[vslist] OPAM pre-registration

[Yaoda Xu]

Dear All:

Sorry I forgot to mention in my last email that if you would 
like to pre-register for OPAM, please go to our web site at: 
www.opam.net.  Thanks.

- Yaoda Xu

P.S. Below is the message I sent out earlier.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [vslist] OPAM pre-registration
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 21:08:54 -0500
From: Yaoda Xu <yaoda@wjh.harvard.edu>
Reply-To: yaoda@wjh.harvard.edu
To: vslist@visionscience.com

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)



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