Venue

The school will take place at the Hotel L’Approdo, S. Marco di Castellabate in the Campanian area named Cilento, a few km from Paestum.

Students will stay in double or triple rooms, the use of rooms as single will be possible but charged apart (+75€). WiFi Internet will be available in the lounge and in the school areas, but not in the rooms.

Arrival

Students will arrive in Naples on Sunday the 25th. A bus transfer will pick up students at the International Airport (at 17:00) and at the Central Railway Station of Naples (at 17:30) and bring them to the school venue.

Departure

Notice that no bus will be provided for the way back at the end of the school: we will arrange car transfers from S. Marco to Agropoli, the closest train station. The train timetable can be checked here: http://www.fsitaliane.it/homepage_en.html

The trip from Agropoli to Naples Central Railway Station takes from 70 to 90 min according to the class of the chosen train. A bus goes from the Central Railway Station to the Airport, and it takes about 15 min. More detail available here: http://www.anm.it/Upload/RES/PDF/ORARI/corso%20Novara%20piazza%20Garibaldi.pdf

Meals

During the summer school, lunches and dinner will consist mainly of fish. Please inform the organizers if you have alimentary needs we should be aware of. Sunday dinner and Friday luch are included.

Electricity & Plugs

Electricity in Italy is 230 Volts, alternating at 50 cycles per second. If you travel to Italy with a device that does not accept 230 Volts at 50 Hertz, you will need a voltage converter.

Italy uses a type L plug (see following pictures).

Tips

The school takes place in a sea location: do not forget swimsuit and related accessories. Dressing will be informal in any occasion.

Before leaving make sure you have read and done what follows!

1. indicate us a mobilephone number we can use to contact you on the meeting day should the need arise (Sunday the 25th, 17:00 at the Airport, 17:30 at the central railway station).
2. write down and take with you the mobilephone numbers we sent you in one of our last emails: contacts us if you have problems or if you expect you are going to arrive late at the given pick up point;
3. concerning clinics: please do not forget to send your requirements and speech samples (including annotations if available). We could try to use them to prepare exercises;
4. bring your own laptop and your own headphones;
5. check the suggested readings and indicated prerequisites, upload the school materials on your laptop and install the software required for the lessons (see "school materials");
6. do not forget to bring a power adapter if different from Italian standards (see description in "venue and logistics");
7. there will be very limited printing possibilities, so please arrange most of what you need to be printed in advance;
8. we decided to eliminate the usual poster session in which students present their researches, however if you want to introduce yourself to the lecturers and to other colleagues, please prepare an handout and take it printed in about 20 copies with you, there will be many occasions to distribute and discuss it;
9. in order to prepare a proper certificate of attendance, please let us know what information is required from your doctoral school to recognize the didactic activities. Some institutions require the specific list of lessons and number of offered hours of training, other schools convert our activities into credits only if a final exam is held. We can arrange things to fit with your requirements, but we have to organize ourself in time;
10. during the summer school, lunch and dinner will consist mainly of fish: please inform us if you have alimentary needs we should be aware of;
11. do not forget swimsuit and related accessories.

The local organizers are:

• Francesco Cutugno
• Renata Savy
• Luciano Romito
• Antonio Origlia
• Andrea Tarasi
• Vincenzo Galatà

For further information concerning the summer school please write to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Candidates should submit their application no later than August the 30th (August the 10th).
Should more than 30 applications be submitted, candidates will be selected on the basis of their background and motivation as expressed during the application submission process.
Acceptance notification will be emailed to selected candidates no later than September the 1st (August the 20th).
Accepted candidates will have to confirm their registration by paying the required fee no later than September the 5th.

Important dates

Application submission deadline: 30 August 2011 (August the 10th)

Acceptance notification: 1 September 2011 (August the 20th)

Fee payment: 5 September 2011

Summer school dates: 25-30 Septemper 2011

Themes:

1. Advanced use of Tools for Phonetic Research
2. Scripting and/or complex procedures
3. Perceptual experiments, methods and tools
4. Data Modeling, querying and Information Retrieval
5. Tutoring on research methodology, small working groups
6. Annotation, Labeling, Descriptive Systems

Participants will pay a registration fee of € 600,00 inclusive of lodging (accommodation in double or triple rooms), meals and scientific activities. The use of single rooms will be possible upon payment of an additional € 75,00.

The payment of the registration fees (€ 600,00 or € 675,00 in case of single room lodging) is possible through bank transfer to:

AISV
c/o Poste Italiane
Via Vermicelli snc (piazza) 87036 - Arcavacata di Rende (CS)
IBAN: IT 59 M 07601 16200 000003763225
BIC: BPPIITRRXXX

In the “reason for payment” field, please state your name and “AISV-Stelaris 2011 Summerschool”. Please, do not forget to send us a copy of the transaction.

For problems please contact the organizers at the following address: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.