation in conferences, research groups, and reading groups. The Fellow is also expected to teach a half course in the Department of Philosophy.

Candidates must have had a PhD in Philosophy conferred within five years of the start of the Fellowship. All PhD requirements must be completed by the starting date of this Postdoctoral Fellowship, September 1, 2012. The stipend is $38,000 CDN plus $6,180 CDN for teaching a half course in the Department of Philosophy. Additionally, the Fellow will be provided a research allowance of $5,000 CDN. Please send a curriculum vitae, writing sample, research statement, and three letters of reference to: Rob Read, Administrative Assistant, Rotman Institute of Philosophy, 2150E Stevenson Hall, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5B8.  Fax: 519-661-3261. All items, except letters of reference, may be sent by rotman@uwo.ca.

Applications must be received by June 15, 2012. This position is subject to the availability of funds. Applicants should have fluent oral and written communication skills in English. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadian citizens and permanent residents will be given priority. Western University is committed to employment equity and welcomes applications from all qualified women and men, including visible minorities, aboriginal people and persons with disabilities.

http://www.rotman.uwo.ca/get-involved/students/doctoral-scholarships/postdoctoral-fellowship-in-philosophy-of-neuroscience/

Fritz Allhoff

Associate Professor &

Director of Graduate Studies

Philosophy Department

Western Michigan University

Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5328

269.387.4503 (ph)

269.387.4390 (f)

www.allhoff.org

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From: Fritz Allhoff <fritz.allhoff@wmich.edu>
Subject: JOB: Visiting Fellows Program at Rotman Institute of Philosophy
The Rotman Institute of Philosophy invites applications to its Visiting Fellows Program for 2013. The program offers scholars the opportunity to spend one semester as part of an active, diverse and welcoming intellectual community working at the intersection of philosophy and the sciences.

Applications are welcome from scholars holding doctoral degrees who are pursuing research projects that engage contemporary science from the perspectives of ethics, epistemology, history or policy.

Visiting Fellows have no formal duties beyond an active participation in the intellectual life of the Rotman Institute. They are encouraged to participate in the many reading groups, seminars, talks, workshops and other ongoing projects at the Rotman Institute, and to give talks introducing their own research projects to the Institute.  They are invited as well to take advantage of the broader activities of the Department of Philosophy including colloquia, conferences, and graduate seminars (with instructor permission). Western University’s Department of Philosophy is one of the most distinguished in Canada.

Each Visiting Fellow is provided with an office in the Rotman Institute of Philosophy equipped with a desktop computer; modest office and IT support; and full access to the library facilities and services of Western University. Visiting Fellows must reside in London, Ontario for the duration of their term, and they receive a supplementary stipend of $1,300 per month to help defray the cost of relocation. Note that purchase of the University Health Insurance Plan is mandatory, and depending on family size, can range close to $1000.

How to Apply

Applications will be considered on a rolling basis. However, to insure full consideration for a Visiting Fellowship beginning in January 2013 applications should be received by June 30. 2012. Applications will continue to be reviewed throughout the year, within space and funding constraints. Interested applicants are encouraged to inquire about possible openings at any time of year.

Applications should include:

1.    Cover letter
2.    Curriculum Vitae
3.    Description of research to be undertaken during Fellowship
4.    Sample of written work (electronic file, hard copy, or website URL)
5.    For Junior Applicants: list of 2-3 referees familiar with your work

Applications may be submitted by email to rotman@uwo.ca or in hard copy to:

Rotman Institute of Philosophy
Department of Philosophy
Stevenson Hall 2150E
Western University
London, Ontario, CANADA N6A 5B8

http://www.rotman.uwo.ca/get-involved/faculty/visiting-fellow-program/

Fritz Allhoff

Associate Professor &

Director of Graduate Studies

Philosophy Department

Western Michigan University

Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5328

269.387.4503 (ph)

269.387.4390 (f)

www.allhoff.org

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From: Federica Russo <federica.russo@gmail.com>
Subject: Final reminder: Evidence and Causality in the Sciences – deadline 15 May
**deadline 15 May 2012**
Call for papers

Please circulate widely — Apologies for crossposting
EVIDENCE AND CAUSALITY IN THE SCIENCE

ECitS 2012

Centre for Reasoning, University of Kent, 5-7 September 2012

Organisers: Phyllis Illari and Federica Russo

http://www.kent.ac.uk/secl/philosophy/jw/2012/ecits/

Causality is a vibrant and thriving topic in philosophy of science. It is closely related to many other challenging scientific concepts, such as probability and mechanisms, which arise in many different scientific contexts, in different fields.  For example, they are relevant to both causal inference (finding out what causes what) and causal explanation (explaining how a cause produces its effect).  They are also of interest to fields as diverse as astrophysics, biochemistry, biomedical and social sciences. There has also been an explosion of interest in evidence, most obviously in biomedical contexts with the rise of ‘evidence-based medicine’, but also elsewhere, such as in social science.  What is evidence?  How do we decide what our best sources of evidence are?
This conference will examine the relation between causality and evidence. This involves questions about the foundations of the sciences, e.g. what is evidence and how does it contribute to causal knowledge?  But it also involves questions about specific applications, e.g. how should we best deal with the many problems of evidence given by expert witnesses in court; and questions about policy-making, e.g. what constitutes evidence of causation that is relevant to the design of socio-economic and public health policies?
These questions are all of immense current concern.  Pressure on health systems from ageing populations, the obesity epidemic, coupled with severe financial constraints on public policy, means governments are demanding answers with increasing urgency.
**Confirmed Speakers**

Iain Chalmers

Mathias Frisch

David Lagnado

Sandra Mitchell
**Timetable**

15 May 2012: deadline for submission of titles and abstracts of papers for presentation at the conference

◦ Please submit only once: EITHER a long abstract (1000 words max) for presentation, OR a short abstract (300 words max) for a poster presentation.
◦ Send your abstract in doc, dock, txt, rft or pdf format.
◦ To be emailed to Phyllis Illari (phyllisillari@hotmail.co.uk) or Federica Russo (f.russo@kent.ac.uk)

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Dr Federica Russo
Center Leo Apostel, VUB (BE) &
Centre for Reasoning, Kent (UK)
email: f.russo@kent.ac.uk or russo_fede@yahoo.it

https://blogs.kent.ac.uk/federica

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From: Cyrille Imbert <Cyrille.Imbert@univ-nancy2.fr>
Subject: CONF: Epistemic groups and collaborative research in science
Conference annoucement and call for abstracts
Call for Abstracts: Epistemic groups and collaborative research in science

Nancy, France, 17-19 December 2012

A large part of scientific research is now done in a collaborative way or within groups, from small local collaborations to international teams. More generally, many epistemic activities need to be analyzed in the context of the group or community in which they take place. The conference is devoted to a philosophical analysis of collaborative research and of group epistemic life in general.

It is open to various approaches, in particular philosophical and epistemological ones. Case-studies as well as formal studies are welcome, insofar as they serve a philosophical thesis.

Invited speakers

Denis Bonnay (University Paris Ouest Nanterre, France)

Rebecca Kukla (Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA)

Christian List (London School of Economics, UK)

Erik J. Olsson (Lund University, Sweden)

Jan Sprenger (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)

K. Brad Wray (State University of New York, Oswego, NY, USA)

Scientific committee

Anouk Barberousse (University of Lille 1, France)

Mikael Cozic (University of Paris 12, France)

Paul Égré (Institut Jean Nicod, Paris, France)

Ryan Muldoon (University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA)

Organizers

Thomas Boyer (Archives Henri Poincaré and MSH Lorraine, Nancy)

Cyrille Imbert (CNRS, Archives Henri Poincaré, Nancy)

All inquiries should be sent to thomas.boyer@univ-lorraine.fr

Questions of interest include but are not limited to:

- What types of collaborative work should be distinguished, and why? What types of epistemic groups should be distinguished, and why?

- What are (or should be) propositional attitudes in (epistemic, scientific) groups, and how are epistemic decisions taken?

- What kinds of epistemic commitments are required in collaboration and group activity?

- To what extent does collaborative research and the activity of epistemic groups require collective/common/distributed knowledge?

- How does opinion dynamics works in scientific and non-scientific communities?

- Why do scientists collaborate and in which circumstances should they?

- Are the scientific practices of groups different from those of individual scientists?

- How do scientific groups interact, if they do?

- Do groups work similarly in various fields of science? Do theoretical and experimental groups work in the same way?

- To what extent is the epistemic activity of scientific groups different from the epistemic activity of other groups?

Submissions

We invite submissions of extended abstracts of 1000 words, plus a short abstract of 150 words. Abstracts should be anonymous and suitable for blind refereeing. They should be sent to thomas.boyer@univ-lorraine.fr, by 20 June 2012. Preferred formats for submission are .odt, .doc or .docx. Notifications of acceptance will be made by 10 July 2012. The conference language is English.

Dates and deadlines

Deadline for submission of abstracts: 20 June 2012

Notification of acceptance: 10 July 2012

Date of the conference: 17-19 December 2012

Place of the conference

Nancy (France), MSH Lorraine

Web page:

http://poincare.univ-nancy2.fr/Epistemic+groups+and+collaborative+research+in+science/

Financial support is provided by the Archives Henri Poincaré and the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme de Lorraine.

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From: Viorel Guliciuc <viorelguliciuc@yahoo.com>
Subject: PHEADE 2012 Final Extended deadline – w corrections
Apologies for corrections & multiple postings!

FINAL EXTENDED DEADLINE: MAY 28, 2012
(due to other several requests)
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WISDOM IN THE EMERGENT TECHNOLOGIES ERA

(W-ETE 2012)

Co-Chairs: Viorel Guliciuc viorel.guliciuc.1958@gmail.com
Kuruvilla Pandikattu kurusj@gmail.com

Website: www.goldenideashome.com/ephes2012/
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The conference will we held at the JDV Centre for Science-Religion Studies
(Jnana-Deepa Vidyapeeth University = former Papal Seminary)
Pune, India
between November 1 and 5 2012.

It is co-organized by
SRFIT / ROSPHET (Romanian Society for Philosophy, Enginering and Technoethics)
and
JDV Centre for Science-Religion Studies

Theme:THE WISDOM IN THE EMERGENT TECHNOLOGIES ERA.

We are living in the Engineering Era.
However, the engineering / re-engineering simply cannot be used everywhere.
Moreover, a good engineering / re-engineering is always a question of good knowledge management, eventually.

The main tracks we are inviting you to participate are:
The sciences on / and the wisdom
The humanities on / and the wisdom
Wisdom in-the-making (from the engineering perspective)
Is there wisdom in the research of wisdom?
Information, knowledge and wisdom

We are inviting the philosophers, the theologians, the biologists (especially the neurobiologists), the economists, the psychologists, the engineers, the researchers from the literary studies, the writers, the artists, etc., to debate the theme and his tracks, between November 1 and 4, in Pune / Poona, at  JDV Center for Science-Religion Studies, in the state of Maharashtra, India.

Send your extended abstract = 1200-1500 words to the organizers until MAY 28, 2012

Scientific Committee
Yolanda Angulo, Centro de Estudios Genealogicos, UNAM, Mexico City, Mexic
Diab Al-Badayneh, Muta’h University, Kerak, Jordan
Piotr Boltuc – University of Illinois in Spriengfield, U.S.A.
Luciano Floridi, UNESCO Chair in Information and Computer Ethics, University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
Viorel Guliciuc, Romanian Society for Philosophy, Engineering and Technoethics, Suceava, Romania
Kuruvilla Pandikattu, JDV Centre for Science-Religion Studies, Pune, India
Lorenzo Magnani, MBR conferences organizer, University of Pavia, Italy
Marcin Schroeder – Akita International University, Japan
Shu-Kun Lin – MDPI, Basel, Switzerland
Joao Vila-Cha – Gregorian University, Rome, Italy

Key speakers (confirmed; under completion)
- Marcin Schroeder – Akita International University, JApan
- Joao Vila-Cha – Gregorian University,Vatican
- Aurel Codoban – Babes Bolyai University – CLuj-Napoca, Romania
- Cristian Suteanu – St.Mary’s University, Canada

Your proposal will be quickly analyzed by the members of the Scientific Committee based on the Reviewing Board’s ranking.
The identities of the members of the Reviewing Board will be published in the conference’s program.

Due to the financial and logistic reasons, we will have to limit the participants.
WE HAVE ONLY 3 or 4 (maximum) places available!!!

After the blind peer review, we will select only the best 5-7 papers for each of the tracks, on the rule:
first paper received, peer reviewed and accepted = first offering the possibility for the registration (no later than April 30, 2012)
The papers should be submitted no later than June 30 2012!

Expenses
Compulsory:
- Registration Fees:75USD
Optional:
- Accommodation etc (4 days of food and lodging; special banquet; pickup from Mumbai/Pune airport): 200 USD
- Social Program participation:75 USD (for 1 ½ day trip to the world famous Ajanta-Ellora caves).

Registration fees, Accommodation and the Social Program will be paid by cash, when arriving at JDV.

Travel to Pune:
There are regular flights from Frankfurt and Dubai (twice a week). Otherwise you can fly to Mumbai/Bombay and Pune is only three hours from Mumbai by car.
Travel opportunities in Pune:
Pune is the cultural capital of Maharashtra. Known popularly as the “Oxford of the East,” Pune houses more than 15 Universities and is historically and politically very significant. Recently it has become also the technological hub of India and so we have lots of places to visit.
Some significant places you can visit when coming from or leaving to Mumbai/Bombay
• Kasturba Samadhi (Gandhi National Museum where Gandhi’s wife and secretary are cremated. Gandhi had been imprisoned in this house)
• Rajgad Fort
• World Osho Center (Spiritual Centre of Bhagawan Osho: Only limited access)
• Aga Khan Palace (Where Gandhi was imprisoned)
• Parvati temple

Please send your questions to the organizers, at:
viorel.guliciuc.1958@gmail.com
kurusj@gmail.com
or using the conference’s website

The website of the conference is:  www.pheade.ro/2012/

Important note:
Please use the Easy Chair system in order to submit
your abstracts, using the address

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wete2012

If you do not have an Easy Chair account, you have to create one, first, in order to submit your abstract / paper
However, if you are nor familiar or if you have difficulties with the Easy Chair system,
please feel free to send us your abstract at: viorel_guliciuc@yahoo.com.

Important dates:
FINAL Submission deadline: May 28, 2012
Acceptance / non-acceptance of the papers: June 152012
Registration deadline: June 22 2012
Papers submission deadline: June 30 2012
Conference dates:  Nov 1(morn) – Nov. 5, 2012
Social program: Nov 4-5
(arriving: October 31  and departing – November 5 or 6)

Pay attention to the visa requirements for India, please!