As you may have heard from the Optical Society directly, a few
electronically-submitted abstracts for the Annual Meeting were
apparently lost due to a disk failure.
If you submitted a paper to any of the Vision and Color sessions
and your abstract is NOT in the program, please inform the appropriate
technical group Chair or Vice-Chair immediately:
Vision Ken Alexander (kennalex@tigger.cc.uic.edu)
Lynn Olzak (olzak@psych.ucla.edu)
Color Qasim Zaidi (qz@cns.nyu.edu)
Bill Swanson (Bill_Swanson@acd.org)
Applications of Visual Science
Larry Thibos (thibos@ucs.indiana.edu)
Vengu Lakshminarayanan (vengu@redbird.umsl.edu)
Please include the title, all the authors names, and the abstract itself if
possible, and tell us if you've also communicated with the OSA staff.
Our division will do its utmost to be sure that any "lost" abstracts will
be restored to the program in the most satisfactory way we can.
Thanks for your forebearance.
Rhea Eskew
Chair, Vision and Color Division (eskew@neu.edu)
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 12:42:38 -0500 (EST)
From: ESKEW@neu.edu
Subject: Important Optical Society Information
To: cvnet@skivs.ski.org
A few important announcements regarding the Optical Society of America:
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The 1995 Annual Meeting of the Optical Society of America will be held
in beautiful Portland, Oregon, September 10-15. The Vision & Color
portion of the meeting begins Sunday 9/10 and concludes Thursday 10/14.
==> 1995 Ives Award Goes to Bob Boynton <==
The 1995 Ives Award, the highest award of the Society, will be awarded
to Prof. Robert M. Boynton, Tuesday morning of the conference.
Sunday Evening Reception
Our Division will hold a reception for Bob, September 10, from
5:30 to 7:00 PM, immediately following the last session of the day. We
hope to see everyone turn out for the reception and the award ceremony,
as the Society honors one of our own.
Preregistration deadline: 8/11
Housing deadline (via Portland Visitors Assoc): 8/14
Postdeadline submissions of late-breaking, exciting research
developments are encouraged and accepted up until meeting time.
There has apparently been some confusion about audiovisual
equipment. OSA will automatically provide 35 mm and overhead
projectors, screens, and slide trays, as always-- speakers need not
request this equipment (but would need to request a video projector, for
instance).
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OSA members will soon receive ballots to elect several high officers of
the society. This year there are two candidates for Director at Large
with research experience in Vision & Color:
Bahaa Saleh of Boston University and
David R. Williams of the Center for Visual Science.
Three directors will be elected this year. I could not overemphasize
the importance of this election to our group.
***** PLEASE VOTE BY AUGUST 25. *****
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We recieved a very good response from the poll that was sent out to the
1,100 members of the Vision & Color Division of the OSA.
Some highlights: (1) everyone is concerned about high costs; (2) the
present format of the meeting seems reasonable but rejecting some
submissions is acceptable; (3) Keeping our part of the meeting to Sunday
through Thursday is preferred even if a few parallel sessions are
required.
There has been some discussion of increasing the proportion of poster
presentations at the annual meeting. The poll results suggest that some
increase is acceptable to our members, but I do not believe our Division
should change to the 'mostly poster' format suggested in a recent OPN
article. I want, and believe most of us want, to keep a high-quality,
predominantly oral presentation format for our part of the annual
meeting. However, we might move towards rejecting some submissions
and/or reclassifying some into posters. I would be pleased to hear your
thoughts on this important issue.
I have been trying to get the entire set of poll results posted on OSA's
Vision bulliten board on the Web: http://www.osa.org/vision/index.html
Perhaps by the time you read this it will have appeared.
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Lastly: In Portland we will begin organizing the 1996 meeting, to be
held in Rochester NY. Please forward suggestions for symposium topics,
invited speakers etc. -- anything from a vague idea to a fully
elaborated speaker list -- to the appropriate technical council Chair
or Vice-Chair:
Vision Ken Alexander (kennalex@tigger.cc.uic.edu)
Lynn Olzak (olzak@psych.ucla.edu)
Color Qasim Zaidi (qz@cns.nyu.edu)
Bill Swanson (Bill_Swanson@acd.org)
Applications of Visual Science
Larry Thibos (thibos@ucs.indiana.edu)
Vengu Lakshminarayanan (vengu@redbird.umsl.edu)
See you in Portland.
Rhea Eskew (eskew@neu.edu)
Chair, Vision and Color Division