Invited speakers and their planned titles of lecture of the 3rd Annual Meeting are listed below.

*Prof. Jim Simmons
Dept. of Neuroscience, Brown University, USA
Title: Isolating target shape imaging from target ranging in biosonar

*Dr. Darlene Ketten
Harvard Medical School, Department of Otology & Laryngology, Boston, Mass., USA
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Biology Department, Woods Hole, Mass., USA
Title: Of Mice and Men, Bats and Rats: A Complex Answer to Why Size Does Not Matter

*Prof. Rolf Mueller
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech, USA
Taishan Professor, Shandong University – Virginia Tech International Laboratory, School of Physics, Shandong University, China
Title: Peripheral dynamics and sensory information encoding in horseshoe bats

*Dr. Chung-Hsin Wu
Professor, Department of Life Sciences, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan
Title: Environmental manganism damages auditory systems in mice

*Prof. Hiroshi Riquimaroux
Distinguished Professor, Shandong University-Virginia Tech International Laboratory, Shandong University, China
Visiting Professor, Department of Neuroscience, Brown University, USA
Visiting Researcher, National Institute of Sensory Organs, National Hospital Organization Tokyo Medical Center, Japan
Title: How echolocating bats can extract information from weak and noisy returning echoes

*Prof. Hidetoshi Iida
Department of Biology, Tokyo Gakugei University
Title: Mechanosensing in plants

*Ms. Chihiro Mori
1. Graduate School of Life Science, Hokkaido University
2. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo
Title: Audition-independent vocal development in songbird

* Prof. Azusa Kamikouchi
Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Japan
Title: Organization of the auditory neural pathway of the fruit fly