ASRU 2011 will be held Dec. 11 - 15, 2011 in Hawaii. Motivated by the success of ICASSP 2007 in Honolulu, and past ASRU workshops (St. Thomas, San Juan, Kyoto and Merano), we plan to provide attendees with a pleasant and informal setting that naturally generates interactions and close collaborations among researchers.

Several venues in Hawaii are currently under consideration, including resorts in Big Island and Honolulu, with a decision on the exact location to be announced in May 2010. The dates have been chosen to accommodate Thanksgiving, Christmas and other holidays, and conferences such as NIPS, that ASRU attendees may wish to participate in. IBM has agreed to be a major sponsor.

As a scientific community, we hope to have participation from countries all over the world at ASRU 2011. In the article published in the February 2010 edition of the SLTC newsletter, it was observed that participation from Asia, Central and South America was low. We hope that the selected location will attract participants from not just those countries, but others as well.

We invite the community to send us their comments, thoughts, concerns and requests on what they would like to see in ASRU:

Submissions Schedule (tentative)

* July, 2011 - Paper submission deadline
* August, 2011 - Paper notification of acceptance
* September 2011 - Demonstration proposal due
* October, 2011 - Author and early registration due