PLEASE POST:
REMINDER:
The deadline for early registration and housing for the Optical Society
1997 Annual Meeting in Long Beach, California, is Wednesday, September 10.
On-site registration cost is an addition $50 for regular members after
Sept 10. FAX your forms in TODAY!
This year, student registration is **FREE** if students join OSA as a
student member for $30 (no journals included) AND preregister by Sept. 10.
Conference booklets, reistration forms, and membership forms can be
obtained from OSA, Conference Service Department, by telephone: (202)
416-1980 or copied from a member's booklet.
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Although the official program runs from Oct 12-17, vision symposia and
papers are scheduled for only four days (Sunday, October 12 - Wednesday,
October 15) to reduce housing costs. Symposia this year include:
Retinal Cell Moasics
Noise vs. Pattern Masking
Rods and Color
Perceptual Considerations in Virtual Reality
Cortical Processing of Color and Luminance
New Advances in Interpreting ERG
Clinical Applications of Laser Coherence Tomography
Beyond Linear Filters: Nonlinear Modeling of Visual Processes
Aberrations of the Eye and Their Correction
Far-Flung Interactions: Long-range Facilitation and Inhibition
Saturation Distortion in Early Vision: Phenomenology, Candidate
Mechanisms, and Loci
Data Visualization and Perceptual Organization.
In addition, a tutorial on Studying Human Retinal Physiology: New
Electroretinographic Techniques will be held on Monday morning, and a
workshop on Computational Environments for Vision Modeling will be held
Monday evening.
Lynn A. Olzak
Chair, Vision Technical Group
Optical Society of America