Hoover - can you please post this expanded announcement ASAP?
Many thanks,
Larry Thibos, chair, vision division of OSA
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The annual meeting of the Optical Society of America will feature the
following symposia and tutorials. Contributed papers are particularly
solicited in areas related to these symposia subjects.
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SUMMARY OF OSA-97 SYMPOSIA AND TUTORIALS (invited speakers in brackets)
Color 1: Models of retinal cell mosaics. (Swanson,Buchsbaum,Ahumada)
Color 2: Cortical processing of color and luminance. (Lennie, Shapley)
Color 3: Rods and color. (Buck, Shapiro)
Vision 1: Beyond linear filters: Nonlinear modeling of visual processes.
(Wilson and Wilkinson, Fleet)
Vision 2: Computational environments for vision modeling (Brainard, Klein,
Watson, Carney, Wilson)
Vision 3: Studying Human Retinal Physiology: New Electroretingraphic
Techniques (Hood)
Vision 4: New advances in interpreting the ERG (Burns, Frishman & Robson,
Seiving)
Vision 5: Far-flung Interactions: Long-range Facilitation and Inhibition.
(Norcia, Levi)
Vision 6: Saturation Distortion in Early Vision: Phenomenology, Candidate
Mechanisms & Loci (MacLeod, Tyler, Kraft)
Vision 7: Noise vs. pattern masking, (Burgess, Foley)
Applications 1: Aberrations of the Eye and Their Correction (Howland, Williams)
Applications 2: Perceptual considerations in virtual reality (Stark)
Applications 3: Data visualization and perceptual organization (Ware,
Maloney, Grinstein)
Applications 4: Clinical applications of laser coherence tomography
(Weinreb, Hitzenberger)
The Abstract deadline for the OSA annual meeting is May 1.
The meeting is October 12-17 in Long Beach, CA.
The instructions for abstract submission (only 50 words needed) plus a
description of interesting symposia can be found at http://www.osa.org.
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Larry Thibos, School of Optometry, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405
Voice: (812) 855-9842, FAX: (812) 855-7045, e-mail: thibos@indiana.edu
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