______________________________________________________________________________ | File Name : SSE95.ASC | Online Date : 05/22/95 | | Contributed by : Cheyenne Turner | Dir Category : CONTACT | | From : KeelyNet BBS | DataLine : (214) 324-3501 | | A FREE Alternative Sciences BBS sponsored by Vanguard Sciences | | KeelyNet * PO BOX 870716 * Mesquite, Texas * USA * 75187 | | Voice/FAX : (214) 324-8741 InterNet - keelynet@ix.netcom.com | | WWW Mirrors - http://www.eskimo.com/~billb & http://www.protree.com | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| FAXed to KeelyNet courtesy of Cheyenne Turner (05/16/95) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 14th Annual Meeting of the Society for Scientific Exploration June 15-17 Call for papers and registration The Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the Society for Scientific Exploration will be held in Huntington Beach, California, June 15-17, 1995. The local arrangements and program committee is Brenda Dunne, Mike Epstein, Robert Jahn, Peter Sturroch and Robert Wood. In addition to the talks listed below, we expect a wide variety of contributed papers from our membership. The meeting this year is at the Holiday Inn at 7667 Center Avenue, Huntington Beach, CA 92647 (714) 891-0123. This hotel is relatively new, next to a quaint shopping tax for singles, doubles, triples and quads will permit lower total conference costs. Space is guaranteed through June 1. The Registration fee for the meeting for early arrivals is being planned for Wednesday evening, June 14th. Friday afternoon will feature a trip to visit the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens. The Library is famous for its Gutenberg Bible and for Ben Franklin's autobiograph; the Art Gallery contains rare tapestries, porcelains, sculpture, a collection of French furniture, and the Blue Boy by Gainesborough; the gardens have 14,000 varieties of plants representative of ecosystems around the world. The Society banquet is scheduled for Saturday evening. The Society banquet will be held on the evening of Saturday; the cost is $15.00 per person. You should plan on staying through Saturday evening as meetings will be scheduled for that day, with a break to get ready for the banquet. Participants arriving by air should note that Orange County airport is about 20 minutes away to the South, Long Beach airport is about 20 minutes to the North, and Los Angeles International is about 40 minutes away using the new 105 freeway. These times assume no accidents or traffic jams. Members are encouraged to contribute papers for presentation at the meeting. Papers related to the topics below may be included in the same session as the relevant invited talk. There will be one or more sessions specifically for contributed talks on other topics as well. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tentative Speaker List Opening Address --------------- "Did Biela's Comet Cause the Chicago and Midwest Fires?" Robert M. Wood - McDonnel Douglas, retired ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Topics in Survival Research --------------------------- "Philosophical Implications of Evidence for Survival" Robert Almeder - Georgia State University "Post-Mortem Survival - the State of the Debate" Stephen Braude - University of Maryland "Near-Death Experiences in Children" Melvin Morse - Valley Children's Clinic, Reston, VA "Analysis of Anomalous Audio and Video Recordings" Ernst Senkowski - Fachhochschle Rheinland-Pfalz "Evidence Suggestive of Reincarnation" Ian Stevenson - University of Virginia ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Puzzles in Archaeology ---------------------- "A Statistical Study of Angular Placements of Features on Mars" Horace Crater - University of Tennessee Space Institute "Acoustical Properties of Ancient Ceremonial Sites" Paul Devereux - Penzance, Cornwall Robert Jahn - Princeton University "Limits in Mathematics and Music" Jean and Katharine LeMee Cooper Union for Advanced Science and Art, NYC "Artificial Structures on Mars" Stanley McDaniel - Sonoma State University "The Age of the Sphinx" Robert Schoch - Boston University "Epigraphy and Archaeoastronomy" Bill Rudersdorf - Inscriptions Foundation, Houston, TX "Sacred Sites and Sacred Science" John Anthony West - New York City ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Early Registration Fee.........................$80.00 Late Registration Fee (after May 15)..........$100.00 (Student Registration half-price) Bus, Lunch and Huntington Gardens..............$15.00 Society Banquet (Saturday, June 17)............$15.00 (specify if vegetarian) Charge to VISA/MasterCard or check ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Please send the following information along with your registration fee; Name : ________________________________ Name Preferred on Large-typed badge : ___________________________ Affiliation (or city) for badge : _______________________________ Address : _____________________________ _____________________________ _____________________________ Office Telephone : _____/_____/_____ Home : _____/_____/_____ FAX : _____/_____/_____ E-mail : ________________ Please return to Charles R. Tolbert Box 3818 University Station Charlottesville, VA 22903 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------