[vslist] OPAM pre-registration

[Yaoda Xu]

Dear All:

This is just a quick note that today would have been the 
last day to
pre-register for OPAM.  Because we have only received a 
small number of
registrations to date, we have extended the pre-registration 
deadline to
Friday, October 17.  Starting Saturday, October 18, we will 
impose a late
fee of $5.  This fee will also apply to anyone already 
registered who hasn't
yet paid the conference fee.  (Authors are also asked to 
register.)

The reason it is important for a conference like OPAM to 
collect fees well
in advance of the date of the conference is that there is no 
formal
organization that is OPAM.  We do not collect membership 
fees; and our
conferences are financed each year exclusively by the 
registration fees
collected for that year alone.  Expenses like A/V equipment, 
conference
room, and poster board rentals, refreshments, abstract 
books, etc.
(amounting to well over $1000) are charged well in advance 
of the conference
and must be covered initially in part by the organizers. 
Likewise, any
deficits will fall to the organizers because there is no 
organization to
absorb these deficits.  Unlike Psychonomics, also, we do not 
collect $8 in
commission per hotel room from the conference hotel(s).

We therefore ask that you register as soon as possible and 
avail yourself of
our online credit card payment option.  We would also like 
to thank all
those of you who have already registered for this year's 
conference.

Thank you for your understanding,

Alejandro Lleras (alleras@psych.ubc.ca)
Robert Rauschenberger (rauschen@u.arizona.edu)
Yaoda Xu (yaoda@wjh.harvard.edu)