Please save the date for Oct. 26 (noon) to Oct. 27 (noon) 2019 to join us for #SENSORIUM2019 ! Featuring a public keynote presentation by Prof. Cassie Stoddard of Princeton University. 

Registration is FREE and now OPEN (until Oct. 1, 2019). Please complete the Registration Form here: https://tinyurl.com/Sensorium2019 

Funding for the conference is supported by a grant for regional meetings from the American Society of Naturalists. Thank you ASN! If you're not a member yet, please join the Society here, publishers of The American Naturalist.

Our conference is sponsored by the Dept. of Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior and by the School of Integrative Biology, as well as the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) at the University of Illinois.

We are kindly supported and hosted by the beautiful Beckman Institute at the University of Illinois. 

Additional generous support for the public presentation portion of this event is provided by the Olga G. Nalbandov Lecture Funds at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign.

Preliminary Program Outline:

Saturday, Oct. 26, 2019

12noon-1PM: Lunch, Registration. Open to the Public.
1-2PM: Keynote Address by Prof. Cassie Stoddard, Princeton University: Color, Courtship, and Trickery in the Visual World of Birds. Q&A. Open to the Public.
2-3PM: Poster Session 1, refreshments
3-5PM: Talk Session 1 (12 min talks + 3 min q&a)
5-6PM: Poster Session 2, refreshments

6PM-: Dinner on your own and Entertainment on your own.

Sunday, Oct. 27, 2019

8:30-9AM: Breakfast.
9-10AM: Plenary Lecture by Prof. Matt Toomey, University of Tulsa: The shared chemistry of coloration and vision in birds. Q&A.
10-11AM: Talk Session 2 (12 min talks + 3 min q&a)
11-12noon: Poster Session 3
12-: Lunch on your own and Departure on your own.

Stay tuned for more information. Here's a link to last year's SENSORIUM conference!!