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[cleveland_bound]

Hi all,
I recently applied for a conference and should receive notification of acceptance/refusal by month's end. I've decided to change my topic (still very much related, if not more so) due to new research. Should I notify the committee now or await acceptance? i.e. Is it too pushy to do so now?

Thanks!

CB

[mccfan]

Leave the committee alone.  If you sent me a revision, I would use that as an excuse to cut you from the conference (you always get more paper proposals than you can slot any way).  If the topic is similar to the one you initially proposed, just write it and announce a title change once you are presenting at the conference itself.  As I often tell my grad students and friends, "there are no conference police."

[euro_trash]

Don't sweat it, unless your proposal was about the mating rituals of monarch butterflies and the talk ends up being about Bolivian politics in the 1930s.  Papers often change between the initial proposal and the conference. 

[cleveland_bound]

Thanks for the good advice!