The scientific program will be composed of sessions of plenary talks, thematic and non-thematic symposia, and poster presentations. The conference will start from Monday 12th Sept at 8h30 until Friday 16th Sept at 18h30. See a preliminary schedule below. In order to welcome more participants, the conference will take place in two rooms: the main amphitheater (130 seats) and an additional amphitheater (40 seats, close to the main one) where talks will be retransmitted in live (audio & video). FINAL PLANNING     new  A final program of the conference can be download here. A list of posters (sessions 1 & 2) can be found here. PLENARY SPEAKERS Bioacoustics and Honesty in Vertebrate Communication: Beyond Handicaps Prof. Tecumseh FITCH, Dept. of Cognitive Biology, University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria Founding Researches on Acoustic Communication in Primates Dr. Jean-Pierre GAUTIER, CNRS - Université de Rennes 1, France. Bat echolocation - molecular evolution, adaptation and communication Pr. Gareth JONES, School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, UK. THEMATIC SYMPOSIA Only presenting authors are listed Underwater communication: O. Adam & G. Pavan        Acoustic detection of beaked whales. comparison of different equipments and techniques - Gianni Pavan        Estimate the density of Antarctic blue whales using their calls from a passive acoustic sensor - Rocio Prieto Gonzales        Killer whale playbacks induce modifications in cetaceans' behaviour - Charlotte Curé        As sexy as my song: relation between vocal behaviour and mating success in the Lusitanian toadfish - Clara Amorim        Role and information content of male aggressive sounds in a cichlid fish - Frederic Bertucci        Studying the effect of anthropogenic noise on populations of wild fish: techniques and logistics - Ilaria Spiga Impact of anthropogenic noise: Arthur Popper & Henrik Brumm        Overview effects of anthropogenic sounds – Arthur Popper        Overview of basic principles of anthropogenic effects– Robert Dooling        Environmental acoustics - basic principles –Ole Larsen        Noise Impacts in Air-Adapted Ears: Mechanisms of Damage, Recovery, and Permanent Loss– Darlene Ketten        Response of birds to anthropogenic sounds – Henrik Brumm        Aquatic animals and human-generated sound – Anthony Hawkins Sound Production and Hearing Mecanisms: R. Suthers, D. Robert & F. Goller        Sound radiation in crickets - Fernando Montealegre        Insect Tympanal Ears: Sophisticated Mechanics in 'Simple' Hearing Organs - James Windmill        A potential intermediate in the evolution of superfast sonic swimbladder muscles in fishes - Michael Fine        The onset of phonation in anuran vocal folds - Marcos Gridi-Papp        Control of sound frequency in bird song - an integrative view - Franz Goller        Superfast muscles set maximum call rate in echolocating bats - Coen Elemans Brain Processing of Auditory signals: F. Theunissen       Functional representation of learned communication signals in the songbird brain - Isabelle George        Of Mice and Moms: Auditory processing of behaviorally relevant vocalizations - Robert C. Liu        Relating human and monkey brain function for communication - Chris Petkov        Neural Adaptation in the auditory system of grasshoppers: competing demands for object recognition and localization -  Jannis Hildebrandt        Signal selectivity and sensory-motor gating in the midbrain of frogs -  Hoke Kim        Efficient encoding of behaviorally relevant sounds in the auditory midbrain - Christine Portfors  Hormones and Communication: M. Gahr       Melatonin affects the temporal pattern of vocal signatures in birds - Sebastien Deregnaucourt       Effects of social status, sex and hormones on song in cooperatively breeding white-browed sparrow weavers - Cornelia Voigt       Impact of developmental stress on hormones, song and song perception in zebra finches - Stefan Leitner       Stres-induced vocalisations in male Zebra Finches: clues of expression of emotional state? - Emilie Perez Adaptations to Environments: P. Narins & F. Rybak        Diel adaptation of echolocation click characteristics of melon-headed whales to changes in ambient noise - Simone Baumann-Pickering        Fixed or flexible? Ecological and evolutionary implications of plastic strategies in acoustic communication - Lucia Ziegler        Seismic signaling in a heterogeneous environment - insights from wolf spiders - Eileen Hebets        Testing alternative hypotheses for evolutionary diversification in an African songbird - Alexander Kirschel       Environmental determinants of chorusing in Iberian Hyla: Acoustic monitoring of populations at thermal extremes - Rafael Marquez       Evolution of advertisement calls in torrent habitat: communicating despite noise - Sandra Goutte Inter-sexual Communication: D. Reby & C. Vignal        Fallow buck groans: A robust example of honest signals - Elodie Briefer        Investigating intra- and intersexual communication in the context of hybridization within two polygynous deer species - Megan Wyman        Performance limits, signal diversity, and indicators of body size and age in the purple-crowned fairy-wren - Michelle Hall        Singing rock hyraxes exploit conspecific calls to gain attention- Amiyaal Ilany        The information content of giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) sexual calls - Benjamin Charlton        Geographic variation in the pair-forming acoustic communication of a duetting bush-cricket in the Carpathians - Kirill Mark Oci Vocal Signatures: A. Lemasson & I. Charrier       Vocal Signatures in Saccopteryx bilineata - Insights from a Vocal Learning Bat - Mirjam Knornschild       Individual vocal discrimination in meerkats: absent or not recognized -  Marta Manser       Group-level vocal signatures and responses in social birds - Andrew Radford       Individual vocal flexibility in female Diana monkeys - Agnes Candiotti       Vocal communication in male northern elephant seal competitive interactions: honest or learned associations? - Caroline Casey       Expression of affect-intensity and identity in infant isolation calls of domestic cats - Marine Scheumann Signal Processing: K-H Frommolt & R. Mundry      Categorinzing vocal repertoires - Kurt Hammerschmidt      Estimating the number of calling individuals in the base of multichannels recordings - Karl-Heinz Frommolt      Localizing individuals from their vocalisations - Chloé Huetz      Auditory stream segregation in gray treefrogs, Hyla chrysoscelis - Vivek Nityananda      Classify or not? Quantifying repertoire size when it seems impossible - Sandor Zsebok     Non-linear phenomena in Petrel sounds (Pterodroma sp.) - Juha Tanttu Social networks: T. Dabelsteen & H. Courvoisier       Choruses as communication networks: Adaptations, emergent properties, and feedback loops -  Michael Greenfield       The role of social factors for song learningin juvenile song sparrows - Chris Templeton       Effects of personality on singing and spatial behaviour in communication networks of great tits - Marc Naguib       Acoustic communication networks in the Winter wren, Troglodytes troglodytes - Sol Camacho       Zebra Finch Conversations - Andries Ter Maat       Vocal matching through imitation of contact calls in Peach-fronted conures (Aratinga aurea) - Heidi Thomsen GUIDELINES FOR TALKS AND POSTERS     new Each talk will last 15 minutes and will be followed by 5 minutes of questions. The time schedule is very tight, so please, do not pass the 15min. Talk presentation must be saved in powerpoint 2007 (or previous versions) and/or Adobe PDF. The posters must be A0 size at maximum, in portrait orientation (vertical), so 84.1 cm wide and 118.9 cm high.

Talks will be given in the Amphitheater Rene Coutant with an amazing view on the tank of turtles and exotic fishes.