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Dear Colleagues
On behalf of the official research project, a Grant-in-aid for Scientific
Research on Innovative Areas, gFace perception and recognition: Multidisciplinary
approaching to understanding face processing mechanismsh, supported by
the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT),
Japan, it is my great pleasure to invite you to participate in the International
Symposium, gFace perception and recognitionh, which will take place in
Okazaki, Japan from October 30 to November 3, 2012. This symposium will
be held also as the International Conference of NIPS (National Institute
for Physiological Sciences, Okazaki, Japan). This research project started
in 2008 and will finish at the end of March 2013. This project involves
thirty-six researchers whose research fields are psychology, cognitive
science, technology, clinical medicine, and basic medicine. Therefore,
this is a really multidisciplinary research group focusing on face research
by employing various approaches. The MEXT, Japan, is strongly supporting
this project and the total budget is over 7,000,000 USD. In fact, I think
that this is the first and only research project focusing on face perception
and recognition through multidisciplinary methods in the world. This international
symposium will be held not only as a meeting summarizing the results obtained
over the past 5 years, but also a constructive meeting to discuss the future
studies. For these objectives, we are planning to invite more than 40 researchers,
including 20 researchers from abroad.
The congress venue, Okazaki Conference Center, can be easily accessed
from nearby airports and train stations. The nearest international Airport is Nagoya
(Central Japan International Airport), and it takes one hour by limousine bus from
Nagoya Airport to Okazaki. In addition to good hotels, NIPS has a guest house which
is very close to the Conference Center with a very reasonable price for young participants.
We look forward to welcoming you to Okazaki in 2012.
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