SPECIAL OPPORTUNITY FOR STUDENT MEMBERS! A new competition for best paper
presented by a student at the OSA annual meeting has been announced by New
Focus, Inc. Three finalists will receive cash prizes of $10,000 each and
five additional finalists will receive $2,500 each. Travel grants of $500
are also available. Application forms and instructions are available from
OpticsNet at URL: http://www.osa.org/mtg_conf/annual/1998/
Abstracts may be submitted electronically using the following web site:
http://www.osa.org/mtg_conf/annual/1998/Symposia
Abstracts may be sent in hardcopy form to:
OSA Annual Meeting/ILS-XIV
2010 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20036-1023
Further general information on the meeting is available at:
http://www.osa.org/mtg_conf/annual/1998/
A brief outline of planned symposia follows. Contributed papers relating
to these, or any other area of vision science, are solicited.
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PROGRAM FOR VISION DIVISION, 1998 ANNUAL MEETING (BALTIMORE, MD. OCT. 4-9)
Color Technical Group Program for 1998
1: Color Discrimination and Color Differences: Perception and Prediction
2. Algorithms for extracting object and illuminant colors
3. Molecular Genetics of Color Vision (tutorial)
4. Molecular genetics and color vision (workshop)
5. Relative numbers of cone types in the human retina
6: Colorimetry and Color Space (short course)
Vision Technical Group Program for 1998
1. Natural Images: Properties and Visual Consequences
2. Visual Coding
3. Perceptual Learning: Biology and Behavior
4. Visual memory for patterns, objects, and scenes
5. Binocular Vision: From Disparity to Space Perception
6. New Views on Texture Perception
7. Modelfest98: Comparing Detection Models
Applied Vision Technical Group Program for 1998
1. Sources of aberration in the eye
2 Aberrations, Wavefront Sensing and the Human Eye
3. Simulation of visual environments
4. Multifocal Intraocular Lens Design and Performance
5. The Usefulness of the "Useful Field of View"
6: Wavelets for the vision scientist: an introductory survey
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