Invitation to the 20th IERASG Symposium
Dear Colleague,
It is my privilege and honour to invite you to the XXth International Evoked Response Audiometry Study Group (IERASG) Symposium which will take place at Bled, Slovenia, 10–14 June 2007.
The IERASG Symposium is a traditional international meeting, this time taking place in fascinating Slovenia – the country of famous Lipiza horses, caves, vineyards and Julian Alps with their mountain peaks and lakes. I am sure that the 2007 IERASG meeting will attract your attention with its programme – a wide spectrum of audiological topics, to be presented by eminent faculty, as well with the Slovenian natural beauties. It will open also toward the students – see below.
The XXth IERASG symposium has several focal points:
a) it aims at encouraging an open discussion on neonatal hearing screening and the choice of method in the first evaluations
b) it will shift the research focus from periphery to the central and cortical functions in healthy and diseased persons, and
c) it will deal with the acoustically and electrically evoked potentials from the periphery to the cortex.
The Hallowell Davis lecture, this year entitled Sensory cortical changes in aging and early dementia; synaptic adaptation or malfunction?, will be given by Arnold Starr (USA), while the traditional Keynote Lectures, first – Neonatal Hearing Screening: The choice of method in the first evaluations: TEOAE or AABR or something else?, second – Brainstem encoding of sound; implications for language and music, and third – MEG Investigations of auditory cortex, by Einar Laukli (Norway), Nina Kraus (USA), and Bernhard Ross (Canada), respectively.
Its geographical position and good traffic connections make Slovenia an excellent bridge between West and East Europe. The XXth IERASG Symposium will open towards the east and towards the students; for this reason it will employ different methods, including sponsorship. IERASG Society will sponsor first 20 students with 500 US$ each.
The XXth IERASG Symposium will unite researchers from all over the world and we expect about 200 participants. The target audience is audiologists, neurophysiologists, neurologist, ENT surgeons and geneticists, but topics of interest to technicians, engineers, physicists, and mathematicians will also be dealt with.
I'm looking forward to meeting you at the 20th International Evoked Response Audiometry Study Group Symposium at Bled, on June 10–14, 2007.
With kind regards,
Assoc. Prof. Dušan Butinar, MD, PhD,
Chairman, Organising and Programme Committee