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Folks

Here are UMass folks (current and recent past) interested in various aspects of phonetics–phonology (whatever they may be):

This list includes graduate students, professors, and visitors.

Gatherings

The phonetics lab meets weekly. It is in Bartlett 6, which is not far from South College. (John Kingston should be able to inform you of the schedule.)
Website: www.people.umass.edu/phonetic.

Currently, there are biweekly McCarthy–Pater grant meetings (Investigations in Optimality Theory).
Website: web.linguist.umass.edu/~mccarthy-pater-nsf.

Currently, there is a biweekly meeting of the experimental phonology working group. This is an interdepartmental bunch (mostly linguistics and psychology).
Website: people.umass.edu/icesl/epwg.html.

There are occasional phonology–phonetics student reading groups (but professors are welcome). Sometimes, this forum is used for practice talks. (Currently, these meetings are rather sporadic.)

Every year, there is a Rutgers–UMass–MIT Phonology meeting (RUMMIT). The location alternates between the three campuses. [History: this is the merger of the former John Hopkins–University of Maryland–Rutgers–UMass OT workshop (HUMDRUM) and the former UMass–MIT Meeting in Phonology (UMMM/MUMM).]

There are syntax–phonology interface meetings. (Join the prosody mailing list.)

There is a psycholinguistics group, which often presents practice talks and works-in-progress. Of course, they do not discuss solely phonetics–phonology topics. (You should get added to the ling-psycholinguistics mailing list.)

There is an interdisciplinary cognitive science calendar with information about various talks. For example, the psychology department has a weekly brown bag talks.
Website: www.umass.edu/cogsci/talks.htm.

Odds & Ends

There is a ling-phonology mailing list, which you should join as most relevant things are posted there and not always cross-posted on the general mailing list.

A phonology bibliography file: BiBTeX or Endnote.
(There is also a more syntax-oriented BiBTeX file, but it also has all of Linguistic Inquiry and Natural Language & Linguistic Theory: Kyle Johnson’s .bib.)

Optimality Theory software: OT-Help, CCamelOT, Harmonic Grammar in R