Lifetime Achievement Award Address

Linda Gottfredson: Empirical Treasure, Lost and Found

Keynote Address

Randy Engle: Working Memory Capcity as a Mediating Variable

President's Symposium

Bowen Zhao, David Lubinski, and Robert Plomin:
DNA Sequencing, Genetics, and the Phenotypic Accomplishments of Profound Intellectual Talent (IQs > 160) at Midlife

President's Invited Address

Nick Martin: Emerging Evidence on the Molecular Genetics of Cognition

Distinguished Contributor Interview

Nicholas Mackintosh: Interview with David Lubinski

Holden Memorial Address

Elizabeth Finkel: Navigating the Straits: when Scientists Disagree

Program

Upcoming Conference Highlights for ISIR 2013 downloadable flier for posting and circulating.

Submissions

A standardized form for submitting abstracts electronically will be available in June.

Student Awards

A small number of travel grants will be awarded to graduate students who present a paper at the conference. Priority will be given to students with no other source of travel support or with particularly high travel costs. To apply, send an email by September 1st to Matt Reynolds at mreynolds@ku.edu with a copy to David Lubinski at david.lubinski@vanderbilt.edu. Include your name, affiliation, any other sources of travel support, and whether you have received ISIR travel support before.

John Carroll Award. This award is given to the student who presents the paper with the best methodology and includes a $500 cash award. If you are a student and wish to be considered for this award, please note that you are a student on your paper submission.

Future Conference Sites

The Board of Directors is inviting hosting proposals for future conferences. Please send expressions of interest and a request for proposal guidelines to President-Elect Aljoscha Neubauer at aljoscha.neubauer@uni-graz.at by September 1st. All proposals will be reviewed by the Board of Directors.

Registration

Register by October 31 to receive the discounted registration rate.

Registration will be available online in June, payment via MasterCard, Visa, or American Express. If unable to pay by card, contact Rich Haier at rich.haier@gmail.com.

Registration fees (in US dollars) are as follows:

Note: ISIR membership is $40 for regular members and $20 for students. Member can subscribe to the journal at the heavily discounted rates of $40 for electronic access/$60 paper + electronic access.

Travel and Accomodations

The conference hotel is The Quest Hawthorn. A PDF flier on the hotel is here.

A faxable booking form is here, And rate and other information is here. Rooms are AUD 179/night with this rate available for six nights (any two days before or after Wednesday through Saturday). (Please identify yourself as an ISIR member to secure the reduced conference rate)

Quest Hawthorn

616 Glenferrie Road

Hawthorn VIC 3122

Reservations T: +61 3 8803 7700

E: questhawthorn@queststudios.com.au

www.questhawthorn.com.au

Cheaper: University student accommodation is very well priced, new and clean. Single room bed + breakfast Rates are $50 per night or $340 per week.

Note, there are no taxes or other charges to add to any of these costs.