The inaugural meeting of Phonology 2013 is hosted by UMass this weekend: November 9 and 10. Over 100 phonologists, from all corners of the world, will be in attendance. Registration is not required to attend, but a quick email to phonology-2013@linguist.umass.edu is required if you plan on participating in the meals or consuming the coffee break goodies. The plenary speakers are John McCarthy, Kevin Ryan (Harvard), and Sharon Peperkamp (LSCP). McCarthy’s talk is at 9 on Saturday, and entitled “Irreducible Parallelism.” Ryan’s talk is at 5:15 and entitled “Onset Weight, word weight, and the perceptual interval.” Peperkamp’s talk is at 9 on Sunday and entitled “Assimilation from the listener’s perspective: adult and infant data.” A schedule can be found here.