From announcements at journalofvision.org  Sun Jan  1 06:28:20 2006
From: announcements at journalofvision.org (Journal of Vision)
Date: Sun Jan  1 09:24:29 2006
Subject: [visionlist] New Issue: Journal of Vision, Volume 5, Issue 12
Message-ID: <1622701c60e9c$8f3fd4d0$020100c0@journalofvision.org>


Journal of Vision

Volume 5, Number 12, Pages 1a-99a	 doi:10.1167/5.12
http://journalofvision.org/5/12/	 ISSN 1534-7362	 

Abstracts

 <http://journalofvision.org/5/12/> 	 Fall Vision Meeting
<http://journalofvision.org/5/12/> 
http://journalofvision.org/5/12/
	


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From uchikawa at ip.titech.ac.jp  Mon Jan  2 23:48:12 2006
From: uchikawa at ip.titech.ac.jp (Keiji Uchikawa)
Date: Tue Jan  3 00:07:23 2006
Subject: [visionlist] The Fourth Asian Conference on Vision (ACV2006)
Message-ID: <a06001000bfdf6c2b8227@ip.titech.ac.jp>

CALL FOR PAPERS: ACV2006

The Fourth Asian Conference on Vision (ACV2006)
Matsue, Japan, July 28 to August 1, 2006
http://wwwsoc.nii.ac.jp/vsj2/acv2006/

IMPORTANT DATES:
* Abstract submission deadline: March 31, 2006
* Registration deadline: April 30, 2006

The Fourth Asian Conference on Vision aims to facilitate debates on Vision
Research in Asian and Oceania regions, while participants from all over the
world are also welcome. The program consists of invited lectures, symposia
and contributed papers. Original works for the papers on all aspects of
Vision Research are invited to present.

SCOPE:
Papers are solicited in all areas of vision research, including but not
limited to:
*Visual Perception, Depth and Spatial Vision, Motion, Color Vision, Visual
Attention, Visual Memory, Visual Cognition, Eye Movements, Vision and
Action, Vection, Color Space and Colorimetry,
*Visual Neuroscience, Retina, Cortex, Visual Pigments and Visual
Transduction, Retinal Proteins, Development and Plasticity, Striate Cortex,
Extrastriate Cortex, Superior Colliculus, Visual Thalamus,
*Computational Vision, Applied Vision, Visual Information Systems, Visual
Interface, Virtual Reality,
*Physiological Optics, Low Vision, Clinical Vision Studies, Neural Imaging
of Visual System, Vision and Other Modalities

PROGRAM:
<Invited lectures>
Rudiger Von Der Heydt (Johns Hopkins Univ., USA)
*Figure-ground organization and selective attention. Neural signals in
monkey visual cortex (tentative)

Shigang He (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
 *Maturation of ganglion cells and neuronal circuitry in the mouse retina
(tentative)

John. D. Mollon (University of Cambridge, UK)
*Human perception of colour: an evolutionary perspective

<Symposia>
*Neural bases of central visual perception
Coordinator: Keiji Tanaka
Hossein Esteky (IPM, Iran)
Sang-Hun Lee (Seoul National Univ., Korea)
Keiji Tanaka (RIKEN Brain Science Inst, Japan)
Lin Chen(Chinese Academy of Science, China)

*Color vision - From molecule to perception
Coordinators: Hidehiko Komatsu and Keiji Uchikawa
Yoshinori Shichida (Kyoto Univ., Japan)
Misha Vorobyev (Univ. of Queensland, Australia)
Hidehiko Komatsu (Nationall Inst of Physiological Science, Japan)
Keiji Uchikawa (Tokyo Inst. of Technology, Japan)
John S. Werner (UC Davis, USA)

*Saccade and perception
Coodinator: Satoshi Shioiri (Tohoku Univ., Japan)
Aditya Murthy (National Brain Research Centre, India)
Kazumichi Matsumiya (Tohoku Univ., Japan)
Choongkil Lee (Seoul National Univ., Korea)
Hitoshi Honda (Niigata Univ., Japan)

*(TBA)

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION:
Authors should submit an abstract on one page of A4 before March 31, 2006.

REGISTRATION:
Applicants, including authors, should register before April 30, 2006 to
attend the conference.
Registration fee: Regular 15,000yen, Student 5,000yen.

BANQUET:
Conference banquet will be held on July 31 at Matsue Vogel Park.
Banquet fee:
Regular 6,000yen, Student 4,000yen.

EXCURSION:
One-day excursion to visit the beautiful shrine and the lake near Matsue
city will be planned on August 1.

TRAVEL SUPPORT:
Financial supports will be available for a limited number of young
scientists who present a paper as the first author in the conference.
Applicants must apply for the travel support with their abstracts. Students
outside Japan have priority to receive this support.

ACCOMMODATION:
Various kinds, luxury and standard, of accommodations are available within
walk distance from Kunibiki Messe, the conference venue.

*Please see the ACV2006 website (http://wwwsoc.nii.ac.jp/vsj2/acv2006) for
further information on abstract submission, registration, applying travel
support and booking accommodation, banquet and excursion.

OFFICE OF ACV2006
Keiji Uchikawa
Steering Committee Chair
Department of Information Processing, Tokyo Institute of Technology, G2-1,
4259 Nagatsuta, Midori-ku
Yokohama 226-8502, Japan
Tel: +81-45-924-5453, Fax: +81-45-924-5290

CONTACT E-MAIL ADDRESS:
acv2006@isl.titech.ac.jp

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
<Chair>Takao Sato (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
<Co-Chair>Choongkil Lee (Seoul National Univ., Korea)
<Co-Chair>Lin Chen (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
<Co-Chair>TBA (Australia)
Satoshi Shioiri (Tohoku Univ., Japan)
Masao Ohmi (Kanazawa Inst. of Technology, Japan)
Keiji Uchikawa (Tokyo Inst. of Technology, Japan)
Kazuhiko Ukai (Waseda Univ., Japan)
Kenji Kitahara (Jikei Univ. School of Medicine, Japan)
Hidehiko Komatsu (National Inst. for Physiological Sciences, Japan)
Keiji Tanaka (Riken, Japan)
Masao Tachibana (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
Yoshinori Shichida (Kyoto Univ., Japan)
Masayuki Yamashita (Nara Medical Univ., Japan)
Takayuki Itou (NHK, Japan)
Tatsuya Hirahara (ATR, Japan)
Hiroshi Harashima (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
<Chair>  Kazuhiko Ukai (Waseda Univ., Japan)
Tian-De Shou (Fudan Univ., China)
Shigang He (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Min-Shik Kim (Yonsei Univ., Korea)
Sang-Hun Lee (Seoul National Univ., Korea)
Izumi Ohzawa (Osaka Univ., Japan)
Makoto Kaneda (Keio Univ., Japan)
Yoshio Hata (Tottori Univ., Japan)
Osamu Hisatomi (Osaka Univ., Japan)
Keizo Shinomori (Kochi Univ. of Technology, Japan)
Satoshi Shioiri (Tohoku Univ., Japan)
Shin'ya Nishida (NTT, Japan)
Hiroyasu Ujike (AIST, Japan)
Kenzo Sakurai (Tohoku Gakuin Univ., Japan)
Satoshi Nakadomari (Kanagawa Rehabilitation Hospital, Japan)
Michiteru Kitazaki (Toyohashi Univ. of Technology, Japan)

STEERING COMMITTEE:
<Chair> Keiji Uchikawa (Tokyo Inst. of Technology, Japan)
Hirohiko Kaneko (Tokyo Inst. of Technology, Japan)
Kazuhiko Ukai (Waseda Univ., Japan)
Koichi Oda (Tokyo Woman's Christian Univ., Japan)
Tatsuya Yoshizawa (Kanazawa Inst. of Technology, Japan)
Makoto Ichikawa (Yamaguchi Univ., Japan)
Yoshio Hata (Tottori Univ., Japan)
Masahiro Suzuki (Tokyo Inst. of Technology, Japan)
Kaori Segawa (Tokyo Inst. of Technology, Japan)

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From jh81 at st-andrews.ac.uk  Wed Jan  4 09:41:20 2006
From: jh81 at st-andrews.ac.uk (Julie Harris)
Date: Wed Jan  4 15:37:52 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Vision PhD Studentship, St. Andrews
Message-ID: <a06230901bfe1489a0619@[138.251.155.33]>



EPSRC Funded PhD Studentship in Binocular Vision 2006

Applications are invited for a 3-year research studentship to study 
human binocular vision,
leading to the degree of PhD.

Because we have forward facing eyes separated by just a few 
centimetres, each eye delivers
slightly different information to the brain about the location of 
objects.  The tiny differences
between right and left eye views provide the brain with information 
about three dimensional (3-D)
structure and depth. This studentship forms part of an EPSRC funded 
research project, held by
Prof. Julie Harris, to study how the binocular visual information 
from the two eyes is used to
perceive three dimensional motion.

The studentship will be based at the University of St. Andrews, in a 
lively and vibrant research
environment.  We have a small but active Vision Lab comprising 
postgraduate students,
postdoctoral researchers and permanent academic staff.  We work 
within the wider context of the
Perception and Performance Group in one of the top School's of 
Psychology in the UK.

Start date is the end of September 2006.

Candidates should hold (or expect to hold) a good Honours degree (at 
least 2.1) in a relevant
discipline (including Bioengineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, 
Optometry, Physics,
Physiology, Psychology). They should have an interest in learning 
visual psychophysical and
modelling techniques. Mathematical skills, including computer 
programming experience, are
desirable.  The student will be expected to learn programming and 
update their mathematical
skills if necessary.

Informal enquires to Dr. Julie Harris by email: Julie.Harris@st-andrews.ac.uk

Applications are encouraged as soon as possible, but by 10th February 
2006 at the latest.

Further details available at:
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/%7Ejh81/phdad06.html

-- 

=========================================================

Julie M. Harris
Prof. of Psychology and EPSRC Advanced Fellow
St. Andrews Vision Lab
School of Psychology
University of St. Andrews
St. Mary's College
South St.
St. Andrews
KY16 9JP

tel:  44-1334-462-061
fax: 44-1334-463-042
email: Julie.Harris@st-andrews.ac.uk
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/%7Ejh81/vislab.html

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From hhankins at sunyopt.edu  Wed Jan  4 19:25:59 2006
From: hhankins at sunyopt.edu (Hedy Hankins)
Date: Wed Jan  4 20:10:11 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Fwd: faculty position
Message-ID: <fc.005b8f5200fb2d2c005b8f5200fb26b7.fb2d33@sunyopt.edu>

FACULTY POSITION
State University of New York
College of Optometry

The State University of New York, State College of Optometry, invites
applications for an initial three-year appointment at the
Assistant/Associate Professor level in a tenure track position.  It is
expected that the candidate has or will obtain extramural support within
the initial appointment period.  The successful candidate?s research will
apply basic science to clinical issues.  Possible areas of research
include, but are not limited to, retinal and cortical imaging, low vision,
clinical psychophysics, glaucoma, emmetropization, and visual development.
 Teaching responsibilities will depend on the candidate?s background and
experience. Generous start-up funds are available along with scientific
support from colleagues who have substantial extramural support for
established vision-related research programs. The College is located in
midtown Manhattan, a short distance from major research and cultural
institutions.  Applications will be considered beginning March 1, 2006 and
will continue until the position is filled. 

 Candidates should send curriculum vitae, a two-page summary of research
plans, and three names of possible references to Dr. Mitchell Dul, Chair,
Search Committee, 33 West 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036. E-mail:
mdul@sunyopt.edu


SUNY-Optometry
33 W. 42nd St.
New York, NY 10036
(212) 938-5816
Fax: (212) 938-5819


From mcgovern at faseb.org  Thu Jan  5 15:28:37 2006
From: mcgovern at faseb.org (McGovern, Peggi)
Date: Thu Jan  5 16:14:04 2006
Subject: [visionlist] FASEB Summer Research Conference on Retinal
	Neurobiology & Visual Processing
Message-ID: <748DBC2415E404498A5E3161D1B543AF04423B9A@exchange1.faseb.org>

2006 FASEB Summer Research Conferences
Retinal Neurobiology and Visual Processing
July 15-20, 2006
Hyatt Grand Champions Resort & Spa
Indian Wells, CA 

ORGANIZERS:

MALCOLM SLAUGHTER
 STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK 
PETER LUKASIEWICZ
 WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY

Session 1:
CONTRASTING ROD AND CONE SYNAPSES
Session chair:
Catherine Morgans, Oregon Health Sciences University


Session 2:
PLASTICITY IN RETINAL DEVELOPMENT
Session chair:
Ning Tian, Yale University


Session 3:
SHAPING INNER PLEXIFORM LAYER SIGNALS
Session chair:
David Marshak, University of Texas, Houston


Session 4:
PHOTOTRANSDUCTION WITHOUT PHOTORECEPTORS
Session chair:
Peter MacLeish, Moorehouse State University


Session 5:
FEEDBACK IN OUTER RETINA
Session chair:
David Paul, Harvard University


Session 6:
SIGNAL OUTPUT OF BIOPOLAR CELLS
Session chair:
Maureen McCall, University of Kentucky


Session 7:
RETINAL INFORMATION PATHWAYS
Session chair:
Sheila Nirenberg, Cornell University


Session 8:
CHANNELOPATHIES AND RETINAL DISEASE
Session chair:
Robert Marc, University of Utah


Session 9:
HIGHLIGHTS FROM POSTER SESSIONS
Session chair:
Peter Lukasiewicz, Washington University


For Additional Information please visit
http://src.faseb.org



Peggi McGovern
FASEB
9650 Rockville Pike
Bethesda, MD 20814
301-634-7013
301-634-7007 fax
mcgovern@faseb.org



From Sharon.McFadden at drdc-rddc.gc.ca  Fri Jan  6 20:13:51 2006
From: Sharon.McFadden at drdc-rddc.gc.ca (McFadden, Sharon)
Date: Fri Jan  6 20:21:21 2006
Subject: [visionlist] ISCC/CIE Expert Symposium - Ottawa, May 2006
Message-ID: <88901B46A33C2F46A4D5C0B186A8C9C50115C502@torontoex01.toronto.drdc-rddc.gc.ca>

Just a quick reminder that the deadline for submitting abstracts for the CIE/ISCC  Expert Symposium to celebrate the 75th Anniversary of the 1931 Standard Colorimetric Observer is the 15th of January 2006. 

The symposium will be held , held in Ottawa, Canada, May 16th and 17th in conjunction with the meeting of Division 1, May 18th and 19th, 2006 and  the 75th Anniversary Meeting of the Inter Society Colour Council , May 14th and 15th, 2006. All meetings will be held at the National Research Council in Ottawa, Canada.

The goals of the Symposium are to recall the many advances that have been made since the introduction of the Standard Colorimetric Observer, to understand the current state of colorimetry and colour appearance, and to provide guidance on directions for future work. Several prominent speakers have already committed to speak. These include Robert Hunt on the past and future of CIE colour appearance models, Michael Brill on the validity of Grassmann's Laws, Jay Enoch on studies on colorimetry in Stiles' laboratory at NPL, Mark Fairchild on colour appearance in image displays, Ronnier Luo on colour difference formulae: past, present and future, Todd Newman on color management, J?nos Schanda on possible future CIE recommendations on colorimetry, and Andrew Stockman on physiologically-based colour matching functions. It promises to be an interesting and informative session. I hope many of you are already planning to attend and are considering presenting a paper. Come and help to formulate the work of Division 1 in colour for the next 75 years.

Authors are invited to submit two-page extended abstracts of their proposed contributions in English according to the Extended abstracts should be sent by e-mail or post to the Chair of the Technical Program of the Symposium no later than 15 January 2006.
 
	Dr. Alan Robertson
	National Research Council
	1200 Montreal Road
	Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0R6 
	CANADA 

	E-mail: alan.robertson@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca <mailto:alan.robertson@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca?subject=Paper%20Submission%20for%20the%202006%20ISCC/CIE%20Expert%20Symposium>  

For more information, including the Call for Papers and submission instructions, visit the Symposium website at http://www.iscc.org/jubilee2006.


Sincerely

Sharon McFadden
Director, Division 1

Human Computer Interaction Group
Human Factors Research and Engineering Section
DRDC Toronto
Tel: 416-635-2189
Fax: 416-635-2013
email sharon.mcfadden@drdc-rddc.gc.ca
www.toronto.drdc-rddc.gc.ca


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From Willard_Ryan at allergan.com  Sat Jan  7 00:30:51 2006
From: Willard_Ryan at allergan.com (Willard_Ryan)
Date: Sat Jan  7 00:48:23 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Allergan--Biology, Sr. Professional
Message-ID: <9501275BF1A77C4CB0A5E1546262921102E89D06@irmail122.irvine.allergan.com>

Sr. Professional, Biology Scientist

 

Allergan, Inc., with headquarters in Irvine, California, is a
technology-driven, global health care company that develops and
commercializes specialty pharmaceutical products for eye care,
neuromuscular (BOTOX), dermatology and other specialty pharmaceutical
products.  Allergan markets products in over 100 countries worldwide
that deliver value to our customers, satisfy unmet medical needs and
improve people's lives. Allergan has approximately 5,200 employees
worldwide and is differentiated from other specialty pharmaceutical
companies through its discovery-to-development research programs and its
global marketing and sales capabilities.

 

Position Description

This position is an excellent opportunity to enhance research experience
in a state of the art laboratory, performing unique, yet non-proprietary
research with publishable results.

 

The scope of activities includes electrophysiological measures from
isolated neural tissue preparations using standard methods for recording
field potentials and single unit activity; electrophysiological
recordings and optical imaging of in-vivo models; data analysis using
various software platforms; preparation of data summaries and reports. 

 

Position Requirements

*	MS in life or physical science with 2 years of experience, or BS
in life or physical science with 4 years of experience 
*	Familiarity with general neurophysiological principals 
*	Experience with in vivo procedures including general laboratory
research preparation/procedures. 
*	Experience with methods for in vitro electrophysiology 
*	Academic training in the physical or biological sciences 
*	Knowledge of optics, electronics, scientific software platforms 
*	Quantitative analytical skills 
*	Ability to work independently 
*	Rigorous attention to details
*	AA/EOE M/F/D/V
*	For consideration, please send your resume to:
Willard_ryan@allergan.com
*	Please apply online at
http://www.allergan.com/site/careers/home.asp

 

 

 

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From Willard_Ryan at allergan.com  Sat Jan  7 01:03:51 2006
From: Willard_Ryan at allergan.com (Willard_Ryan)
Date: Sat Jan  7 02:00:22 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Allergan--Biology, Sr. Professional
Message-ID: <9501275BF1A77C4CB0A5E1546262921102DD1DD2@irmail122.irvine.allergan.com>

Sr. Professional, Biology Scientist

 

Allergan, Inc., with headquarters in Irvine, California, is a
technology-driven, global health care company that develops and
commercializes specialty pharmaceutical products for eye care,
neuromuscular (BOTOX), dermatology and other specialty pharmaceutical
products.  Allergan markets products in over 100 countries worldwide
that deliver value to our customers, satisfy unmet medical needs and
improve people's lives. Allergan has approximately 5,200 employees
worldwide and is differentiated from other specialty pharmaceutical
companies through its discovery-to-development research programs and its
global marketing and sales capabilities.

 

Position Description

This position is an excellent opportunity to enhance research experience
in a state of the art laboratory, performing unique, yet non-proprietary
research with publishable results.

 

The scope of activities includes electrophysiological measures from
isolated neural tissue preparations using standard methods for recording
field potentials and single unit activity; electrophysiological
recordings and optical imaging of in-vivo models; data analysis using
various software platforms; preparation of data summaries and reports. 

 

Position Requirements

*	MS in life or physical science with 2 years of experience, or BS
in life or physical science with 4 years of experience 
*	Familiarity with general neurophysiological principals 
*	Experience with in vivo procedures including general laboratory
research preparation/procedures. 
*	Experience with methods for in vitro electrophysiology 
*	Academic training in the physical or biological sciences 
*	Knowledge of optics, electronics, scientific software platforms 
*	Quantitative analytical skills 
*	Ability to work independently 
*	Rigorous attention to details
*	AA/EOE M/F/D/V
*	For consideration, please send your resume to:
Willard_ryan@allergan.com
*	Please apply online at
http://www.allergan.com/site/careers/home.asp

 

 

 

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From astraw at caltech.edu  Mon Jan  9 15:49:39 2006
From: astraw at caltech.edu (Andrew Straw)
Date: Mon Jan  9 16:01:17 2006
Subject: [visionlist] ANNOUNCE: Vision Egg 1.0 release
Message-ID: <43C28613.5070404@caltech.edu>

I am pleased to announce the Vision Egg 1.0, a free, open source
software library for producing visual stimuli for use in vision research
experiments. Please visit our website at http://www.visionegg.org

= What is the Vision Egg? =

The Vision Egg is based on OpenGL, enabling hardware-accelerated drawing
on Windows, Mac OS X, linux, and other operating systems. It is capable
of generating many stimuli in realtime, enabling closed-loop and
gaze-contingent experiments. The library can utilize 3D projection
geometry so that wide-field stimuli such as sinusoidal gratings or
panoramic images may be specified in angular units and appropriately
distorted for flat or other displays. The library comes with numerous
demonstration programs which provide a 'hands-on' way to learn its
capabilities. The Vision Egg is written in the Python computer language
utilizing several third party modules, all of which are free, open
source software. Additional software is available, such as a Python
implementation of the popular QUEST Bayesian adaptive psychometric
method by Watson and Pelli and Pylink, an interface for the EyeLink
eyetrackers from SR Research.

= What is new in this release? =

Release 1.0 comes after 2 years of beta-testing by laboratories around
the world. Since the release of version 0.9.9, the following changes
have been made:

* Major enhancements to the ephys server/GUI code to use normal (or
  slightly modified) demo scripts in this environment were done by Imran
  Ali and Lachlan Dowd in the lab of David O'Carroll at the University
  of Adelaide.

* An initial patch for stereo support sent by Yuichi Sakano and Kevin
  J. MacKenzie at York University.

* Parallel port enhancements by Hubertus Becker, University of
  T?bingen.

* Arrow and FilledCircle stimuli by Hubertus Becker, University of
  T?bingen.

* DaqKeyboard and ResponseControl by Hubertus Becker, University of
T?bingen.

* Full screen anti-aliasing support (FSAA) by Mark Halko, Boston
  University.

* Various patches by Tony Arkles (University of Saskatchewan),
  including a suggestion to separate camera motions from the
  GL_PROJECTION matrix and put them in the GL_MODELVIEW matrix, where
  they belong.

* Patch for VISIONEGG_SYSTEM_DIR by Nick Knouf, MIT.

* Added win32_vretrace.WaitForRetrace() (but it's not used for much,
  yet)

* Enhancements to EPhys Server/GUI sequencer

* Added 'lat-long rectangle' to available 3D masking windows

* Moved controller.CONSTANTS into FlowControl module namespace

* Numerous bugfixes

For further information, or to download the Vision Egg, visit
http://www.visionegg.org

From s.schultz at imperial.ac.uk  Mon Jan  9 12:30:43 2006
From: s.schultz at imperial.ac.uk (Simon R Schultz)
Date: Mon Jan  9 16:02:12 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Faculty positions in London
Message-ID: <CB017F21-A365-48D7-B080-168295045B44@imperial.ac.uk>

Lectureships in Bioengineering
Department of Bioengineering

Lecturer Salary: ?36,200 to ?40,430 per annum

The Department of Bioengineering seeks to appoint two new academic  
staff members in our expanding department.

The Department of Bioengineering, a part of the Faculty of  
Engineering, applies engineering and physical science to a wide range  
of problems in medicine and biology. It has a long and prestigious  
history and was awarded a 5* rating in the 2001 Research Assessment  
exercise. Current research interests in the department are very  
diversified.

Since the Department is growing, applicants with expertise in any  
area of bioengineering will be considered. However, we have  
identified several areas of expertise within the Department that we  
would like to develop. Because of retirements, we hope to make at  
least one appointment in physiological fluid mechanics or soft tissue  
mechanics. Other areas of potential growth include neuroscience,  
biomedical informatics, medical imaging, medical instrumentation and  
signal analysis.

The department views bioengineering as an essentially  
interdisciplinary venture and there are ample opportunities for  
collaboration with other groups and faculties within Imperial College  
and elsewhere.

Candidates must be able to demonstrate a strong record in innovative  
research.

Application forms and further particulars for the post are available  
from the link below:

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/employment/academic/index.htm#3101bioeng

Further particulars and an application form are available from the  
Departmental Administrator, Department of Bioengineering, Imperial  
College London, Prince Consort Road, London SW7 2AZ. Tel: 020 7594  
5176, E-mail: marilyn.evans@imperial.ac.uk For more information about  
the Department please visit www.imperial.ac.uk/bioengineering.

Closing date: 31 January 2006
Valuing diversity and committed to equality of opportunity
From pwilken at gmail.com  Tue Jan 10 14:08:04 2006
From: pwilken at gmail.com (patrick wilken)
Date: Tue Jan 10 16:11:16 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Call for Tutorials at ASSC-10
Message-ID: <545ce07e70ddfae0f035b13b97b23d06@gmail.com>

CALL FOR TUTORIAL PROPOSALS

ASSOCIATION FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF CONSCIOUSNESS 10TH ANNUAL
MEETING
St. Anne's College, Oxford
June 23 - June 26, 2006

The tenth annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of
Consciousness will be held from June 23rd to June 26th, 2006 in Oxford.
The meeting will be notable as the tenth anniversary of the first ASSC
meeting. It will also take place in the pleasant surroundings of St.
Anne's College, Oxford. Accommodation in college will be available and
the meeting promises to be both intellectually stimulating and very
enjoyable!

ASSC10 is intended to promote interdisciplinary dialogue in the
scientific study of consciousness. The overall goal of the conference
is to promote the scientific study of consciousness in all of its
forms. Following last year's successful symposia, ASSC members are
again invited to submit proposals for symposia relevant to the overall
goal of the conference. Non-members can also submit proposals for
tutorials. Symposia will address current empirical and theoretical
issues in the study of consciousness, from the perspectives of
philosophy, neuroscience, clinical medicine, psychology, and computer
science.

Confirmed plenary speakers include Ned Block, Dan Dennett, Fred
Dretske, Jon Driver, Frederique de Vignemont,  Martha Farah, Rainer
Goebel, John-Dylan Haynes, Sean Kelly, Victor Lamme, Hakwan Lau, Thomas
Metzinger, David Milner, Laure Pisella, J David Smith, and Vincent
Walsh.  For latest updates, please check the conference website:
http://assc.caltech.edu/assc10/ The web site will be continually
evolving, so please visit often for updated information.

DEADLINE FOR TUTORIAL PROPOSALS: 31ST JANUARY 2006

One of the aims of this meeting is to allow researchers to gain a
background in areas that they may know little about. Towards that end a
number of tutorials are planned. Some participants in the conference
would be very interested in learning about technical matters such as
fMRI or other important brain imaging techniques. Others might enjoy a
seminar on a philosophical topic, or a tutorial on relevant matters in
cognitive psychology or linguistics.

Tutorial presenters are expected not to present just only their own
material, but to give a broader tutorial overview and encourage
discussion and debate. A non-exclusive list of possible topics might
include:

      * Brain imaging techniques (e.g. fMRI, EEG, MEG, ERP)
      * Blindsight, neglect, or other neuropsychological syndromes
      * Computational & other theoretical models of conscious processes
      * Conscious and unconscious processing
      * Neural basis of attention and consciousness
      * Current models of the visual system
      * Consciousness and metacognition
      * Criteria for the ascription of consciousness
      * Philosophical issues concerning consciousness and representation
      * Phenomenological methods for investigating consciousness

Tutorials will be held in parallel sessions on the morning and
afternoon of June 23rd 2006. Each tutorial is intended to last
approximately three hours. The sizes of tutorials will vary between a
minimum of 10 to a maximum of around 25 attendees. Tutorial presenters
will receive an honorarium of 300 pounds sterling and their
registration fee for the conference will be waived. The cost of
attending tutorials for participants will be 30 pounds sterling.

Tutorials that do not achieve the minimum enrollment may not be offered.

Send the tutorial proposal along with the following to Patrick Wilken
as soon as possible but no later than 31st January 2006.

     1. Tutorial presenters address with affiliation, email and phone
number
     2. Draft timetable for the proposed tutorial with title
     3. Summary or abstract of the tutorial, limit 250 words
     4. Audio/Visual requirements

REGISTRATION & CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

The call for submissions (talks or poster presentations) will be sent
out at a later date, together with details of registration. As in
previous years, discounted registration will be available to ASSC
members, who will also enjoy a range of book discounts and other member
benefits. The registration discount will be greater than the cost of
membership, so prospective members are encouraged to join ASSC now! To
find out more about the Association for the Scientific Study of
Consciousness, and to apply for membership, please visit our website
at: http://assc.caltech.edu/.

ASSC10 Scientific Program Committee: Tim Bayne, Axel Cleeremans, Alva
Noe, Geraint Rees (chair), Edmund Rolls, Larry Weiskrantz, and Patrick
Wilken.

------------------------------------------------------
Otto-von-Guericke-Universit?t
Haus 1, Leipziger Strasse 44
39120 Magdeburg
Germany


From taylorw at ohsu.edu  Tue Jan 10 18:16:48 2006
From: taylorw at ohsu.edu (Rowland Taylor)
Date: Tue Jan 10 18:28:31 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Postdoc, OHSU, Oregon, USA
Message-ID: <95569FB4-3170-46B9-B240-108FA9335E1D@ohsu.edu>

An NIH-funded postdoctoral position is available to start immediately  
at the Neurological Sciences Institute (http://www.ohsu.edu/nsi/),  
part of the Oregon Health and Sciences University.
A strong background in neuroscience research at the graduate or  
postgraduate level is required. Experience in electrophysiological  
techniques is highly desirable.
The project aims to elucidate the synaptic mechanisms underlying  
scotopic vision in the mammalian/primate retina.
Salary is competitive against NIH recommended levels.
Duration: 2 years with possibility of renewal.

Applicants should send a current curriculum vitae including contact  
details of two or three people who are willing to provide references.

Please make enquiries or send applications directly to:
Rowland Taylor, Ph.D.
Neurological Sciences Institute,
Oregon Health & Science University,
505 NW 185th Ave.,
Beaverton, OR, 97006
Office: +1 503 418 2680, Lab x2682.     Fax: +1 503 418 2501
Email: taylorw@ohsu.edu


From michael.herzog at epfl.ch  Tue Jan 10 20:12:33 2006
From: michael.herzog at epfl.ch (Michael Herzog)
Date: Tue Jan 10 21:08:12 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Workshop announcement 
Message-ID: <43C41531.1010100@epfl.ch>

Workshop announcement on "Visual masking and the dynamics of vision and 
consciousness"

Vision and consciousness are not static entities but dynamic processes. 
Yet, even after more than a century of research, many
fundamental questions remain unanswered. To promote development in this 
area of research, a workshop entitled "Visual masking and the dynamics 
of vision and consciousness" will be held at the 
Hanse-Wissenschafts-Kolleg (HWK), Delmenhorst, Germany, from June 27th - 
30th, 2006. The workshop comprises invited lectures, plenary 
discussions, and a poster session. We are expecting about 40 participants.

The workshop is now open for registration of about 15 additional 
participants who will present a poster. More information can be
found on the workshop's web site, http://lpsy.epfl.ch/VMworkshop/. 
Whereas there will be no registration fee for the workshop,
participants registering for the workshop will have to cover their 
travel and hotel expenses. For a few European students and post-docs, we 
can offer grants covering the full costs of the workshop, including 
travel and hotel expenses.

Please contact Michael Herzog (michael.herzog@epfl.ch) to apply for 
workshop participation. Students applying for a workshop grant should 
send a short letter describing their motivation and their expertise in 
the research field (max. 1 page) along with an
estimate of their expected travel costs. The deadline for registration 
and grant applications is January 30th, 2006. We will inform applicants 
about acceptance latest mid of March.

The workshop is sponsored by the VolkswagenStiftung and the HWK.

Ulrich Ansorge, Greg Francis, Michael Herzog, Haluk Ogmen
(workshop organizers)


From plainis at med.uoc.gr  Fri Jan 13 07:49:12 2006
From: plainis at med.uoc.gr (Sotiris Plainis)
Date: Fri Jan 13 16:48:51 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Sloan letters
Message-ID: <777AC5EE-CAB7-45F8-BB09-72C5CE7995D0@med.uoc.gr>

Dear colleagues,

Does anyone have a ttf version of Sloan letters?

Sotiris






__________________________
Sotiris Plainis, MSc, PhD
Institute of Vision and Optics (IVO)
School of Health Sciences
University of Crete
71003, Heraklion
tel: +302810-394807
fax: +302810-394653
http://www.ivo.gr



From Uwe.Mattler at Medizin.Uni-Magdeburg.DE  Fri Jan 13 10:48:26 2006
From: Uwe.Mattler at Medizin.Uni-Magdeburg.DE (Uwe Mattler)
Date: Fri Jan 13 16:49:24 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Two doctoral positions available
Message-ID: <009901c6182e$e282e830$4d01cb95@Medion>

TWO POSTGRADUATE POSITIONS AVAILABLE
'Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter', salary BAT IIa-O/2

Center for Advanced Imaging, Department for Neurology II, Medical Faculty,
Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg

Two positions are available on a project entitled "Functional and anatomical
localization of motor and non-motor priming effects of masked stimuli". The
project is funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and involves a
series of behavioral studies and experiments using functional Magnetic
Resonance Imaging (fMRI) techniques. The aim of the project is to localize
the effects of briefly presented visual prime stimuli which affect
performance although they are not consciously perceived.

Applicants should have a diploma in psychology, neuroscience, neurobiology,
or an equivalent degree in a related field. Beneficial are experiences in
experimental research and statistical data analysis. Opportunities for
further qualification (Dr. / Ph.D.) are available. Both positions are
currently limited to two years, but a prolongation is aspired. The
Otto-von-Guericke-University encourages especially women to apply. Inquiries
should include a curriculum vitae and a statement of interests and future
goals. Please send inquiries and materials to: PD. Dr. Uwe Mattler
(uwe.mattler@medizin.uni-magdeburg.de).

Deadline for applications: January 31, 2006.



From A.I.Ruppertsberg at Bradford.ac.uk  Fri Jan 13 18:46:28 2006
From: A.I.Ruppertsberg at Bradford.ac.uk (Alexa I. Ruppertsberg)
Date: Fri Jan 13 18:53:18 2006
Subject: [visionlist] CFA: AVA Annual Meeting 2006, TUESDAY 4TH APRIL 2006
Message-ID: <1137177988.43c7f58439685@webmail7.brad.ac.uk>

Dear colleagues,

call for abstracts:

AVA Annual Meeting 2006, TUESDAY 4TH APRIL 2006

VISION IN PERCEPTION AND COGNITION

ABSTRACT DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 10th

The AVA Annual Meeting and AGM will be held in the John Stanley Bell Lecture
Theatre (talks) and D4-Foyer (registration, posters and drinks reception), on
D-floor of the Richmond Building at the University of Bradford on Tuesday 4th
April 2006.

The G B Burton Memorial lecture will be given by

Prof. David Perrett (University of St. Andrews):

Colour and shape of faces and their influence on attributions


SUBMISSIONS:

Abstracts (max length: 250 words) should be submitted by e-mail to Alexa
Ruppertsberg (a.i.ruppertsberg@bradford.ac.uk) by February 10th. Abstracts will
be peer reviewed and should cover previously unreported research on any aspect
of vision. Abstracts must state the title, authors and include addresses.

References should be given in the body of the abstract in full, but without the
title, e.g. (Rayner et al, 2001, Vis Res, 41, 943-954)

Accepted abstracts will be published in the conference booklet.

Deadline for abstract submission: FRIDAY, 10th FEBRUARY 2006

A special issue of Spatial Vision will be published with paper submissions from
this meeting. Authors should therefore indicate their wish to be considered for
a paper when submitting an abstract. Papers will be subjected to a standard peer
review process. Invitations for papers will be made together with the
information about the outcome of the abstract submission.

Deadline for paper submission: FRIDAY, 30th JUNE 2006


PLEASE NOTE:
1) Abstracts should be appended with a statement of preference for a talk or a
poster and if the authors are interested in a paper submission for the special
issue of Spatial Vision.
2) The e-mail accompanying the abstract should indicate which of the authors
will and will not be attending the meeting.
3) Unless otherwise stated, it will be assumed that the first author will be the
presenting author.

The organizers will try to accommodate preferences for a talk or poster; however
this may not always be possible.

REGISTRATION FEES

Registration fees *should* be paid in advance at the registration rate shown
below using PayPal on our website: http://www.theava.net/ava2006.html

If needs be, cash payment will be accepted on the door, but credit card
facilities will *not* be available.

Member registration @ ?25

Non-member registration @ ?35

Membership plus registration special offer @ ?45

Student member registration @ ?10

Student non-member registration @ ?20

Membership plus student registration special offer @ ?30

Optional registration payment for grant-holders @ ?80 (includes membership, if
not already a member)

As many of you will know, the AVA has moved to a policy of a one payment, life
membership fee (of 25.00 pounds sterling). One way in which we hope to offset
some of our meeting costs is by introducing the 'premium' category of
registration fee. There is no obligation to pay this fee, and we expect that
most people will pay either the 'student' or 'other' rates as appropriate. But,
we do hope that grant holders might consider paying the premium rate. In all
cases, a receipt will be provided on the day for the fee paid, but this will
not indicate the category.
When you use Paypal for the first time it takes a little time to set things up,
but thereafter is quite quick. We do hope you will find this a convenient way
of paying your registration fee. Alternatively, we still accept cheques, which
should be sent to Alexa Ruppertsberg (made payable to: Applied Vision
Association) at the address below.

HOW TO GET THERE
Information on how to get to the University of Bradford can be found at:
http://www.bradford.ac.uk/external/visit/getting.php
Once you have arrived at the Richmond Building (main building with the
University?s Reception) go up to D-floor (1 ? storeys). Go through the double
doors of the Cashier?s Office and you have arrived at the registration desk in
D4-Foyer.

CARS
There is some car parking space on campus. If you intend to come by car, please
let the organisers know in advance that you will be requiring a car parking
permit.

TRAINS
Bradford has two train stations: Bradford Interchange and Bradford Foster
Square. The University of Bradford is about a 15 minute walk from both
stations. (See site map above for directions).

AIRPORT
Leeds-Bradford airport is served by a number of no-frills airlines and is served
by a bus link to Bradford city centre.

ACCOMMODATION
A list of local hotels can be found at
http://www.bradford.ac.uk/external/visit/hotels.php
(We do not recommend the Ivy Lodge!)

Or see:
http://www.information-britain.co.uk/hoteltowns.cfm?town=Bradford&county=97

TUESDAY EVENING DINNER
If you are interested in joining other attendees for dinner on Tuesday evening,
indicate this in your email.

For registration and updates on the meeting, check the webpage of the AVA:
http://www.theava.net/ava2006.html

We look forward to seeing you on the 4th April!


Alexa Ruppertsberg

-----------------------------
Dr Alexa Ruppertsberg
Department of Optometry
University of Bradford
Bradford BD7 1DP
UK

Tel.: 01274 235378
Email: a.i.ruppertsberg@bradford.ac.uk
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From denis.pelli at nyu.edu  Fri Jan 13 19:49:06 2006
From: denis.pelli at nyu.edu (Denis Pelli)
Date: Fri Jan 13 20:35:15 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Sloan letters font
In-Reply-To: <777AC5EE-CAB7-45F8-BB09-72C5CE7995D0@med.uoc.gr>
References: <777AC5EE-CAB7-45F8-BB09-72C5CE7995D0@med.uoc.gr>
Message-ID: <F0313259-8CBE-4742-BE82-14F40B1251B0@nyu.edu>

A font for the Sloan letters is available here:
http://www.psych.nyu.edu/pelli/software.html

best

Denis Pelli
Professor of Psychology and Neural Science
NYU
http://psych.nyu.edu/pelli/

On Jan 13, 2006, at 2:49 AM, Sotiris Plainis wrote:

> Dear colleagues,
>
> Does anyone have a ttf version of Sloan letters?
>
> Sotiris
>
>
>
>
>
>
> __________________________
> Sotiris Plainis, MSc, PhD
> Institute of Vision and Optics (IVO)
> School of Health Sciences
> University of Crete
> 71003, Heraklion
> tel: +302810-394807
> fax: +302810-394653
> http://www.ivo.gr
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> visionlist mailing list
> visionlist@visionscience.com
> http://visionscience.com/mailman/listinfo/visionlist

From B.A.Power at aston.ac.uk  Tue Jan 17 17:30:37 2006
From: B.A.Power at aston.ac.uk (B A Power)
Date: Tue Jan 17 18:52:20 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Aston University,
	Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Reader in Optometry 
Message-ID: <6.2.1.2.0.20060117172030.07032970@email.aston.ac.uk>



ASTON UNIVERSITY
School of Life & Health Sciences
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Reader in Optometry


Salary ?24,352 to ?43,850 and exceptionally to ?47,262 pa

The School of Life & Health Sciences is seeking to appoint an Optometrist 
to undertake research, teaching and supportive duties in its highly rated 
division of Optometry.

Teaching will be on the BSc programme in Optometry, which is one of the 
largest in the UK. We are particularly interested in applicants with 
teaching and research  expertise in Visual Optics and/or Ophthalmic 
Disease. Consideration will be given to those offering expertise in other 
areas related to Optometry and Vision Sciences. Active participation in a 
developing programme of postgraduate/professional education and training in 
Optometry is also anticipated. Previous teaching and clinical experience, 
as well as registration with the General Optical Council would be an advantage.

Applicants will have obtained a PhD in Optometry or a related area, have 
published in peer reviewed journals and for the Reader/Senior Lecturer 
appointment candidates will have experience of obtaining grant income.

To obtain further information with regard to the research that takes place 
within the School of Life & Health Sciences please access our website at 
the following address 
(<http://www.aston.ac.uk/lhs/research>http://www.aston.ac.uk/lhs/research).

Application forms and further particulars are available on our web site: 
<http://www.aston.ac.uk/hr/>http://www.aston.ac.uk/jobs/ or by telephoning: 
0121 359 0870 (24 hour answer phone), or by email: b.a.power@aston.ac.uk, 
quoting reference number A05/286/188.

Closing date for applications is Friday 3 February 2006





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From jripton at rcbi.rochester.edu  Wed Jan 18 22:04:48 2006
From: jripton at rcbi.rochester.edu (Judy Ripton)
Date: Wed Jan 18 22:15:08 2006
Subject: [visionlist] RCBI position announcement
Message-ID: <43CEBB80.7000301@rcbi.rochester.edu>

Research Technician in Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
The Rochester Center for Brain Imaging  (University of Rochester, 
Rochester, NY) is seeking a research technician to perform data 
collection, preprocessing, and analysis of functional, structural, and 
diffusion tensor MRI data, and development of software tools for same.
The candidate should have a background in neuroimaging, in one or more 
of the following areas: psychology, physics, engineering, or statistics, 
with experience in the processing and analysis of MR images (including 
Matlab, C++, packages such as AFNI, FSL, and/or SPM). The research focus 
of the Center is human brain functions, however the center also 
coordinates basic and clinical research on other topics (see 
ttp://www.rcbi.rochester.edu/). The successful candidate will be based 
in the Rochester Center for Brain Imaging 
(http://www.rcbi.rochester.edu), a state-of-the-art facility equipped 
with a Siemens Trio 3T MR system and high-performance computing 
resources, with a full-time staff of cognitive neuroscientists, computer 
scientists, engineers, and physicists. Opportunities exist to 
collaborate with faculty in the departments of Brain & Cognitive 
Science, Center for Visual Science, Imaging Sciences/Radiology, 
Biomedical Engineering and Computer Science, among others.
Salary commensurable with experience. Start date flexible but a minimum 
of two year commitment required. If interested, please send a CV and 
short statement of your interest, as well as the name and address of 
three references to Dr. D. Bavelier, daphne@bcs.rochester.edu
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From alex4hike at yahoo.com  Thu Jan 19 16:36:50 2006
From: alex4hike at yahoo.com (Alex Bowers)
Date: Thu Jan 19 18:29:25 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Second call;
	Low Vision Driving Conference, London, June 06
Message-ID: <20060119163650.39582.qmail@web36208.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

  SECOND CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
  **New abstract submission deadline: 23 February 2006**
**Submit abstracts to: abowers@biopticdriving.org**
   
  BIOPTIC DRIVING NETWORK CONFERENCE, 
London, 2-4 June 2006,in association with Designs for Vision, Inc.
   
  "LOW VISION DRIVING, MYTHS AND REALITY"
  
The BiOptic Driving Network invites contributed papers on all aspects of driving with low vision (impaired vision) for the 2006 conference.
   
  Through research and clinical presentations, the conference aims to:
Promote international discussion of the myths and reality of low vision driving and BiOptic driving;  
Raise public awareness of driving with low vision, within the context of Europe's stated objective to improve road safety for all by 2010, and from an international perspective;
Provide the stimulus for greater funding of research related to driving with low vision;
Promote discussion of models to introduce driving with low vision to a wider group of visually impaired people.
   
  The program committee encourages abstracts for presentations (20 minutes) from vision researchers, low vision clinicians, medical professionals, low vision drivers, driving instructors, orientation and mobility specialists, driver licensing officials, and all other relevant people in this field. Topics may include for example: training 
  and assessment, driving performance analysis, car design, risk analysis, design and use of optical and non optical aids, viewing strategies, legislation, test procedures, etc. 
   
  For further information, please visit the 2006 conference pages of the BiOptic Driving Network website: 
  www.biopticdriving.org/conference06.htm
   
  Acceptance will be based on the following criteria:
  1. Maximum abstract length is 300 words (excluding title and authors' names and affiliations). 
2. The abstract should be organised as follows: title, authors, affiliation or institution for each author, background/objectives, design/methods, results, and conclusions. Include 3 - 5 key words at the end. 
3. For presenting (or contact) author provide: email address, complete postal address, and telephone number. 
4. Authors should disclose any financial interests in products/programs being presented. 
5. Abstracts must be submitted electronically by February 23, 2006 to: abowers@biopticdriving.org
6. Please submit abstracts either in PDF format or as a Microsoft Word document.
7. The abstract must contain sufficient detail for evaluation of the quality of the report and its relationship to the conference topic. 
8. The abstract should be based on original work by the authors.
9. The abstract must be clear, concise and well written - for potential incorporation into conference proceedings.
   
  All abstracts will be reviewed by the program committee.
Abstract acceptance notification will be sent by email to the presenting author (or contact author) by March 20, 2006.
   
  For further information about abstracts, contact: Alex Bowers, chair of the program committee, abowers@biopticdriving.org
   
  Members of the program committee:
Ian Bailey MS OD FBCO FAAO 
  University of California, Berkeley, USA
Alex Bowers PhD MCOptom 
  The Schepens Eye Research Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
Tanja Coeckelbergh PhD
  Department of Ophthalmology, University Hospital of Antwerp, Belgium
Eli Peli MSc OD  
  The Schepens Eye Research Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
Anton Verezen BSc.Optom. FAAO
  University of Nijmegen, Amsterdam, and Utrecht, The Netherlands
   
  Issued by, www.BiOpticDrivingNetwork.org
Registered not for profit organisation in England and Wales, Company Type: PRI/LBG/NSC/S.30 Company No. 05480283
Registered address: PO BOX 3136, Maidenhead, Berkshire. SL6 7ZP  England   
  F: + 44 (0) 870 137 9408


		
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From pz at hms.harvard.edu  Thu Jan 19 20:08:38 2006
From: pz at hms.harvard.edu (Dr. J. S. Pezaris)
Date: Thu Jan 19 20:11:33 2006
Subject: [visionlist] AREADNE 2006 Research in Encoding and Decoding of
	Neural Ensembles
Message-ID: <200601192008.k0JK8cBP021209@pz-desk.med.harvard.edu>


	    CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT and CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

			     AREADNE 2006

		 Research in Encoding and Decoding of
			   Neural Ensembles

			  June 22 - 25, 2006
		      Nomikos Conference Center
			  Santorini, Greece

			http://www.areadne.org
			   info@areadne.org


INTRODUCTION

One of the fundamental problems in neuroscience today is to understand
how the activation of large populations of neurons give rise to higher
order functions of the brain including learning, memory, cognition,
perception, action and ultimately conscious awareness.  Recent
technological advances such as fMRI, high resolution MEG, 2-photon
microscopy, and multi-microelectrode recordings, have begun to provide
a glimpse into the global functioning of the brain.  At the same time,
our understanding of how neuronal ensembles carry information has
allowed the development of brain-machine interfaces (BMI) to enhance
the capabilities of patients with sensory and motor deficits.


CONFERENCE MISSION

The AREADNE 2006 conference will bring together scientific leaders
from around the world to present their recent findings on the
functioning of neuronal ensembles in an informal and spectacular
setting on Santorini.  The conference is the kick-off event for a long
term project to form a systems neuroscience research institute within
Greece where visiting scientists from around the world can interact
with Greek researchers and students.


CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

We are currently soliciting abstracts for poster presentation.
Submissions will be accepted electronically, and must be received by
March 1, 2006. 


FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

For further information please see the conference web site
http://www.areadne.org or send email to info@areadne.org.

-- 
John Pezaris, Ph.D.
pz@hms.harvard.edu

From Nassim.S.Seyedali at uth.tmc.edu  Thu Jan 19 21:22:54 2006
From: Nassim.S.Seyedali at uth.tmc.edu (Seyedali, Nassim S)
Date: Thu Jan 19 21:27:40 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Postdoc in primate neurophysiology 
Message-ID: <BEA6A318CB196546AA5184CE0F3744704357A0@UTHEVS3.mail.uthouston.edu>


Postdoc in primate neurophysiology 

A postdoctoral position is available immediately in the laboratory of Dr. A.B. Sereno at the University of Texas-Houston Medical School to study the neurophysiological basis of aspects of visual cognition that relate to attention, short-term memory, intention, and eye movements. Research will involve recording from prefrontal cortices of behaving primates. Applicants should have prior experience in electrophysiological techniques. Programming skills (e.g. Objective-C, C++) and Matlab experience would be useful. The UTHSC-H is an Equal Opportunity Employer: M/F/D/V. Please send vita, letter of interest, names and contact information of three references to: 

Nassim S. Seyedali
University of Texas Health Science Center-Houston
Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy
6431 Fannin St., Suite 7.160A 
Houston, TX 77030
Nassim.S.Seyedali@uth.tmc.edu

From Nassim.S.Seyedali at uth.tmc.edu  Thu Jan 19 21:24:11 2006
From: Nassim.S.Seyedali at uth.tmc.edu (Seyedali, Nassim S)
Date: Thu Jan 19 21:27:40 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Postdoc in attention and eye movements in humans 
Message-ID: <BEA6A318CB196546AA5184CE0F3744704357A1@UTHEVS3.mail.uthouston.edu>


Postdoc in attention and eye movements in humans 

A postdoctoral position is available immediately in the laboratory of Dr. A.B. Sereno at the University of Texas-Houston Medical School to study the basis of visual attention and eye movements in clinical and normal human populations. Research will involve behavioral testing of human subjects using non-invasive infrared eye-trackers. Applicants should have prior experience and hold a Ph.D. in a related field (e.g., Cognitive Psychology, Neuroscience). Programming skills (e.g. C++, Matlab) would be useful. The UTHSC-H Is an Equal Opportunity Employer: M/F/D/V. Please send vita, letter of interest, names and contact information of three references to: 

Nassim S. Seyedali
University of Texas Health Science Center-Houston
Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy
6431 Fannin St., Suite 7.160A 
Houston, TX 77030
Nassim.S.Seyedali@uth.tmc.edu


From speterson at cvs.rochester.edu  Mon Jan 23 14:38:30 2006
From: speterson at cvs.rochester.edu (Sara Peterson)
Date: Mon Jan 23 16:13:21 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Center for Visual Science 25th Symposium
Message-ID: <a06210204bffa9aa49771@[192.168.80.193]>

>Dear colleagues:
>
>We are pleased to announce the 25th Center for Visual Science 
>Symposium, titled "Statistical learning and brain plasticity", to be 
>held on June 1-3, 2006 at the University of Rochester. 
>Traditionally, this forum has allowed close interaction among the 
>participants.  A limited number of travel awards and fellowship will 
>be provided for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. 
>Electronic registration is available now.  For further information, 
>please visit: http://www.cvs.rochester.edu/symposium.html
>
>The symposium poster is available for download at
>http://www.cvs.rochester.edu/symp_06.pdf
>
>PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
>Perceptual and motor learning-David Williams, Session Chair
>
>     * Mario Svirsky, Indiana University
>     * Jason Gold, Indiana University
>     * Reza Shadmehr, Johns Hopkins University
>     * Alexandre Pouget, University of Rochester
>
>Learning: Role of Prior and Attention-Robbie Jacobs, Session Chair
>
>     * David Knill, University of Rochester
>     * Marvin Chun, Yale University
>     * Nick Chater, University College London
>     * Josh Tenenbaum, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
>
>Constraints on Pattern Learning-Mike Weliky, Session Chair
>
>     * Lori Holt, Carnegie Mellon University
>     * Daniel Margoliash, University of Chicago
>     * Richard Aslin, University of Rochester
>     * Toby Mintz, University of Southern California
>
>Neural Mechanisms of Learning-Daeyeol Lee, Session Chair
>
>     * Takao Hensch, Riken Institute
>     * Anthony Zador, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
>     * Nathaniel Daw, University College London, Gatsby
>     * Leo Sugrue, Stanford University
>
>Maturation and Plasticity-Daphne Bavelier, Session Chair
>
>     * Daphne Maurer, McMaster University
>     * Brian Wandell, Stanford University
>     * Elissa Newport, University of Rochester
>
>Wrap-up Session
>
>     * Randy Gallistel, Rutgers University
>
>Organizing Committee:
>Richard Aslin, Chair
>Daphne Bavelier
>Alexandre Pouget

-- 
Sara Peterson
Center for Visual Science
Brain & Cognitive Sciences
Meliora 274
RC Box 270270
Rochester, NY 14627
(585) 275-2459 Voice
(585) 271-3043 Fax
speterson@cvs.rochester.edu
http://www.cvs.rochester.edu/people/s_peterson/peterson.html
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From p.sumner at imperial.ac.uk  Tue Jan 24 15:10:26 2006
From: p.sumner at imperial.ac.uk (Sumner, Petroc)
Date: Tue Jan 24 16:26:14 2006
Subject: [visionlist] PhD positions available at the School of Psychology,
	Cardiff University
Message-ID: <4EAB3D1613496C4F980C2A475E1B8D415FE6C1@icex5.ic.ac.uk>

PhD positions available at the School of Psychology, Cardiff University
We are seeking PhD students to work in Visual Ecology and Cognitive
Neuroscience, with a start date between April and October 2006. 
This is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic team studying vision
and visually guided behaviour. One project is concerned with the
evolutionary pressures that have shaped our visual system. Studies will
include behavioural experiments on humans, with stimuli based on images
of natural scenes. Some modelling may also be included, as well as the
opportunity for fieldwork in surviving natural environments (e.g.
rainforest). The project will be supervised by Petroc Sumner with
co-supervision from Tom Troscianko (Psychology, Bristol) and Julian
Partridge (Biology, Bristol). 
The second project is specifically concerned with the interaction of
cortical and subcortical pathways. Studies may include fMRI imaging (in
the new CUBRIC), novel behavioural paradigms and psychophysics with both
healthy volunteers and patients with focal brain lesions. 
Thus the positions offer the opportunity to gain experience in a range
of methodology, and you will be expected to contribute to designing new
paradigms and shaping the future directions of this research. You should
have a degree in a relevant discipline, but no particular previous
experience is necessary. Most important is the ability to learn new
techniques and contribute to developing novel experiments. Informal
enquiries may be made to Dr Petroc Sumner 020 8383 0584,
p.sumner@imperial.ac.uk.
Applications Deadline: 31st January 2006
Interviews for short-listed candidates will be held in February 2006.


Dr Petroc Sumner
Dept Visual Neuroscience (room 10L15a)
Division of Neuroscience
Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London
St Dunstan's Road, London W6 8RP
020 8383 0584 (office; internal 30584)
020 8846 1670 (shared fax)
07855 813753 (mobile)
http://www1.imperial.ac.uk/medicine/people/p.sumner.html

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From d.t.field at reading.ac.uk  Wed Jan 25 10:50:27 2006
From: d.t.field at reading.ac.uk (David Field)
Date: Wed Jan 25 16:21:37 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Postdoctoral Position: Neural mechanisms of steering
	and controlling collisions
Message-ID: <002b01c6219d$2a046130$e4c7e186@psychology.rdg.ac.uk>

Applications are now being invited for a 3 year postdoctoral position in the
Action Research Laboratory at Reading University, UK, beginning in April
2006. Initial salary will be in the range ?22289 to ?26470 depending on
experience.

 

The Action Research Laboratory (ARL) http://www.rdg.ac.uk/arl/ conducts
research on active human behaviours such as the control of steering during
locomotion and associated eye-movements as well as judgements of impending
collision is tasks such as ball catching or driving. Studies are based
around using 3D simulations (virtual environments) to explore the use of
visual and non-visual cues in pseudo-naturalistic settings.  

 

The EPSRC funded project (Wann/Field/Wilkie) will use fMRI to explore the
neural correlates of the perception of approaching objects (time to
collision, time to passage, whether an approaching object will strike the
observer). The second part of the project will investigate neural correlates
of heading perception and the control of steering. Some behavioural work
will also be involved in developing paradigms for the scanner. Both research
themes are currently in progress at the ARL

 

The most important skills, of which candidates should possess at least one
are:

      Either, generating 3D stimuli with OpenGL or DirectX

      or, acquiring and analysing functional imaging data

 

The following would also be desirable     

      Experience with stereo displays in virtual environments or in an
imaging setting (the ARL is acquiring an MRI compatible stereo
display)

      Experience of measuring eye movements (The lab has an ASL504 Desk-
mounted Eyetracker)

      Experience in maintaining web pages or willingness to learn

 

The successful candidate will be involved in the research process, from
experimental design through to writing up results for publication. Informal
enquiries are encouraged, and should be sent to David Field
(d.t.field@rdg.ac.uk).

 

 

----------------------------------------------------

Dr David Field

Department of Psychology

University of Reading

Reading

RG6 6AL

UK

 

+44 118 3785004 office

+44 118 3786715 fax

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From casile at tuebingen.mpg.de  Thu Jan 26 10:11:31 2006
From: casile at tuebingen.mpg.de (Casile Antonino)
Date: Thu Jan 26 16:18:59 2006
Subject: [visionlist] PhD Position in Computational Neuroscience at the
 University Clinic in Tuebingen
Message-ID: <43D8A053.4010606@tuebingen.mpg.de>

PhD POSITION IN COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE IN T?BINGEN
======================================================

One PhD position is available in a DFG approved joint research
project. The project involves the Laboratory for Action Representation
and Learning (Dr. Giese and Dr. Casile), the Department of
Cognitive Neurology (Prof. Thier) at the Hertie Institute for Clinical
Brain Research, and the Department of Physiology at the University of
Parma (Profs. Rizzolatti and Fogassi).

The project focuses on the modeling of quantitative properties of
mirror neurons. The successful candidate is supposed to develop and
test neural models of the mirror neuron system, based on
electrophysiological data. She/He will work in close collaboration
with electrophysiologists in T?bingen and Parma. The candidate can
acquire PhD degrees in any standard field at the University of
T?bingen, or in Neuroscience at the Graduate School of Neural and
Behavioral Sciences, which is run jointly by the University and the
Max Planck Institutes in T?bingen.

T?bingen offers many different institutes and facilities for research
and education in neuroscience. Through the close interaction between
experimental, clinical and theoretical research groups, it is one of
the most stimulating places for neuroscience research in Germany.

Applications from candidates, with preferably backgrounds in technical
disciplines (computer science, engineering, physics, mathematics), are
highly welcome. Prior experience with computational neuroscience is
recommended for the project. The position is funded for 3 years and
payment will be according to BAT IIa/2. Starting date for the position
is 1st of April 2006.

For application submission or for further information please contact:

Dr. Antonino Casile or Dr. M.A. Giese
Laboratory for Action Representation and Learning
Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research
Spemannstr. 34
D-72076 Tuebingen
GERMANY

E-mail: antonino.casile@uni-tuebingen.de, martin.giese@uni-tuebingen.de

From casile at tuebingen.mpg.de  Thu Jan 26 10:11:35 2006
From: casile at tuebingen.mpg.de (Casile Antonino)
Date: Thu Jan 26 16:19:16 2006
Subject: [visionlist] PhD Position in Experimental Neuroscience at the
 University Clinic in Tuebingen
Message-ID: <43D8A057.5080503@tuebingen.mpg.de>

PhD POSITION IN EXPERIMENTAL NEUROSCIENCE IN T?BINGEN
=====================================================

One PhD position is available in a DFG approved joint research
project. The project involves the Laboratory for Action Representation
and Learning (Dr. Giese and Dr. Casile), the Department of Cognitive
Neurology (Prof. Thier) at the Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain
Research, and the Department of Physiology at the University of Parma
(Profs. Rizzolatti and Fogassi).

The project focuses on quantitative neurophysiological investigations
of mirror neurons. The successful candidate is supposed to carry out
neurophysiological recordings of the activity of mirror neurons in
monkey pre-motor cortex. She/He will work in close collaboration with
theorists who will develop computational models of the collected
data. The candidate can acquire a PhD degree in any standard field at
the University of T?bingen, or in Neuroscience at the Graduate School
of Neural and Behavioral Sciences, which is run jointly by the
University and the Max Planck Institutes in T?bingen.

T?bingen offers many different institutes and facilities for research
and education in neuroscience. Through the close interaction between
experimental, clinical and theoretical research groups, it is one of
the most stimulating places for neuroscience research in Germany.

Applications from candidates with a strong interest in neurophysiology
from the fields medicine, biology, psychology, but also computer
science, physics and engineering are highly welcome. Prior experience
with neurophysiological recordings will be an advantage, but not
necessarily be required. The position is funded for 3 years and
payment will be according to BAT IIa/2. Starting date for the position
is 1st of April 2006.

For application submission or for further information please contact:

Dr. Antonino Casile or Dr. M.A. Giese
Laboratory for Action Representation and Learning
Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research
Spemannstr. 34
D-72076 Tuebingen
GERMANY

E-mail: antonino.casile@uni-tuebingen.de, martin.giese@uni-tuebingen.de


From smart at neuralcorrelate.com  Thu Jan 26 20:09:37 2006
From: smart at neuralcorrelate.com (Susana Martinez-Conde)
Date: Thu Jan 26 21:33:42 2006
Subject: [visionlist] *** SECOND CALL for illusion submissions: The 2nd
	Annual Best Visual Illusion of the Year Contest!!***
Message-ID: <200601262008.k0QK8xTJ033785@visionscience.com>

***************** The Best Visual Illusion of the Year Contest
******************

Submit your illusions to The Best Visual Illusion of the Year Contest
today!! http://illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com 

The deadline for illusion submissions is February 15th!

Last year?s contest was a huge success, drawing numerous accolades from
attendees and international media coverage. The First, Second and Third
Prize winners were Arthur Shapiro and Justin Charles (Bucknell University,
USA), George Mather (Sussex University, UK), and Dejan Todorovic (University
of Belgrade, Serbia). To see the illusions and other highlights from the
2005 contest, go to
http://illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_
user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=3&MMN_position=13:3. 
?
In order to make the contest more easily accessible to a larger proportion
of the world?s vision science community, and to increase the public impact
of this celebration of vision research, the 2006 contest will be held during
the same week of the VSS meeting, in Sarasota, Florida. The contest will be
held on Monday, May 8th, in the Van Wezel Hall, during the VSS afternoon
break: 3pm ? 5pm. 

Visual Illusion Contestants are invited to submit novel visual or multimodal
illusions (unpublished, or published no earlier than 2005) in standard
image, movie or html formats. An international panel of impartial judges
(http://illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE
_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=45&MMN_position=21:21) will rate the submissions
and narrow them to the top ten. Then, at the Contest Gala in Sarasota, the
top ten illusionists will present their contributions and the attendees of
the event (that means you!) will vote to pick the TOP THREE WINNERS!

Illusions submitted to the 2005 contest can be re-submitted to the 2006
contest edition, as long as they meet the above requirements and were not
among the top three 2005 winners.

Submissions will be held in strict confidence by the panel of judges and the
authors/creators will retain full copyright. As with submitting your work to
any scientific conference, participating in to the Best Illusion of the Year
Contest does not preclude you from also submitting your work for publication
elsewhere.

Submissions can be made to Dr. Susana Martinez-Conde (Illusion Contest
Coordinator, Neural Correlate Society) via email (smart@neuralcorrelate.com)
until February 15, 2006. Illusion submissions should come with a (no more
than) one-page description of the illusion and its theoretical underpinnings
(if known). Illusions will be rated according to: 

? Significance to our understanding of the visual system ? Simplicity of the
description ? Sheer beauty ? Counterintuitive quality ? Spectacularity 

Visit the illusion contest website for further information and to see last
year?s illusions: http://illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com  

Submit your ideas now and take home this prestigious award!

On behalf of the Neural Correlate Society: Susana Martinez-Conde (Illusion
Contest Coordinator)

----------------------------------------------------------------
Susana Martinez-Conde, PhD
Director, Laboratory of Visual Neuroscience
Division of Neurobiology
Barrow Neurological Institute
350 W. Thomas Rd
Phoenix AZ 85013, USA

Phone: +1 (602) 406-3484
Fax: +1 (602) 406-4172
Email: smart@neuralcorrelate.com 
http://www.neuralcorrelate.com/smc_lab 





From klarin at Central.UH.EDU  Fri Jan 27 15:35:44 2006
From: klarin at Central.UH.EDU (Larin, Kirill )
Date: Fri Jan 27 17:03:56 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Postdoctoral Position in Nanoscience/Neuroscience
Message-ID: <2B3C8EB27F1E1741BA9A5EAB5AD1765310B7D5D1@EX1SERVER1.cougarnet.uh.edu>

An exciting opportunity is available for research in the
cross-disciplinary field of Nanoscience/Neuroscience to study
interactions of nanomaterials with cells and cell membranes, and
proteins. We seek a postdoctoral candidate with skills and experience in
electrophysiology, fluorescence imaging techniques, molecular biology
and biophysics. A willingness to work in a multidisciplinary research
team is essential. Electronic applications (preferably pdf) are strongly
encouraged. Please provide a cover letter, CV, and contact information
for two referees by E-mail to: Kirill Larin PhD (klarin@uh.edu),
University of Houston, Biomedical Engineering, N207 Engineering Bldg 1,
Houston, TX 77204-4006. Applications will be considered on an ongoing
basis and will be open until filled.

Applications will be treated as confidential. The University of Houston
is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Minorities, women,
veterans and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

 

 

Kirill Larin, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and

Electrical and Computer Engineering,

University of Houston

N207 Engineering Bldg 1

Houston, TX 77204-4006

 

Office: W204-Engr D3

Phone: 713-743-4623

Fax: 713-743-4503

Email: klarin@uh.edu

http://www.egr.uh.edu/bol/

 

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From l.griffin at cs.ucl.ac.uk  Mon Jan 30 19:30:35 2006
From: l.griffin at cs.ucl.ac.uk (Lewis Griffin)
Date: Mon Jan 30 19:39:26 2006
Subject: [visionlist] PhD studentship in Computational Vision at University
	College London
Message-ID: <"bells.cs.u.281:30.00.06.19.30.44"@cs.ucl.ac.uk>

PhD Studentship: ?Basic Image Features?

 

Applications are invited for a PhD studentship to be supervised by Lewis
Griffin (Computer Science, University College London)

 

Project Summary

 

The PhD student would work with an experienced post-doc and the Principal
Investigator (Lewis Griffin) on an EPSRC-funded project 'Basic Image
Features'. The project's aim is to discover a vocabulary of 30-100 feature
types which can be used to describe the structure of any image. The methods
of the project will be mathematical, computational and statistical but the
results are expected to have relevance to understanding biological vision
systems as well as designing machine vision systems. 

The studentship will suit a student with a good first degree in a
mathematical or physical science - though psychology or physiology would
also be considered. Guidelines on eligibility for this studentship are
available on the EPSRC website.

The studentship is funded by the EPSRC and covers stipend (?12,500 per annum
for 2006/7) and tuition fees. UK citizens or those with a "relevant
connection" with the UK are eligible for the full award. Non-UK EU nationals
are eligible for a fees-only award. 

Further information can be obtained by contacting Dr Lewis Griffin, Computer
Science, University College London (e-mail: l.griffin@ucl.ac.uk). 

In order to be considered you need to fill in an application form. Please
see
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-students/graduate-study/application-admissi

on/index.shtml , where you can download the forms and guidelines
immediately. Make sure you specify PhD ? ?Basic Image Features? on the part
of the form that asks what you are applying for. After you fill in this
form, please send it to Naomi Liberman, Department of Computer Science,
University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT.

 

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From sabes at phy.ucsf.edu  Tue Jan 31 04:12:30 2006
From: sabes at phy.ucsf.edu (Philip N. Sabes)
Date: Tue Jan 31 05:06:37 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Postdoctoral Positions Available,
 UCSF Sloan-Swartz Center for Theoretical Neurobiology
Message-ID: <43DEE3AE.4090602@phy.ucsf.edu>

SLOAN-SWARTZ CENTER FOR THEORETICAL NEUROBIOLOGY
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO

Postdoctoral Positions

We are soliciting applications for post-doctoral fellowships, with the
goal of bringing theoretical approaches to bear on neuroscience.
Applicants should have a strong background and education in mathematics,
theoretical or experimental physics, computer science, or engineering,
and a commitment to a future research career in neuroscience.  Prior
biological or neuroscience training is not required.  The Center offers
the opportunity to combine theoretical and experimental approaches to
understanding the operation of the intact brain.  The research
undertaken by the trainees may be theoretical, experimental, or a
combination.

More information on the UCSF Sloan-Swartz Center and Faculty is
available at: http://www.sloan.ucsf.edu/sloan.

To apply, please send a curriculum vitae, a statement of previous
research and research goals, and up to three relevant publications, and
have two letters of recommendation sent.

Applications should be sent electronically to
   Ned Molyneaux <molyneau@phy.ucsf.edu>

or by mail to
   Sloan-Swartz Center Admissions
   Department of Physiology, University of California
   513 Parnassus Ave., Room HSE-800
   San Francisco, CA  94143-0444


UC San Francisco is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
From roland.fleming at tuebingen.mpg.de  Wed Feb  1 09:46:16 2006
From: roland.fleming at tuebingen.mpg.de (Roland William Fleming)
Date: Wed Feb  1 16:10:46 2006
Subject: [visionlist] APGV 06 - 2nd Call for Participation - 2 months to
	deadline
Message-ID: <c6a2306613fda69579fa36458999feb4@tuebingen.mpg.de>

APGV 2006: THIRD SYMPOSIUM ON
APPLIED PERCEPTION IN GRAPHICS
AND VISUALIZATION

Co-located with ACM SIGGRAPH 06.
Boston, MA. 28th - 30th July, 2006.
http://www.apgv.org


SECOND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

Research in computer graphics and visualization has great potential to 
benefit from, and contribute to, research in perception.

Since 2004, this symposium has brought together researchers from the 
fields of perception, graphics and visualization, to facilitate a wider 
exchange of ideas. Our goals are to use insights from  perception to 
advance the design of methods for visual, auditory and  haptic 
representation, and to use computer graphics to enable  perceptual 
research that would otherwise not be possible.

Submissions are invited in the broad range of areas at the intersection 
of computer graphics, visualization and perception. Specific examples 
include, but are not limited to:
- applications of insights from perception to the development of 
algorithms for more efficient, effective or realistic modeling, 
rendering and/or animation
- applications of perception in the design and evaluation of methods 
for more effective representation and communication of data
- the study of perception and perceptual issues in virtual environments
- computational aesthetics, stylization, and perceptual aspects of 
non-photorealistic rendering

Submissions are particularly welcome in all areas of basic perception 
research that have applications in computer graphics and visualization.

Proceedings, which will include the poster abstracts, will be published 
by ACM SIGGRAPH. Best papers from the symposium will be invited to be 
extended for a special issue of the ACM Transactions on Applied 
Perception <http://www.acm.org/tap/>.

For more information check our website: <www.apgv.org>


Submission deadlines
31st March 2006
- full papers (up to 8 pages)
- short papers (up to 4 pages)

8th May 2006
- posters (abstract up to 1 page)


Conference Chairs
Roland Fleming, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics
Sunghee Kim, Gettysburg College

Program Chairs
Erik Reinhard, University of Bristol
William Thompson, University of Utah


From l.griffin at cs.ucl.ac.uk  Wed Feb  1 11:51:40 2006
From: l.griffin at cs.ucl.ac.uk (Lewis Griffin)
Date: Wed Feb  1 16:10:46 2006
Subject: [visionlist] PhD studentship in Computational Vision at University
	College London
Message-ID: <"bells.cs.u.378:01.01.06.11.51.47"@cs.ucl.ac.uk>

PhD Studentship: ?Computational Vision - Exploiting cues to what things are
made of in optical, radar & sonar images?

 

Applications are invited for a PhD studentship to be supervised by Lewis
Griffin (Computer Science) & Chris Baker (Electrical Engineering)

 

Project Summary

 

This EPSRC DTA-studentship will be jointly supervised by Computer Science
(Lewis Griffin) and Electrical Engineering (Chris Baker). The aim of the
studentship is to apply state-of-the-art methods for object and scene
classification developed for optical images, to radar and sonar images.

The studentship is suitable for a candidate with a good first degree in
Engineering, Physics, Computer Science or Mathematics. Guidelines on
eligibility for this studentship are available on the EPSRC website.

 

The studentship is funded by the EPSRC and covers a stipend (at least
?12,300 per annum) and tuition fees. UK citizens or those with a "relevant
connection" with the UK are eligible for the full award. Non-UK EU nationals
are eligible for a fees-only award. 

 

Further information can be obtained by contacting Dr Lewis Griffin, Computer
Science, University College London (e-mail: l.griffin@ucl.ac.uk). 

In order to be considered you need to fill in an application form. Please
see
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-students/graduate-study/application-admissi

on/index.shtml, where you can download the forms and guidelines immediately.

Make sure you specify PhD ? ?Computational Vision? on the part of the form
that asks what you are applying for. After you fill in this form, please
send it to Naomi Liberman, Department of Computer Science, University
College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT.

 

If you need further assistance regarding our application process, please
contact Naomi Liberman (email: n.liberman@cs.ucl.ac.uk )

 

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From dts at inf.ed.ac.uk  Wed Feb  1 17:33:43 2006
From: dts at inf.ed.ac.uk (Don Sannella)
Date: Wed Feb  1 17:48:20 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Studentships for PhD study in Informatics@Edinburgh
Message-ID: <17376.61687.554919.826050@tarn.inf.ed.ac.uk>

Studentships for PhD study in
the School of Informatics at
the University of Edinburgh
---------------------------

FORTY research studentships are available for:

* UK students
* EU students
* students worldwide

Many of these are full studentships, paying your tuition fees and a
stipend of 12300 pounds to cover living expenses in your first year,
rising in second and third years. The rest pay your fees and/or a
contribution of 6150 pounds per year towards living expenses. Payment
of fees for non-EU students is subject to successful competition for
an Overseas Research Student award. PhD students are encouraged to make
contributions to teaching, for example by leading tutorial groups, and
for this you can expect to earn an additional 500-1000 pounds per year.

Informatics
-----------

Informatics is the study of information and computation, in both
natural and engineered systems. It comprises a vast range of
scientific and engineering endeavour and has enormous economic and
social impact.

Edinburgh University's School of Informatics brings together the former
Departments of Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science and Computer
Science, together with the Artificial Intelligence Applications
Institute. The School possesses a combination of breadth and
strength unparallelled elsewhere in the UK and competitive world-wide;
as an intellectual endeavour it is strikingly original.

The School is the only university grouping in the UK to have
achieved the top 5*A rating in Computer Science in the UK government's
2001 Research Assessment Exercise round, and it is the UK's biggest
research group in this area. We currently have around 250 students
studying for PhD, and around 150 for MSc.

PhD study
---------

PhD study is carried out within one of our six research Institutes:

    ANC:  Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation
    CISA: Centre for Intelligent Systems and their Applications
    ICCS: Institute for Communicating and Collaborative Systems
    ICSA: Institute for Computing Systems Architecture
    IPAB: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour
    LFCS: Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science

ANC fosters the study of adaptive processes in both artificial and
biological systems; two themes are the study of artificial learning
systems and the analysis and modelling of brain processes. CISA
undertakes basic and applied research and development in knowledge
representation and reasoning. Through its applications institute AIAI,
it works with others to deploy the technologies associated with this
research. ICCS pursues basic research into the nature of
communication among humans and between humans and machines, using
text, speech and graphics, and the design of interactive dialogue
systems, using computational and algorithmic approaches.

ICSA seeks development of a better understanding of systems
components, both hardware and software, and their integration and
interaction; this involves not only improving their raw performance
and cost-effectiveness, but also making them more connectable and
interoperable, more reliable, more usable and more applicable. The
interests of IPAB are how to link computational perception,
representation, transformation and generation processes to external
worlds---whether real or virtual. The mission of LFCS is to achieve a
foundational understanding of problems and issues arising in
computation and communication through the development of appropriate
and applicable formal models and mathematical theories.

Projects
--------

A very wide range of research topics is available for PhD study. Here
is an (incomplete!) list of project areas; see

    http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/postgraduate/phdprojects.html

for some information on each of these.

    ANC: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation
    --------------------------------------------------
    Bioinformatics
    Machine Learning
    Neuroinformatics

    CISA: Centre for Intelligent Systems and their Applications
    -----------------------------------------------------------
    A Proof Management Tool
    Automating Diagrammatic Reasoning
    Improving Support for Mathematics in Mechanical Theorem Provers
    Multi-Agent Coordination in Open Environments
    Game-Theoretic Analysis of Multiagent Communication
    The Role of Communication in Multiagent Reinforcement Learning
    Controlling Open Multiagent Systems
    Argumentation-Based Ontology Conflict Resolution
    Social Algorithms
    Political Coordination Mechanisms
    A Simple Agent Programming Language
    Rational Strategies in Trust and Reputation Mechanisms
    Human/Robotic Task Achieving Team

    ICCS: Institute for Communicating and Collaborative Systems
    -----------------------------------------------------------
    Concurrency in (Computational) Linguistics
    Eyetracking Corpora as Experimental Data
    Probabilistic Models of Human Parsing
    Integrating Linguistic and Visual Processing
    Dynamic Bayesian Networks for Speech Recognition
    Probabilistic Approaches to Natural Language Generation
    Automatic Generation of Image Descriptions
    Robust Construction of Semantics
    Learning Semantic Representations of Languages which Lack Online Resources
    The Semantics and Pragmatics of Free Adjuncts and Absolutes
    Statistical Machine Translation for Biomedical Domains
    Microphone-Array Based Speech Recognition
    Language Models for Multiparty Conversations
    Hidden Speech Production Models
    Multimodal Information Access
    Head Motion Synthesis for Lifelike Conversational Agents
    Multi-Unit Acoustic Models for Speech Recognition
    Induction of Wide-Coverage Categorial Lexicon from Large Amounts 
of Unlabeled Text
    Use of Intonation in Spoken Language Generation for Human-Machine Dialogue
    Temporal Semantics
    Grammar-Driven Language Models
    Automated Musical Analysis
    The Statistical Semantic Web
    Extracting and Using Alternatives in Question Answering
    Projecting Discourse Annotation from Parallel Corpora

    ICSA: Institute for Computing Systems Architecture
    --------------------------------------------------
    Speculative Parallelisation for Multiprocessors
    Cellular Multiprocessors
    Skeletal Parallel Programming
    Automatic Test Pattern Generation and Scan Insertion for 
Asynchronous Circuits
    Noise-Tolerant Asynchronous Circuits
    Data-Dependent Processing for Energy-Aware Systems
    Combining Model Checking and Theorem Proving
    Compilers that Learn to Optimise
    Searching the Embedded Program Optimisation Space
    Automated Synthesis of Architectures and Compilers
    Energy and Area Modelling for Architecture Synthesis
    Microarchitecture Synthesis for Embedded Architectures
    Low-Power Multi-Threaded Architectures
    Reconfigurable Data-Parallel Structures for Embedded Computation

    IPAB: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour
    ---------------------------------------------------
    Behaviour Composition in Video Sequence Analysis
    Temporal 3D Model Recovery and Representation
    Learning Latent Model Representations of Sensorimotor Contingencies
    Insect Robotics

    LFCS: Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science
    ----------------------------------------------------
    Engineering Electronic Proof
    Independence-Friendly Temporal Logic
    Questions on Modal mu-Calculi
    Archiving of Scientific Data
    Integrity Constraints for XML and Beyond
    Keys for XML
    Provenance in Databases
    Information Preserving Schema Mapping
    Data Cleaning
    Vectorizing XML
    Randomized Algorithms for Transportation Polytopes
    Complexity of Approximate Counting
    Algorithmic Verification of Recursive Probabilistic Systems
    Schema-Directed XML Publishing
    A Security Model for XML
    XML Query Languages
    PEPA Nets: Modelling Mobile Systems
    Epidemiological Modelling with Stochastic Process Algebra
    Performance Modelling with Process Algebras
    Computational Models for Systems Biology
    A Logic of Computational Effects
    Algebraic and Logical Foundations of Formal Software Development
    Proof Carrying Code for the Grid
    Security for Mobile Devices
    Topological Models of Computation
    Constructive Set Theories and their Applications
    Proof Theory for Programs and Processes
    Type Systems for Computational Effects
    Mathematical Models for Concurrent and Mobile Computation
    Modalities for Name Generation: Logic, Proof and the Meaning of New
    "Bad Smells" in Code
    Combinations and Abstractions of Formal Games
    Decision Procedures for Higher-Order Grammars
    Links: Web Programming, Faster, Better, Cheaper

Further information
-------------------

Information about graduate study, the School of Informatics, the
University as a whole and the city of Edinburgh is available from:

    http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/postgraduate/
    http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/
    http://www.ed.ac.uk

You can email queries to our Graduate Secretary at:

    phd-admissions@inf.ed.ac.uk

or to individual members of teaching staff. Application forms are
available from:

    http://www.ed.ac.uk/studying/postgraduate/applications/forms.html

Your application form should be returned by mid-March.  Earlier
applications have access to a wider range of sources of financial aid.
Applications for an Overseas Research Student award must be completed
by mid-February at the latest.
From g.rees at fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk  Wed Feb  1 17:35:59 2006
From: g.rees at fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk (Geraint Rees)
Date: Wed Feb  1 17:48:47 2006
Subject: [visionlist] ASSC-10 CALL FOR PAPERS - ABSTRACT SUBMISSION NOW OPEN
Message-ID: <83FA7DC6-BEEC-4AA8-8E2D-E5678EF535E9@fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk>

Apologies for any cross-posting, and please forward to colleagues/ 
students as appropriate.

-------------------------------
CALL FOR PAPER & POSTER PROPOSALS
ASSOCIATION FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF CONSCIOUSNESS

10TH ANNUAL MEETING
St. Anne's College, Oxford
June 23 - June 26, 2006
-------------------------------

The tenth annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study  
of Consciousness will be held from June 23rd to June 26th, 2006 in  
Oxford. The meeting will be notable as the tenth anniversary of the  
first ASSC meeting. It will also take place in the pleasant  
surroundings of St. Anne's College, Oxford. Accommodation in college  
will be available and the meeting promises to be both intellectually  
stimulating and very enjoyable!

ASSC10 is intended to promote interdisciplinary dialogue in the  
scientific study of consciousness. The overall goal of the conference  
is to promote the scientific study of consciousness in all of its  
forms. Following last year's successful symposia, ASSC members are  
again invited to submit proposals for symposia relevant to the  
overall goal of the conference. Non-members can also submit proposals  
for tutorials. Symposia will address current empirical and  
theoretical issues in the study of consciousness, from the  
perspectives of philosophy, neuroscience, clinical medicine,  
psychology, and computer science.

For latest updates, please check the conference website:

http://www.assc10.org.uk/

The web site will be continually evolving, so please visit often for  
updated information.

Confirmed speakers include:

* Ned Block, New York University
* Dan Dennett, Tufts University
* Fred Dretske, Duke University
* Jon Driver, University College London
* Frederique de Vignemont, Institut des Sciences Cognitives, France
* Martha Farah, University of Pennsylvania
* Rainer Goebel, University of Maastricht
* Anthony Greenwald, University of Washington
* John-Dylan Haynes, Max-Planck Institute for Cognitive and Brain  
Sciences
* Sean Kelly, Princeton University
* Victor Lamme, University of Amsterdam
* Hakwan Lau, University of Oxford
* Thomas Metzinger, Johannes Gutenberg-Universit?t Mainz
* David Milner, Durham University
* Laure Pisella, CNRS
* J David Smith, SUNY at Buffalo
* Vincent Walsh, University College London

This is the FIRST call for paper and poster proposals. ASSC10 is  
intended to promote interdisciplinary dialogue in the scientific  
study of consciousness, as in previous years a significant portion of  
the program will be set aside for concurrent sessions of submitted  
talks and poster sessions. ASSC10 will provide an excellent  
opportunity for the presentation of new empirical findings or novel  
theoretical perspectives in an atmosphere that will promote  
discussion and debate.

-------------------------------
CALL FOR PAPER AND POSTER SUBMISSIONS
SUBMISSIONS MUST BE RECEIVED BY MARCH 1, 2006
-------------------------------

Speakers in concurrent sessions are invited to talk on any topic  
relevant to the scientific study of consciousness. Submissions that  
include anthropological, evolutionary, physiological, psychological,  
philosophical, or computational perspectives are all welcome.

Submissions for both posters and talks will be accepted (please  
specify preference). Any person may present only one submission, but  
may be co-author on more than one. Oral presentations will be limited  
to 20 minutes, to be followed by a ten-minute discussion period.

Submit by filling out the appropriate form at:

http://www.assc10.org.uk

You will be asked to include with your submission the following  
information:

1. Title.
2. Name, affiliation, with presenting co-author(s) designated.
3. An abstract of up to 350 words.
4. Complete contact information for the author with whom the  
scientific program committee will interact with about the submission
5. Whether your first preference is for an oral or poster presentation
6. Whether you are willing to have the abstract, if accepted,  
published in Psyche.

Please note: talks and posters are selected based on an aggregate  
vote of the scientific program committee (members vote on all  
abstracts barring those in which a conflict of interest arises).  
Proposals that pass a given threshold will be considered for an oral  
or poster presentation; those that pass a lower threshold will be  
considered for a poster presentation only (this in no way implies  
that posters are considered a "lower" medium for presentation, but  
rather reflects the restricted number of talk slots available).  
Qualities considered in assessing abstracts include originality,  
relevance to research on consciousness (good, but seemingly  
irrelevant work will receive lower scores), and clarity of ideas  
(ASSC10 is an interdisplinary conference, as such its expected that  
proposals should be intelligible for all members of committee  
regardless of research background). Membership status, category of  
talk, and presentation preference (oral/poster) are ignored when  
scoring proposals.

If you have any difficulties in submitting your proposal, or any  
other questions regarding the meeting, please contact assc10@gmail.com .

-------------------------------
REGISTRATION & CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
-------------------------------

As in previous years, discounted registration will be available to  
ASSC members, who will also enjoy a range of book discounts and other  
member benefits. The registration discount will be greater than the  
cost of membership, so prospective members are encouraged to join  
ASSC now! To find out more about the Association for the Scientific  
Study of Consciousness, and to apply for membership, please consult  
our website at http://assc.caltech.edu/
Registration will open in late February.

-------------------------------
ASSC10 Scientific Program Committee: Tim Bayne, Axel Cleeremans, Alva  
Noe, Geraint Rees (chair), Edmund Rolls, Larry Weiskrantz, and  
Patrick Wilken.
-------------------------------
All questions about paper/poster submissions should be directed to  
the official conference email address: assc10@gmail.com.


From helenv at aaoptom.org  Wed Feb  1 20:07:55 2006
From: helenv at aaoptom.org (Helen Viksnins)
Date: Wed Feb  1 20:38:21 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Call for Courses Academy 2006 Denver
Message-ID: <42FA860782A23A40B20D17EFCFECB26149EBA2@observe.aaoptom.lan>

Mark these dates on your calendar: February 15 - March 15, 2006.

Submit a course proposal for Academy 2006 Denver! Contribute to peak
education at the American Academy of Optometry's annual meeting in
Denver, Colorado, December 7-10, 2006.

The theme for Academy 2006 San Diego is Today's Research, Tomorrow's
Practice(r): A Lifetime of Eye Care. Course submissions that address
this theme will be given favorable consideration by the committee.

The Lectures and Workshops Committee invites you to participate in this
year's program by submitting up to 3 course proposals for consideration.
Application is done completely online from the Academy's Web site. For
more information visit: Call for Courses at
http://www.aaopt.org/meetings/meeting6/Education/LecturesWrkShp/index.as
p.

The Scientific Program (Papers & Posters) submission window will be open
July 1-August 1, 2006.

If you have any questions or find difficulty with the online course
registration process, please contact Helen Viksnins by phone
(301-984-1441, ext. 3002) or by e-mail Helenv@aaoptom.org.

From J.C.A.Read at ncl.ac.uk  Thu Feb  2 10:51:09 2006
From: J.C.A.Read at ncl.ac.uk (Jenny Read)
Date: Thu Feb  2 16:16:46 2006
Subject: [visionlist] PhD studentship in computational neuroscience -
	Newcastle, UK
Message-ID: <43E1E41D.3040003@ncl.ac.uk>

Applications are invited for a PhD studentship to be supervised by Jenny 
Read at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne 
(http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/j.c.a.read/jobs). The project will involve 
computational/mathematical modelling of neuronal populations involved in 
supporting binocular vision and depth perception, as well as human 
psychophysics experiments. Due to the mathematical nature of my work, 
the studentship would probably suit someone with a degree in maths or 
physical sciences, but applicants with a psychology or biosciences 
degree will also be considered. A knowledge of visual neuroscience is an 
advantage, but not essential.

The studentship is funded by Newcastle University, and includes a 
maintenance grant matching the support provided by BBSRC (currently 
?12,000 per annum) plus full tuition fees for UK/EU students (non-EU 
students would have to top up fees or obtain an overseas research 
scholarship, of which a limited number are available from the University 
for the 2nd and 3rd year of study). Other than that, there are no 
nationality restrictions.

Further details of the work and a full list of publications are 
available at http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/j.c.a.read/. For more 
information, contact Jenny Read (mailto:j.c.a.read@ncl.ac.uk or +44 191 
222 7559). To apply, send a CV plus a cover letter explaining why you 
want to work in this area.

-- 
Jenny Read                                  Office: +44 191 222 7559
Royal Society University Research Fellow    Mobile: +44 794 401 5796
Henry Wellcome Building for Neuroecology,   mailto:J.C.A.Read@ncl.ac.uk
University of Newcastle, Framlington Place
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 4HH, UK.

From Yves.Trotter at cerco.ups-tlse.fr  Thu Feb  2 15:36:29 2006
From: Yves.Trotter at cerco.ups-tlse.fr (Yves Trotter)
Date: Thu Feb  2 16:16:46 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Post-doc available in primate Neurophysiol
Message-ID: <p05200f31c007cc181db2@[193.54.228.102]>

A POSTDOCTORAL POSITION is available from april - may 2006 in the 
(Centre de Recherche Cerveau & Cognition in Toulouse, France) in a 3D 
vision group (http://www.cerco.ups-tlse.fr). The project will 
investigate comparisons of visual statistics (simple, natural images) 
and coding efficiency ; it  will also provide analysis of the 
modulatory effect of oculomotor activity on visual processing in the 
visual cortex of the awake monkey. Parallel psychophysical 
experiments will be performed in Humans.
Candidates should preferably have a background in extracellular 
electrophysiological recordings and provide computational skills 
(Matlab experience in particular would be useful). The position is 
available for 18 months. Salary will correspond to standards of the 
French University system.

Contact: Yves Trotter
Yves.Trotter@cerco.ups-tlse.fr
-- 
Note mail-address changes: Yves.Trotter@cerco.ups-tlse.fr
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
    Yves Trotter
    Centre de Recherche Cerveau & Cognition, UMR 5549
    U.P.S.   Facult? de M?decine Rangueil
    31062 Toulouse Cedex 9   France
    Tel : 33 (0) 5 62 17 28 05
    Fax : 33 (0) 5 62 17 28 09
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

From yshelepin at yandex.ru  Thu Feb  2 18:52:50 2006
From: yshelepin at yandex.ru (yshelepin)
Date: Thu Feb  2 22:40:35 2006
Subject: [visionlist] ECVP 2006 Call for Papers
Message-ID: <43E25502.000001.12350@soapbox.yandex.ru>

REGISTRATION AND ABSTRACT SUBMISSION FOR 
ECVP2006 ARE NOW OPEN! 

The website of the 29th European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP2006) is now open.  Please go to http://www.ecvp2006.ru to sign up!

The conference will take place in St-Petersburg, Russia, on the banks of the river Neva, August 20-25th, 2006. Registration of attendants will be going on in Main Conference Hall of the Military Medical Academy from 10.00 Sunday morning 20 of August 2006.

The same day, on Sunday 20th August, opening session will be held 3 miles dawn the river in Academy of Sciences as well historic building, which has stood on the bank of the river Neva since the Eighteenth Century. 

There the Perception Lecture will be given by Professor J. D. Mollon of Cambridge University.  The lecture will be followed by a visit to the Monument and Museum of M. V. Lomonosov (1711-1765) the founder of the trichromatic theory of vision and wave theory. 

On the same evening, a reception will be held near the palace of the first Russian member of the Royal Society of London and first Governor of St. Petersburg, Duke Aleksander Danilovich Menshikoff (1673-1729), and near the St-Petersburg University (1725).

The next day scientific meetings, sessions and symposia from 21 to 25 of August which cover the full range of visual science will take place in Main Conference Hall of the Military Medical Academy. This Hall is only 100 m far from Hotel St-Petersburg. 


The final symposium will devote to
Art and Imagination in Human and Computer Vision.

On the Wednesday, a Banquet will be organized.

Tourist attractions will include: an excursion to the Hermitage and Russian Museum, Famous Peterhoff fountains and Pavlovsk landscape park, Russian Ballet, Opera and Philharmonic classical music. 

A boat trip along the famous St-Petersburg rivers and canals will reveal to you the charm of the Northern capital of Russia!


We hope to see you with us!

Please book the hotel as soon as possible. The St-Petersburg hotels in August are fulfilled by tourists. The simplest way is http://www.ecvp2006.ru


On behalf of ECVP2006's Executive Committee,

Yuri Shelepin

-------------------------------------------------
Yuri Shelepin, MD, PhD, DS, Professor
Executive Chair, European Conference on Visual Perception 2005
http://ecvp2006.ru
Director of the Laboratory of Visual Physiology
I.P.Pavlov  Institute of Physiology
Makarova emb.6,
199034, St-Peterburg, Russia
Phone: +7 (812) 3284571
Fax: +7 (812) 3280501
Email: ecvp@yandex.ru
http://www.ecvp2006.ru


From announcements at journalofvision.org  Thu Feb  2 22:26:07 2006
From: announcements at journalofvision.org (Journal of Vision)
Date: Thu Feb  2 22:40:43 2006
Subject: [visionlist] New Issue: Journal of Vision, Volume 6, Issue 1
Message-ID: <585001c62847$a9298f20$020100c0@journalofvision.org>


Journal of Vision

Volume 6, Number 1, Pages 1-96	 doi:10.1167/6.1
http://journalofvision.org/6/1/	 ISSN 1534-7362	 

Articles

 <http://journalofvision.org/6/1/1/> 	 The human eye is an example of
robust optical design <http://journalofvision.org/6/1/1/> 
Pablo Artal
Antonio Benito
Juan Tabernero
http://journalofvision.org/6/1/1/
	
 <http://journalofvision.org/6/1/2/> 	 Accumulation and persistence of
memory for natural scenes <http://journalofvision.org/6/1/2/> 
David Melcher
http://journalofvision.org/6/1/2/
	
 <http://journalofvision.org/6/1/3/> 	 Lightness identification of
patterned three-dimensional, real objects
<http://journalofvision.org/6/1/3/> 
Rocco Robilotto
Qasim Zaidi
http://journalofvision.org/6/1/3/
	
 <http://journalofvision.org/6/1/4/> 	 Tilt aftereffect for texture
edges is larger than in matched subjective edges, but both are strong
adaptors of luminance edges <http://journalofvision.org/6/1/4/> 
Sarah J. Hawley
David R. Keeble
http://journalofvision.org/6/1/4/
	
 <http://journalofvision.org/6/1/5/> 	 Limits to human movement
planning in tasks with asymmetric gain landscapes
<http://journalofvision.org/6/1/5/> 
Shih-Wei Wu
Julia Trommersh?user
Laurence T. Maloney
Michael S. Landy
http://journalofvision.org/6/1/5/
	
 <http://journalofvision.org/6/1/6/> 	 The extended horopter:
Quantifying retinal correspondence across changes of 3D eye position
<http://journalofvision.org/6/1/6/> 
Kai M. Schreiber
Douglas B. Tweed
Clifton M. Schor
http://journalofvision.org/6/1/6/
	
 <http://journalofvision.org/6/1/7/> 	 Shape recognition alters
sensitivity in stereoscopic depth discrimination
<http://journalofvision.org/6/1/7/> 
Hongjing Lu
Bosco S. Tjan
Zili Liu
http://journalofvision.org/6/1/7/
	
 <http://journalofvision.org/6/1/8/> 	 An advantage for detecting
dynamic targets in natural scenes <http://journalofvision.org/6/1/8/> 
Quoc C. Vuong
Andries F. Hof
Heinrich H. B?lthoff
Ian M. Thornton
http://journalofvision.org/6/1/8/
	


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From pferguso at inf.ed.ac.uk  Fri Feb  3 17:08:51 2006
From: pferguso at inf.ed.ac.uk (Pat Ferguson)
Date: Fri Feb  3 17:16:05 2006
Subject: [visionlist] [Fwd: Lectureship in Neuroinformatics]
Message-ID: <43E38E23.8090809@inf.ed.ac.uk>



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Subject: 	Lectureship in Neuroinformatics
Date: 	Fri, 03 Feb 2006 16:40:43 +0000
From: 	Pat Ferguson <pferguso@inf.ed.ac.uk>
To: 	visionlist@visionscience.com



University of Edinburgh - Job Opening in Computational Neuroscience

The School of Informatics invites applications for an appointment to a 
Lectureship in Neuroinformatics, with a focus on computational modelling 
of the nervous system at any level, including molecular, cellular, 
systems or cognitive. This position is comparable to assistant 
professor, but is a permanent appointment.

You will be based in the Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation 
(ANC) (www.anc.ed.ac.uk), which hosts the EPSRC/MRC Doctoral Training 
Centre (DTC) in Neuroinformatics.  This interdisciplinary 4-year PhD 
training programme attracts students in many fields of neuroinformatics, 
including computational and cognitive neuroscience.

You should be able to demonstrate an outstanding research record and 
commitment to excellence in teaching. You will be expected to engage 
with the highly-motivated PhD students in the DTC 
(http://www.anc.inf.ed.ac.uk/neuroinformatics).

You will be expected to develop collaborative links and joint activities 
both nationally and internationally. There is a lively neuroscience 
community at Edinburgh; current related initiatives in which ANC members 
are involved include the UK initiatives in Systems Biology and in 
Cognitive Systems, the UK Network in Neuroinformatics and the 
International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility, a 
newly-established organisation serving the international 
neuroinformatics community.

For more information and how to apply see www.jobs.ed.ac.uk (ref. 3005472).

Informal enquiries can be made by contacting Professor David Willshaw, 
telephone +44 131 650 4404 or email willshaw@inf.ed.ac.uk.

The closing date for applications is Friday 24th February 2006.


-- 

Pat Ferguson, Administrative Secretary

University of Edinburgh

_Neuroinformatics Doctoral Training Centre_

5 Forrest Hill, EdinburghEH1 2QL

Tel. +44 (0)131 650 3090

Fax. +44 (0)131 650 6899

 

The University of Edinburgh is subject to the Freedom of Information 
(Scotland) Act 2002.  Unless an exemption applies, information held by 
the University may be disclosed on request.  The exemptions include ones 
for personal information, research in progress, commercially sensitive 
information and genuinely confidential information. Further information 
is available at http://www.recordsmanagement.ed.ac.uk 
<http://www.recordsmanagement.ed.ac.uk/>

 


-- 

Pat Ferguson, Administrative Secretary

University of Edinburgh

_Neuroinformatics Doctoral Training Centre_

5 Forrest Hill, EdinburghEH1 2QL

Tel. +44 (0)131 650 3090

Fax. +44 (0)131 650 6899

 

The University of Edinburgh is subject to the Freedom of Information 
(Scotland) Act 2002.  Unless an exemption applies, information held by 
the University may be disclosed on request.  The exemptions include ones 
for personal information, research in progress, commercially sensitive 
information and genuinely confidential information. Further information 
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From a.i.ruppertsberg at Bradford.ac.uk  Fri Feb  3 17:35:10 2006
From: a.i.ruppertsberg at Bradford.ac.uk (Alexa I. Ruppertsberg)
Date: Fri Feb  3 17:51:03 2006
Subject: [visionlist] REMINDER CFA: AVA Annual Meeting 2006,
	TUESDAY 4TH APRIL 2006
Message-ID: <43E3944E.4010800@bradford.ac.uk>

Dear colleagues,

The deadline for the

AVA Annual Meeting 2006, TUESDAY 4TH APRIL 2006

VISION IN PERCEPTION AND COGNITION

is one week away: FEBRUARY 10th

For registration, further information and updates on the meeting, check
the webpage of the AVA:
http://www.theava.net/ava2006.html

We look forward to seeing you on the 4th April!


Kind regards,
Alexa Ruppertsberg

-- 
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Dr. Alexa I. Ruppertsberg
Department of Optometry
University of Bradford
Bradford
BD7 1DP
UK

Phone: 	++44 (0) 1274 - 23 53 78
email: 	a.i.ruppertsberg@bradford.ac.uk
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


From ovs at osu.edu  Mon Feb  6 17:32:36 2006
From: ovs at osu.edu (Optometry & Vision Science)
Date: Mon Feb  6 18:01:29 2006
Subject: [visionlist] OVS Call for Papers - Special Infant and Child
	Hyperopia Issue
Message-ID: <5724F5511FADAC4987DDC5A5814B180C02169457@cliffclavin.optometry.ohio-state.edu>


CALL FOR PAPERS

Optometry and Vision Science is soliciting papers for a Feature issue
scheduled for late Fall 2006.

"Infant and Child Hyperopia"

The deadline for submissions is June 1, 2006.

A feature issue provides the opportunity for your work to be published
alongside similar subject matter. Past feature issues of OVS have included a
number of important and highly-cited papers. For example, the 20 or so papers
published in the 1999 feature issues on myopia have been cited well over 400
times.

It is intended for this feature issue to reflect the considerable research
activity and practitioner interest in strategies for detection, diagnosis and
management of hyperopia in infants and children. In particular, we are
interested in manuscripts on the following topics:

* Epidemiology of hyperopia related to prevalence, ethnicity, etc.

* Hyperopic refractive error related to emmetropization in infants and school
children 

* The impact of hyperopia on reading, learning, attention, IQ, academic
performance, as well as its impact on visual acuity, accommodation and other
visual functions

* Screening for hyperopia, measurement of hyperopia, and management of the
hyperopic patient including age-dependent correction strategies for hyperopia
in infants and children.

* Animal models of refractive error, or genetics studies, whether molecular
or statistical, would also be of interest if they emphasized findings
relevant to hyperopia in infants or children.

Manuscripts must be submitted online at (ovs.edmgr.com) and should be
prepared according to the instructions to authors available via the web site
home page. Indicate that your paper is being submitted for this feature
issue. Manuscripts will be subjected to peer review under the editorial
guidance of Donald Mutti, Susan Cotter, Rowan Candy and Gunilla
Haegerstrom-Portnoy. Donald Mutti will be coordinating the review of the
submitted articles with the Editor-in-Chief and Managing Editor.

Please contact the Editorial Office (ovs@osu.edu) if you have any questions.

Tony Adams, OD, PhD
Editor-in-Chief, Optometry and Vision Science
Berkeley, CA


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Optometry and Vision Science
The Ohio State University, College of Optometry
338 West 10th Avenue
Columbus, OH  43210
Tel: (614) 292-4942; Fax: (614) 292-4949;
E-mail: ovs@osu.edu
**************************************************


From henning.mueller at sim.hcuge.ch  Tue Feb  7 15:59:23 2006
From: henning.mueller at sim.hcuge.ch (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Henning_M=FCller?=)
Date: Tue Feb  7 18:22:09 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Registration open for ImageCLEF 2006
Message-ID: <43E8C3DB.3000105@sim.hcuge.ch>

Dear all,

Registration is now open for ImageCLEF 2006, a benchmarking event for 
retrieval from image collections. ImageCLEF is part of CLEF, the Cross 
Language Evaluation Forum (http://www.clef-campaign.org/). Registration 
forms can be obtained via the CLEF web page and registration is free of 
charge.

Main goal is to evaluate the performance of information retrieval 
applications from image collections based on visual features, 
multilingual text, and particularly based on combinations of the two.

Several tracks are available for image classification, interactive 
retrieval, and domain-specific applications (home photography and 
medical collections). A flyer and some more information can be found on 
the ImageCLEF web page (http://ir.shef.ac.uk/imageclef/). More 
information on the exact tasks for 2006 will be made available shortly.

Please do not hesitate to ask questions or make propositions on ImageCLEF.

Paul Clough and Henning M?ller
-- 
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  Henning M?ller (PhD)
  University & Hospitals of Geneva
  Service of Medical Informatics
  24, rue Micheli-du-Crest
  CH-1211 Geneva 14, Switzerland
  Tel  +41 22 372-6175
  Fax  +41 22 372-8680
  email henning.mueller@sim.hcuge.ch
From eero at cns.nyu.edu  Tue Feb  7 21:48:54 2006
From: eero at cns.nyu.edu (Eero Simoncelli)
Date: Tue Feb  7 22:32:42 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Summer course: Computational Visual Neuroscience
Message-ID: <200602072148.k17Lmsm24041@calaf.cns.nyu.edu>

		   Computational Neuroscience: Vision
	     A Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Summer Course

			 June 16 - 29, 2006

Computational modeling and simulation have produced important advances
in our understanding of neural processing.  This intensive summer course
focuses on areas of visual science in which interactions among
psychophysics, neurophysiology, and computation have been especially
fruitful.  The course combines lectures with hands-on problem solving
using the MatLab programming environment in a computer laboratory.
Lectures will be given by the course organizers, and by invited
lecturers including: Larry Abbott (Columbia U), David Brainard (U
Pennsylvania), Matteo Carandini (Smith-Kettlewell Eye Institute),
Marissa Carrasco (NYU), EJ Chichilnisky (Salk Institute), Yang Dan (UC
Berkeley), Jack Gallant (UC Berkeley), Wilson Geisler (UT Austin), David
Heeger (NYU), Nancy Kanwisher (MIT), Michael Lewicki (Carnegie Mellon),
Tony Movshon (NYU), Michael Platt (Duke U), Pamela Reinagel (UCSD),
Dario Ringach (UCLA), Jonathan Victor (Cornell U)

Participants in all previous courses are listed at:
   http://www.cns.nyu.edu/csh04/alumni.html

Applications must be submitted by 15 March 2006.  Further information:
   http://meetings.cshl.edu/courses/c-visi06.shtml

Course Organizers: 
  Jonathan Demb,       University of Michigan
  Eero P. Simoncelli,  New York University
  Stefan Treue,        German Primate Center, Goettingen
From patrick at wjh.harvard.edu  Tue Feb  7 23:16:47 2006
From: patrick at wjh.harvard.edu (Patrick Cavanagh)
Date: Wed Feb  8 04:27:05 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Resources for foreign graduate students
Message-ID: <2F392D48-62B6-42F7-952B-35DBBA628DF4@wjh.harvard.edu>

Hi,

    We would like to help promising vision and visual neuroscience  
students from developing countries choose appropriate schools for  
graduate studies. To do so, we are making a list of universities from  
around the world that provide support for foreign graduate students.  
For example, Stanford Medical School, like many American  
universities, uses federal training grants or fellowships for tuition  
and stipend support during the first two years, and so can only  
support US students (or foreigners with "green" cards). At the other  
end of the spectrum, Harvard supports all accepted applicants with  
university funds. This distinction is critical for students that do  
not have any other resources to call on. Countries like Nigeria,  
Iran, and Vietnam train medical students, often the best students in  
their countries, and some of these would like to continue studies in  
the neurosciences but have trouble finding programs that have support  
for them. Please send us descriptions of your department?s support  
for graduate students from outside your country. We listed some  
sample descriptions below and we will share our final list with CVNet  
when it is ready.



Harvard: All students receive offer of free tuition and 3 years of  
stipend (first 2 years and last year) with guaranteed teaching to  
fill years of no stipend. The Psychology Dept takes 1, sometimes 2  
vision graduate students per year. Neurobiology in the Medical School  
supports 1 ? foreign PhD students per year in all areas of neurobiology.



Stanford Medical School:  All students are supported from federal  
training grants or federal individual fellowships (NSF, NDSEG, etc)  
during their first two years so there is no support for foreign  
students.  Financial support thereafter is the responsibility of the  
individual thesis adviser.





Bill Newsome, Stanford University, bill@monkeybiz.stanford.edu

Patrick Cavanagh, Harvard University, patrick@wjh.harvard.edu
From hwainer at stat.cmu.edu  Wed Feb  8 19:36:11 2006
From: hwainer at stat.cmu.edu (Heather Wainer)
Date: Wed Feb  8 19:45:34 2006
Subject: [visionlist] conference announcement--SAND3
Message-ID: <200602081936.k18JaBw1025189@harm.stat.cmu.edu>

The third workshop on Statistical Analysis of Neuronal Data (SAND3)
will take place May 12-13, 2006, at Carnegie Mellon University,
Pittsburgh, PA.  A pair of short courses will also be given on May 11,
in conjunction with the workshop.

Travel funds are available, to provide partial support for participants.
Participants are encouraged to present posters, and submit papers, 
reporting research involving new methodology, investigation of 
existing methods, or application of state-of-the-art analytical 
techniques. We expect papers to be published in a special issue of 
"Statistics in Medicine."

The short courses on May 11 will be "An overview of statistical
methods  for neuroscience" (morning) and 
"Problems in neurophysiology, for quantitative analysts" (afternoon).
Confirmed speakers and participants include

    * Bruno Averbeck (Rochester)
    * Steve Bressler (Florida Atlantic)
    * Emery Brown (Harvard Medical School/MIT)
    * Elizabeth Buffalo (Emory)
    * Zhiyi Chi (Connecticut)
    * Yang Dan (Berkeley)
    * Uri Eden (Harvard)
    * Loren Frank (UCSF)
    * Stuart Geman (Brown)
    * Apostolos Georgopoulos (Minnesota)
    * Hiroyuki Ito (Kyoto Sangyo)
    * Rob Kass (Carnegie Mellon)
    * Mark Laubach (Yale)
    * Sri Natarajan (UCSF)
    * Sheila Nirenberg (UCLA)
    * Liam Paninski (Columbia)
    * Patrick Purdon (MGH)
    * Andrew Schwartz (Pittsburgh)
    * Tatanya Sharpee (UCSF)
    * Shigeru Shinomoto (Kyoto)
    * Wendy Suzuki (NYU)
    * Bin Yu (Berkeley)
    * Jonathan Victor (Cornell)

The organizers are Emery Brown, Elizabeth Buffalo,
Apostolos Georgopoulos, Rob  Kass, Jonathan Victor, and Bin Yu.
For further information see http://sand.stat.cmu.edu.







From smart at neuralcorrelate.com  Thu Feb  9 04:22:29 2006
From: smart at neuralcorrelate.com (Susana Martinez-Conde)
Date: Thu Feb  9 04:28:40 2006
Subject: [visionlist] *** FINAL CALL for illusion submissions: The 2nd
	Annual Best Visual Illusion of the Year Contest!!***
Message-ID: <20060209042030.QCCW6244.fed1rmmtao11.cox.net@bsrsmclaptop>

Submit your illusions to The Best Visual Illusion of the Year Contest
today!! http://illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com    
 
The deadline for illusion submissions is in one week: ***February 15th***!

Last year's contest was a huge success, drawing numerous accolades from
attendees and international media coverage. The First, Second and Third
Prize winners were Arthur Shapiro and Justin Charles (Bucknell University,
USA), George Mather (Sussex University, UK), and Dejan Todorovic (University
of Belgrade, Serbia). To see the illusions and other highlights from the
2005 contest, go to
http://illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_
user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=3&MMN_position=13:3.     

In order to make the contest more easily accessible to a larger proportion
of the world's vision science community, and to increase the public impact
of this celebration of vision research, the 2006 contest will take place
during the same week of the VSS meeting, in Sarasota, Florida. The contest
will be held on Monday, May 8th, in the Van Wezel Hall, during the VSS
afternoon break: 3pm - 5pm. 

Visual Illusion Contestants are invited to submit novel visual or multimodal
illusions (unpublished, or published no earlier than 2005) in standard
image, movie or html formats. An international panel of impartial judges
(http://illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE
_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=45&MMN_position=21:21) will rate the submissions
and narrow them to the top ten. Then, at the Contest Gala in Sarasota, the
top ten illusionists will present their contributions and the attendees of
the event (that means you!) will vote to pick the TOP THREE WINNERS!

Illusions submitted to the 2005 contest can be re-submitted to the 2006
contest edition, as long as they meet the above requirements and were not
among the top three 2005 winners.

Submissions will be held in strict confidence by the panel of judges and the
authors/creators will retain full copyright. As with submitting your work to
any scientific conference, participating in the Best Illusion of the Year
Contest does not preclude you from also submitting your work for publication
elsewhere.

Submissions can be made to Dr. Susana Martinez-Conde (Illusion Contest
Coordinator, Neural Correlate Society) via email (smart@neuralcorrelate.com)
until February 15, 2006. Illusion submissions should come with a (no more
than) one-page description of the illusion and its theoretical underpinnings
(if known). Illusions will be rated according to: 

. Significance to our understanding of the visual system . Simplicity of the
description . Sheer beauty . Counterintuitive quality . Spectacularity 

Visit the illusion contest website for further information and to see last
year's illusions: http://illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com     

Submit your ideas now and take home this prestigious award!

On behalf of the Neural Correlate Society: Susana Martinez-Conde (Illusion
Contest Coordinator)

----------------------------------------------------------------
Susana Martinez-Conde, PhD
Director, Laboratory of Visual Neuroscience
Division of Neurobiology
Barrow Neurological Institute
350 W. Thomas Rd
Phoenix AZ 85013, USA
Phone: +1 (602) 406-3484
Fax: +1 (602) 406-4172
Email: smart@neuralcorrelate.com 
http://www.neuralcorrelate.com/smc_lab/


From e.mcsorley at reading.ac.uk  Thu Feb  9 15:44:00 2006
From: e.mcsorley at reading.ac.uk (Eugene McSorley)
Date: Thu Feb  9 16:12:39 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Postdoctoral Position: Relationship between eye
 movement accuracy and latency
Message-ID: <43EB6340.5020705@rdg.ac.uk>

A Postdoctoral position is available in the lab of Eugene McSorley at 
University of Reading, UK. The position is within a project funded by 
the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) to 
examine the relationship between latency and accuracy in saccadic 
system. The work will examine the finding that saccades can become 
dramatically more accurate despite only a small artificially induced 
increase in saccade latency. See http://journalofvision.org/3/11/20/ for 
further details.

Applicants should have a doctoral degree in psychology, cognitive 
neuroscience, or a related discipline; or be close to submitting such a 
doctoral thesis. Experience in programming visual displays or measuring 
eye movements are of advantage. Salary is according to Research Grade 
1B: ?19,460 - ?22,289 p.a. The position is for two years, starting in 
April 2006.

Informal enquires to Dr. Eugene McSorley by email: e.mcsorley@reading.ac.uk

Please send applications no later than March 6th 2006 by email. More 
information about the department can be found at http://www.rdg.ac.uk

The School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of 
Reading has received the highest recognition for both its research (RAE 
2001 5**) and teaching (QAA 24/24). To enhance this research excellence 
a newly constructed Centre for Brain, Behaviour and Health (CBBH) opened 
in Jan 2004 providing extensive new research laboratories. The School is 
also part of a consortium with dedicated access to a Siemens 3T MRI 
facility. The School provides a lively and exciting research environment 
with Vision and Action Labs comprising of postgraduate students, 
postdoctoral researchers and permanent academic staff. Reading is a 
vibrant town with major music festivals occurring annually and also has 
good links to London, Oxford and the rest of the country.
From ginis at med.uoc.gr  Thu Feb  9 16:08:22 2006
From: ginis at med.uoc.gr (Harilaos Ginis)
Date: Thu Feb  9 16:12:58 2006
Subject: [visionlist] 5th Aegean Summer School in Visual Optics: CALL FOR
	ABSTRACTS
Message-ID: <0BBE4038-2C22-4517-A655-7C5ACA056F91@med.uoc.gr>

5th Aegean Summer School in Visual Optics: CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
Rethymno Crete, July 1 - 6, 2006.

Information on the Summer School, confirmed invited speakers and the  
city of Rethymno can be found at the school's website: http:// 
www.ivo.gr/summerschool/

A number of free papers will be considered for inclusion in the  
scientific program.
An online submission for can be found at http://www.ivo.gr/summerschool/

Topics of the submitted abstracts should be in the areas of
OCULAR ABERRATIONS AND RETINAL IMAGE QUALITY
IMAGING THE EYE
INVESTIGATIVE TECHNIQUES IN VISION
PHYSIOLOGY OF THE VISUAL SYSTEM
CORRECTING REFRACTIVE ERROR AND PRESBYOPIA

Deadline for Abstract submission is March 5 2006.

For queries regarding the program please contact the organising  
Committee

Harilaos Ginis: ginis@med.uoc.gr
Sotiris Plainis: plainis@med.uoc.gr
Aristophanis Pallikaris: apallik@med.uoc.gr


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From LFrishman at OPTOMETRY.UH.EDU  Thu Feb  9 18:30:42 2006
From: LFrishman at OPTOMETRY.UH.EDU (Frishman, Laura)
Date: Thu Feb  9 18:32:41 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Resources for foreign graduate students
Message-ID: <CCABD0059BF1534AADE0F7ABFF904877028A1D6D@Optometry.UH.EDU>

University of Houston:

Physiological Optics and Vision Sciences, College of Optometry

All graduate students receive an offer of free tuition and fees, and a
stipend of  $20,772.  Licensed optometrists received current resident's
pay which is currently about $30,000.  Students are supported by teaching
assistantships (TA, most common in the first year), research assistantships
(RA)
from advisors' grants, or by a training grant from National Eye Institute.
All
TA support is open to foreign nationals; similarly virtually all RA support
(except from the training grant) is open to foreign nationals who currently
comprise ~55% of our 33 students.

Electrical & Computer Engineering, College of Engineering (research in
vision and cognitive neuroscience) 

Our policy for PhD students is to identify an advisor at the time of
admission; if the advisor has funding then the department supports the
first year as teaching assistant (TA). In the following years, the
student is supported by the advisor's  grant as research assistant (RA).
Students qualify for the Graduate Assistant Tuition Fellowship (GATF)
which covers the cost of 9 hours of tuition. All TA support is open to
foreign nationals; similarly virtually all RA support is open to foreign
nationals. Currently 66% of graduate students are foreign nationals.

Laura J. Frishman, Optometry		 lfrishman@uh.edu
Haluk Ogmen, Engineering (ECE)	 ogmen@central.uh.edu

-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick Cavanagh [mailto:patrick@wjh.harvard.edu] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 5:17 PM
To: visionlist@visionscience.com
Subject: [visionlist] Resources for foreign graduate students

From qz at sunyopt.edu  Thu Feb  9 19:02:13 2006
From: qz at sunyopt.edu (Qasim Zaidi)
Date: Thu Feb  9 19:05:42 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Post-doc
Message-ID: <fc.005b8f5201012ae4005b8f5201012ae4.10134c0@sunyopt.edu>

A post-doctoral position is available on an NIH funded project on the
visual parsing of dynamic 3-D scenes. The project will explore dynamic,
geometric, and color properties that determine percepts of lights,
shadows, transparencies and materials, using an immersive stereo display
interfaced with a haptic device.  Besides a doctoral degree, candidates
should have computer graphics skills and research experience in human,
machine or biological vision.  Knowledge of projective and differential
geometry will be a plus.  Salary will be based on an NRSA scale. 
Candidates should email a CV, relevant reprints, a single page statement
of research interests, and two reference letters.  Applications will be
evaluated beginning on March 5th.  The initial appointment, starting in
April, 2006, will be one year, extendable to three years.

SUNY Optometry is an excellent environment for vision research ranging
from physiology to perception.  The College is located in the middle of
Manhattan, providing a rich environment for intellectual and cultural
activities. The Research Foundation of SUNY is an Affirmative Action/
Equal Opportunity employer.

Qasim Zaidi

Professor of Vision Sciences
SUNY College of Optometry
33 West 42nd St
New York, NY 10036
Phone: 212-938-5542
Fax: 212-938-5537
Email: qz@sunyopt.edu
http://www.sunyopt.edu/research/zaidi.shtml


From yshelepin at yandex.ru  Thu Feb  9 18:54:57 2006
From: yshelepin at yandex.ru (yshelepin)
Date: Thu Feb  9 19:06:06 2006
Subject: [visionlist] ECVP2006- tests exhibition
Message-ID: <43EB9001.000001.30463@colgate.yandex.ru>

Symposium and Exhibition of Tests of Visual Perception

ECVP2006 will include a Symposium and Exhibition of Tests of Visual 
Perception. The goal of this symposium is to better answer the 
question posed in a well-known paper: "What does the eye see best?"


The Symposium and Exhibition will include proposed tests for 
investigation of a spatial, color and temporal properties of vision , 
masks, systems of tests, types of noise and distracters, single 
optotypes or tables of optotypes. Fresh views on old well-known tests 
(for example Snellen letters) are welcome. We also invite historical 
analysis of  the optotypes built a century ago. Letter optotypes of 
Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese and Japanese 
characters are welcome. We also seek  tests that have been proposed 
to measure the visual performance for static or dynamic, 2D or 3D, up 
to holographic methods.

Your participation in the Symposium and Exhibition can be as a 
standard poster or lecture, or as a separate demonstration. If the 
demonstration is an extension of a poster, we may provide extra space 
for equipment or displays.

If you would like to present a demonstration, write to us at 
yshelepin@yandex.ru with the subject line: Tests of Visual Perception.

From bti20 at cam.ac.uk  Sun Feb 12 12:21:30 2006
From: bti20 at cam.ac.uk (B.T. Irvine)
Date: Sun Feb 12 17:12:48 2006
Subject: [visionlist] geometrically ambiguous images
Message-ID: <Prayer.1.0.16.0602121221300.32251@hermes-2.csi.cam.ac.uk>

I wonder if you may be able to help me with a brief query. I am a PhD
student in the History and Philosophy of Science Department at Cambridge
University. I have recently become interested in the Necker Cube as it
provides an interesting analogy for certain cases in philosophy. I am
trying to find out two things with respect to the Necker Cube:

(1) are there any geometrical images which are TRIPLY ambiguous in the way
that the Necker Cube is doubly ambiguous, where the transitions between
ambiguities are obvious, regular, and spontaneous (i.e. not dependent upon
"effort")?

(2) is there a name (or names) for the CLASS of geometrically ambiguous
images which includes Necker Cubes as well as some other nameless
geometrically ambiguous forms I have encountered in the past? If there is
such a term for this class, I would be interested in finding it out as I
may be able to mutate it into a philosophical "-ism" which would express
the sort of position I am developing in my thesis.

Thanks for taking the time to read this. I hope you might be able to help!
From harris at yorku.ca  Sun Feb 12 18:48:10 2006
From: harris at yorku.ca (Laurence Harris)
Date: Sun Feb 12 20:29:05 2006
Subject: [visionlist] geometrically ambiguous images
In-Reply-To: <Prayer.1.0.16.0602121221300.32251@hermes-2.csi.cam.ac.uk>
Message-ID: <43EF3C9A.5791.2B08A9A@harris.yorku.ca>

Dear Ben

> (1) are there any geometrical images which are TRIPLY ambiguous in the
> way that the Necker Cube is doubly ambiguous, where the transitions
> between ambiguities are obvious, regular, and spontaneous (i.e. not
> dependent upon "effort")?

the necker cube is triply ambiguous already... it could be a shape 
in, a shape out or, and this is presumably how most eyes in the world 
see it, a few lines on a page..

in fact most (all?) ambiguous figures have this third interpretation 
(which is of course the only 'correct' one) which is so obvious it 
tends to be overlooked...

Laurence Harris


************************************
Laurence R. Harris            
Dept. Psychology, York University,
Toronto,Ontario, M3J 1P3, CANADA
phone: +(416) 736-2100 x 66108
fax:   +(416) 736-5857
http://www.yorku.ca/harris
http://cvr.yorku.ca
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From bart.a at unsw.edu.au  Sun Feb 12 21:56:55 2006
From: bart.a at unsw.edu.au (Bart Anderson)
Date: Sun Feb 12 23:33:13 2006
Subject: [visionlist] geometrically ambiguous images
In-Reply-To: <Prayer.1.0.16.0602121221300.32251@hermes-2.csi.cam.ac.uk>
References: <Prayer.1.0.16.0602121221300.32251@hermes-2.csi.cam.ac.uk>
Message-ID: <A519ADF5-B10F-418F-940F-7751CE857F3A@unsw.edu.au>


> (1) are there any geometrical images which are TRIPLY ambiguous in  
> the way
> that the Necker Cube is doubly ambiguous, where the transitions  
> between
> ambiguities are obvious, regular, and spontaneous (i.e. not  
> dependent upon
> "effort")?

If you are asking if there are images that are tri-stable in the way  
that the necker cube is bistable, then the answer is yes.  Probably  
the simplest example if an image containing an array of equilateral  
triangles, placed randomly on a page with the same orientation.  The  
triangles can all be seen to "point" in a particular direction that  
spontaneously shifts between the 3 directions of the triangles'  
vertices.


From vaegan at unsw.edu.au  Sun Feb 12 23:49:41 2006
From: vaegan at unsw.edu.au (vaegan)
Date: Sun Feb 12 23:56:32 2006
Subject: [visionlist] geometrically ambiguous images
In-Reply-To: <Prayer.1.0.16.0602121221300.32251@hermes-2.csi.cam.ac.uk>
Message-ID: <004201c6302e$ff17b350$434d5e81@vaegansvaio>

Dear Ben,
There are indeed a class of shapes that a more than triply ambiguous but
multiply ambiguous. 
If a white dot immediately behind a rotating white wire figure is steadily
fixated against a black background with full stereo vision it will,
initially, be accurately seen as rotating. The depth information and many
other stimulus features adapt and appear altered. This is consistent with
the general sensory phenomena of adaptation and after effects. The rotating
shape can then be seen in a multiplicity of configurations. There are many
patterns of movement (reversed, flat, flapping). additional lines and
colours and different combinations of these.
There is an inverse relation between the number of different forms seen and
the rate of alternation between forms within the set reported by any S. I
suspect this is a function of steadiness of fixation.
I have described this class of illusions in a very old paper.
Vaegan. Two parameters measure perceptual transformations during monotonous
stimulation. Quart. J. Exptl. Psychol., 1976, 28, 583-589.
Illusions and after effects are only two cases amongst many (dreams,
hallucinations) where we know there is no strict correspondence between our
sensory experience and 'reality'. This does not cause us to doubt the
reliability of our everyday experience because it occurs in predictable
restricted specific circumstances.

yrstrulyvaegan 

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From dzavagno at danzava.org  Mon Feb 13 07:57:14 2006
From: dzavagno at danzava.org (Daniele Zavagno)
Date: Mon Feb 13 18:30:01 2006
Subject: [visionlist] geometrically ambiguous images
In-Reply-To: <Prayer.1.0.16.0602121221300.32251@hermes-2.csi.cam.ac.uk>
References: <Prayer.1.0.16.0602121221300.32251@hermes-2.csi.cam.ac.uk>
Message-ID: <F273A251-DD84-4B3A-90E2-2635D87D621F@danzava.org>

Dear Ben,

the Necker cube is more a reversible figure than an ambiguous one: it  
changes orientation in space, but its apparent 3D structure remains  
the same. Ambiguous figures are those images that, given one  
stimulatory array, show two or more possible coherent percepts (like  
Rubin's cup-profiles figure, or Jastrow's hare-duck).

Good luck


Il giorno 12/feb/06, alle ore 13:21, B.T. Irvine ha scritto:

> I wonder if you may be able to help me with a brief query. I am a PhD
> student in the History and Philosophy of Science Department at  
> Cambridge
> University. I have recently become interested in the Necker Cube as it
> provides an interesting analogy for certain cases in philosophy. I am
> trying to find out two things with respect to the Necker Cube:
>
> (1) are there any geometrical images which are TRIPLY ambiguous in  
> the way
> that the Necker Cube is doubly ambiguous, where the transitions  
> between
> ambiguities are obvious, regular, and spontaneous (i.e. not  
> dependent upon
> "effort")?
>
> (2) is there a name (or names) for the CLASS of geometrically  
> ambiguous
> images which includes Necker Cubes as well as some other nameless
> geometrically ambiguous forms I have encountered in the past? If  
> there is
> such a term for this class, I would be interested in finding it out  
> as I
> may be able to mutate it into a philosophical "-ism" which would  
> express
> the sort of position I am developing in my thesis.
>
> Thanks for taking the time to read this. I hope you might be able  
> to help!
> _______________________________________________
> visionlist mailing list
> visionlist@visionscience.com
> http://visionscience.com/mailman/listinfo/visionlist
>

From D.Alexander at cs.ucl.ac.uk  Mon Feb 13 19:11:18 2006
From: D.Alexander at cs.ucl.ac.uk (Daniel ALEXANDER)
Date: Mon Feb 13 19:35:07 2006
Subject: [visionlist] 1st March BMVA Technical Meeting on Visual Recognition
Message-ID: <24656.1139857878@cs.ucl.ac.uk>


                                                                        BMVA
      British Machine Vision Association and Society for Pattern Recognition




                             Visual Recognition

      One Day BMVA symposium at the British Computer Society, 5 Southampton
                    Street, London, WC2E 7HA UK on March 1st 2006.

                           www.bmva.ac.uk/meetings
      Chairs:     Dr. Jiri (George) Matas (University of Surrey) and
           Dr Krystian Mikolajczyk (University of Surrey).

	ABSTRACTS AVAILABLE ON THE WEBSITE

      10.00       Registration and coffee
      10.25       Welcome and Introduction
           10.30       Object and Scene Recognition in Large Datasets
           D. Lowe (U. of Oxford)
11.10       Efficient clustering and matching for object class recognition
           K. Mikolajczyk (U. of Surrey)
           11.50       New constraints on machine vision approaches to
           shape-based image recognition from studies of 3D object
           representation in the human visual system
      E. Ch. Leek (U. of  Bangor)
      12.30       Lunch
           13.30  Contour-Based Learning for Object Recognition
      J. Shotton (U. of Cambridge)
      14.00       Multiscale keypoint detection using the Dual-Tree Complex
      Wavelet Transform
                     J. Fauqueur  (U. of Cambridge)
      14.35       Robust Image Features from Complex Wavelet Phases
      R A. Anderson  (U. of Cambridge)
      15.00   Tea and Coffee
           15.20 Network of Ideas
                 M. Petrou (Imperial  College)

      15.50 Discovering objects and their location in images

           J. Sivic     (U. of Oxford)
      16.20   Closing remarks and finish



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From smart at neuralcorrelate.com  Mon Feb 13 20:02:11 2006
From: smart at neuralcorrelate.com (Susana Martinez-Conde)
Date: Mon Feb 13 20:12:09 2006
Subject: [visionlist] ***only 2 days left to submit illusions: The 2nd
	Annual Best Visual Illusion of the Year Contest!!***
Message-ID: <200602132001.k1DK1V7T006698@visionscience.com>

***Just a couple of days left to participate in The Best Visual Illusion of
the Year Contest!*** http://illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com        

The deadline for illusion submissions is ***February 15th***!
Submit your illusions today!! 
 
Last year's contest was a huge success, drawing numerous accolades from
attendees and international media coverage. The First, Second and Third
Prize winners were Arthur Shapiro and Justin Charles (Bucknell University,
USA), George Mather (Sussex University, UK), and Dejan Todorovic (University
of Belgrade, Serbia). To see the illusions and other highlights from the
2005 contest, go to
http://illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_
user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=3&MMN_position=13:3.      

In order to make the contest more easily accessible to a larger proportion
of the world's vision science community, and to increase the public impact
of this celebration of vision research, the 2006 contest will take place
during the same week of the VSS meeting, in Sarasota, Florida. The contest
will be held on Monday, May 8th, in the Van Wezel Hall, during the VSS
afternoon break: 3pm - 5pm. 

Visual Illusion Contestants are invited to submit novel visual or multimodal
illusions (unpublished, or published no earlier than 2005) in standard
image, movie or html formats. An international panel of impartial judges
(http://illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE
_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=45&MMN_position=21:21) will rate the submissions
and narrow them to the top ten. Then, at the Contest Gala in Sarasota, the
top ten illusionists will present their contributions and the attendees of
the event (that means you!) will vote to pick the TOP THREE WINNERS!

Illusions submitted to the 2005 contest can be re-submitted to the 2006
contest edition, as long as they meet the above requirements and were not
among the top three 2005 winners.

Submissions will be held in strict confidence by the panel of judges and the
authors/creators will retain full copyright. As with submitting your work to
any scientific conference, participating in the Best Illusion of the Year
Contest does not preclude you from also submitting your work for publication
elsewhere.

Submissions can be made to Dr. Susana Martinez-Conde (Illusion Contest
Coordinator, Neural Correlate Society) via email (smart@neuralcorrelate.com)
until February 15, 2006. Illusion submissions should come with a (no more
than) one-page description of the illusion and its theoretical underpinnings
(if known). Illusions will be rated according to: 

. Significance to our understanding of the visual system . Simplicity of the
description . Sheer beauty . Counterintuitive quality . Spectacularity 

Visit the illusion contest website for further information and to see last
year's illusions: http://illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com        

Submit your ideas now and take home this prestigious award!

On behalf of the Neural Correlate Society: Susana Martinez-Conde (Illusion
Contest Coordinator)

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Susana Martinez-Conde, PhD
Director, Laboratory of Visual Neuroscience
Division of Neurobiology
Barrow Neurological Institute
350 W. Thomas Rd
Phoenix AZ 85013, USA
Phone: +1 (602) 406-3484
Fax: +1 (602) 406-4172
Email: smart@neuralcorrelate.com 
http://www.neuralcorrelate.com/smc_lab/


From a.sahraie at abdn.ac.uk  Tue Feb 14 10:10:48 2006
From: a.sahraie at abdn.ac.uk (Dr. Arash Sahraie)
Date: Tue Feb 14 15:46:28 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Scottish Vision Group 2006
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From e.c.leek at bangor.ac.uk  Tue Feb 14 15:00:30 2006
From: e.c.leek at bangor.ac.uk (e.c.leek@bangor.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Feb 14 15:46:57 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Please post to all subscribers.
Message-ID: <efa35d86a9f7917b38e52ad937091f4b@bangor.ac.uk>

Header: PhD Studentship Human Visual Object Recognition: University of  
Wales, Bangor, UK

School of Psychology
University of Wales Bangor

Three-dimensional (3-D) shape recognition and representation in human  
vision.

Supervised by Dr. Charles Leek (informal enquiries to  
e.c.leek@bangor.ac.uk).

This project will examine the way in which the human visual system  
encodes and represents the shapes of 3-D objects during perception and  
object recognition, and how we achieve object constancy -- for example,  
how we recognise objects across changes in viewpoint, illumination and  
size. The research will combine a variety of behavioural measures  
including RTs and accuracy during recognition and the analysis of eye  
movement patterns using state-of-the-art remote eye tracking facilities  
in the lab. There will also be an opportunity to develop interests in  
the computational modelling of vision and the use of neural networks to  
implement and derive predictions from different models of 3-D shape  
representation.

For further information please see Charles Leek?s website at:

http://staff.psychology.bangor.ac.uk/Members/pss034

Related reading:

E.C.Leek, I.Reppa & M. Arguin (2005). The structure of  
three-dimensional object representations in human vision: Evidence from  
whole-part matching. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human  
Perception and Performance, 31, 668-684

The studentships provide fees and a maintenance grant. All applicants  
must have a first or upper second class honours degree in Psychology or  
equivalent. ESRC studentships are open to those who meet the residency  
requirement (see ESRC Postgraduate Studentships in the Social Sciences  
Available in 2006:?Guidance Notes for Applicants, available from  
www.esrcsocietytoday.ac.uk/ESRCInfoCentre/opportunities/postgraduate/ 
fundingopportunities/). School studentships are open to applicants of  
any nationality. Studentships can be for four years (1 year Masters  
followed by 3 year PhD) or three years (PhD only), but those applying  
for three years must normally already have an appropriate Masters.  
Studentship offers may be subject to a successful Criminal Records  
Bureau check.

Applications should take the form of (1) a full academic CV, (2) a  
covering letter stating which project (or projects) you are interested  
in and how you might develop the project, and (3) two academic  
references relating directly to your application. These should be sent  
to Paula Gurteen, Research Administrator, School of Psychology,  
University of Wales, Bangor, Gwynedd, LL57 2AS, email  
p.gurteen@bangor.ac.uk, telephone 01248 383831.

Shortlisted candidates will be interviewed.

Closing date for applications: Friday 24th March, 2006.

Dr. E.C.Leek
Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience
School of Psychology
University of Wales
Bangor
Gwynedd, UK
LL57 2AS

Tel: Office (+44)1248 382948 (direct line)     				
Fax:(+44)1248 382599	    				     	 			    				
http://www.psych.bangor.ac.uk
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From michael.bach at uni-freiburg.de  Tue Feb 14 14:37:55 2006
From: michael.bach at uni-freiburg.de (Michael Bach)
Date: Tue Feb 14 15:47:59 2006
Subject: [visionlist] geometrically ambiguous images
In-Reply-To: <Prayer.1.0.16.0602121221300.32251@hermes-2.csi.cam.ac.uk>
References: <Prayer.1.0.16.0602121221300.32251@hermes-2.csi.cam.ac.uk>
Message-ID: <B34B157A-9B56-4553-BF74-BE1B3C0CD760@uni-freiburg.de>

Dear B.T. Irvine:

> ... (1) are there any geometrical images which are TRIPLY ambiguous  
> in the way that the Necker Cube is doubly ambiguous, where the  
> transitions between ambiguities are obvious, regular, and  
> spontaneous (i.e. not dependent upon "effort")?

You probably know Hill's "My wife and my mother-in-law" ("young/old  
woman")? There is a variant by Fischer with the "father" added, that  
is "tridiguous".
But possibly you exclude such figures with the property "geometrically".

However, as already mentioned by other responders, there are many  
purely geometrical 3D figures with multiple interpretations, and the  
"missing corner cube" <http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/ 
sze_missCornerCube/> has at least 3 possible interpretations.


> (2) is there a name (or names) for the CLASS of geometrically  
> ambiguous images which includes Necker Cubes as well as some other  
> nameless geometrically ambiguous forms I have encountered in the  
> past? If there is such a term for this class, I would be interested  
> in finding it out as I may be able to mutate it into a  
> philosophical "-ism" which would express the sort of position I am  
> developing in my thesis.

doesn't "ambiguous figures" fit the bill? BTW: There is a  
philosophical stance viewing illusions as "cognitively impenetrable",  
since they still have their perceptual effect even if you know they  
are illusions.


Best, Michael
-- 
Prof. Michael Bach PhD, Ophthalmology, University of Freiburg,  
Killianstr. 5, 79106 Freiburg, Germany.
Visual illusions:  <http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/>
From p.downing at bangor.ac.uk  Tue Feb 14 11:28:12 2006
From: p.downing at bangor.ac.uk (Paul Downing)
Date: Tue Feb 14 15:48:20 2006
Subject: [visionlist] PhD studentship available
Message-ID: <a06230913c0176d429691@[147.143.99.198]>

PhD Studentship Available

A funded PhD studentship on the general topic of "The neural bases of 
'social vision'" is now available in the School of Psychology, 
University of Wales, Bangor.

One of the critical functions of human vision is to provide accurate 
information about the identities, actions, and intentions of other 
people. This is essential for success in the social environment. The 
research in my lab uses fMRI to investigate the neural underpinnings 
of these functions. We have identified two areas of extrastriate 
visual cortex that appear to support an early phase of "social 
vision" by selectively responding to the appearance of the human 
body. We are actively engaged in research to further understand the 
functional roles of these regions (e.g. how do they contribute to 
action perception, or to identification?), their mutual interactions, 
their electrophysiological signatures, and their relationships with 
other nearby functional regions. A related area of active research is 
into how these focal, selective regions fit into the broader 
organisational scheme of non-retinotopic visual cortex.

The studentship would be held under the supervision of Dr Paul 
Downing. The PhD student would gain expertise in the neuroscience of 
human high-level vision and in the design, implementation, and 
analysis of fMRI experiments. Frequent School-wide user meetings and 
journal clubs focussed on fMRI, TMS, and neuropsychology offer 
further opportunities for development. fMRI research is currently 
conducted on an upgraded 1.5T scanner at the local hospital; from 
2007 a research-dedicated 3T will be housed in Psychology.

Successful applicants will join a thriving community of around 80 
Masters and 50 PhD students, in a School that obtained the highest 
possible ranking (5*A) in the most recent Research Assessment 
Exercise, and the highest possible ranking (Excellent) in the most 
recent Teaching Quality Assessment.

Informal enquiries can be made to:
p.downing@bangor.ac.uk

Information about Paul Downing's work can be found at:
www.bangor.ac.uk/~pss811

Information about the School of Psychology can be found at:
www.psychology.bangor.ac.uk/research

Details about the studentship and the application procedures can be found at:
www.psychology.bangor.ac.uk/school%20and%20people/vacancies/index.php

Closing date for applications: Friday, 24th March 2006
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From r.vanee at phys.uu.nl  Tue Feb 14 09:42:50 2006
From: r.vanee at phys.uu.nl (Raymond van Ee)
Date: Tue Feb 14 15:49:08 2006
Subject: [visionlist] geometrically ambiguous images
In-Reply-To: <Prayer.1.0.16.0602121221300.32251@hermes-2.csi.cam.ac.uk>
References: <Prayer.1.0.16.0602121221300.32251@hermes-2.csi.cam.ac.uk>
Message-ID: <a06210202c01611509945@[131.211.43.74]>

Although there are stimuli that evoke tristable perception, to my knowledge there are no true 3D geometrical illusions that are tristable.

Perhaps you are interested in a JOV paper (http://journalofvision.org/2/9/2/) where you can find a (limited) historical overview on a geometrical illusion in binocular 3D surface perception (dating back to forgotten work of Wheatstone). The described "slant rivalry" is an unique geometrical illusion in that it only exists because of our ability to have binocular vision (unlike e.g. for the Necker cube which can be experienced monocularly). In fact the perceived slant in "slant rivalry" ought to be infinitely unstable as the brain can come up with any combination of weighting factors to process the described depth signals. Yet, observers have apparently two (bi-) limited sets from which they draw their weighting factors.

Well, I hope this is of interest to you. If you wish to receive more info, don't hesitate to let me know. I am interested in your work on the "analogy for certain cases in philosophy" and its mutation into a philosophical "-ism", especially for infinite-(in)stability that converges to bi-stable streams.

All the very best with your research into this fascinating issue,
Raymond van Ee
http://www.phys.uu.nl/~vanee
Assoc. Prof. Physics, Utrecht University


>I wonder if you may be able to help me with a brief query. I am a PhD
>student in the History and Philosophy of Science Department at Cambridge
>University. I have recently become interested in the Necker Cube as it
>provides an interesting analogy for certain cases in philosophy. I am
>trying to find out two things with respect to the Necker Cube:
>
>(1) are there any geometrical images which are TRIPLY ambiguous in the way
>that the Necker Cube is doubly ambiguous, where the transitions between
>ambiguities are obvious, regular, and spontaneous (i.e. not dependent upon
>"effort")?
>
>(2) is there a name (or names) for the CLASS of geometrically ambiguous
>images which includes Necker Cubes as well as some other nameless
>geometrically ambiguous forms I have encountered in the past? If there is
>such a term for this class, I would be interested in finding it out as I
>may be able to mutate it into a philosophical "-ism" which would express
>the sort of position I am developing in my thesis.
>
>Thanks for taking the time to read this. I hope you might be able to help!
>_______________________________________________
>visionlist mailing list
>visionlist@visionscience.com
>http://visionscience.com/mailman/listinfo/visionlist


From l.griffin at cs.ucl.ac.uk  Tue Feb 14 17:45:10 2006
From: l.griffin at cs.ucl.ac.uk (Lewis Griffin)
Date: Tue Feb 14 18:47:35 2006
Subject: [visionlist] geometrically ambiguous images
Message-ID: <"bells.cs.u.706:14.01.06.17.45.39"@cs.ucl.ac.uk>

There is a sculpture by Anish Kapoor, exhibited at the Hayward Gallery in
London last decade, which provokes a tri-stable perception.

>From memory, the sculpture is of a large (1m+) smooth greyish boulder, with
a roughly hemispherical hole (30cm diameter) excavated into it. The interior
of the hole has been meticulously painted with light-grey pigments of
varying lightness. Three percepts are possible:

	As a light-grey painted patch on the boulder's surface
	As a translucent window into the boulder's interior, which is lit.
	As a hole.


Lewis Griffin

Computer Science
University College London
UK


>I wonder if you may be able to help me with a brief query. I am a PhD 
>student in the History and Philosophy of Science Department at 
>Cambridge University. I have recently become interested in the Necker 
>Cube as it provides an interesting analogy for certain cases in 
>philosophy. I am trying to find out two things with respect to the Necker
Cube:
>
>(1) are there any geometrical images which are TRIPLY ambiguous in the 
>way that the Necker Cube is doubly ambiguous, where the transitions 
>between ambiguities are obvious, regular, and spontaneous (i.e. not 
>dependent upon "effort")?
>
>(2) is there a name (or names) for the CLASS of geometrically ambiguous 
>images which includes Necker Cubes as well as some other nameless 
>geometrically ambiguous forms I have encountered in the past? If there 
>is such a term for this class, I would be interested in finding it out 
>as I may be able to mutate it into a philosophical "-ism" which would 
>express the sort of position I am developing in my thesis.
>
>Thanks for taking the time to read this. I hope you might be able to help!
>_________

From harris at yorku.ca  Tue Feb 14 19:46:40 2006
From: harris at yorku.ca (Laurence Harris)
Date: Tue Feb 14 19:49:53 2006
Subject: [visionlist] geometrically ambiguous images
In-Reply-To: <"bells.cs.u.706:14.01.06.17.45.39"@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
Message-ID: <43F1ED50.18765.D331336@harris.yorku.ca>

http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/gallery/2001/05/30/kapoor.jpg

> There is a sculpture by Anish Kapoor, exhibited at the Hayward Gallery
> in London last decade, which provokes a tri-stable perception.
> 
> >From memory, the sculpture is of a large (1m+) smooth greyish
> >boulder, with
> a roughly hemispherical hole (30cm diameter) excavated into it. The
> interior of the hole has been meticulously painted with light-grey
> pigments of varying lightness. Three percepts are possible:
> 
>  As a light-grey painted patch on the boulder's surface
>  As a translucent window into the boulder's interior, which is lit.
>  As a hole.
> 
> 
> Lewis Griffin
> 
> Computer Science
> University College London
> UK
> 
> 
> >I wonder if you may be able to help me with a brief query. I am a PhD
> > student in the History and Philosophy of Science Department at
> >Cambridge University. I have recently become interested in the Necker
> > Cube as it provides an interesting analogy for certain cases in
> >philosophy. I am trying to find out two things with respect to the
> >Necker
> Cube:
> >
> >(1) are there any geometrical images which are TRIPLY ambiguous in
> >the way that the Necker Cube is doubly ambiguous, where the
> >transitions between ambiguities are obvious, regular, and spontaneous
> >(i.e. not dependent upon "effort")?
> >
> >(2) is there a name (or names) for the CLASS of geometrically
> >ambiguous images which includes Necker Cubes as well as some other
> >nameless geometrically ambiguous forms I have encountered in the
> >past? If there is such a term for this class, I would be interested
> >in finding it out as I may be able to mutate it into a philosophical
> >"-ism" which would express the sort of position I am developing in my
> >thesis.
> >
> >Thanks for taking the time to read this. I hope you might be able to
> >help! _________
> 
> _______________________________________________
> visionlist mailing list
> visionlist@visionscience.com
> http://visionscience.com/mailman/listinfo/visionlist
> 




From toddh at search.bwh.harvard.edu  Tue Feb 14 19:55:13 2006
From: toddh at search.bwh.harvard.edu (Todd S. Horowitz)
Date: Tue Feb 14 20:01:03 2006
Subject: [visionlist] geometrically ambiguous images
In-Reply-To: <43F1ED50.18765.D331336@harris.yorku.ca>
References: <43F1ED50.18765.D331336@harris.yorku.ca>
Message-ID: <p06230907c017e5f4fc3e@[132.183.8.151]>

At 2:46 PM -0500 2/14/06, Laurence Harris wrote:
>http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/gallery/2001/05/30/kapoor.jpg
>
>>  There is a sculpture by Anish Kapoor, exhibited at the Hayward Gallery
>>  in London last decade, which provokes a tri-stable perception.
>>
>>  >From memory, the sculpture is of a large (1m+) smooth greyish
>>  >boulder, with
>>  a roughly hemispherical hole (30cm diameter) excavated into it. The
>>  interior of the hole has been meticulously painted with light-grey
>>  pigments of varying lightness. Three percepts are possible:
>>
>>   As a light-grey painted patch on the boulder's surface
>>   As a translucent window into the boulder's interior, which is lit.
>  >  As a hole.
>  >


Hmm. Looking at the photo on the web, I see a fourth percept: a dark 
gray disk floating in front of the boulder.

Todd

-- 
Todd S. Horowitz, PhD
Instructor in Ophthalmology
Harvard Medical School
Visual Attention Lab
64 Sidney Street, Suite 170
Cambridge, MA 02139
phone:	(617) 768-8813
fax:	(617) 768-8816, (617)
http://search.bwh.harvard.edu/
From l.griffin at cs.ucl.ac.uk  Tue Feb 14 21:20:24 2006
From: l.griffin at cs.ucl.ac.uk (Lewis Griffin)
Date: Tue Feb 14 21:28:03 2006
Subject: [visionlist] geometrically ambiguous images
In-Reply-To: <p06230907c017e5f4fc3e@[132.183.8.151]>
Message-ID: <"bells.cs.u.812:14.01.06.21.20.34"@cs.ucl.ac.uk>

The Kapoor sculpture shown at the link is not the one I had in mind. 

In the one I recall, the hole interior was painted apparently uniformly, but
in actual fact in such a way to counteract the shading because of
light-source vignetting, and the lightening because of self-illumination,
that normal happens in a recess.

The triple of possible percepts - patch, window, hole - were obtainable over
at least a 20 degree range of viewing angles.

	Lewis Griffin

Computer Science
University College London
UK

> >http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-
> images/Guardian/Pix/gallery/2001/05/30/kapoor.jpg
> >
> >>  There is a sculpture by Anish Kapoor, exhibited at the Hayward Gallery
> >>  in London last decade, which provokes a tri-stable perception.
> >>
> >>  >From memory, the sculpture is of a large (1m+) smooth greyish
> >>  >boulder, with
> >>  a roughly hemispherical hole (30cm diameter) excavated into it. The
> >>  interior of the hole has been meticulously painted with light-grey
> >>  pigments of varying lightness. Three percepts are possible:
> >>
> >>   As a light-grey painted patch on the boulder's surface
> >>   As a translucent window into the boulder's interior, which is lit.
> >  >  As a hole.
> >  >
> 
> 
> Hmm. Looking at the photo on the web, I see a fourth percept: a dark
> gray disk floating in front of the boulder.
> 
> Todd
> 
> --
> Todd S. Horowitz, PhD
> Instructor in Ophthalmology
> Harvard Medical School
> Visual Attention Lab
> 64 Sidney Street, Suite 170
> Cambridge, MA 02139
> phone:	(617) 768-8813
> fax:	(617) 768-8816, (617)
> http://search.bwh.harvard.edu/

From andrew.b.watson at nasa.gov  Tue Feb 14 21:33:30 2006
From: andrew.b.watson at nasa.gov (Andrew Watson)
Date: Tue Feb 14 22:02:10 2006
Subject: [visionlist] ECVP2006 Symposium on Matched Filtering in Human Vision
Message-ID: <p0621020ec017fa993696@[143.232.72.120]>

Yuri Shelepin, the organizer of the 2006 European Conference on 
Visual Perception, has asked me to assist in organizing a symposium 
on the topic of "Matched Filtering in Human Vision." This topic has 
received renewed interest, due in part to research on classification 
images. I would like to encourage anyone interested in this topic, 
broadly considered, to submit an abstract to the ECVP symposium. If 
there is sufficient response, the symposium may serve as the basis 
for a special issue in the Journal of Vision.

To submit an abstract to ECVP2006, please visit 
http://www.ecvp2006.ru/. The deadline for abstract submission is 
March 15.

-- 

Andrew B. Watson
MS 262-2
NASA Ames Research Center
Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000
(650) 604-5419	(650) 604-0255 fax
andrew.b.watson@nasa.gov	http://vision.arc.nasa.gov/
From backus at psych.upenn.edu  Tue Feb 14 22:27:47 2006
From: backus at psych.upenn.edu (Benjamin Backus)
Date: Tue Feb 14 22:30:33 2006
Subject: [visionlist] geometrically ambiguous images
In-Reply-To: <Prayer.1.0.16.0602121221300.32251@hermes-2.csi.cam.ac.uk>
References: <Prayer.1.0.16.0602121221300.32251@hermes-2.csi.cam.ac.uk>
Message-ID: <43F25963.3010806@psych.upenn.edu>

A cube with the corner removed is triply ambiguous.  I imagine that two 
of these objects next to each other would be nine-fold ambiguous, and so 
on. 

Here is a demo:
http://members.lycos.nl/amazingart/E/3.html#598

I don't think it's possible to see both the large and small cubes as 
concave simultaneously, on account of disagreement between their shared 
edges.  That's not a problem for simultaneously convex, because in that 
case the smaller cube can be seen as occluding the larger one and 
doesn't have to share edges with it.

Here's a possibly relevant paper on cue recruitment, which can cause 
bistable stimuli to stop being perceptually bistable after a 
disambiguating cue is learned by the system:
http://www.psych.upenn.edu/backuslab/research/HaijiangBackus_CueRecruit_PNAS2006.pdf

Ben Backus
Psychology Dept.
University of Pennsylvania

B.T. Irvine wrote:

> I wonder if you may be able to help me with a brief query. I am a PhD
> student in the History and Philosophy of Science Department at Cambridge
> University. I have recently become interested in the Necker Cube as it
> provides an interesting analogy for certain cases in philosophy. I am
> trying to find out two things with respect to the Necker Cube:
>
> (1) are there any geometrical images which are TRIPLY ambiguous in the 
> way
> that the Necker Cube is doubly ambiguous, where the transitions between
> ambiguities are obvious, regular, and spontaneous (i.e. not dependent 
> upon
> "effort")?
>
> (2) is there a name (or names) for the CLASS of geometrically ambiguous
> images which includes Necker Cubes as well as some other nameless
> geometrically ambiguous forms I have encountered in the past? If there is
> such a term for this class, I would be interested in finding it out as I
> may be able to mutate it into a philosophical "-ism" which would express
> the sort of position I am developing in my thesis.
>
> Thanks for taking the time to read this. I hope you might be able to 
> help!
> _______________________________________________
> visionlist mailing list
> visionlist@visionscience.com
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From e.c.leek at bangor.ac.uk  Wed Feb 15 09:34:50 2006
From: e.c.leek at bangor.ac.uk (e.c.leek@bangor.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Feb 15 16:13:24 2006
Subject: [visionlist] PhD Studentship: 3-D Shape Representation in Human
	Vision: Bangor, UK
Message-ID: <a4e85734286377f083872eab87b18a1c@bangor.ac.uk>

> PhD Studentship Human Visual Object Recognition: University of Wales,  
> Bangor, UK
>
> School of Psychology
> University of Wales Bangor
>
> Three-dimensional (3-D) shape recognition and representation in human  
> vision.
>
> Supervised by Dr. Charles Leek (informal enquiries to  
> e.c.leek@bangor.ac.uk).
>
> This project will examine the way in which the human visual system  
> encodes and represents the shapes of 3-D objects during perception and  
> object recognition, and how we achieve object constancy -- for  
> example, how we recognise objects across changes in viewpoint,  
> illumination and size. The research will combine a variety of  
> behavioural measures including RTs and accuracy during recognition and  
> the analysis of eye movement patterns using state-of-the-art remote  
> eye tracking facilities in the lab. There will also be an opportunity  
> to develop interests in the computational modelling of vision and the  
> use of neural networks to implement and derive predictions from  
> different models of 3-D shape representation.
>
> For further information please see Charles Leek?s website at:
>
> http://staff.psychology.bangor.ac.uk/Members/pss034
>
> Related reading:
>
> E.C.Leek, I.Reppa & M. Arguin (2005). The structure of  
> three-dimensional object representations in human vision: Evidence  
> from whole-part matching. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human  
> Perception and Performance, 31, 668-684
>
> The studentships provide fees and a maintenance grant. All applicants  
> must have a first or upper second class honours degree in Psychology  
> or equivalent. ESRC studentships are open to those who meet the  
> residency requirement (see ESRC Postgraduate Studentships in the  
> Social Sciences Available in 2006:?Guidance Notes for Applicants,  
> available from  
> www.esrcsocietytoday.ac.uk/ESRCInfoCentre/opportunities/postgraduate/ 
> fundingopportunities/). School studentships are open to applicants of  
> any nationality. Studentships can be for four years (1 year Masters  
> followed by 3 year PhD) or three years (PhD only), but those applying  
> for three years must normally already have an appropriate Masters.  
> Studentship offers may be subject to a successful Criminal Records  
> Bureau check.
>
> Applications should take the form of (1) a full academic CV, (2) a  
> covering letter stating which project (or projects) you are interested  
> in and how you might develop the project, and (3) two academic  
> references relating directly to your application. These should be sent  
> to Paula Gurteen, Research Administrator, School of Psychology,  
> University of Wales, Bangor, Gwynedd, LL57 2AS, email  
> p.gurteen@bangor.ac.uk, telephone 01248 383831.
>
> Shortlisted candidates will be interviewed.
>
> Closing date for applications: Friday 24th March, 2006.
>
> Dr. E.C.Leek
> Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience
> School of Psychology
> University of Wales
> Bangor
> Gwynedd, UK
> LL57 2AS
>
> Tel: Office (+44)1248 382948 (direct line)     				
> Fax:(+44)1248 382599	    				     	 			    				
> http://www.psych.bangor.ac.uk
>
Dr. E.C.Leek
Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience
School of Psychology
University of Wales
Bangor
Gwynedd, UK
LL57 2AS

Tel: Office (+44)1248 382948 (direct line)     				
Fax:(+44)1248 382599	    				     	 			    				
http://www.psych.bangor.ac.uk

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From baingio at uniss.it  Wed Feb 15 19:18:53 2006
From: baingio at uniss.it (baingio)
Date: Wed Feb 15 19:30:31 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Spatial Vision - Call for Papers - Special Issue on
	Vision Science and Art
Message-ID: <FBCMFE02B15leUBUhr3000c733a@FBCMFE02B15.fbc.local>


Spatial Vision - Call for Papers


Special Issue on Vision Science and Art


Although there are strong interactions between Science and Art their mutual
influences are rarely studied. The main concern of the scientific community
has been with vision and the brain mechanisms underlying perception with
applications to art being peripheral to the main discourse. The scientific
study of objects of Art has not been systematically approached by Vision
Science and the Neurosciences. Similarly, the few artists that have
exploited the potential of the biology of seeing in their creations did so
within the context of Art without addressing aspects of Vision Science. 

A bridge between Vision Science and Art is beginning to be constructed;
recent scientific discoveries contribute to the understanding of Art, and
Art seems to incorporate knowledge generated by science. Thus we believe the
time has come to further stimulate and speed up this construction and
possibly to start creating a Vision Science of Art. This special issue is
aimed at a deeper understanding of vision, art, and their relationship,
basing on the observation that both visual science and visual arts (i)
explore visual perception through its main properties -- color, spatial
vision, shape, visual organization, depth and (nowadays) motion --, (ii)
analyze and create a large variety of phenomena that involve a range of
objects, from the simplest possible to the most complex ones which involve
integration across different sensory modalities; and (iii) answer different
but related questions about how and why we see the way we do.

We invite submissions that explore both Vision Science and Art and the link
between the science of perception and visual arts. We particularly welcome
articles that might suggest new ideas and new findings useful for the
experimental foundation of a Vision Science of Art.

 

Manuscripts for this special issue should be submitted before June 15 2006.
We expect the reviewing process to be completed within 3 months, with
publication in early to mid 2007. 

Manuscripts should be emailed directly to the guest editor, following the
Instructions for Authors in  <http://www.vsppub.com/journals/jn-ia-SV.html>
http://www.vsppub.com/journals/jn-ia-SV.html. Color prints are expected to
be of high quality and low cost (100 Euros per page). Authors are encouraged
to contact the guest editor of this issue, Dr Baingio Pinna, if uncertain
about the relevance of their work to the issue.

 

Guest Editor:

 

Baingio Pinna

Facolt? di Lingue e Letterature Straniere

Dipartimento di Scienze dei Linguaggi

Universit? di Sassari

via Roma 151, I-07100, Sassari, Italy

office: +39-079-2831401 or +39-079-2831402

fax: +39-079-229645

baingio@uniss.it

 

 

Editors-in-chief: Adam Reeves and Dov Sagi

Spatial Vision: http://www.vsppub.com/journals/jn-SpaVis.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

____________________________

Baingio Pinna, Ph.D.

Professor

Facolt? di Lingue e Letterature Straniere

Dipartimento di Scienze dei Linguaggi

Universit? di Sassari via Roma 151, I-07100, Sassari, Italy

office: +39-079-2831401 or +39-079-2831402

home: +39-079-441101; cell. 3471368808

fax: +39-079-229645

e-mail:  <mailto:baingio@uniss.it> baingio@uniss.it

 

 

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From liliana.albertazzi at unitn.it  Thu Feb 16 00:52:49 2006
From: liliana.albertazzi at unitn.it (Liliana Albertazzi)
Date: Thu Feb 16 00:56:27 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Becoming information
Message-ID: <200602160052.k1G0q52I031320@blademail.form.unitn.it>

Becoming Information

The classical theory of information is extremely effective in the
construction of an engineered system that regulates the transmission of
signals from source to target, and can be understood in terms of specific
laws known as codices. This concept of information privileges metric
quantities, follows the quantitative and unidirectional parameters of
stimulus-reaction, and can easily be subjected to statistical analysis.
Phenomena belonging to open systems such as biological, psychic, social and
artistic ones remain excluded and/or difficult to analyse in terms of this
concept of information. They are not easily computed and exhibit a sort of
hyper-complexity characterised by adaptivity to surroundings, predictive
structures and a sort of Kansei engineering, i.e. sensory and emotional
usability.
Despite an awareness of the problem in several fields of research and
numerous attempts to tackle the issue, to this day no general theory has
been able to replace the essentially Galilean paradigm underlying Shannon
theory of information. In other words, there exists no satisfying semantic
theory of information.
The conference, which as a starting point draws on the results of the
cognitive, experimental and artistic theories of Arnheim and Gestalt
psychology, aims to tackle the ontological and epistemological issues of
information from a different point of view, permitting the treatment of
systems that are open, intrinsically temporal, adaptive, constantly
changing, unfolding and interacting with the surrounding environment.
Consequently, it also allows the analysis of qualitative, subjective and
expressive elements in the treatment of information. In particular, this
conference aims to analyse these matters as related to visual perception,
pictorial perception, music perception, design and natural language. 
Confirmed speakers are Liliana Albertazzi (Trento University, Rovereto
Branch) Jules Davidoff (University of London at Goldsmith), Athanassios
Economou (Georgia Tech University), Ernest Edmonds (Sydney University),
Walter Freeman (Berkeley University), Jan J. Koenderink (Utrecht
University), Ilona Kovacs (Hungarian National Academy of Sciences,
Budapest), Remo Job (Trento University, Rovereto Branch), Amy Ione (Diatrope
Institute, Berkeley), Frederic Leymarie (University of London at Goldsmith),
Michael Leyton (Rutgers University), Ron Rensink (John Hopkins University),
Shinsuke Shimojo (California Institute of Technology), Gert van Tonder
(Kyoto Institute of Technology), Dhanraj Viswanath (Berkeley University),
Nicholas Wade (Dundee University), John Willats (Loughborough University),
Steve Zucker (Yale University). 
Ample time will be allocated to discussion. If you are interested in
attending the conference and/or contributing your own ideas, please send a
mail (with one-page abstract if you intend to present a poster) to the
address below. 
The conference will be organized by the Mitteleuropa Foundation, Bolzano,
Portici Street, 30, Italy (www.mitteleuropafoundation.it)
Scientific Committee (L. Albertazzi, F. Leymarie, G. Van Tonder, D.
Viswanath)
Applications should be sent to Paola Benevento
(p.benevento@mitteleuropafoundation.it)

Important Dates:
Deadline for abstract submissions: April, 30, 2006
Conference: September, 1-4, 2006


From smart at neuralcorrelate.com  Thu Feb 16 17:40:36 2006
From: smart at neuralcorrelate.com (Susana Martinez-Conde)
Date: Thu Feb 16 18:33:12 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Illusion submission EXTENSION: The 2nd Annual Best
	Visual Illusion of the Year Contest!!
Message-ID: <200602161739.k1GHduiD076553@visionscience.com>

***DUE TO POPULAR DEMAND*** -- The deadline for The 2nd Annual Best Visual
Illusion of the Year Contest has been extended. FINAL (no exceptions)
submission date is now ***March 1st***!

http://illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com

Many of the most outstanding illusion creators in the world have asked us to
extend the deadline so as to perfect their contributions for the contest!
And we have already received dozens of outstanding submissions for this
year's contest! The voters at The 2nd Annual Best Illusion of the Year
Contest, in Sarasota, Florida, will certainly see the Best and Most Exciting
New Illusions of the Year: it will be difficult to decide on the Best of the
Best, and that's why we need you to attend. This award is chosen by the
community, and not by a committee, so please come and make your vote! The
contest will be held on Monday, May 8th, in the Van Wezel Hall, during the
VSS meeting afternoon break: 3pm - 5pm. 

Visual Illusion Contestants are invited to submit novel visual or multimodal
illusions (unpublished, or published no earlier than 2005) in standard
image, movie or html formats. An international panel of impartial judges
will rate the submissions and narrow them to the TOP TEN. Then, at the
Contest Gala in Sarasota, the top ten illusionists will present their
contributions and the attendees of the event (that means you!) will vote to
pick the TOP THREE WINNERS!

Illusions submitted to the 2005 contest can be re-submitted to the 2006
contest edition, as long as they meet the above requirements and were not
among the top three 2005 winners.

Submissions will be held in strict confidence by the panel of judges and the
authors/creators will retain full copyright. As with submitting your work to
any scientific conference, participating in the Best Illusion of the Year
Contest does not preclude you from also submitting your work for publication
elsewhere.

Submissions can be made to Dr. Susana Martinez-Conde (Illusion Contest
Coordinator, Neural Correlate Society) via email (smart@neuralcorrelate.com)
until February 15, 2006. Illusion submissions should come with a (no more
than) one-page description of the illusion and its theoretical underpinnings
(if known). Illusions will be rated according to: 

. Significance to our understanding of the visual system . Simplicity of the
description . Sheer beauty . Counterintuitive quality . Spectacularity 

Visit the illusion contest website for further information and to see last
year's illusions: http://illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com       

Submit your ideas now and take home this prestigious award!

On behalf of the Neural Correlate Society: Susana Martinez-Conde (Illusion
Contest Coordinator)

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Susana Martinez-Conde, PhD
Director, Laboratory of Visual Neuroscience
Division of Neurobiology
Barrow Neurological Institute
350 W. Thomas Rd
Phoenix AZ 85013, USA
Phone: +1 (602) 406-3484
Fax: +1 (602) 406-4172
Email: smart@neuralcorrelate.com 
http://www.neuralcorrelate.com/smc_lab/


From d.j.whitaker at Bradford.ac.uk  Fri Feb 17 10:20:38 2006
From: d.j.whitaker at Bradford.ac.uk (David Whitaker)
Date: Fri Feb 17 16:00:24 2006
Subject: [visionlist] 2 Postdoctoral Research Assistant positions at Bradford
Message-ID: <C01B53F5.7F1E%d.j.whitaker@bradford.ac.uk>

2 two-year, charity-funded Postdoctoral Research Assistant positions are
available at the Department of Optometry, University of Bradford.
Salary 27,194 - 30,607 UK pounds per annum

You will be an enthusiastic participant in research, have a PhD (or be about
to finish your PhD) in a relevant discipline and have a record of
publication in peer-reviewed academic journals.
More information about the Department and its research can be found at

http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/lifesci/optometry/

How to apply: jobs@bradford.ac.uk
Reference: ROP2306/OT
Closing date: 31st March 2006

___________________________
David Whitaker
Professor of Vision Science
University of Bradford
Bradford BD7 1DP
UK

d.j.whitaker@bradford.ac.uk

Tel: 01274 234642
Fax: 01274 235570
___________________________


From a.sahraie at abdn.ac.uk  Wed Feb 22 17:27:06 2006
From: a.sahraie at abdn.ac.uk (Dr. Arash Sahraie)
Date: Mon Feb 27 04:47:00 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Lectureships
Message-ID: <43FC9EEA.18159.1BDBDFC@a.sahraie.abdn.ac.uk>

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From backus at psych.upenn.edu  Wed Feb 22 13:06:25 2006
From: backus at psych.upenn.edu (Benjamin Backus)
Date: Mon Feb 27 04:47:32 2006
Subject: [visionlist] ECVP2006 Symposium on Associative Learning in
	Perception
Message-ID: <43FC61D1.8050505@psych.upenn.edu>

Yuri Shelepin, organizer of the 2006 European Conference on Visual
Perception, has asked my help in organizing a symposium on the topic of 
"Associative Learning in Perception (Pavlov and Perception)".  This 
topic has received renewed interest with the recent demonstration that 
the appearance of a bistable stimulus can be controlled by newly learned 
cues.  By happy coincidence this year's conference is in St. Petersburg, 
home of Pavlov's famous laboratory.  ECVP runs August 20-25 this year.

The symposium has these aims: (1) to discuss the relationship between 
various forms of perceptual learning--cue re-weighting, cue recruitment, 
recalibration, and learning to discriminate; (2) to develop consensus 
about appropriate methods for the experimental study of learned changes 
in appearance; and (3) to review probabilistic approaches to perception 
dating from the 1940's that were inspired by Pavlov's work and that have 
relevance once again in light of modern Bayesian approaches to perception.

I would like to encourage anyone interested in this topic to come to
ECVP this year, and if possible to submit an abstract.  The structure of 
the symposium will leave more time than usual for discussion and remarks 
by those in attendance.  It would be helpful to me to hear from those 
who think it likely they will attend.

Andrew Watson, the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Vision, suggests 
that work presented at ECVP on associative learning in perception could 
serve as the basis for a special issue in the Journal of Vision, if 
there is sufficient interest.

To submit an abstract to ECVP2006, please visit
http://www.ecvp2006.ru/. The deadline for abstract submission is
March 15.  It is not necessary to select this symposium as your "Topic 
Preference" during abstract submission, but kindly let me know if your 
submission is related to the symposium so that I can be aware of it.

-- 

Ben Backus
Department of Psychology
University of Pennsylvania
http://psych.upenn.edu/~backus



From frank at psy.gla.ac.uk  Thu Feb 23 20:30:40 2006
From: frank at psy.gla.ac.uk (Frank Pollick)
Date: Mon Feb 27 04:47:59 2006
Subject: [visionlist] workshop on the psychology of face and gesture
	recognition
In-Reply-To: <0a695a46aab54a07f5f6c78fd0d2bcbb@psy.gla.ac.uk>
References: <0a695a46aab54a07f5f6c78fd0d2bcbb@psy.gla.ac.uk>
Message-ID: <dbb32937ce57dbc65f6dfb28866fb911@psy.gla.ac.uk>

Hi,

As part of the 7th International IEEE Automatic Face and Gesture 
Recognition Conference this April 10-12 in Southampton, UK there will 
be a workshop organised by Frank Pollick and James Haxby on the 
psychology of face and gesture recognition.  The date of the workshop 
is 11 April 2006.  Details can be found at:  
http://www.fg2006.ecs.soton.ac.uk/workshop.html

The list of speakers and topics includes:

Michael Beauchamp, University of Texas Medical School at Houston, See 
me, Hear me, Touch Me: Multisensory Aspects of Face and Gesture 
Perception

Andy Calder, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Adaptation of Eye 
Gaze Perception

	Ruth Campbell, University College London, Cortical dissociations and 
associations for the perception of mouth and hand actions in and out of 
sign language.

	Antonio Camurri, University of Genova, Computational models and 
techniques for multimodal analysis of expressive gesture

	Yiannis Demiris, Imperial College London,TBA

	Tamar Flash, Weizmann Institute,TBA

	Alan Johnston, UCL, Recognition of facial movement across changes in 
pose

	Aina Puce, West Virginia University, Neural and hemodynamic responses 
to facial gestures generated by real and synthetic faces

	Edmund Rolls, Oxford University, Neurophysiology of face perception 
and gesture, and a new computational mechanism for the invariant 
recognition of gesture.

	Thomas Shipley, Temple University, When action meets word: Event 
parsing, representation, and verb learning

	Rufin Vogels, KU Leuven Medical School, Neural mechanisms of action 
recognition in macaque temporal cortex

The goal of the workshop is to facilitate exchange of ideas between 
researchers working in automatic recognition with those working in 
various aspects of the psychology and neuroscience of face and gesture 
recognition.

Best

Frank

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From g.rees at fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk  Tue Feb 21 09:37:58 2006
From: g.rees at fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk (Geraint Rees)
Date: Mon Feb 27 04:48:21 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Fwd: Professor of Cognitive Neuroimaging
References: <e92dacb60602210127r6ebd6eb6p@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <E167D40B-2252-4154-8DE4-EAC29292879F@fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk>



Begin forwarded message:

> Professor of Cognitive Neuroimaging
>
> This is a joint UCL-Birkbeck post for directing a new MRI scanning  
> facility
> that has substantial SRIF funding. UCL and Birkbeck Psychology  
> Departments
> are located in very close proximity, and have many collaborative  
> links and
> strengths in cognitive neuroscience (e.g. UCL Institute of Cognitive
> Neuroscience; Birkbeck Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development).  
> Many
> further strengths in neuroimaging, including MRI and fMRI, also exist
> nearby (e.g. at Queen Square) in a thriving interdisciplinary  
> environment
> that also includes several major hospitals and associated research
> institutes, plus medical physics expertise.
>
> Applications are invited from candidates with strong research  
> records in
> functional and/or structural neuroimaging with MRI, of relevance to
> cognitive studies; and with an ability to manage a neuroimaging  
> team and
> facility.  Professorial salary is negotiable.
>
> Futher information is available at
> http://www.psychol.ucl.ac.uk/info/vacancies.htm.  Informal  
> enquiries can be
> made to Professor David Shanks (d.shanks@ucl.ac.uk) and Professor Mark
> Johnson (mark.johnson@psychology.bbk.ac.uk)
>
> Applications for the Chair should include a curriculum vitae (with
> publications list), a statement of research interests and plans,  
> the names
> and contact details of three referees (including at least one  
> referee based
> outside the applicant's country of residence) and details of current
> salary.   It would be appreciated if candidates would submit both a  
> hard
> copy (under cover of a signed letter) and an electronic copy of their
> application, addressed to the President and Provost of UCL and sent  
> to the
> Director of Academic Services, University College London, 5 Gower  
> Street,
> London WC1E 6BT.
>
> We particularly welcome women and black and ethnic minority  
> applicants as
> they are under-represented at this level within UCL.
>
> The closing date for applications is 24 March 2006.
>
> John Draper
> Departmental Administrator
> Psychology Department
> UCL
> Gower Street
> London WC1E 6BT
>
> tel: 020 7679 5338
> fax: 020 7436 4276
> j.draper@ucl.ac.uk
> http://www.psychol.ucl.ac.uk/john.draper/john.html

From jelder at yorku.ca  Tue Feb 21 15:38:40 2006
From: jelder at yorku.ca (James Elder)
Date: Mon Feb 27 04:49:03 2006
Subject: [visionlist] SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS: PERCEPTUAL ORGANIZATION IN
 COMPUTER VISION 2006
Message-ID: <43FB3400.8030407@yorku.ca>

SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS: POCV 2006

The Fifth IEEE Computer Society Workshop on Perceptual Organization in 
Computer Vision
New York City June 22, 2006, In Conjunction with IEEE CVPR 2006
http://elderlab.yorku.ca/pocv

IMPORTANT DATES:
* Submission deadline: 11:59pm EST, March 17, 2006
* Notification: April 17, 2006
* Final versions of accepted papers due: April 24, 2006

THEME:
Perceptual Organization is the process of establishing a meaningful 
relational structure over raw visual data, where the extracted relations 
correspond to the physical structure of the scene. A driving motivation 
behind perceptual organization research in computer vision is to deliver 
representations needed for higher-level visual tasks such as object 
detection, object recognition, activity recognition and scene 
reconstruction. Because of its wide applicability, the potential payoff 
from perceptual organization research is enormous.

The 5th IEEE POCV Workshop, to be held in conjunction with CVPR 2006 
(New York), will bring together experts in perceptual organization and 
related areas to report on recent research results and to provide ideas 
for future directions.

PREVIOUS IEEE POCV WORKSHOPS:
* 2004 CVPR (Washington, DC)
* 2001 ICCV (Vancouver, Canada)
* 1999 ICCV (Crete, Greece)
* 1998 CVPR (Santa Barbara, CA)

SCOPE:
Papers are solicited in all areas of perceptual organization, including 
but not limited to:
* image segmentation
* feature grouping
* texture segmentation
* contour completion
* spatiotemporal/motion segmentation
* figure-ground discrimination
* integration of top-down and bottom-up methods
* perceptual organization for object or activity detection/recognition
* unification of segmentation, detection and recognition
* biologically-motivated methods
* neural basis for perceptual organization
* learning in perceptual organization
* graphical methods
* natural scene statistics
* evaluation methods

ALGORITHM EVALUATION:
Research progress in perceptual organization depends in part on 
quantitative evaluation and comparison of algorithms. Authors reporting 
results of new algorithms are strongly encouraged to objectively 
quantify performance and compare against at least one competing approach.

BROADER ISSUES:
Perceptual organization research faces a number of challenges. One is 
defining what the precise goal of perceptual organization algorithms 
should be. What kind of representation should they deliver? What 
databases should be used for evaluation? How can we quantify performance 
to allow objective evaluation and comparison between algorithms? How do 
we know when we?ve succeeded? To try to meet these challenges, we 
particularly encourage contributions of a more general nature that 
attempt to address one or more of these questions. These may include 
definitional papers, theoretical frameworks that might apply to multiple 
different perceptual organization problems, establishment of useful 
databases, modeling of underlying natural scene statistics, evaluation 
methodologies, etc.
Biological Motivation

BIOLOGICAL MOTIVATION:
Much of the current work in perceptual organization in computer vision 
has its roots in qualitative principles established by the Gestalt 
Psychologists nearly a century ago, and this link between computational 
and biological research continues to this day. Following this tradition, 
we specifically invite biological vision researchers working in the 
field of perceptual organization to submit work that may stimulate new 
directions of research in the computer vision community.

WORKSHOP OUTPUT:
All accepted papers will be included in the Electronic Proceedings of 
CVPR, distributed on DVD at the conference, and will be indexed by IEEE 
Xplore. We are also exploring the possibility of a special journal issue 
on perceptual organization in computer vision, with a separate call for 
papers.

PAPER SUBMISSION:

Submission is electronic, and must be in PDF format. Papers must not 
exceed 8 double-column pages. Submissions must follow standard IEEE 
2-column format of single-spaced text in 10 point Times Roman, with 12 
point interline space. All submissions must be anonymous. Please us the 
IEEE Computer Society CVPR format kit. Stay tuned for exact details on 
how to submit.

In submitting a paper to the POCV Workshop, authors acknowledge that no 
paper of substantially similar content has been or will be submitted to 
another conference or workshop during the POCV review period.

For further details and updates, please see the workshop website: 
http://elderlab.yorku.ca/pocv


WORKSHOP CHAIRS:

James Elder, York University
jelder@yorku.ca

Jeffrey Mark Siskind, Purdue University
qobi@purdue.edu

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Ronen Basri, Weizmann Institute, Israel
Kim Boyer, Ohio State University, USA
James Coughlan, Smith-Kettlewell Institute, USA
Sven Dickinson, University of Toronto, Canada
Anthony Hoogs, GE Global Research, USA
David Jacobs, University of Maryland, USA
Ian Jermyn, INRIA, France
Benjamin Kimia, Brown University, USA
Norbert Kruger, Aalborg University, Denmark
Michael Lindenbaum, Technion, Israel
Zili Liu, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
David Martin, Boston College, USA
Gerard Medioni, University of Southern California, USA
Zygmunt Pizlo, Purdue University, USA
Sudeep Sarkar, University of South Florida, USA
Eric Saund, Palo Alto Research Centre, USA
Ohad ben Shahar, Ben Gurion University, Israel
Kaleem Siddiqi, McGill University, Canada
Manish Singh, Rutgers University, USA
Shimon Ullman, Weizmann Institute, Israel
Johan Wagemans, University of Leuven, Belgium
Song Wang, University of South Carolina, USA
Rich Zemel, University of Toronto, Canada
Song-Chun Zhu, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Steve Zucker, Yale University, USA

-- 
James H. Elder
Associate Professor
Centre for Vision Research
York University
4700 Keele Street
North York, Ontario
Canada M3J 1P3

tel: (416) 736-2100  ext. 66475
fax: (416) 736-5857

email: jelder@yorku.ca
www.yorku.ca/jelder


From k.j.linnell at gold.ac.uk  Mon Feb 20 19:15:46 2006
From: k.j.linnell at gold.ac.uk (Karina J Linnell)
Date: Mon Feb 27 04:49:29 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Research Fellow in ERP/attention
Message-ID: <35114286.1140462946@ps351.gold.ac.uk>


The following ad is going out in the UK national press (the Guardian) this 
week and is already
posted on jobs.ac.uk. Parallel applications for the RF post and the 
Lectureship (see below) are
encouraged, and anyone interested is encouraged to contact me with informal 
enquiries
(K.J.Linnell@gold.ac.uk).

Karina Linnell

*********************************************

THREE POSITIONS AT GOLDSMITHS COLLEGE LONDON
Department of Psychology - Cognitive Neuroscience Unit [EEG Group]

We are seeking to consolidate and enhance our neuroscience research, and 
associated teaching, through the appointment of three individuals with 
expertise in EEG.  You will work within our Cognitive Neuroscience Unit, 
where we have made substantial investments in the research infrastructure: 
state-of-the-art EEG equipment is now housed in a purpose-built suite. We 
have strong collaborative relationships with other specialist centres in 
this country and in Magdeburg (Germany).

PROFESSOR / READER / SENIOR LECTURER (06/62AE)
Available from 1 September 2006, or as soon as possible thereafter.

You will have a first degree and PhD in Psychology or related area, a 
strong EEG research and publication record, and clear research plans.  You 
will provide leadership to the other staff and students using EEG in their 
research.  You will demonstrate the potential to attract substantial 
external funding, and to capitalise on existing collaborations as well as 
to develop new ones.  A professorial level appointment is possible for 
candidates with current grant funding and an internationally prestigious 
publication record.

You will contribute to the teaching and organisation of both undergraduate 
and postgraduate programmes, and to general departmental administration, 
and will supervise research at all levels.

Salary for the Professorship will be no less than ?50,760 per annum, salary 
for the Readership and Senior Lecturer will be  ?40,947 ? ?46,112 per annum 
all including ?2,262 per annum London Weighting.

Closing date: Friday 24 March 2006
Interviews will be held on: Wednesday 26 April 2006

2-YEAR FIXED-TERM LECTURER (06/64AE)
Available from 1 April 2006, or as soon as possible thereafter.

You will have a first degree and PhD in Psychology or related area, and a 
record of research using EEG, ideally in an area which interfaces with the 
interests of other staff in the CNU at Goldsmiths and at Magdeburg (e.g. 
memory/attention).  You will play a key role as day-to-day manager of the 
EEG labs, and in providing support and training to less experienced staff 
and students.

You will contribute to the teaching and organisation of undergraduate and 
postgraduate programmes, and to the general administration of departmental 
activities, and will supervise research at all levels.

Salary will either be on the Lecturer A Scale ?26,614 - ?30,191, or the 
Lecturer B Scale ?31,091 - ?39,221 per annum including ?2,262 per annum 
London Weighting.

Closing date: Friday 10 March 2006
Interviews will be held on: Wednesday 29 March 2006

1-YEAR FIXED-TERM RESEARCH FELLOW (06/63RE)
Start date for this post is flexible, between 1 April and 1 October 2006.

The position arises from the award of an ESRC project grant to Dr Linnell 
at Goldsmiths and Dr Duncan at the MRC CBSU in Cambridge. The project 
investigates ?Conscious awareness across time as a function of task and 
stimulus factors? using a novel modification of the attentional-blink 
paradigm, and combines behavioural and ERP testing.

You will have at least PhD-level experience of ERP testing and behavioural 
work, ideally in the field of attention. You will be responsible for the 
day-to-day running and analysis of experiments, and will work closely with 
Dr Linnell in the planning, preparing and dissemination of these 
experiments.

Salary will be Research IA Spine Point 6 (?24,551 per annum including 
?2,262 per annum London Weighting Allowance) up to Spine Point 13 (?32,264 
per annum) for more experienced postdoctoral workers who could complete the 
project in 9 months.

Closing date: Friday 10 March 2006
Interviews will be held on: Thursday 30 March 2006

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON ALL THE ABOVE POSTS
Download an application pack from www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/personnel, email 
personnel@gold.ac.uk or call 020 7919 7999 (24 hours). Please quote the 
relevant reference number.
If you are interested in more than one of the above positions, please 
submit separate applications.


***********************************************************
Karina J Linnell, PhD
Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths' College
University of London, London SE14 6NW, UK
E-mail: K.J.Linnell@Gold.ac.uk
Tel: +0044 (0)20 7717 2906
***********************************************************

From k.j.linnell at gold.ac.uk  Mon Feb 20 19:18:22 2006
From: k.j.linnell at gold.ac.uk (Karina J Linnell)
Date: Mon Feb 27 04:49:37 2006
Subject: [visionlist] EEG professor/reader/(senior)lecturer
Message-ID: <35270328.1140463102@ps351.gold.ac.uk>


The following ad is going out in the UK national press (the Guardian) this 
week and is already
posted on jobs.ac.uk. Parallel applications for the RF post and the 
Lectureship (see below) are
encouraged, and anyone interested is encouraged to contact me with informal 
enquiries
(K.J.Linnell@gold.ac.uk).

Karina Linnell

*********************************************

THREE POSITIONS AT GOLDSMITHS COLLEGE LONDON
Department of Psychology - Cognitive Neuroscience Unit [EEG Group]

We are seeking to consolidate and enhance our neuroscience research, and 
associated teaching, through the appointment of three individuals with 
expertise in EEG.  You will work within our Cognitive Neuroscience Unit, 
where we have made substantial investments in the research infrastructure: 
state-of-the-art EEG equipment is now housed in a purpose-built suite. We 
have strong collaborative relationships with other specialist centres in 
this country and in Magdeburg (Germany).

PROFESSOR / READER / SENIOR LECTURER (06/62AE)
Available from 1 September 2006, or as soon as possible thereafter.

You will have a first degree and PhD in Psychology or related area, a 
strong EEG research and publication record, and clear research plans.  You 
will provide leadership to the other staff and students using EEG in their 
research.  You will demonstrate the potential to attract substantial 
external funding, and to capitalise on existing collaborations as well as 
to develop new ones.  A professorial level appointment is possible for 
candidates with current grant funding and an internationally prestigious 
publication record.

You will contribute to the teaching and organisation of both undergraduate 
and postgraduate programmes, and to general departmental administration, 
and will supervise research at all levels.

Salary for the Professorship will be no less than ?50,760 per annum, salary 
for the Readership and Senior Lecturer will be  ?40,947 ? ?46,112 per annum 
all including ?2,262 per annum London Weighting.

Closing date: Friday 24 March 2006
Interviews will be held on: Wednesday 26 April 2006

2-YEAR FIXED-TERM LECTURER (06/64AE)
Available from 1 April 2006, or as soon as possible thereafter.

You will have a first degree and PhD in Psychology or related area, and a 
record of research using EEG, ideally in an area which interfaces with the 
interests of other staff in the CNU at Goldsmiths and at Magdeburg (e.g. 
memory/attention).  You will play a key role as day-to-day manager of the 
EEG labs, and in providing support and training to less experienced staff 
and students.

You will contribute to the teaching and organisation of undergraduate and 
postgraduate programmes, and to the general administration of departmental 
activities, and will supervise research at all levels.

Salary will either be on the Lecturer A Scale ?26,614 - ?30,191, or the 
Lecturer B Scale ?31,091 - ?39,221 per annum including ?2,262 per annum 
London Weighting.

Closing date: Friday 10 March 2006
Interviews will be held on: Wednesday 29 March 2006

1-YEAR FIXED-TERM RESEARCH FELLOW (06/63RE)
Start date for this post is flexible, between 1 April and 1 October 2006.

The position arises from the award of an ESRC project grant to Dr Linnell 
at Goldsmiths and Dr Duncan at the MRC CBSU in Cambridge. The project 
investigates ?Conscious awareness across time as a function of task and 
stimulus factors? using a novel modification of the attentional-blink 
paradigm, and combines behavioural and ERP testing.

You will have at least PhD-level experience of ERP testing and behavioural 
work, ideally in the field of attention. You will be responsible for the 
day-to-day running and analysis of experiments, and will work closely with 
Dr Linnell in the planning, preparing and dissemination of these 
experiments.

Salary will be Research IA Spine Point 6 (?24,551 per annum including 
?2,262 per annum London Weighting Allowance) up to Spine Point 13 (?32,264 
per annum) for more experienced postdoctoral workers who could complete the 
project in 9 months.

Closing date: Friday 10 March 2006
Interviews will be held on: Thursday 30 March 2006

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON ALL THE ABOVE POSTS
Download an application pack from www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/personnel, email 
personnel@gold.ac.uk or call 020 7919 7999 (24 hours). Please quote the 
relevant reference number.
If you are interested in more than one of the above positions, please 
submit separate applications.


***********************************************************
Karina J Linnell, PhD
Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths' College
University of London, London SE14 6NW, UK
E-mail: K.J.Linnell@Gold.ac.uk
Tel: +0044 (0)20 7717 2906
***********************************************************

From k.j.linnell at gold.ac.uk  Mon Feb 20 19:28:48 2006
From: k.j.linnell at gold.ac.uk (Karina J Linnell)
Date: Mon Feb 27 04:49:37 2006
Subject: [visionlist] PhD studentships in vision/attention
Message-ID: <35896706.1140463728@ps351.gold.ac.uk>

********************************************************

PhD studentships in vision/attention in the
Department of Psychology,
Goldsmiths College, University of London

********************************************************

The Department of Psychology at Goldsmiths College, University of London
is seeking to recruit PhD applicants with interests in vision and attention 
to start
in September 2006 (closing date 3rd March). Applicants should have 
backgrounds
in Psychology, Biology, Neuroscience, Computing Science, Physics, or
Engineering, and have, or be predicted to attain, at least a high 2:1 
undergraduate
degree.

Applicants are encouraged to contact members of staff in the
Cognition, Brain and Behaviour group
<http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/departments/psychology/research/cbb.html>
with research expertise relevant to their own interests, or to apply for 
one of
the PhD projects already advertised by members of staff:
(a) perception of the physical world in infancy and early childhood
(Dr Andrew Bremner),
(b) the role of attention in stereoscopic perception (Dr Jan de Fockert),
(c) the attentional blink and cognitive resources (Dr Karina Linnell);
or (d) attention and eye-movement control (Dr Karina Linnell).
Further details of these projects can be viewed towards the bottom of
<http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/departments/psychology/jobs.html>
Clicking on the staff names listed against each project, will reveal more
information about the research interests of potential supervisors.

Goldsmiths College is a thriving research institution that puts considerable
emphasis on cross-disciplinary work. It has recently opened a new Centre in
Cognition, Computation, and Creativity which is home to Psychology's
state-of-the-art ERP and biopsychology labs.  In addition, our behavioural 
labs
are excellently equipped for psychophysical and visuomotor work. Our
postgraduate training programme in Research Methods in Psychology is
recognised by the ESRC and we have a thriving postgraduate research
community of around 45 students.

More details of our postgraduate programme, including how to apply, can be
found at <http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/departments/psychology/jobs.html>
or by contacting Karina Linnell (e-mail: k.j.linnell@gold.ac.uk).


***********************************************************
Karina J Linnell, PhD
Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths' College
University of London, London SE14 6NW, UK
E-mail: K.J.Linnell@Gold.ac.uk
Tel: +0044 (0)20 7717 2906
***********************************************************
From s_jax2 at hotmail.com  Thu Feb 23 14:40:22 2006
From: s_jax2 at hotmail.com (Steve Jax)
Date: Mon Feb 27 04:50:20 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Action, Motor Control,
	and Praxis Research Assistantship, Philadelphia PA.
Message-ID: <BAY108-F1057C36C1CDFC3143A2B28A2F20@phx.gbl>

Action, Motor Control, and Praxis Research Assistantship, Philadelphia PA.

The Cognition and Action Laboratory of Moss Rehabilitation Research
Institute (MRRI) has an opening for a BA/BS- or Master’s-level research 
assistant beginning summer or fall of 2006. Under the direction of Laurel 
Buxbaum, the
laboratory conducts NIH-funded research on normal and apraxic action, 
comprising
cognitive experiments, state-of-the art lesion analysis, and 
kinematic/virtual reality applications.  Applicants should have strong 
academic backgrounds in cognitive
psychology or neuroscience, with coursework in statistics and research 
methods. Prior research experience strongly preferred. MRRI and MossRehab 
are part of the Albert Einstein Healthcare Network and Jefferson Health 
System. The position offers
competitive salary and benefits (medical, dental, vision, tuition
reimbursement). Send cover letter and C.V. to lbuxbaum@einstein.edu, and
have 2-3 letters of recommendation e-mailed to the same address.
Alternatives forms of contact:  Laurel J. Buxbaum, Psy.D., Moss
Rehabilitation Research Institute, 1200 West Tabor Rd., Philadelphia, PA
19141; Fax: 215-456-5926. 
http://www.einstein.edu/yourhealth/physicalrehab/research/article8959.html


From valerie.bonnardel at sunderland.ac.uk  Wed Feb 22 10:49:06 2006
From: valerie.bonnardel at sunderland.ac.uk (Val=?ISO-8859-1?B?6Q==?=rie Bonnardel)
Date: Mon Feb 27 04:51:01 2006
Subject: [visionlist] VCIMS workshop 28 June 06
Message-ID: <C021F222.929D%valerie.bonnardel@sunderland.ac.uk>

Announcement for a Workshop on " Visual Categorisation and Image Management
Systems?
 

The objective of the workshop is to bring together Information Retrieval
researchers, Neuroscientists, Visual Scientists and Cognitive Psychologists
to present and discuss recent findings on image categorisation in artificial
and natural systems. This will give the opportunity to scientists who seldom
meet at conferences to share methods of data analysis (such as Cluster
Analysis, Multidimensional Scaling, and Consensus Analysis) and theoretical
approaches (such as Top-Down and Bottom-Up) to the image categorisation
process.

 
The workshop will be held at the University of Sunderland, St. Peter?s
Campus, on the 28th June 2006. It will comprise invited lectures, oral
presentations and a plenary discussion.
 
The workshop is now open for registration.  Participants wishing to give an
oral presentation of 15 ? 20 minutes should submit abstracts of 500 words
maximum (references excluded) by the 15th April 2006.  Notification of
acceptance will be communicated by the 21st May 2006.  Abstracts submitted
by doctoral students or researchers at early stages in their careers will be
particularly welcome.
Abstracts should submitted electronically at : vcims@sunderland.ac.uk
 
While there will be no registration fee for the workshop, participants
registering will have to cover their own travel and hotel expenses.
 
Information and registration forms are available on the conference website
at 
http://www.cet.sunderland.ac.uk/vcims
 
The workshop is sponsored by the Multimedia Knowledge Management Network
-EPSRC (www.mmkm.org/MMKM <http://www.mmkm.org/MMKM> ).
 
Organising Committee
 
Val?rie Bonnardel (Psychology)
Michael Oakes (Computing)
John Tait (Computing)
University of Sunderland.
 


From s_jax2 at hotmail.com  Thu Feb 23 19:02:16 2006
From: s_jax2 at hotmail.com (Steve Jax)
Date: Mon Feb 27 04:51:48 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship 
Message-ID: <BAY108-F4E731F35DA85AAA72D60AA2F20@phx.gbl>

Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship
Two year fellowship available within the MossRehab Research Institute 
(MRRI), in collaboration with the University of Pennsylvania (Penn), for 
research training in the following areas: Cognitive Neuropsychology; 
Cognitive Neuroscience of Action; Cognitive Neuroscience of 
Language/Aphasia; Cognitive Neuroscience of Attention and Executive 
Function; Cognitive function following traumatic and non-traumatic brain 
injury; and Cognitive Rehabilitation research. Research focuses on normal 
cognitive processing, nature of cognitive impairments, and impact of 
training and drug-based treatments. Available research mentors include Myrna 
Schwartz, John Whyte, Laurel Buxbaum, Tessa Hart, Gerry Stefanatos. 
Collaborations at Penn allow training in fMRI, structural neuroimaging, TMS, 
and ERP (at both sites).  Candidates should have a doctorate in 
neuropsychology; cognitive psychology; psychology of language; 
rehabilitation medicine or related field, and be interested in developing an 
independent research career.  MRRI/Penn are recognized by a Rehabilitation 
Research Infrastructure grant from NIH (www.ncrrn.org). Send CV and letter 
detailing research interests and goals to Kevin Whelihan, Research 
Administrator, MossRehab Research Institute, 1200 W. Tabor Rd., 
Philadelphia, PA 19141, FAX 215-456-5926 or email whelihank@einstein.edu


From D.Alexander at cs.ucl.ac.uk  Mon Feb 27 09:50:39 2006
From: D.Alexander at cs.ucl.ac.uk (Daniel ALEXANDER)
Date: Mon Feb 27 18:37:23 2006
Subject: [visionlist] 5th April BMVA Technical Meeting on Robotics and Vision
Message-ID: <22930.1141033839@cs.ucl.ac.uk>


BMVA
      British Machine Vision Association and Society for Pattern Recognition




                             Robotics and Vision

    One Day BMVA symposium at the British Computer Society, 5 Southampton
                    Street, London, UK on 5th April 2006.

                           www.bmva.ac.uk/meetings
      Co-sponsored by: IEE, BARA, BCS, Imaging Faraday
      Chair:      Prof. John Illingworth (University of Surrey)

      10.00       Registration and coffee
      10.25       Welcome and Introduction
           10.30       Robot Vision - Vision or Robotics?
           Prof Henrik I Christensen, EURON coordinator, Stockholm
      11.15 Use of stereo vision in agricultural robotics.
                          Dr Andrew Peacock and Dr Alan Green, IceRobotics

A  "hands-on" robotic surgery system for uni-condylar knee
                  replacement surgery.
      Prof Brian Davies, Imperial College

      12.15       Lunch
      13.30   Using Scene Appearance in SLAM.
      Dr Paul Newman, University of Oxford.
           14.00       Active Vision for Robots and Wearables
      Dr Walterio Mayal-Cuevas, University of Bristol.
      14.30 Visual SLAM for the Humanoid Robot HRP-2
      Dr Andrew Davison, Imperial College
      15.00       Tea

Inspection technologies for autonomous underwater vehicles: Concepts
           and sea trials
                 Dr Jonathon Evans, Heriot-Watt University

      15.50   Reasoning for Visual Robotics.

           Dr Tim Guhl, Imperial College
Closing remarks and finish


REGISTRATION FORM:     5 April 2006 Meeting

Please return this form to Leanne Pring, Royston Parkin,  95  Queen  Street,
Sheffield, S1 1WG, Tel 0114 272 0306, Fax 0114 272  6158  or  via  email  to
BMVA@roystonparkin.co.uk. The meeting is free to members of the BMVA and co-
sponsoring associations (IEE, BARA, BCS, Imaging Faraday Partnership) but  a
charge of £20 is payable by non-members. A sandwich lunch is available at  a
cost of £5 and should be booked in advance. When registering please  enclose
a cheque for the appropriate amount made payable  to  "The  British  Machine
Vision Association".

NAME:       ................................
ADDRESS:    ................................
            ................................
TEL:        ..............        BMVA MEMBER:     YES/NO
email:           ..............         LUNCH:           YES/NO
                                        VEGETARIAN:           YES/NO
From g.rees at fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk  Mon Feb 27 16:14:42 2006
From: g.rees at fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk (Geraint Rees)
Date: Mon Feb 27 18:38:24 2006
Subject: [visionlist] ASSC-10: Second call for abstracts & deadline reminder
Message-ID: <AB09DB9A-B5A1-4326-8E70-2AF90F1EBC22@fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk>

**A REMINDER THAT THE DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSION (1 MARCH) IS  
APPROACHING**

Apologies for any cross-posting, and please forward to colleagues/ 
students as appropriate.

-------------------------------
CALL FOR PAPER & POSTER PROPOSALS
ASSOCIATION FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF CONSCIOUSNESS

10TH ANNUAL MEETING
St. Anne's College, Oxford
June 23 - June 26, 2006
-------------------------------

The tenth annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study  
of Consciousness will be held from June 23rd to June 26th, 2006 in  
Oxford. The meeting will be notable as the tenth anniversary of the  
first ASSC meeting. It will also take place in the pleasant  
surroundings of St. Anne's College, Oxford. Accommodation in college  
will be available and the meeting promises to be both intellectually  
stimulating and very enjoyable!

ASSC10 is intended to promote interdisciplinary dialogue in the  
scientific study of consciousness. The overall goal of the conference  
is to promote the scientific study of consciousness in all of its  
forms. Following last year's successful symposia, ASSC members are  
again invited to submit proposals for symposia relevant to the  
overall goal of the conference. Non-members can also submit proposals  
for tutorials. Symposia will address current empirical and  
theoretical issues in the study of consciousness, from the  
perspectives of philosophy, neuroscience, clinical medicine,  
psychology, and computer science.

For latest updates, please check the conference website:

http://www.assc10.org.uk/

The web site will be continually evolving, so please visit often for  
updated information.

Confirmed speakers include:

* Ned Block, New York University
* Dan Dennett, Tufts University
* Fred Dretske, Duke University
* Jon Driver, University College London
* Frederique de Vignemont, Institut des Sciences Cognitives, France
* Martha Farah, University of Pennsylvania
* Rainer Goebel, University of Maastricht
* Anthony Greenwald, University of Washington
* John-Dylan Haynes, Max-Planck Institute for Cognitive and Brain  
Sciences
* Sean Kelly, Princeton University
* Victor Lamme, University of Amsterdam
* Hakwan Lau, University of Oxford
* Thomas Metzinger, Johannes Gutenberg-Universit?t Mainz
* David Milner, Durham University
* Laure Pisella, CNRS
* J David Smith, SUNY at Buffalo
* Vincent Walsh, University College London

This is the FIRST call for paper and poster proposals. ASSC10 is  
intended to promote interdisciplinary dialogue in the scientific  
study of consciousness, as in previous years a significant portion of  
the program will be set aside for concurrent sessions of submitted  
talks and poster sessions. ASSC10 will provide an excellent  
opportunity for the presentation of new empirical findings or novel  
theoretical perspectives in an atmosphere that will promote  
discussion and debate.

-------------------------------
CALL FOR PAPER AND POSTER SUBMISSIONS
SUBMISSIONS MUST BE RECEIVED BY MARCH 1, 2006
-------------------------------

Speakers in concurrent sessions are invited to talk on any topic  
relevant to the scientific study of consciousness. Submissions that  
include anthropological, evolutionary, physiological, psychological,  
philosophical, or computational perspectives are all welcome.

Submissions for both posters and talks will be accepted (please  
specify preference). Any person may present only one submission, but  
may be co-author on more than one. Oral presentations will be limited  
to 20 minutes, to be followed by a ten-minute discussion period.

Submit by filling out the appropriate form at:

http://www.assc10.org.uk

You will be asked to include with your submission the following  
information:

1. Title.
2. Name, affiliation, with presenting co-author(s) designated.
3. An abstract of up to 350 words.
4. Complete contact information for the author with whom the  
scientific program committee will interact with about the submission
5. Whether your first preference is for an oral or poster presentation
6. Whether you are willing to have the abstract, if accepted,  
published in Psyche.

Please note: talks and posters are selected based on an aggregate  
vote of the scientific program committee (members vote on all  
abstracts barring those in which a conflict of interest arises).  
Proposals that pass a given threshold will be considered for an oral  
or poster presentation; those that pass a lower threshold will be  
considered for a poster presentation only (this in no way implies  
that posters are considered a "lower" medium for presentation, but  
rather reflects the restricted number of talk slots available).  
Qualities considered in assessing abstracts include originality,  
relevance to research on consciousness (good, but seemingly  
irrelevant work will receive lower scores), and clarity of ideas  
(ASSC10 is an interdisplinary conference, as such its expected that  
proposals should be intelligible for all members of committee  
regardless of research background). Membership status, category of  
talk, and presentation preference (oral/poster) are ignored when  
scoring proposals.

If you have any difficulties in submitting your proposal, or any  
other questions regarding the meeting, please contact assc10@gmail.com .

-------------------------------
REGISTRATION & CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
-------------------------------

As in previous years, discounted registration will be available to  
ASSC members, who will also enjoy a range of book discounts and other  
member benefits. The registration discount will be greater than the  
cost of membership, so prospective members are encouraged to join  
ASSC now! To find out more about the Association for the Scientific  
Study of Consciousness, and to apply for membership, please consult  
our website at http://assc.caltech.edu/
Registration will open in late February.

-------------------------------
ASSC10 Scientific Program Committee: Tim Bayne, Axel Cleeremans, Alva  
Noe, Geraint Rees (chair), Edmund Rolls, Larry Weiskrantz, and  
Patrick Wilken.
-------------------------------
All questions about paper/poster submissions should be directed to  
the official conference email address: assc10@gmail.com.



From helenv at aaoptom.org  Mon Feb 27 15:26:30 2006
From: helenv at aaoptom.org (Helen Viksnins)
Date: Mon Feb 27 18:38:48 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Call for Grand Rounds Academy 2006 Denver
Message-ID: <42FA860782A23A40B20D17EFCFECB26149EEC2@observe.aaoptom.lan>

The American Academy of Optometry's Lectures & Workshops Committee
invites submissions to the Grand Rounds presentations.  The deadline is
March 15, 2006, and the guidelines and submission instructions can be
found at http://www.aaopt.org/meetings/meeting6/Education/index.asp.

Helen Viksnins 
Knowledge Initiatives Facilitator 
American Academy of Optometry 
http://www.aaopt.org 
301-984-1441, ext. 3002 

Peak Education at Academy 2006 Denver


From itti at usc.edu  Mon Feb 27 18:37:00 2006
From: itti at usc.edu (Laurent Itti)
Date: Mon Feb 27 18:39:25 2006
Subject: [visionlist] May 5 VSS Symposium on integrating bottom-up and
	top-down attention
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0602271035570.28430@iLab1.usc.edu>

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                        Special VSS symposium

         Integrating top-down and bottom-up visual attention



                   May 5th, 2006,     3:15 - 5:15pm

             Workshop Room 4, Hyatt, Sarasota, Florida

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Organizer:   Vidhya Navalpakkam, University of Southern California

Speakers:    Laurent Itti, University of Southern California

             Kirk Thompson, National Eye Institute, NIH

             Jeremy Wolfe, Harvard University

             Steven Yantis, Johns Hopkins University


Synopsis:

Although the last few decades have witnessed enormous progress in
psychophysics, physiology, imaging, theory and modeling of either
bottom-up or top-down visual attention, understanding their integration is
the next main frontier. It poses several open challenges: Where do
top-down and bottom-up signals meet and interact? At what time and spatial
scale do they interact? What is the granularity of their interaction -- is
it at the level of a single neuron, or a population of neurons? What
computational principles underly the integration of these signals -- is it
a linear summation, or multiplication or some other function?  What are
the behavioral correlates of such integration?

This symposium aims to shed light on the above questions by reviewing
recent cutting edge research in integrating top-down and bottom-up visual
attention. It will be a unique forum where experts from different
faculties including theory, modeling, psychophysics, imaging and
physiology will present diverse and potentially conflicting perspectives,
leading to exciting discussions and debates.



For more information contact Vidhya Navalpakkam <navalpak@usc.edu>

VSS annual meeting home page: http://www.vision-sciences.org



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From jcarroll at cvs.rochester.edu  Mon Feb 27 16:15:36 2006
From: jcarroll at cvs.rochester.edu (Joe Carroll)
Date: Mon Feb 27 18:39:50 2006
Subject: [visionlist] OSA Vision Meeting - Please Post
Message-ID: <a05200f04c028d4a562d7@[192.168.82.146]>

The 6th annual Optical Society of America Vision Meeting will be held 
at the University of Rochester on October 6, 7, and 8,2006. This 
year's meeting, which will be sponsored by the Center for Visual 
Science, coincides with the 90th Anniversary of OSA's founding right 
here in Rochester!  Frontiers in Optics, the Annual Meeting of the 
Optical Society of America, will immediately follow the OSA Vision 
Meeting.  Meeting details can be found at 
http://www.cvs.rochester.edu/fvm_2006/index.html.  As in past years, 
the Optical Society of America will offer a one-day "free pass" to 
all OSA members who are pre-registered for the OSA Vision Meeting to 
attend the OSA Annual Meeting on Monday, October 9, at which there 
will be additional vision sessions.

Meeting Overview:
The OSA Vision Meeting is a low cost, high quality meeting designed 
to focus discussion on key issues in vision science. The registration 
fee will be $50 for students/postdocs and $200 for all others. The 
fee will increase to $100 for students/postdocs and $250 for all 
others after the registration deadline of  September 1, 2006. (Note 
that the registration fee includes breakfast, lunch, and coffee 
breaks for all 3 days plus dinner for one night). This year's meeting 
will celebrate Donald I.A. MacLeaod as the 2006 recipient of the 
Tillyer Award. The Young Investigator Award, which includes a cash 
prize, will be given to the student or post-doc who gives the best 
presentation at the meeting.

The local organizing committee is chaired by David Williams 
(University of Rochester) and Ione Fine (University of Southern 
California) chairs the program committee.

The main strength of the OSA Vision Meeting is its small size, which 
allows for engaging scientific discussion among colleagues. The 
year's meeting is organized around 7 workshops, each with 4 invited 
speakers and a format designed to promote active discussion of key 
issues in vision science.  There will be no parallel sessions. We 
encourage contributed posters to be displayed during sessions held in 
series with the workshops. There will be some limited time available 
for contributed talks; we expect to schedule 2 contributed talk 
sessions (6 talks in each) from the contributed abstracts.  All of 
the abstracts accepted for this year's meeting (including the invited 
ones) will be published in the online Journal of Vision.

Sessions (* indicates tentative)

Neural Coding in the Retina
Moderator: Horace Barlow*, Cambridge University

Jonathan Demb, University of Michigan
"Cellular mechanisms for visual adaptation"

Eero Simoncelli, New York University
"Characterizing the complete visual signal in a patch of retina"

Sheila Nirenberg, Cornell Medical School
"Ruling out and ruling in neural codes"

Marcus Meister*, Harvard University
"Retinal processing of eye movements"


Multi-sensory Processing and Cross-modal Plasticity
Moderator: Daphne Bavelier *, University of Rochester

Liz Romanski, University of Rochester
"Integration of auditory and visual communication information in the 
primate prefrontal cortex"

Maurice Ptito, Universit? de Montr?al
"Cross-modal plasticity: lessons from the visual system"

Amir Amedi, Harvard Center for Non-Invasive Magnetic Brain Stimulation
"Towards closing the gap between visual neuroprostheses and sign 
restoration: Insights from studying vision, cross-modal plasticity 
and sensory substitution"

Jean-Ren? Duhamel, Institut des Sciences Cognitives, CNRS
"Parietal mechanisms of multisensory integration in non-human primates"


Color Categories, Sensations, and Their Neural Circuits
Moderator: Mike Webster, University of Nevada-Reno

Rolf Kuehni, North Carolina State University
"What the World Color Survey tells about hue-based basic color categories"

Sophie Wuerger, The University of Liverpool
"The cone inputs to the unique hue mechanisms"

Heidi Hofer, University of Houston
Title TBA

Clyde Hardin, Syracuse University
Title TBA


Cortical and Sub-cortical Circuitry
Moderator: Tony Movshon, New York University

Matteo Carandini, SKERI
"Imaging the dynamics of population responses in visual cortex"

Murray Sherman, University of Chicago
"The role of thalamus in processing visual information"

David Ferster, Northwestern University
"How threshold shapes cortical selectivity"

Marty Usrey, University of California-Davis
"Dynamic properties of thalamic neurons for vision"


Vision and Reading
Moderator: Maureen Powers, Gemstone Foundation

Bob Dougherty, Stanford University
Title TBA

Joel Talcott, Aston University
Title TBA

Eric Borsting, Southern California College of Optometry
Title TBA

Mark S. Seidenberg, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Title TBA


Evolution of Opsins and Color Vision
Moderator: TBA

Shozo Yokoyama, Emory University
"General evolution of the opsins in vertebrates"

David Hunt, University College London
"Evolution of opsins in primates"

Maureen Neitz, Medical College of Wisconsin
"Evolution of opsins and inter-individual variability in humans"

Daniel Osorio, University of Sussex
"Ecology of primate color vision evolution"


Retinal Structure & Function Revealed with High-resolution Imaging
Moderator: Wolfgang Drexler, Medical University Vienna

Stacey Choi, University of California-Davis
"Structure/function relationships in retinal disease revealed with 
high-resolution retinal imaging"

Yoshikazu Imanishi, Case Western Reserve University
"Noninvasive two-photon imaging reveals retinyl ester storage 
structures in the eye"

Scott Stevenson, University of Houston
"Eye movement recording and retinal image stabilization with the AO-SLO"

Kostadinka Bizheva, University of Waterloo
"Depth-resolved optical probing of retina physiology with functional 
ultra-high resolution optical coherence tomography"

From smart at neuralcorrelate.com  Tue Feb 28 00:10:28 2006
From: smart at neuralcorrelate.com (Susana Martinez-Conde)
Date: Tue Feb 28 00:11:39 2006
Subject: [visionlist] *** FINAL DEADLINE for illusion submissions: The 2nd
	Annual Best Visual Illusion of the Year Contest!!***
Message-ID: <200602280009.k1S09qia013003@visionscience.com>

The deadline for illusion submissions is ***March 1st***!

***No further extensions will be granted***

Submit your illusions to The Best Visual Illusion of the Year Contest
today!! http://illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com    

Last year's contest was a huge success, drawing numerous accolades from
attendees and international media coverage. 

In order to make the contest more easily accessible to a larger proportion
of the world's vision science community, and to increase the public impact
of this celebration of vision research, the 2006 contest will take place
during the same week of the VSS meeting, in Sarasota, Florida. The contest
will be held on Monday, May 8th, in the Van Wezel Hall, during the VSS
afternoon break: 3pm - 5pm. 

Visual Illusion Contestants are invited to submit novel visual or multimodal
illusions (unpublished, or published no earlier than 2005) in standard
image, movie or html formats. An international panel of impartial judges
will rate the submissions and narrow them to the TOP TEN. Then, at the
Contest Gala in Sarasota, the top ten illusionists will present their
contributions and the attendees of the event (that means you!) will vote to
pick the TOP THREE WINNERS!

Illusions submitted to the 2005 contest can be re-submitted to the 2006
contest edition, as long as they meet the above requirements and were not
among the top three 2005 winners.

Submissions will be held in strict confidence by the panel of judges and the
authors/creators will retain full copyright. As with submitting your work to
any scientific conference, participating in the Best Illusion of the Year
Contest does not preclude you from also submitting your work for publication
elsewhere.

Submissions can be made to Dr. Susana Martinez-Conde (Illusion Contest
Coordinator, Neural Correlate Society) via email (smart@neuralcorrelate.com)
until March 1st, 2006. Illusion submissions should come with a (no more
than) one-page description of the illusion and its theoretical underpinnings
(if known). Illusions will be rated according to: 

. Significance to our understanding of the visual system . Simplicity of the
description . Sheer beauty . Counterintuitive quality . Spectacularity 

Visit the illusion contest website for further information and to see last
year's illusions: http://illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com       

Submit your ideas now and take home this prestigious award!

On behalf of the Neural Correlate Society: Susana Martinez-Conde (Illusion
Contest Coordinator)

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Susana Martinez-Conde, PhD
Director, Laboratory of Visual Neuroscience
Division of Neurobiology
Barrow Neurological Institute
350 W. Thomas Rd
Phoenix AZ 85013, USA
Phone: +1 (602) 406-3484
Fax: +1 (602) 406-4172
Email: smart@neuralcorrelate.com 
http://www.neuralcorrelate.com/smc_lab/



From harris at yorku.ca  Tue Feb 28 13:18:03 2006
From: harris at yorku.ca (Laurence Harris)
Date: Tue Feb 28 16:07:08 2006
Subject: [visionlist] The role of the vestibular organs in space exploration
Message-ID: <4404073B.14071.3EE87D73@harris.yorku.ca>

ANNOUNCEMENT

SEVENTH SYMPOSIUM ON THE ROLE OF THE VESTIBULAR ORGANS IN SPACE 
EXPLORATION  

Noordwijk, the Netherlands

June 7-9, 2006

The Seventh Symposium on the Role of the Vestibular Organs in Space 
Exploration will be held at the European Space Research and 
Technology Centre in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, June 7-9, 2006 prior 
to the Ordinary Barany Society Meeting in Uppsala June 11-14.  The 
Symposium will concentrate on the adverse vestibular responses humans 
encounter in space.  The Seventh Symposium will emphasize space 
flight as an essential laboratory environment for scientific study of 
vestibular function.  The meeting targets young as well as 
established physicians and scientists interested in basic and applied 
aspects of vestibular function in space.  Meeting topics include: 
research and operational findings since the 2002 6th Symposium, 
vestibular neurophysiology, neuroanatomy and neurotransmitter 
systems, autonomic function and motion sickness, spatial 
disorientation in aviation and space, spatial memory, motor 
integration,  eye movements and gaze, posture and locomotion, 
adaptation, rehabilitation, and countermeasures including training, 
prostheses and artificial gravity.  In a special session, flight 
surgeons who deal with clinical and operational problems posed by 
space environments will summarize and prioritize operational medical 
problems encountered to date. Platform and poster presentations. 
Papers should address topics related to vestibular function/spatial 
orientation in altered gravitational environments.  

700-800 word abstract submission deadline: March 15, 2006
Abstract acceptance notification: April 1, 2006
Further information: http://www.congrex.nl/06A07/


From steve at cns.bu.edu  Tue Feb 28 10:29:21 2006
From: steve at cns.bu.edu (Stephen Grossberg)
Date: Tue Feb 28 16:07:19 2006
Subject: [visionlist] conference of interest to experimental and
 computational vision scientists on April 8
Message-ID: <p0623092ec029d5cd68df@[192.168.1.101]>

EXPERIMENTAL AND COMPUTATIONAL COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE: TOWARDS A SYNTHESIS

A Satellite Symposium at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Cognitive 
Neuroscience Society
Hyatt Regency Ballroom, San Francisco, April 8, 2006

Co-sponsored by the
NSF Center of Excellence for Learning in Education, Science, and 
Technology (CELEST)
<http://cns.bu.edu/CELEST>http://cns.bu.edu/CELEST
and the
International Neural Network Society(INNS)
<http://www.inns.org/>http://www.inns.org/


This symposium discusses recent experimental data about important 
topics in cognitive neuroscience, and computational cognitive 
neuroscience models aimed at explaining these and related data in a 
unified way while making new predictions that can be tested by 
multiple means.


9:55am - 10:00am
Stephen Grossberg (Boston University)
Welcome and Introduction

Speech Perception and Production

10:00am - 10:30am
Gregory Hickok (University of California at Irvine)
Sensory-Motor Integration in Speech: Evidence from Neurophysiology
and Neuropsychology

10:30am - 11:00am
Joseph Perkell (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Speech Motor Control: Movement Goals and Sensory Feedback Mechanisms

11:00am - 11:40am
Frank Guenther (Boston University)
Neural Modeling and Imaging of the Cortical Interactions Underlying Speech

11:40am - 11:55am
Discussion

11:55am - 1:10pm
Lunch


Visual Attention and Learning

1:10pm - 1:40pm
Takeo Watanabe (Boston University)
Perceptual Learning without Attention

1:40pm - 2:10pm
Robert Desimone (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Visual Attention and Neural Synchrony

2:10pm - 2:50pm
Stephen Grossberg (Boston University)
Cortical Dynamics of Visual Learning, Attention, and Synchrony

2:50pm - 3:20pm
Discussion and Coffee Break


Cognitive Control, Sequence Learning, and Planning

3:20pm - 3:50pm
Robert Sekuler (Brandeis University)
Imitating Unfamiliar Sequences

3:50pm - 4:20pm
Earl Miller (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
The Prefrontal Cortex: Rules, Concepts, Cognitive Control

4:20pm - 5:00pm
Daniel Bullock (Boston University)
Modeling Frontal Circuits that Control Unfamiliar and Learned Sequences

5:00pm - 5:15pm
Discussion and Wrap-up

*********************
REGISTRATION INFORMATION

To register for the symposium please e-mail Susanne Daley at 
<mailto:sdaley@bu.edu>sdaley@bu.edu
with the subject heading CNS06 satellite symposium registration. 
Please include the following information:  


Mr/Ms/Dr/Prof:
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Satellite symposium attendees are required to register and must also 
be registered for the Cognitive Neuroscience Society meeting.
For registration and general information for the Cognitive 
Neuroscience Society meeting please see 
<http://www.taramillerevents.com/cns2006/>http://www.taramillerevents.com/cns2006/.
Registration for the satellite symposium is at no extra fee.
From behrmann at cmu.edu  Tue Feb 28 19:01:56 2006
From: behrmann at cmu.edu (marlene)
Date: Tue Feb 28 19:04:03 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Symposium: Carnegie Mellon University
Message-ID: <44049E24.1020305@cmu.edu>

The 34th Annual Carnegie Symposium on Cognition will be held June 2-4, 
2006, at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and will focus on 
'Embodiment, Ego-Space, and Action'. As conference organizers, we invite 
you to attend and also ask that you disseminate this announcement to 
your colleagues.

Details of the conference schedule and registration (admission is free 
but registration is necessary) are available from our website:
<http://www.psy.cmu.edu:16080/embodiment/>.

Please note that funding is available for junior scientists' travel and 
lodging expenses associated with attending the symposium. Interested 
applicants should send a brief statement of interest, a curriculum 
vitae, and one letter of recommendation by April 21, 2006 to Genevieve 
Placone
<gingerp@andrew.cmu.edu>. We would appreciate it if you could distribute 
this information to any interested individuals.

Thank you for your help in publicizing the symposium.

Sincerely,

Roberta Klatzky
Marlene Behrmann
Brian MacWhinney
From wolpert at eng.cam.ac.uk  Tue Feb 28 19:34:18 2006
From: wolpert at eng.cam.ac.uk (Daniel Wolpert)
Date: Tue Feb 28 20:06:46 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Cambridge University: Postdocs in Computational
	Sensorimotor Control
Message-ID: <E1FEAdu-0002PE-Oa@ppsw-7.csi.cam.ac.uk>

UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, DEPARTMENT OF ENGINEERING

 

We are currently seeking two highly motivated Research Associates
(postdoctoral fellows) to join our group working on theoretical and
experimental approaches to human sensorimotor control. The project is led by
Professor Daniel Wolpert and involves investigating the processes involved
in motor learning, sensorimotor integration and control. 

 

The successful applicants will be expected to conduct independent research
involving both computational and experimental studies in humans. Candidates
should have a Ph.D. in Neuroscience, Psychology, or Physical and Engineering
Sciences relevant to sensorimotor control, with an academic record of
scientific excellence, independent research, and a strong interest in an
interdisciplinary approach to motor control. A strong mathematical,
statistical, and/or computational background and experience with computers
and programming (Matlab, C++, etc.) is expected. Applicants with a strong
computational background relevant to neuroscience who wish to learn
experimental approaches will also be considered. 

 

The appointment will be for two years initially starting July 1st, 2006 or
as soon as possible thereafter.  Salary is in the range ?20,044 to ?30,002
p.a.  Further details of the posts and an application form (PD18) are
available on www.wolpertlab.com. Informal enquiries should be addressed by
email to Professor Wolpert (wolpert@eng.cam.ac.uk ). 

 

Applicants are asked to submit (a) a cover letter describing their research
experiences, interests, and goals, (b) a curriculum vitae, (c) a completed
form PD18 (section I and III only) with the names and contact information of
three individuals who can serve as references. These should be sent to Mrs.
J. Milne (preferably by email jrm16@eng.cam.ac.uk ), Department of
Engineering, Trumpington Street, Cambridge, CB2 1PZ, UK to arrive prior to
April 14th, 2006.

 

The University is committed to equality of opportunity

 

 

 

 

 

 

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From p.sumner at imperial.ac.uk  Thu Mar  2 14:59:28 2006
From: p.sumner at imperial.ac.uk (Sumner, Petroc)
Date: Thu Mar  2 16:03:49 2006
Subject: [visionlist] 2 Post Doc positions in Cardiff
Message-ID: <4EAB3D1613496C4F980C2A475E1B8D415FE86B@icex5.ic.ac.uk>


Research Associate (2 Posts)
Cardiff School of Psychology

This is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic team studying vision and visually guided behaviour. These projects are concerned with the integration of sensory signals from different pathways (subcortical and cortical) and the integration of sensory and motor mechanisms in the context of cognitive bias/control. 

Studies will include fMRI imaging, novel behavioural paradigms and psychophysics with healthy volunteers and potentially with patients with focal brain lesions. The post offers the opportunity to gain experience in a wide range of methodology. You will be expected to fully contribute to designing new paradigms and shaping the future directions of this research.

You should have a PhD in a relevant discipline (e.g. Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Imaging), along with previous experience in either fMRI imaging or experimental psychology. Most important is the ability to learn new techniques and contribute to developing novel experiments. Experience of programming and knowledge of statistical methods would be an advantage. 

These posts are fixed-term for 2 years.

Salary: ?20004 - ?30002 per annum.

Informal enquiries may be made to Dr Petroc Sumner 020 8383 0584, p.sumner@imperial.ac.uk 

For an application pack and details of all our vacancies, visit www.cardiff.ac.uk/jobs Alternatively email vacancies@cardiff.ac.uk or telephone + 44 (0) 29 2087 4017 quoting vacancy number 130.

Closing date: 17 March 2006. 

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From gdagnelie at jhmi.edu  Thu Mar  2 20:52:00 2006
From: gdagnelie at jhmi.edu (Gislin Dagnelie)
Date: Thu Mar  2 21:45:41 2006
Subject: [visionlist] LCD monitors
Message-ID: <440714A00200004D00003778@cis27.hosts.jhmi.edu>

Dear all,

We are looking to port a vision test from an LCD projector format to a
monitor.  This would seem to be opposite to what most people are doing,
but our reasoning is that we are testing at a fairly short distance, and
the projector is simply to bright for our RP subjects.

The question is, what to use instead.  We need at least 15" (37.5 cm)
image height, which can be accomplished with a CRT of at least 25"
diagonal, or an LCD with at least 31" diagonal (due to the 9:16 form
factor).  Large CRTs are heavy and take up more depth, so if we can find
an LCD with suitable light distribution we would prefer to go that
route.

I have been looking at the specs of a Sharp LC-32D5U 32" LCD, which
claims a 170 degree viewing angle, whereas out viewing angles would not
go much beyond 20 degrees in most cases (1 m viewing distance), or
occasionally 40 degrees (50 cm viewing distance).  The 768 pixel
vertical resolution would be acceptable for our purpose.

Any experience with this particular LCD or similar large screen LCDs
for vision test purposes?  Thanks in advance for your help,

Gislin


Gislin Dagnelie, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Ophthalmology
Lions Vision Ctr, Johns Hopkins Univ
From ecvp2006 at conferencesoft.com  Thu Mar  2 22:25:32 2006
From: ecvp2006 at conferencesoft.com (ECVP2006)
Date: Thu Mar  2 22:31:43 2006
Subject: [visionlist] 
	*** Reminder: European Conference on Visual Perception,
	Abstract Deadline March 15  ***
Message-ID: <006701c63e48$38301340$a549e88f@N262.arc.nasa.gov>

The 29th European Conference on Visual Perception will be held this year in
beautiful, historic St Petersburg, Russia, 20-25 August, 2006.

 

The deadline for abstract submission, and early registration, is March 15.

We highly recommend that you submit your abstract early, in order to avoid
the last minute rush.

Please go to http://www.ecvp2006.ru <http://www.ecvp2006.ru/>  to register
and submit an abstract!

 

Visit the conference website at to review the topics of the conference,
including a large number of special symposia.

 

Created by Peter the Great in 1703 to be his "window on Europe", St
Petersburg combines its fascinating Russian heritage with a distinctly
European outlook. Considered the cultural heart of modern day Russia, and
home to the spectacular Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg is rapidly gaining
the reputation as one of the Great Cities of Europe.

 

We hope to see you in St Petersburg!

 

On behalf of the ECVP2006 Executive Committee,

 

Yuri Shelepin

 

 

 

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From virginia.riddle at anu.edu.au  Thu Mar  2 23:42:50 2006
From: virginia.riddle at anu.edu.au (Virginia Riddle)
Date: Fri Mar  3 00:00:01 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Centre of Excellence - 6 Postdoc/Research Fellow
	Positions Available
Message-ID: <440782FA.9000001@anu.edu.au>


  *ARC Centre of Excellence in Vision Science*


**Six Postdoctoral Fellow or Research Fellow positions available**
2 year term (extension subject to funding)
Academic Level A or B

**Salary Package:** $49,690 - $74,313 pa plus 17% super
**Reference No.: **VARIOUS

Six new positions are available in this newly established Centre of 
Excellence. The successful applicants will work with specific 
laboratories but will be full members of the Centre which is pioneering 
research initiatives in visual perception and processing, insect vision, 
vision-based robotics, and in the stability of the structure of the 
retina and eye.
The positions are available immediately. Applicants should have a PhD or 
equivalent, and a significant background in relevant disciplines 
(neuroscience, engineering).
The positions are available in the following laboratories:

**ERG and/or psychophysical measurements of human dark adaptation.***
**Academic Level A or B**
**Reference: JC 3261***
Compare recovery from bleaching exposures, at the level of retinal 
neurons and the overall visual system.
Laboratory Head: Professor T D Lamb

**Electrophysiology of rod and cone cells.***
**Academic Level A or B**
**Reference: JC 3262***
Use of suction pipette and/or patch pipette techniques, to determine the 
shut-off mechanisms in the phototransduction cascade.
Laboratory Head: Professor T D Lamb, Trevor.Lamb@anu.edu.au 
<mailto:Trevor.Lamb@anu.edu.au>

**Human motion perception.***
**Academic Level A or B**
**Reference: FS 3260***
Exploration of how speed and optic-flow signals are processed, in the 
context of human perception of movement.
Laboratory Head: Dr M Edwards, Mark.Edwards@anu.edu.au 
<Mailto:Mark.Edwards@anu.edu.au>

**Multifocal analysis of human vision.***
**Academic Level A**
**Reference: RSBS 3256***
Projects include assessment of the diagnostic accuracy and test-retest 
variability of multifocal visual evoked potentials in glaucoma, macular 
degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, and multiple sclerosis.
Laboratory Head: Dr T Maddess, Ted.Maddess@anu.edu.au 
<Mailto:Ted.Maddess@anu.edu.au>

**Impact of oxygen on retinal function.***
**Academic Level A**
**Reference: RSBS 3258***
Study of the impact of oxygen levels on the function of the retina, with 
an emphasis on the enhancement of retinal function in the ageing and 
degenerating retina.
Laboratory Head: Professor J Stone, Jonathan.Stone@anu.edu.au 
<Mailto:Jonathan.Stone@anu.edu.au>

**Human Visual Cortex.***
**Academic Level A**
**Reference: RSBS 3257***
Multifocal analysis by evoked potentials, MEG,fMRI and TMS, of 
feedforward and feedback signal flows within the hierarchy of human 
visual cortical areas.
Laboratory Head: Dr A James, Andrew.James@anu.edu.au 
<Mailto:Andrew.James@anu.edu.au%20>

**Further particulars, including selection criteria, are available from: **
Virginia Riddle, phone (02) 6125 4752,
E-mail virginia.riddle@anu.edu.au 
<mailto:virginia.riddle@anu.edu.au%20>or Vision Science.pdf. 
<http://vision.anu.edu.au/HES_sa_150206.pdf>
If you wish to discuss the position after obtaining the selection 
documentation, please contact:
Relevant Laboratory Head.
Information for applicants 
http://info.anu.edu.au/hr/Jobs/How_To_Apply/index.asp. 
<http://info.anu.edu.au/hr/Jobs/How_To_Apply/index.asp>
Job Application Cover sheet - 
http://info.anu.edu.au/policies/Forms/Human_Resources/Recruitment/HR86.asp. 
<http://info.anu.edu.au/policies/Forms/Human_Resources/Recruitment/HR86.asp>
HR Webpage - 
http://info.anu.edu.au/hr/Jobs/Academic_Positions/_ARCVisionScience.asp
<http://info.anu.edu.au/hr/Jobs/Academic_Positions/_ARCVisionScience.asp%0D>*
**Closing Date: 31 March 2006***

 

 

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From a.e.welchman at bham.ac.uk  Fri Mar  3 14:44:04 2006
From: a.e.welchman at bham.ac.uk (Andrew Welchman)
Date: Fri Mar  3 16:17:47 2006
Subject: [visionlist] PhD positions + Post-doc fellowship opportunity,
	Birmingham, UK
Message-ID: <001e01c63ed0$eb2f40a0$4616bc93@adf.bham.ac.uk>

PhD positions + Post-doc fellowship opportunity 
School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, UK

PhD positions:
 
Applications are invited for 3 year research studentships to work in the
visual perception group at the University of Birmingham. Successful
applicants will join a thriving research environment to study human visual
perception and cognitive neuroscience. Research in the group focuses on the
perception of 3D shape and material, perceptual learning, motion perception
and visual locomotion. The group has dedicated laboratories well-equipped
with specialist display technologies and haptic interfaces. PhD projects
provide the opportunity to use a combination of sophisticated behavioural
techniques, computational modelling and brain imaging methods.

The School of Psychology at the University of Birmingham is an
internationally recognised, 5* Department that has a state-of-the-art
Imaging Centre (3T scanner), access to a large group of screened
neuropsychological patients, 2 128 channel EEG/ERP systems, 2 TMS delivery
systems, robot systems for haptic research, and several systems for eye
movement tracking and kinematic analysis.

Candidates should hold (or expect to hold) a good undergraduate Honours
degree (at least 2.1 in UK system or equivalent) in a relevant discipline
(such as Bioengineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Neuroscience,
Psychology, Physics, Physiology). Candidates should be numerate and will be
expected to learn computer programming, and the use of advanced software for
behavioural and brain imaging data analysis. Candidates should be
enthusiastic to learn new techniques and to contribute new experiments. 

Positions are funded by the University of Birmingham and will start on 1st
October 2006. Positions cover fees for UK/EU nationals and provide a
maintenance grant. Applications are welcome from UK/EU nationals as well as
overseas students. Informal enquiries can be made to Dr Andrew Welchman
(a.e.welchman@bham.ac.uk). Deadline for applications is 31st March 2006.

Post-doctoral fellowship opportunity:

[!!German citizens only!!] - contact Andrew Welchman regarding the
possibility of applying for a prestigious German Fellowship (up to 4 years
duration) on any of the topics listed above.


Visual perception group faculty members:

Andrew Schofield
Andrew Welchman
Mike Harris
Zoe Kourtzi
---------------------------------------

______________________
Andrew E Welchman, PhD
School of Psychology
University of Birmingham
Birmingham
B15 2TT
United Kingdom

Tel: (44) 0121 414 2863
Fax: (44) 0121 414 4897

From john at eyelab.psy.msu.edu  Fri Mar  3 17:43:54 2006
From: john at eyelab.psy.msu.edu (John M. Henderson)
Date: Fri Mar  3 18:38:42 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Studentship in Visual Cognition
Message-ID: <7.0.1.0.0.20060303122142.039ea4e8@eyelab.msu.edu>

Ph.D. STUDENTSHIP IN VISUAL COGNITION
Professor John M. Henderson
University of Edinburgh

Applications are invited from well-qualified 
candidates to undertake research for a Ph.D. in 
visual cognition. Candidates would be expected to 
have a good Honours degree in Psychology, 
Cognitive Science or a related discipline, 
preferably with additional training in 
psychological research and/or cognitive science 
at Masters level or equivalent. Ph.D. research 
will focus on scene perception and memory, active 
vision and gaze control, visual attention, and related areas.

The successful applicant will be supervised by 
Professor John M. Henderson in the Department of 
Psychology, and will join one of the largest and 
most active communities of cognitive scientists 
in the world. Opportunities exist for 
interactions with other researchers in the School 
of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences, 
the Institute of Perception, Action and Behavior 
(IPAB), the Institute for Adaptive and Neural 
Computation (ANC), the Human Communication 
Research Center (HCRC), and the School of 
Informatics. Research related to cognitive 
science and cognitive neuroscience continues to 
expand at Edinburgh, with the first phase of the 
new Informatics Forum adding 11,800 square meters 
of research and office space including 
research-dedicated neuroimaging facilities.

Studentship holders will be awarded an annual 
stipend of ?10,800, a research allowance of ?420 
and have their fees paid (limited to the Home/EU 
rate). Non-Home/EU students with additional 
sources of funding to cover international fees are also welcome to apply.

Informal enquiries may be directed to:
john@eyelab.msu.edu (before 1 Aug 2006)

Application Procedure:
Complete the PPLS Studentship application form available online at
http://www.hss.ed.ac.uk/Postgraduate/documents/ApplicationFormandNotes2006.rtf 
-- under section 7 of the form, state that you 
are applying for the Visual Cognition 
Studentship.  Please note that you must also 
complete a University of Edinburgh Postgraduate 
Application Form, available at 
http://www.ed.ac.uk/studying/postgraduate/applications/forms.html.

Deadline: 31 May 2006 (though late applications 
may also be considered), with study to begin in September 2006.


From smart at neuralcorrelate.com  Sat Mar  4 10:25:35 2006
From: smart at neuralcorrelate.com (Susana Martinez-Conde)
Date: Sat Mar  4 16:40:41 2006
Subject: [visionlist] May 5 VSS Symposium on fixational eye movements
Message-ID: <200603041024.k24AOtPh043237@visionscience.com>

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                        Special VSS symposium

			     Fixational Eye Movements 
	in Visual Perception, Physiology, and Oculomotor control  



                     May 5th, 2006, 1:00 - 3:00pm

             	     Hyatt, Sarasota, Florida

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Organizer:   Susana Martinez-Conde, Barrow Neurological Institute

Speakers:    Ikuya Murakami, The University of Tokyo (Japan)

             Susana Martinez-Conde, Barrow Neurological Institute (USA)

             Ralf Engbert, Potsdam University (Germany)

             Michele Rucci, Boston University (USA)


Overview:

Our visual system contains a built-in contradiction: when we fixate our gaze
on an object of interest, our eyes are never still. Instead we produce,
several times each second, small eye movements of which we are unaware,
called "microsaccades", "drifts" and "tremor". Microsaccades are miniature
saccades produced during fixation, drifts are slow curvy motions that occur
between microsaccades, and tremor is a very fast, extremely small
oscillation of the eye superimposed on drifts. 

If we eliminate all these eye movements in the laboratory (using any number
of retinal stabilization techniques), our visual perception of stationary
objects fades, due to neural adaptation. Since we fixate our gaze about
70%-80% of the time during visual exploration, these fixational eye
movements often are responsible for driving most of our visual experience.
When our eyes move across the image once again, after having stabilized the
retinas, visual perception reappears. Due to their role in counteracting
adaptation, fixational eye movements are an important tool to understand how
the brain makes our environment visible. Moreover, because we are not aware
of these eye movements, they can also help us understand the underpinnings
of visual awareness. Over the last decade, the participants in this
symposium have studied the neuronal and perceptual correlates of fixational
eye movements. Among the topics covered by this symposium, we will review
the type of neural activity generated by fixational eye movements at
different levels in the visual system, the role of attention in modulating
fixational eye movements, and the role of fixational eye movements in
oculomotor control, in neuronal synchronization, in the viewing of natural
scenes, and in visual disease. We will also present striking visual
illusions that arise when our visual system fails to compensate for these
eye movements. Research in fixational eye movements is a topic that has
gained a lot of interest over the last decade, with crucial implications for
the fields of neural coding and visual perception in normal and pathological
vision.


For more information, contact Susana Martinez-Conde:
smart@neuralcorrelate.com 

VSS annual meeting home page: http://www.vision-sciences.org


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Susana Martinez-Conde, PhD
Director, Laboratory of Visual Neuroscience
Division of Neurobiology
Barrow Neurological Institute
350 W. Thomas Rd
Phoenix AZ 85013, USA
 
Phone: +1 (602) 406-3484
Fax: +1 (602) 406-4172
Email: smart@neuralcorrelate.com
http://www.neuralcorrelate.com/smc_lab/

From denis.pelli at nyu.edu  Sat Mar  4 19:34:55 2006
From: denis.pelli at nyu.edu (Denis Pelli)
Date: Sat Mar  4 19:55:27 2006
Subject: [visionlist] ECVP 2006 Symposium on Crowding
Message-ID: <39FD1532-D96A-4463-AFA5-38F3EC76125B@nyu.edu>

Yuri Shelepin, the organizer of the 2006 European Conference on  
Visual Perception, has asked us to organize a symposium on  
"Crowding." We encourage you to submit an abstract to this ECVP  
symposium.

Crowding
Including lateral masking, illusory conjunctions, surround  
suppression, and attention

?Clutter impairs object perception. Long-range effects of non- 
overlapping distractors can greatly alter the appearance of an object  
and make it unrecognizable. A century of thoughtful empirical work  
has focused on crowding as a peripheral impairment, but this focus  
has now broadened dramatically. Recently, many have realized that the  
difficulties of seeing in a cluttered environment, whether they  
result in reading errors, illusory conjunctions, or surround  
suppression, may share the same underlying cause. These various  
manifestations of crowding may all be due to an inappropriate  
integration of features, hindering identification of the object.

We invite submissions, from any field, exploring crowding or crowding- 
like phenomena to reveal the visual computation that recognizes objects.

Journal of Vision is calling for papers for a special issue on  
"Crowding" (deadline June 1). We encourage you to submit to both the  
symposium and the journal.
http://journalofvision.org/SpecialIssues/crowding.aspx

To submit an abstract to ECVP2006, please visit http:// 
www.ecvp2006.ru/ . The deadline for abstract submission is March 15.   
It is not necessary to select this symposium as your "Topic  
Preference" during abstract submission ("Crowding" should appear on  
the list soon), but kindly let denis, patrick, or bosco know if your  
submission is related to the symposium so that we can try to include  
you.

Denis Pelli
New York University
denis.pelli@nyu.edu

Patrick Cavanagh
Harvard University
patrick@wjh.harvard.edu

Bosco Tjan
University of Southern California
btjan@usc.edu
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From pz at hms.harvard.edu  Wed Mar  8 15:17:02 2006
From: pz at hms.harvard.edu (Dr. J. S. Pezaris)
Date: Wed Mar  8 15:38:41 2006
Subject: [visionlist] AREADNE 2006 Registration Now Open,
	and Submissions Ending Soon!
Message-ID: <200603081517.k28FH28d009942@pz-desk.med.harvard.edu>

Dear Colleague,

We'd like to announce that the registration page for AREADNE 2006 is now
open.  Please go to the main page of our web site http://areadne.org to see
the details.

Also, as a reminder, abstract submissions are closing!  If you have an
abstract to submit and haven't finished yet, please do so quickly.  The
abstracts submitted thus far are very impressive, and we'd hate to miss out
on excellent research.  If you think you will not make the deadline, but
have something worthwhile to submit, let us know as soon as possible.


Nicholas Hatsopoulos
John Pezaris
Organizing Committee Co-Chairs
info@areadne.org

-- 
John Pezaris, Ph.D.
pz@hms.harvard.edu

From jelder at yorku.ca  Sat Mar 11 18:20:59 2006
From: jelder at yorku.ca (James Elder)
Date: Sat Mar 11 18:36:32 2006
Subject: [visionlist] FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS: POCV 2006
Message-ID: <4413150B.7000808@yorku.ca>

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS: POCV 2006

The Fifth IEEE Computer Society Workshop on Perceptual Organization in 
Computer Vision
New York City June 22, 2006, In Conjunction with IEEE CVPR 2006
http://elderlab.yorku.ca/pocv

IMPORTANT DATES:
* Submission deadline: 11:59pm EST, March 17, 2006
* Notification: April 17, 2006
* Final versions of accepted papers due: April 24, 2006

THEME:
Perceptual Organization is the process of establishing a meaningful 
relational structure over raw visual data, where the extracted relations 
correspond to the physical structure of the scene. A driving motivation 
behind perceptual organization research in computer vision is to deliver 
representations needed for higher-level visual tasks such as object 
detection, object recognition, activity recognition and scene 
reconstruction. Because of its wide applicability, the potential payoff 
from perceptual organization research is enormous.

The 5th IEEE POCV Workshop, to be held in conjunction with CVPR 2006 
(New York), will bring together experts in perceptual organization and 
related areas to report on recent research results and to provide ideas 
for future directions.

PREVIOUS IEEE POCV WORKSHOPS:
* 2004 CVPR (Washington, DC)
* 2001 ICCV (Vancouver, Canada)
* 1999 ICCV (Crete, Greece)
* 1998 CVPR (Santa Barbara, CA)

SCOPE:
Papers are solicited in all areas of perceptual organization, including 
but not limited to:
* image segmentation
* feature grouping
* texture segmentation
* contour completion
* spatiotemporal/motion segmentation
* figure-ground discrimination
* integration of top-down and bottom-up methods
* perceptual organization for object or activity detection/recognition
* unification of segmentation, detection and recognition
* biologically-motivated methods
* neural basis for perceptual organization
* learning in perceptual organization
* graphical methods
* natural scene statistics
* evaluation methods

ALGORITHM EVALUATION:
Research progress in perceptual organization depends in part on 
quantitative evaluation and comparison of algorithms. Authors reporting 
results of new algorithms are strongly encouraged to objectively 
quantify performance and compare against at least one competing approach.

BROADER ISSUES:
Perceptual organization research faces a number of challenges. One is 
defining what the precise goal of perceptual organization algorithms 
should be. What kind of representation should they deliver? What 
databases should be used for evaluation? How can we quantify performance 
to allow objective evaluation and comparison between algorithms? How do 
we know when we?ve succeeded? To try to meet these challenges, we 
particularly encourage contributions of a more general nature that 
attempt to address one or more of these questions. These may include 
definitional papers, theoretical frameworks that might apply to multiple 
different perceptual organization problems, establishment of useful 
databases, modeling of underlying natural scene statistics, evaluation 
methodologies, etc.
Biological Motivation

BIOLOGICAL MOTIVATION:
Much of the current work in perceptual organization in computer vision 
has its roots in qualitative principles established by the Gestalt 
Psychologists nearly a century ago, and this link between computational 
and biological research continues to this day. Following this tradition, 
we specifically invite biological vision researchers working in the 
field of perceptual organization to submit work that may stimulate new 
directions of research in the computer vision community.

WORKSHOP OUTPUT:
All accepted papers will be included in the Electronic Proceedings of 
CVPR, distributed on DVD at the conference, and will be indexed by IEEE 
Xplore. We are also exploring the possibility of a special journal issue 
on perceptual organization in computer vision, with a separate call for 
papers.

PAPER SUBMISSION:

Submission is electronic, and must be in PDF format. Papers must not 
exceed 8 double-column pages. Submissions must follow standard IEEE 
2-column format of single-spaced text in 10 point Times Roman, with 12 
point interline space. All submissions must be anonymous. Please us the 
IEEE Computer Society CVPR format kit. Stay tuned for exact details on 
how to submit.

In submitting a paper to the POCV Workshop, authors acknowledge that no 
paper of substantially similar content has been or will be submitted to 
another conference or workshop during the POCV review period.

For further details and updates, please see the workshop website: 
http://elderlab.yorku.ca/pocv


WORKSHOP CHAIRS:

James Elder, York University
jelder@yorku.ca

Jeffrey Mark Siskind, Purdue University
qobi@purdue.edu

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Ronen Basri, Weizmann Institute, Israel
Kim Boyer, Ohio State University, USA
James Coughlan, Smith-Kettlewell Institute, USA
Sven Dickinson, University of Toronto, Canada
Anthony Hoogs, GE Global Research, USA
David Jacobs, University of Maryland, USA
Ian Jermyn, INRIA, France
Benjamin Kimia, Brown University, USA
Norbert Kruger, Aalborg University, Denmark
Michael Lindenbaum, Technion, Israel
Zili Liu, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
David Martin, Boston College, USA
Gerard Medioni, University of Southern California, USA
Zygmunt Pizlo, Purdue University, USA
Sudeep Sarkar, University of South Florida, USA
Eric Saund, Palo Alto Research Centre, USA
Ohad ben Shahar, Ben Gurion University, Israel
Kaleem Siddiqi, McGill University, Canada
Manish Singh, Rutgers University, USA
Shimon Ullman, Weizmann Institute, Israel
Johan Wagemans, University of Leuven, Belgium
Song Wang, University of South Carolina, USA
Rich Zemel, University of Toronto, Canada
Song-Chun Zhu, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Steve Zucker, Yale University, USA

-- 
James H. Elder
Associate Professor
Centre for Vision Research
York University
4700 Keele Street
North York, Ontario
Canada M3J 1P3

tel: (416) 736-2100  ext. 66475
fax: (416) 736-5857

email: jelder@yorku.ca
www.yorku.ca/jelder


From alex4hike at yahoo.com  Mon Mar 13 14:41:00 2006
From: alex4hike at yahoo.com (Alex Bowers)
Date: Mon Mar 13 15:54:57 2006
Subject: [visionlist] FINAL CALL - Low Vision Driving Conference, London,
	June 06
Message-ID: <20060313144100.89503.qmail@web35705.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

**FINAL abstract submission deadline: 24 March 2006**
**Submit abstracts to: abowers@biopticdriving.org**
   
  BIOPTIC DRIVING NETWORK CONFERENCE, 
London, 2-4 June 2006,
in association with Designs for Vision, Inc.
   
  "LOW VISION DRIVING, MYTHS AND REALITY"
  
The BiOptic Driving Network invites contributed papers on all aspects of driving with low vision (impaired vision) for the 2006 conference.
   
  Through research and clinical presentations, the conference aims to:
Promote international discussion of the myths and reality of low vision driving and BiOptic driving;  
Raise public awareness of driving with low vision, within the context of Europe's stated objective to improve road safety for all by 2010, and from an international perspective;
Provide the stimulus for greater funding of research related to driving with low vision;
Promote discussion of models to introduce driving with low vision to a wider group of visually impaired people.
  The program committee encourages abstracts for presentations (20 minutes) from vision researchers, low vision clinicians, medical professionals, low vision drivers, driving instructors, orientation and mobility specialists, driver licensing officials, and all other relevant people in this field. Topics may include for example: training and assessment, driving performance analysis, car design, risk analysis, design and use of optical and non optical aids, viewing strategies, legislation, test procedures, etc. 
   
  For further information, please visit the 2006 conference pages of the BiOptic Driving Network website: www.biopticdriving.org/conference06.htm
   
  Acceptance will be based on the following criteria:
  1. Maximum abstract length is 300 words (excluding title and authors' names and affiliations). 
2. The abstract should be organised as follows: title, authors, affiliation or institution for each author, background/objectives, design/methods, results, and conclusions. Include 3 - 5 key words at the end. 
3. For presenting (or contact) author provide: email address, complete postal address, and telephone number. 
4. Authors should disclose any financial interests in products/programs being presented. 
5. Abstracts must be submitted electronically by March 24, 2006 to: abowers@biopticdriving.org
6. Please submit abstracts either in PDF format or as a Microsoft Word document.
7. The abstract must contain sufficient detail for evaluation of the quality of the report and its relationship to the conference topic. 
8. The abstract should be based on original work by the authors.
9. The abstract must be clear, concise and well written - for potential incorporation into conference proceedings.
   
  All abstracts will be reviewed by the program committee.
Abstract acceptance notification will be sent by email to the presenting author (or contact author) by April 10, 2006.
   
  For further information about abstracts, contact: Alex Bowers, chair of the program committee, abowers@biopticdriving.org
   
  Members of the program committee:
Ian Bailey MS OD FBCO FAAO 
  University of California, Berkeley, USA
Alex Bowers PhD MCOptom 
  The Schepens Eye Research Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
Tanja Coeckelbergh PhD
  Department of Ophthalmology, University Hospital of Antwerp, Belgium
Eli Peli MSc OD  
  The Schepens Eye Research Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
Anton Verezen BSc.Optom. FAAO
  University of Nijmegen, Amsterdam, and Utrecht, The Netherlands
   
  Issued by, www.BiOpticDrivingNetwork.org
Registered not for profit organisation in England and Wales, Company Type: PRI/LBG/NSC/S.30 Company No. 05480283
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From smithst at tcd.ie  Mon Mar 13 19:27:16 2006
From: smithst at tcd.ie (Stuart Smith)
Date: Mon Mar 13 19:29:27 2006
Subject: [visionlist] IMRF2006  ***DEADLINE MARCH 19th***
Message-ID: <4415C794.5080706@tcd.ie>

Dear all,

We are pleased to announce the 7th Annual Meeting of the International 
Multisensory Research Forum which will be held in Trinity College 
Dublin, Ireland between June 18th and 21st, 2006. See 
http://www.imrf.info/2006/ for further details.

IMRF is a major international conference conference that facilitates 
communication between scientists who work with sensory systems in which 
more than one sense modality plays a role.  IMRF seeks to include any 
and all sense modalities, species and perspectives and it brings 
together leading scientists from across many disciplines, including 
Neuroscience, Engineering, Cognitive Science, Robotics, Physics, and 
Computational Neuroscience and Medical Rehabilitation.

The deadline for abstract submission is 19th March, 2006.
Early registration deadline is 16th April, 2006.

IMRF Organising Committee
(imrf2006@tcd.ie)


-- 
Stuart Smith, PhD, MSc

uSENSOR:
Multisensory Spatial Orientation and Rehabilitation Laboratory

UCD School of Psychology
Newman Building F219
UCD Dublin
Belfield, Dublin 4, IRELAND.

voice: +353 (0)1 716 8237
fax:   +353 (0)1 716 1181
email: stuart.smith@ucd.ie
voip:  irish_stu (Skype)

web:   http://www.ucd.ie/usensor

From derrick at iastate.edu  Mon Mar 13 21:58:50 2006
From: derrick at iastate.edu (derrick)
Date: Mon Mar 13 22:31:38 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Summer Program for Interdisciplinary Research and
	Education
Message-ID: <20060313215502.M20585@iastate.edu>

Please forward to potentially interested undergraduates.
Thank you in advance,
Derrick Parkhurst

-------
Summer Program for Interdisciplinary Research and Education
Emerging Interface Technologies (SPIRE-EIT)
Iowa State University
http://www.hci.iastate.edu/REU/

What?	
Computers are becoming an increasingly integral part of our everyday lives. 
For example, the dominance of the desktop computer is fading and quickly being 
replaced by personal and ubiquitous computing devices including laptop 
computers, personal digital assistants, digital music players, and intelligent 
cell phones. The successful integration of these new technologies into our 
lifestyle in a way that maximizes usefulness, usability, and ease of use while 
minimizing intrusiveness poses a difficult but important problem. This problem 
will demand novel solutions founded on an in-depth understanding of the 
complex interactions between humans and computers. 	

Why?	
The accelerating integration of technology into society will demand 
professionals with information technology skills that are augmented by an 
understanding of the human user. These skills will be necessary for any 
individual to remain competitive in the future information technology work 
force. Only those individuals with a unique interdisciplinary perspective will 
be able to successfully understand, utilize, and apply new technological 
solutions to solve human-centered problems. 	

Who?	
Students working towards an undergraduate degree in any of the HCI 
disciplines. Applicants must be US citizens or permanent residents. Women and 
underrepresented minorities are strongly encouraged to apply. 	

When?	
Summer program: June 2, 2006 - August 5, 2006
Application Deadline: March 31st, 2006
Notification of Status: April 15th, 2006
	
Where?	
Virtual Reality Application Center
Howe Hall, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 	

How?	
Summer Stipend: $400 per week
Housing: Fredrickson Court Apartments
Travel Stipend: $400
Food: Meal Plan
	
Activities?	
Hands on research with cutting-edge technology
Interdisciplinary teams
Classes
Journal club
Faculty exposure seminars
Industry tours
Professional development
Movie Night
Sporting Events

--------------

Derrick Parkhurst, PhD			
Assistant Professor, 
The Department of Psychology and
The Human Computer Interaction Program
Associate Director, 
The Virtual Reality Application Center
Iowa State University
1620d Howe Hall
Ames, Iowa, 50011
derrick@iastate.edu
http://hcvl.hci.iastate.edu/
From gabriel.hamid at sortex.com  Tue Mar 14 12:06:48 2006
From: gabriel.hamid at sortex.com (gabriel.hamid@sortex.com)
Date: Tue Mar 14 15:51:38 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Research Engineer job
Message-ID: <3F30653F0F62AE4AA0925E4EFAB5026E5A6A63@soln33.buhler-ltd.com>

Research Engineer in Image Analysis				 

Sortex Ltd, which is based in London, is the world-leading supplier of optical sorting machines to the bulk food industry. The company is at the forefront of machine vision technology and has won the prestigious Queens Award for Industry & Export on several occasions. Sortex is part of the Swiss engineering group Buhler.

Role
Project leader on research projects into new image analysis and machine learning algorithms.

Qualifications
A good first degree and a PhD in relevant field.

Experience
C++, Matlab.
A track record of successful execution of research projects.

Salary
Around ?29k.

Open only to applicants who do not require a work permit. 
To apply please send CV and covering letter to inge.gebhardt@sortex.com.

www.sortex.com

Sortex Ltd, London, United Kingdom.
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From ovs at osu.edu  Wed Mar 15 14:07:52 2006
From: ovs at osu.edu (Optometry & Vision Science)
Date: Wed Mar 15 15:30:37 2006
Subject: [visionlist] RE: Optometry & Vision Science Call for Papers -
	Special Issue on Contact Lenses
Message-ID: <5724F5511FADAC4987DDC5A5814B180C02169591@cliffclavin.optometry.ohio-state.edu>


CALL FOR PAPERS

Optometry and Vision Science is soliciting papers for a Feature issue
scheduled for Spring 2007 .

"Contact lenses in sub-optimal environments"

The deadline for submissions is August 1, 2006.

A feature issue provides the opportunity for your work to be published
alongside similar subject matter. Past feature issues of OVS have included a
number of important and highly cited papers. For example, the 20 or so papers
published in the 1999 feature issues on myopia have been cited well over 400
times.

It is intended for the feature issue to reflect the considerable research
activity and practitioner interest in the strategies for advancements in
material technology that targets dropouts, dry eye, high risk patients,
therapeutic lenses, new solutions, lens-solution interactions and contact
lenses in challenging environments. In particular, we are interested in
manuscripts on the following topics:

* New contact lens materials and solutions targeting previously unsuccessful
patients or challenging environments 

* Dry eye and contact lens wear. 

* Corneal infection and contact lens wear: basic and clinical research 

* High risk patient contact lens approaches 

* Therapeutic contact lenses

* Basic corneal health related to contact lens wear

Manuscripts must be submitted online at ovs.edmgr.com and should be prepared
according to the instructions to authors available via the web site homepage.
Indicate in the "Author's Comments" that your paper is being submitted for
this feature issue. Manuscripts will be subjected to peer review under the
editorial guidance of Loretta Szczotka-Flynn, Lyndon Jones, Donald Korb and
Deborah Sweeney. Loretta Szczotka-Flynn will be coordinating review of the
submitted articles with the Editor-in-Chief and Managing Editor.

Please contact the Editorial Office (ovs@osu.edu) if you have any questions.

Tony Adams, OD, PhD 
Editor-in-Chief 
Optometry and Vision Science
Berkeley, CA 

************************************************** 
Optometry and Vision Science 
The Ohio State University, College of Optometry 
338 West 10th Avenue 
Columbus, OH  43210 
Tel: (614) 292-4942; Fax: (614) 292-4949; 
E-mail: ovs@osu.edu 
**************************************************

From p.sumner at imperial.ac.uk  Wed Mar 15 11:11:54 2006
From: p.sumner at imperial.ac.uk (Sumner, Petroc)
Date: Wed Mar 15 15:30:57 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Post docs - deadline this friday
Message-ID: <4EAB3D1613496C4F980C2A475E1B8D415FE8FB@icex5.ic.ac.uk>

Cardiff University, School of Psychology

Two Research Associates

 

We are seeking enthusiastic and able individuals to develop and carry out projects investigating the integration of sensory signals from different subcortical and cortical pathways, and the influence of cognitive control over the integration of "automatic" sensory and motor mechanisms. 

 

This is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic and diverse team studying vision and visually guided behaviour in a friendly and supportive environment. Studies will include fMRI imaging (in CUBRIC), novel behavioural paradigms and psychophysics with healthy volunteers and potentially with patients with focal brain lesions. The post offers the opportunity to gain experience in a wide range of methodology (TMS and MEG facilities are also available). You will be expected to fully contribute to designing new paradigms and shaping the future directions of this research.

 

You should have a PhD in a relevant discipline (e.g. Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Imaging), along with previous experience in either fMRI imaging or experimental psychology (or sensory-motor research). Most important is the ability to learn new techniques and contribute to developing novel experiments. Experience of programming and knowledge of statistical methods would be an advantage. 

 

These posts are fixed-term for 2 years.

 

Salary: ?20004 - ?30002 per annum.

 

Informal enquiries may be made to Dr Petroc Sumner 020 8383 0584, p.sumner@imperial.ac.uk 

 

For an application pack and details of all our vacancies, visit www.cardiff.ac.uk/jobs <outbind://58/www.cardiff.ac.uk/jobs>  Alternatively email vacancies@cardiff.ac.uk or telephone + 44 (0) 29 2087 4017 quoting vacancy number 130.

 

Closing date: 17 March 2006. 

 

 
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From freemant at Cardiff.ac.uk  Wed Mar 15 21:16:42 2006
From: freemant at Cardiff.ac.uk (Tom Freeman)
Date: Wed Mar 15 21:36:21 2006
Subject: [visionlist] PhD in motion perception at Cardiff University
Message-ID: <4418843A02000000000D9892@zgrw01.cf.ac.uk>

3-year PhD studentship, Cardiff University Perception Group.

Working alongside Dr Tom Freeman (Psychology) and Dr Tom Margrain (Optometry),
the successful candidate will investigate visual motion sensitivity during eye
movement. The PhD aims to develop novel methods for assessing motion sensitivity
in active observers, with an emphasis on investigating motion perception as a
function of age. Potential lines of enquiry include: Eye-movement accuracy and
variabilty as a function of age and visual clutter; Physical and neural limits
to motion sensitivity during pursuit. Results will be cross-referenced with
major clinical indices. There may also be an opportunity to carry out studies in
the new brain-imaging facility CUBRIC.

Applications are invited from anyone holding or expecting to hold a good honours
degree (2.1 or equivalent) in a relevant subject (e.g. Psychology, Optometry,
Neuroscience, Computer Science, Physics). Closing date for applications is May
1st 2006.

Informal enquiries should be made to Dr Tom Freeman (freemant@cardiff.ac.uk).

The Perception Group at Cardiff University has excellent research facilities
contained within new, purpose-built labs equipped with state-of-the-art
technology. Currently the permanent members of staff include:

Tom Freeman (visual psychophysics and activity)
Alex Holcombe (visual cognition / temporal integration)
Michael Lewis (face perception)
Simon Rushton (locomotion / interceptive action)
Krish Singh (fMRI, MEG, motion perception)
Robert Snowden (visual psychophysics, attention)
Petroc Sumner (visual psychophysics, colour)
John Culling (auditory psychophysics)

Further information can be found at:
http://www.cf.ac.uk/psych/public/groups/perception.html.

The School of Psychology is one of the largest and most successful in the UK. It
was recently awarded a 5* (maximum) rating in the UK research assessment
exercise. It is soon to open its own brain-imaging centre CUBRIC, enhancing the
international-leading research in behavioural neuroscience, perception, health,
cognition, social and developmental psychology. The School of Optometry and
Vision Sciences has a similar high-calibre research profile (go to  for further
information)

Cardiff is the youngest capital city in Europe and one of the fastest growing in
the UK . It plays host to many national and international sporting events at the
Millennium Stadium . Culturally, the city is thriving, with the Millennium
Centre recently opened in the newly-developed Cardiff Bay. Cardiff is in very
close proximity to the beautiful Welsh countryside, has a two hour rail link to
London and a (cheap) one hour air link to Paris and Amsterdam.

LINKS
School of Psychology
http://www.cf.ac.uk/psych/>http://www.cf.ac.uk/psych/
School of Optometry
http://www.cf.ac.uk/optom/
Brain-imaging (CUBRIC)
http://www.cf.ac.uk/psych/cubric/
City and surroundings
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/southeast/sites/cardiff/
http://www.millenniumstadium.com/>http://www.millenniumstadium.com/
http://www.wmc.org.uk/
http://www.breconbeacons.org/
Flights
http://www.cardiffairportonline.com/>http://www.cardiffairportonline.com/


From iolson at psych.upenn.edu  Wed Mar 15 22:39:12 2006
From: iolson at psych.upenn.edu (Ingrid Olson)
Date: Wed Mar 15 23:02:07 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Postdoctoral position at U Penn
Message-ID: <p0521061fc03e4798701b@[165.123.92.97]>

>>Postdoctoral Position: Human Cognitive Neuroscience of visuomotor 
>>intention, preparation, and reward
>>
>>Laboratory of Dr. Ingrid Olson, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, 
>>University of Pennsylvania
>>
>>Applications are being accepted for a postdoctoral position at the 
>>University of Pennsylvania's Center for Cognitive Neuroscience. Our 
>>center is a lively place to work with many other investigators and 
>>a collaborative spirit. Excellent research resources and 
>>environment include a 3T MRI scanner, TMS equipment, and access to 
>>a lesion population. More information about our research can be 
>>found at http://ccn.upenn.edu/~iolson/. This particular position 
>>will emphasize fMRI and TMS studies of the dorsal visual stream.
>>
>>Successful candidates will have a strong background in cognitive 
>>neuroscience, cognitive psychology, and perception as well as 
>>strong quantitative skills.  Expertise in MatLab or C++ programming 
>>is highly desirable.  Previous experience with fMRI or TMS  is 
>>useful. A Ph.D. in a relevant field is required. The postdoc will 
>>be expected to rapidly acquire a working knowledge of TMS and begin 
>>acquiring data within months of being hired. 
>>
>>The start date can range from now to July 2006.  One year of 
>>funding, on the NIH scale, is guaranteed, more is possible. Please 
>>send your CV that includes a detailed description of technical and 
>>computer skills, and the names of 3 references to 
>>iolson@psych.upenn.edu.
>>
The University of Pennsylvania is an Equal Employment 
Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.
-- 
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ingrid R. Olson, Ph.D.
Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychology
University of Pennsylvania
3815 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6196

iolson@psych.upenn.edu
office: (215) 573-6156
fax: (215) 898-1982
http://wernicke.ccn.upenn.edu/~iolson/
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From uchikawa at ip.titech.ac.jp  Thu Mar 16 02:32:18 2006
From: uchikawa at ip.titech.ac.jp (Keiji Uchikawa)
Date: Thu Mar 16 04:59:33 2006
Subject: [visionlist] ACV2006 Registration and Abstract submission page open
Message-ID: <a0600100ac03e7e8a1376@ip.titech.ac.jp>

CALL FOR PAPERS: The Fouth Asian Conference on Vision (ACV2006)

**REGISTRATION AND ABSTRACTION SUBMISSION PAGE NOW OPEN**

Matsue, Japan, July 28 to August 1, 2006
http://www.uchikawa.ip.titech.ac.jp/ACV2006/

IMPORTANT DATES:
* Abstract submission deadline: April 9, 2006
* Registration at a discount deadline: May 15, 2006

TRAVEL SUPPORT:
Financial supports will be available for a limited number of young
scientists who present a paper as the first author in the conference.

CONTACT ADDRESS:
E-mail: acv2006@isl.titech.ac.jp

================
The Fourth Asian Conference on Vision aims to facilitate debates on Vision
Research in Asian and Oceania regions, while participants from all over the
world are also welcome. The program consists of invited lectures, symposia
and contributed papers. Original works for the papers on all aspects of
Vision Research are invited to present.

SCOPE:
Papers are solicited in all areas of vision research, including but not
limited to:
*Visual Perception, Depth and Spatial Vision, Motion, Color Vision, Visual
Attention, Visual Memory, Visual Cognition, Eye Movements, Vision and
Action, Vection, Color Space and Colorimetry

*Visual Neuroscience, Retina, Cortex, Visual Pigments and Visual
Transduction, Retinal Proteins, Development and Plasticity, Striate Cortex,
Extrastriate Cortex, Superior Colliculus, Visual Thalamus

*Computational Vision, Applied Vision, Visual Information Systems, Visual
Interface, Virtual Reality

*Physiological Optics, Low Vision, Clinical Vision Studies, Neural Imaging
of Visual System, Vision and Other Modalities

PROGRAM:
<Invited lectures>
Rudiger Von Der Heydt (Johns Hopkins Univ., USA)
"Figure-ground organization and selective attention. Neural signals in
monkey visual cortex"

Shigang He (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
"Maturation of ganglion cells and neuronal circuitry in the mouse retina"

John D. Mollon (Univ. of Cambridge, UK)
"Human perception of colour: an evolutionary perspective"

<Symposia>
"Neural bases of central visual perception"
Coordinator: Keiji Tanaka (RIKEN Brain Science Inst., Japan)
Hossein Esteky (IPM, Iran)
Sang-Hun Lee (Seoul National Univ., Korea)
Keiji Tanaka (RIKEN Brain Science Inst., Japan)
Lin Chen (Chinese Academy of Science, China)

"Color vision - From molecule to perception"
Coordinators: Hidehiko Komatsu (National Inst. for Physiological Sciences,
Japan)and Keiji Uchikawa (Tokyo Inst. of Technology, Japan)
Yoshinori Shichida (Kyoto Univ., Japan)
Misha Vorobyev (Univ. of Queensland, Australia)
Hidehiko Komatsu (National Inst of Physiological Science, Japan)
Keiji Uchikawa (Tokyo Inst. of Technology, Japan)
John S. Werner (UC Davis, USA)

"Saccade and perception"
Coodinator: Satoshi Shioiri (Tohoku Univ., Japan)
Aditya Murthy (National Brain Research Centre, India)
Kazumichi Matsumiya (Tohoku Univ., Japan)
Choongkil Lee (Seoul National Univ., Korea)
Hitoshi Honda (Niigata Univ., Japan)

"Attention and visual search"
Coordinator: Jun'ichiro Kawahara (Hiroshima Univ., Japan)
Jun'ichiro Kawahara (Hiroshima Univ., Japan)
Min-Shik Kim (Yonsei Univ., Korea)
Su-Lin Yeh (National Taiwan Univ., ROC)
Jun Saiki (Kyoto Univ., Japan)

"Functional organization of early visual system"
Coordinator: Hiromichi Sato (Osaka Univ., Japan)
Tiande Shou (Fudan Univ., China)
Hiromichi Sato (Osaka Univ., Japan)
Izumi Ohzawa (Osaka Univ., Japan)
Cong Yu (Beijing Normal Univ., China)


For further information, please visit the ACV2006 pages
http://www.uchikawa.ip.titech.ac.jp/ACV2006/


Keiji Uchikawa
Chair of Steering Committee
Professor
Department of Information Processing
Tokyo Institute of Technology
E-mail: uchikawa@ip.titech.ac.jp
From frank.tong at vanderbilt.edu  Thu Mar 16 17:58:47 2006
From: frank.tong at vanderbilt.edu (Frank Tong)
Date: Thu Mar 16 18:11:42 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Research Assistant Position: Brain Imaging and Neural
	Decoding of Visual Perception and Awareness
Message-ID: <c98aa76f5951662affb809b2f9dd0ed0@vanderbilt.edu>

Full-Time Research Assistant Position
Frank Tong?s Lab: Perception and Neuroscience, Department of 
Psychology, Vanderbilt University

A full-time research assistant position is available in Frank Tong?s 
lab at Vanderbilt University to work on fMRI studies of visual 
perception, neural decoding, face and object recognition, visual 
attention and awareness. Responsibilities include coordinating multiple 
lab projects, assisting with fMRI, TMS, and behavioral studies, and 
analyzing behavioral and brain imaging data. BA/BS required. Strong 
computer skills are required; experience with Mac, PC and Unix is 
recommended; experience with programming is highly preferred. General 
knowledge in the areas of visual perception, cognition or neuroscience 
is recommended. To apply, please send a CV, names of three references, 
and a statement of interest. Position start date is flexible.  Salary 
and rank will be commensurate with experience.  VU/EO/AAE.

Overview and highlights of lab work, including links to media coverage 
of our recent work on neural decoding of
conscious perception from fMRI activity patterns in visual cortex can 
be found at:
http://www.psy.vanderbilt.edu/tonglab/


To apply, please contact:
John Dewey
john.a.dewey@Vanderbilt.Edu

Vanderbilt University, Psychology Department
301 Wilson Hall, Tong Lab
111 21st Avenue South
Nashville, TN, 37203
http://www.psy.vanderbilt.edu/tonglab/


From P.Sowden at surrey.ac.uk  Thu Mar 16 16:35:23 2006
From: P.Sowden at surrey.ac.uk (P.Sowden@surrey.ac.uk)
Date: Thu Mar 16 18:12:08 2006
Subject: [visionlist] International Workshop on Biologically Inspired
	Information Fusion
Message-ID: <0906F7848AFD844B97A0DE4C9EEE6897E416C3@EVS-EC1-NODE2.surrey.ac.uk>

> ==============================================================
> ==============================
> 
> International Workshop on Biologically Inspired Information 
> Fusion Call for Contributions 
> Tuesday 22 August - Wednesday 23 August 2006, University of 
> Surrey, Guildford, UK.
> 
> http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/ias/workshops/biif/
> 
> ==============================================================
> ==============================
> 
> We invite contributions to an international workshop on 
> biologically inspired information fusion.  The workshop is 
> designed to bring together complementary researchers in the 
> broad areas of computer science, engineering, psychology and 
> biology who have an interest in the multi-disciplinary 
> aspects of information fusion.
> 
> The programme consists of tutorials from discipline leaders, 
> discussions, and research student poster and oral 
> presentations.  Contributions are being sought  for the 
> discussion sessions and research student presentations from 
> all of the target disciplines: computer science, engineering, 
> psychology and biology.
> 
> ==============================================================
> ==============================
> 
> Natural and Artificial Multi-sensory Processing
> 
> The ability to process, interpret and act upon sensory 
> information is perhaps one of the most remarkable aspects of 
> human and animal cognition.  Our sensory  systems process 
> large volumes of information at different scales in short 
> periods of time, far out-performing current artificial 
> systems, which struggle to usefully process just a single 
> modality of information.  For example, whereas speech 
> recognition systems have achieved real-time continuous 
> operation, artificial systems, designed for vision or 
> olfaction are far less advanced, yet the combination of 
> different information sources, or senses, may help  overcome 
> some of the processing limitations.  This disparity between 
> natural and artificial cognitive systems has been recognised 
> in the recent UK Foresight  Cognitive Systems Review, which 
> suggests that our understanding of both natural and 
> artificial systems of sensory processing can be achieved 
> through  collaboration between life and physical scientists.
> 
> About the Workshop
> 
> The workshop is sponsored by the University of Surrey's 
> Institute of Advanced Studies.  The aim is to promote 
> collaboration between disciplines to develop an  
> understanding of how to build adaptive information fusion 
> systems by improving our knowledge from both natural and 
> artificial systems research.  The programme is designed to 
> facilitate a cross-discipline understanding of multi-sensory 
> fusion, with discussions on key topics and future directions, 
> and presentation of current ideas.  This is to be achieved 
> through tutorials from leaders in each of the target 
> disciplines, brainstorming and debate sessions lead by 
> relevant researchers, and both oral and poster presentations 
> from research students.
> 
> Example topics include, but are not limited to:
> 
> Sensory and multi-sensory processing: neurobiology, 
> behaviour, computational modelling and artificial sensors
> - Vision, audition, olfaction, taste, touch
> - Attention: pre-attention or task-driven attention
> - Emotional bias on senses
> - Artificial sensors
> 
> Information fusion and multi-modal systems:
> - Computer vision, speech processing, gesture recognition
> - Sensor fusion
> - Multiple regressor or classifier systems
> - Biometrics, human-computer interaction, intelligent systems
> - Bio-logically inspired robotics
> 
> ==============================================================
> ==============================
> 
> Discussions
> 
> Topics for the discussion sessions should aim to promote new 
> or controversial ideas, perhaps posing unanswered questions 
> related to the workshop.  These should be in the form of 
> abstracts (maximum 500 words) stating the key topic of 
> discussion and highlighting possible solutions and current 
> points of view.   Proposals for debates, where two 
> participants offer their point of view prior to discussion, 
> should be clearly highlighted.
> 
> All contributions will be peer reviewed by the workshop 
> programme committee.  Those with accepted topics will be 
> invited to give a 10 minute presentation of their idea.  For 
> sessions focused around a debate, both participants will be 
> invited to present their ideas in a 10 minute slot each, 
> prior to discussion.  An open brainstorming session will then 
> follow for 50 minutes with a focus on initially evaluating 
> the proposed idea or giving thoughts on unanswered questions. 
>  Notes and outcomes of these sessions will be recorded.
> 
> Abstracts should be submitted via e-mail to 
> biif2006@surrey.ac.uk by the deadline.
> 
> ==============================================================
> ==============================
> 
> Student Presentations
> 
> Papers are invited from research students only to promote 
> discussion of new ideas and to foster training and 
> development of new researchers.  All papers will  be peer 
> reviewed by the workshop programme committee to assess 
> originality, significance, quality and clarity.  Those 
> students with accepted papers will be  invited to either 
> present a poster or to give a 20 minute oral presentation.
> 
> Papers should not exceed 6 pages in length, including 
> references, tables, figures and appendices, and should follow 
> the LNCS format, details of which can be  found at 
> http://www.springer.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,3-164-2-7237
6-0,00.html.

Papers should be submitted via e-mail to biif2006@surrey.ac.uk by the
deadline.

========================================================================
====================

Enquiries regarding abstract and paper submission should be directed to
biif2006@surrey.ac.uk.

Abstracts and papers will be available to workshop attendees via the
website and printed proceedings.  After the workshop, participants will
be invited to submit papers based upon their work to two journal special
issues (journals to be confirmed).  These will contain a  mixture of
review/discussion articles and presentations of current research work.

========================================================================
====================

Important Dates

15 May 2006 Deadline for submitting papers and discussion topics 19 June
2006 Notification of acceptance 17 July 2006 Camera ready papers 22-23
August 2006 Workshop at the University of Surrey

Guests looking for accommodation on campus (the cheapest in Guildford)
are advised to register by the 15th May 2006.   Otherwise, registration
is open up until the workshop.  For papers to be presented at the
workshop, all guests must be registered by the 17th July 2006 to  secure
a place on the programme.

Further information can be obtained from: 
- Website: http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/ias/workshops/biif/
- Enquiries about paper submission: biif2006@surrey.ac.uk
- General and administrative enquiries: Mrs Gautier O'Shea,
S.Gautier@surrey.ac.uk; Mrs Heather Norman, H.Norman@surrey.ac.uk
- Dr Matthew Casey, M.Casey@surrey.ac.uk; tel. +44 (0)1483 689635 
- Dr Paul Sowden, P.Sowden@surrey.ac.uk
- Dr Hujun Yin, Hujun.Yin@manchester.ac.uk
- Dr Tony Browne, A.Browne@surrey.ac.uk

From ecvp2006 at conferencesoft.com  Fri Mar 17 01:50:47 2006
From: ecvp2006 at conferencesoft.com (ECVP2006)
Date: Fri Mar 17 05:10:01 2006
Subject: [visionlist] ****  ECVP 2006 Deadline Extended!  ****
Message-ID: <00a201c64965$365d8160$a549e88f@N262.arc.nasa.gov>

****   2006 European Conference on Visual Perception Deadline Extended
****

 

 

ECVP2006 has received a tremendous response! To date, 562 persons have
registered and 548 abstracts have been submitted. The meeting promises to be
one of the most well attended and successful in years.

 

In order to allow the fullest participation, especially in the many
symposia, the organizers have decided to extend the deadline until April 1.
The Early Registration deadline is also extended to April 1. No further
extensions will be made.

 

This extended registration period will also allow authors to return to the
site and make sure that their abstract includes all the necessary
information and formatting for inclusion in the published abstract
supplement to the journal Perception (
<http://www.conferencesoft.com/ecvp/Info/SubmissionGuidelines.aspx>
http://www.conferencesoft.com/ecvp/Info/SubmissionGuidelines.aspx). Please
pay special attention to capitalization. Abstracts that lack essential
information may not be published. No author edits will be possible after the
April 1 deadline, so please act soon.

 

We look forward to seeing you in St. Petersburg!

 

 

 

****    ECVP2006, St. Petersburg, Russia, August 20-25
http://www.ecvp2006.ru/    ****

 

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From roland.fleming at tuebingen.mpg.de  Fri Mar 17 15:51:15 2006
From: roland.fleming at tuebingen.mpg.de (Roland William Fleming)
Date: Fri Mar 17 16:18:38 2006
Subject: [visionlist] APGV06: Submissions now open -- 2 weeks to deadline
Message-ID: <b928b7071dd17eeb1df06fa7ae3aaf60@tuebingen.mpg.de>


APGV 2006: THIRD SYMPOSIUM ON APPLIED PERCEPTION IN GRAPHICS AND 
VISUALIZATION

Co-located with ACM SIGGRAPH 06.
Boston, MA. 28th - 30th July, 2006.
http://www.apgv.org


FINAL CALL FOR PARTICIPATION --- SUBMISSIONS NOW OPEN !

There are 2 weeks left until the paper submission deadline.  Submit 
your paper now at <http://apgv06.confmaster.net>


ABOUT THE SYMPOSIUM:

Research in computer graphics and visualization has great potential to 
benefit from, and contribute to, research in perception.

Since 2004, this symposium has brought together researchers from the 
fields of perception, graphics and visualization, to facilitate a wider 
exchange of ideas. Our goals are to use insights from  perception to 
advance the design of methods for visual, auditory and  haptic 
representation, and to use computer graphics to enable  perceptual 
research that would otherwise not be possible.

Submissions are invited in the broad range of areas at the intersection 
of computer graphics, visualization and perception. Specific examples 
include, but are not limited to:
- applications of insights from perception to the development of 
algorithms for more efficient, effective or realistic modeling, 
rendering and/or animation
- applications of perception in the design and evaluation of methods 
for more effective representation and communication of data
- the study of perception and perceptual issues in virtual environments
- computational aesthetics, stylization, and perceptual aspects of 
non-photorealistic rendering

Submissions are particularly welcome in all areas of basic perception 
research that have applications in computer graphics and visualization.

Proceedings, which will include the poster abstracts, will be published 
by ACM SIGGRAPH. Best papers from the symposium will be invited to be 
extended for a special issue of the ACM Transactions on Applied 
Perception <http://www.acm.org/tap/>.

For more information check our website: <www.apgv.org>


Submission deadlines
31st March 2006
- full papers (up to 8 pages)
- short papers (up to 4 pages)

8th May 2006
- posters (abstract up to 1 page)


Conference Chairs
Roland Fleming, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics
Sunghee Kim, Gettysburg College

Program Chairs
Erik Reinhard, University of Bristol
William Thompson, University of Utah

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From p.sumner at imperial.ac.uk  Fri Mar 17 15:48:16 2006
From: p.sumner at imperial.ac.uk (Sumner, Petroc)
Date: Fri Mar 17 16:18:52 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Post docs - correction to wage
Message-ID: <4EAB3D1613496C4F980C2A475E1B8D415FE967@icex5.ic.ac.uk>


> It has been pointed out to me that there was an error in the Job description available through www.cardiff.ac.uk/jobs <outbind://103/www.cardiff.ac.uk/jobs>  for the previously advertised posts. It was INCORRECT in saying "It is not expected that an appointment will be made above ?22289 per annum". The limit is in fact as specified in the advert below.
> In view of this mistake, we can accept late applications up til 5pm 24th March.
> 
> Cardiff University, School of Psychology
> Two Research Associates
> We are seeking enthusiastic and able individuals to develop and carry out projects investigating the integration of sensory signals from different subcortical and cortical pathways, and the influence of cognitive control over the integration of "automatic" sensory and motor mechanisms. 
> This is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic and diverse team studying vision and visually guided behaviour in a friendly and supportive environment. Studies will include fMRI imaging (in CUBRIC), novel behavioural paradigms and psychophysics with healthy volunteers and potentially with patients with focal brain lesions. The post offers the opportunity to gain experience in a wide range of methodology (TMS and MEG facilities are also available). You will be expected to fully contribute to designing new paradigms and shaping the future directions of this research.
> You should have a PhD in a relevant discipline (e.g. Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Imaging), along with previous experience in either fMRI imaging or experimental psychology (or sensory-motor research). Most important is the ability to learn new techniques and contribute to developing novel experiments. Experience of programming and knowledge of statistical methods would be an advantage. 
> These posts are fixed-term for 2 years.
> Salary: ?20004 - ?30002 per annum.
> Informal enquiries may be made to Dr Petroc Sumner 020 8383 0584, p.sumner@imperial.ac.uk 
> For an application pack and details of all our vacancies, visit www.cardiff.ac.uk/jobs <outbind://58/www.cardiff.ac.uk/jobs>  Alternatively email vacancies@cardiff.ac.uk or telephone + 44 (0) 29 2087 4017 quoting vacancy number 130.
> Closing date: 24 March 2006. 
> 
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From dancoisne at bccn.uni-freiburg.de  Fri Mar 24 08:48:43 2006
From: dancoisne at bccn.uni-freiburg.de (Florence Dancoisne)
Date: Fri Mar 24 16:05:19 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Announcement for the Advanced Course in Computational
 Neuroscience 2006
Message-ID: <4423B26B.9090203@bccn.uni-freiburg.de>

*ADVANCED COURSE IN COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE*
*(A PENS NEUROSCIENCE SCHOOL)*

*August 7th -- September 1st 2006, ARCACHON, FRANCE*

*DIRECTORS:                   *Ad Aertsen (BCCN Freiburg, Germany)
                                            Peter Dayan (UCL London, UK)
                                            Nicolas Brunel (CNRS, Paris, 
France)
                                            Israel Nelken, (Hebrew 
University Jerusalem, Israel)

*LOCAL ORGANIZER*:     Gwendal Le Masson (INSERM Bordeaux, France)

The Advanced Course in Computational Neuroscience is for advanced
graduate students and postdoctoral fellows who are interested in
learning the essentials of the field.

We seek students of any nationality from a variety of disciplines,
including neuroscience, physics, electrical engineering, computer
science, mathematics and psychology. Students are expected to have a
keen interest and basic background in neurobiology as well as some
computer experience.

The course has two complementary parts. Mornings are devoted to lectures
given by distinguished international faculty on topics across the
breadth of experimental and computational neuroscience. During the rest
of the day, students are given practical training in the art and
practice of neural modelling, largely through the medium of their
individual choice of model systems.

The first week of the course introduces students to essential
neurobiological concepts and to the most important techniques in
modelling single cells, networks and neural systems. Students learn how
to solve their research problems using software packages such as MATLAB,
NEST, NEURON, XPP, etc. During the following three weeks the lectures
cover specific brain areas and functions. Topics range from modelling
single cells and subcellular processes through the simulation of simple
circuits, large neuronal networks and system level models of the brain.
The course ends with project presentations by the students.

A maximum of 30 students will be accepted. There will be a minimum fee
of EUR 500 per student (depending on the course's funding) covering
costs for lodging, meals and other course expenses. Also depending on
funding, there will be a limited number of tuition fee waivers and
travel stipends available for students who need financial help for
attending the course. We specifically encourage applications from
researchers who work in the developing world. These students will be
selected following the normal submission procedure.

Applications, including a description of the target project must be
submitted electronically (see below) and should be accompanied by the
names and email details of two referees who have agreed to furnish
references. Applications will be assessed by a committee, with selection
being based on the following criteria: the scientific quality of the
candidate (CV) and of the project, the recommendation letters, and
evidence that the course affords substantial benefit to the
candidate's training.


More information and application forms can be obtained from:

http://www.neuroinf.org/courses/EUCOURSE/EU06 *
Please apply electronically using a web browser.*


Contact address:

- mail:
Florence Dancoisne,
Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Freiburg
Albert-Ludwigs-Universit?t Freiburg
Hansastrasse 9A
79104 Freiburg, Germany

- e-mail:
dancoisne@bccn.uni-freiburg.de





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From ginis at med.uoc.gr  Sun Mar 26 13:11:26 2006
From: ginis at med.uoc.gr (Harilaos Ginis)
Date: Sun Mar 26 19:11:24 2006
Subject: [visionlist] 5th Aegean Summer School in Visual Optics
Message-ID: <1E0CBBBC-E463-4947-BF78-04FB7788C50A@med.uoc.gr>

5th Aegean Summer School in Visual Optics: 2nd CALL FOR ABSTRACTS /  
New Deadline
Rethymno Crete, July 1 - 6, 2006.

Information on the Summer School, confirmed invited speakers and the  
city of Rethymno can be found at the school's website: http:// 
www.ivo.gr/summerschool/

A number of free papers will be considered for inclusion in the  
scientific program.
An online submission for can be found at http://www.ivo.gr/summerschool/

Topics of the submitted abstracts should be in the areas of
OCULAR ABERRATIONS AND RETINAL IMAGE QUALITY
IMAGING THE EYE
INVESTIGATIVE TECHNIQUES IN VISION
PHYSIOLOGY OF THE VISUAL SYSTEM
CORRECTING REFRACTIVE ERROR AND PRESBYOPIA

Deadline for Abstract submission is April 15 2006.


For queries regarding the program please contact the organising  
Committee

Harilaos Ginis: ginis@med.uoc.gr
Sotiris Plainis: plainis@med.uoc.gr
Aristophanis Pallikaris: apallik@med.uoc.gr

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From david.lowe at vicon.com  Mon Mar 27 10:40:12 2006
From: david.lowe at vicon.com (David Lowe)
Date: Mon Mar 27 15:48:15 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Job: Computer Vision Research Scientist
Message-ID: <6BF44CD613458D479057BDB27207F2E0BC461F@omgsvr02.omg.local>

 
Organization: OMG, UK- <http://www.omg3d.com/> www.omg3d.com
<http://www.omg3d.com> 
Contact: David Lowe, hireme@2d3.com <mailto:hireme@2d3.com> 
Date: 25 March 2006
Location: UK
Summary: Computer Vision, Object recognition, Pattern Recognition, C++,
MatLab
Position: Computer Vision Research Scientist
Details: 
 
OMG plc is starting an exciting new internal development project, based
around groundbreaking video processing technology. A research
scientist/engineer is sought to join the team based in Oxford to work on
advanced computer vision technologies.
 
OMG is a leading technology company working in motion capture, camera
tracking and a variety of video analysis applications. The OMG
subsidiary companies Vicon and 2d3 sell products into a variety of
markets including medical, visual effects, design, VR and sports
science. In recent years Vicon and 2d3 products have been used in almost
every major feature film and many games and TV commercials. The company
has offices in Oxford, Denver and California.
The candidate should have the following attributes:
A PhD/MSc in computer vision or pattern recognition 
Experience of software development in C++ 
Experience of getting algorithms to work on real world problems 
Experience of feature detection, tracking, matching, pattern
recognition, image and video retrieval, machine learning. 
Good communication skills, motivated team player
Please send your CV with covering letter to: hireme@2d3.com
<mailto:hireme@2d3.com> 


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From s.a.hojjatoleslami at kent.ac.uk  Mon Mar 27 14:15:58 2006
From: s.a.hojjatoleslami at kent.ac.uk (Ali Hojjat)
Date: Mon Mar 27 15:48:50 2006
Subject: [visionlist] PhD position available in Medical Image Computing at
	University of Kent
Message-ID: <200603271416.k2REGE63075040@visionscience.com>

PhD position available at the Kent Institute of Medicine and Health Sciences
(KIMHS), University of Kent 

There is a Medical Research Council (MRC) funded PhD studentship available
in the area of medical image computing applications in dementia research.
The project, a collaboration between KIMHS and the Institute of Mathematics,
Statistics and Actuarial Sciences will focus on the development of a new
object-based approach for co-registration of pathology images with MRI of
the same patient. The work will involve development and evaluation of
software for segmentation, co-registration, and statistical shape analysis
techniques. There will be regular liaison with collaborating imaging and
pathology departments.

The student should hold an honours degree or MSc in computer science,
engineering, physics, statistics, mathematics, or related topics and have
experience of programming. Familiarity with Matlab, C/C++ and/or experiences
with MR techniques would be advantageous. The student must be a national of
the UK or other EU Member State or Associated State. 

The starting stipend is ?14,300 p.a. Applications, with a detailed CV and
the names and addresses of two referees, should be sent to Professor Alan
Colchester or Dr. Ali Hojjat, Institute of Medicine and Health Sciences,
University of Kent, Canterbury, CT2 7PD, UK. Email: a.colchester@kent.ac.uk,
Tel: +44 (0) 1227 827 200.

Many thanks,

Ali Hojjat

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From stephenp at uow.edu.au  Tue Mar 28 02:04:16 2006
From: stephenp at uow.edu.au (Stephen Palmisano)
Date: Tue Mar 28 01:15:46 2006
Subject: [visionlist] University of Wollongong, Lecturer
Message-ID: <1B748C7A-0F16-48E9-A56F-6E29F5B9CED7@uow.edu.au>

The School of Psychology at the University of Wollongong (~50mins  
south of Sydney, Australia) is seeking to recruit a Lecturer  
(equivalent to Assistant Professor) in the area of Experimental  
Psychology, focusing on aspects of Perception or Cognition. It is  
expected that the successful candidate will have a PhD in Psychology  
and be eligible for membership of the Australian Psychological  
Society. You will show strong evidence of scholarly output and be  
able to complement our research profile in one of these areas. You  
will be required to contribute to teaching at all levels and to  
supervise honours and research students. The ability to work as part  
of a team is essential and the ability to contribute to the teaching  
of statistics at undergraduate level will be highly desirable.

You must address the Selection Criteria specified in the Position  
Description, which is available from our website. For further  
information about the position, please contact Associate Professor  
Patrick Heaven, Head of School on +61-2-4221 3742 or Patrick_Heaven  
@uow.edu.au

Appointment is based on merit. As women are under-represented in  
academic positions, suitable qualified women are encouraged to apply.  
Applications close 7th May, 2006. Please quote Ref No 21463
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From l.diazsantana at gmail.com  Tue Mar 28 17:24:07 2006
From: l.diazsantana at gmail.com (Luis Diaz-Santana)
Date: Tue Mar 28 18:53:01 2006
Subject: [visionlist] 3rd European Meeting in Physiological Optics. Call for
	abstracts
Message-ID: <a06100500c04f21af4423@[201.139.154.57]>


3rd European Meeting in Physiological Optics
City University, London, UK
7th to 9th of September 2006

**************Submissions now open**************


Deadline for submission: 30th of May, 2006.
Registration Fees: ?180 per person.

Abstracts must follow the ARVO format guidelines 
and should be submitted electronically as 
Microsoft Word documents.

Guidelines for electronic submission will be 
posted shortly on the meeting's website
http://www.city.ac.uk/optometry/Luis/myresearch/3rdEMPO/3rdeuropeanmeeti.html


The 3rd European Meeting in Physiological Optics 
will be hosted by  the Department of Optometry 
and Visual Science, School of Allied Health 
Sciences,   City University in London.
This meeting plans to build upon the very 
successful predecessors in Wroclaw, Poland and 
most recently Granada, Spain. The meeting will 
cover many aspects of Physiological Optics, 
including clinical studies, basic research and 
instrumentation. We aim to include all aspects of 
optics related to the eye, such as:

scattering,
polarisation,
cornea,
crystalline lens and accommodation,
retinal image quality,
refraction and eye aberrations,
adaptive optics in the eye,
spectacle, contact and intraocular lens designs,
new ophthalmic technologies applied to vision.

The meeting will not address any issues directly 
related to refractive surgery. This will allow us 
time to explore other aspects of Physiological 
Optics that are not as popular at the moment, and 
in so doing encourage a forum for scientific 
discussion.
The important aim of the meeting, being held in 
one of the most cosmopolitan cities in the world, 
is to provide an environment rich in discussion.

For further information please contact
Luis Diaz-Santana (luisd@city.ac.uk) for queries 
regarding topics and scientific content.
Alison Lee (Alison.Lee.1@city.ac.uk) for queries 
regarding venue, accommodation, travelling, etc.

-- 
3rd European Meeting in Physiological Optics.
September 7th to 9th, 2006
City University
London, UK
http://www.city.ac.uk/optometry/Luis/myresearch/3rdEMPO/3rdeuropeanmeeti.html


Luis Diaz-Santana
Department of Optometry and Visual Science
City University, Northampton Square
London, EC1V 0HB, UK.
http://www.city.ac.uk/optometry/Luis/myresearch/
http://www.sharpeye.org/

Tel: +44 (0)20 7040 8335
Fax: +44(0)20 7040 8355
e-mail: luisd@city.ac.uk

From michele at cvs.rochester.edu  Tue Mar 28 19:54:56 2006
From: michele at cvs.rochester.edu (Michele Schultz)
Date: Tue Mar 28 19:57:44 2006
Subject: [visionlist] REMINDER: Deadline for travel fellowships to
 Engineering the Eye II March 31, 2006
Message-ID: <a0623051fc04f4507e197@[192.168.80.14]>

>The deadline for travel fellowships to Engineering the Eye II is 
>quickly approaching!!
>Applications for travel fellowships should be made by 31st March 
>2006 using the Application Form (.doc) found at
>http://www.cvs.rochester.edu/Ireland/submit.html
>
>Electronic registration and abstract submission are now available. 
>The registration and abstract submission deadlines are 30 April 
>2006.  Visit
>http://www.cvs.rochester.edu/Ireland/submit.html
>
>We hope to be able to offer a number of travel fellowships of value 
>500 Euro (about 600 USD). Applicants will be selected on the basis 
>of the relevance of their research to the subject of the meeting and 
>their achievements to date, taking into account the stage of their 
>training (starting MD/PhD or experienced post-doc).
>
>Engineering the Eye II: Imaging the Retina
>June 19-21, 2006
>National University of Ireland, Galway
>
>Co-organized by Applied Optics, Department of Experimental Physics, 
>National University of Ireland, Galway & Center for Visual Science, 
>University of Rochester
>
>This conference will bring together scientists engaged in the 
>discovery of retinal function, clinical researchers engaged in the 
>understanding and treatment of retinal disease, and engineers with 
>expertise in advanced optical techniques in retinal imaging. 
>Advances in the technology of optical imaging in the eye, such as 
>optical coherence tomography (OCT), scanning laser ophthalmoscopy, 
>two-photon and fluorescence imaging, and adaptive optics have opened 
>up new opportunities to advance our understanding of retinal 
>function and disease, and allowed new diagnostic techniques to be 
>developed.
>
>By bringing scientists working in these related fields together for 
>the first time in a concentrated workshop environment, we hope to 
>stimulate new collaborations and progress, particularly in our 
>understanding of how new technology might accelerate our scientific 
>understanding of normal retina and retinal disease. The format of 
>the conference - 3 plenary papers, 20 invited talks, Evening 
>Discussion Sessions and a poster session, with plenty of time for 
>formal and informal discussions - is designed to encourage debate at 
>the very highest level, and the speakers are all recognised as 
>leaders in their speciality. We aim to make a real impact on 
>progress in this field.
>
For more information, visit http://www.cvs.rochester.edu/Ireland/
-- 
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Michele Schultz                         email: michele@cvs.rochester.edu
Center for Visual Science                phone: 585 275 8659
University of Rochester                    fax: 585 271 3043
Meliora Hall 274
Rochester NY 14627-0270
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
From jdeutsch at MIT.EDU  Tue Mar 28 21:13:28 2006
From: jdeutsch at MIT.EDU (Jennie Deutsch)
Date: Tue Mar 28 23:12:33 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Job Opportunity at MIT
Message-ID: <6259078C-3137-43CC-B15C-9ECD32EC3C2A@mit.edu>

Vision lab at MIT in search of Technical Assistant/Programmer.

Description of job:


Title: Technical Assistant/Programmer
Req Number: mit-00002732
Department: McGovern Institute For Brain Research
Location(s): Cambridge MA
FT/PT: Full Time
Employment / Payroll Category: SRS (Research)


TECHNICAL ASSISTANT, McGovern Institute for Brain Research/Brain and  
Cognitive Sciences, to manage the operations of a laboratory engaged  
in neuroscience research in visual object recognition.  
Responsibilities will include general oversight and support of  
laboratory computers; development of C++, Objective C, and Matlab  
software to support the acquisition, processing, and analysis of  
neurophysiological data; and support of neuroscience instrumentation  
development projects. Position offers the opportunity to be part of a  
research team and to directly participate in research projects,  
depending on experience and willingness to learn.

REQUIREMENTS: a bachelor's degree in engineering, physics, computer  
science, or a related field; and a strong background in C and C++.  
Familiarity with Matlab, Objective C, and Mac OSX development highly  
desirable. Should possess good organizational skills and ability to  
work as part of a team. MIT-00002732

To apply, please go to http://sh.webhire.com/servlet/av/jd? 
ai=631&ji=1733135&sn=I




From epstein at psych.upenn.edu  Wed Mar 29 17:26:35 2006
From: epstein at psych.upenn.edu (Russell Epstein)
Date: Wed Mar 29 17:33:52 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Postdoctoral position available at U. Penn
Message-ID: <c13a0fe30603290926q4313d6aax2069cbfc87042454@mail.gmail.com>

A postdoctoral position is available in the laboratory of Dr. Russell
Epstein at the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of
Pennsylvania.  Successful applicants will work on an NIH-funded
project investigating the neural systems underlying scene perception,
place recognition and spatial navigation.  The primary research
methodology is fMRI although excellent resources for patient-based
studies are also available.  The Center for Cognitive Neuroscience is
a lively, friendly, collaborative environment.  To apply, send a brief
statement of interest, CV, and contact information for three
references to Russell Epstein, epstein@psych.upenn.edu.  The
University of Pennsylvania is an Equal Employment
Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.

From anya.hurlbert at ncl.ac.uk  Fri Mar 31 13:34:41 2006
From: anya.hurlbert at ncl.ac.uk (Anya Hurlbert)
Date: Fri Mar 31 15:53:30 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Postdoctoral Research Associate in fMRI (Neuroscience)
Message-ID: <6.2.0.14.2.20060331143239.022c67c8@burnmoor.ncl.ac.uk>

UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Neuroimaging with fMRI
Salary Range ?22,507 ? 30,363
INSTITUTE of NEUROSCIENCE

A three-year post-doctoral research fellowship in fMRI neuroimaging is 
available in the Institute of Neuroscience at the University of Newcastle 
upon Tyne. The fellowship is a dedicated research position associated with 
the university?s recently acquired 3T MRI system. The successful candidate 
will have strong research experience in fMRI and, preferably, expertise in 
a neuroscientific research area, but need not be an MR physicist. It is 
essential that the candidate be experienced in fMRI data analysis and have 
expertise in using software such as SPM or FSL.  The successful candidate 
will also be skilled in programming with at least one common language 
(preferably Matlab or C++), be familiar with proprietary stimulus display 
packages (e.g. ePrime or Presentation) and have a working understanding of 
image display technologies.  The research fellow will provide research 
support for several research projects in the areas of visual neuroscience, 
auditory neuroscience, somatosensory processing, and cognitive and clinical 
neuroscience. The main role of the fellow will be to help design and 
develop stimulus presentation and sequence paradigms, and to assist in fMRI 
data analysis. As such, the fellow will be a key figure in the development 
of distinct and diverse projects underpinning neuroimaging research.

The research fellow will be employed by the Institute of Neuroscience, and 
will work closely with  the team of MR physicists and engineers in 
Professor Andrew Blamire?s research group.

  To apply for this post, you should submit a written application giving 
full details of your qualifications and experience, together with a full CV 
and the names of two academic referees, to Professor Anya Hurlbert, Henry 
Wellcome Building, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 4HH. Informal 
enquiries may be made to Professor Hurlbert at anya.hurlbert@ncl.ac.uk or 
0191-222-7638. The closing date for applications is 6 April 2006.

See www.ncl.ac.uk/ion/about/vacancies.htm   and www.ncl.ac.uk/magres

Please note that it is essential that you return a completed Employment 
Record form along with your application. The Employment Record form may be 
downloaded from the University web page: www.ncl.ac.uk/vacancies/employ.rtf.



Anya Hurlbert MD PhD
Director, Institute of Neuroscience
Professor of Visual Neuroscience
Henry Wellcome Building for Neuroecology
Framlington Place
University of Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4HH
+44-191-222-7638 (phone)
+44-191-222-5622 (fax)
http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/anya.hurlbert
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/ion 
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From andrea.cavallaro at elec.qmul.ac.uk  Mon Apr  3 15:53:15 2006
From: andrea.cavallaro at elec.qmul.ac.uk (Andrea Cavallaro)
Date: Mon Apr  3 17:16:36 2006
Subject: [visionlist] 4 Research openings - London (UK)
Message-ID: <9D47A2D30B0BFB4C920786C25EC6934561F659@staff-mail.vpn.elec.qmul.ac.uk>

Applications are invited for 3 PhD studentships and 1 Post Doc position
with the Digital Signal Processing and Multimedia Research Group of the
Electronic Engineering Department, Queen Mary, University of London.

 

Start date: as soon as a suitable candidate is found.

 

For informal enquiries: contact Dr Andrea Cavallaro:
http://www.elec.qmul.ac.uk/staffinfo/andrea 

 

 

** Perceptually-sensitive video encoding (PhD position, 3 years)

 

The development of new compression or transmission systems is driven by
the need of reducing the bandwidth and storage requirements of images
and video while increasing their perceived visual quality. Traditional
compression schemes aim at minimizing the coding residual in terms of
mean squared error (MSE) or peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR). This is
optimal from a purely mathematical, but not a perceptual point of view.
Ultimately, perception is the more appropriate and more relevant
benchmark. Therefore, the objective must be to define a codec that
maximizes perceived visual quality such that it produces better quality
at the same bit rate as a traditional encoder or the same visual quality
at a lower bit rate.

The research will centre on standard video coders and will exploit
semantic segmentation, human visual attention models and foveation. The
main objectives of the project are the following: (1) to develop a
perceptually-sensitive video encoding algorithm; (2) to study a model of
visual attention in video and to validate it with subjective experiments
using an eye tracker; (3) to extensively test and evaluate the improved
encoder with standard data sets. 

 

Additional info:
http://www.elec.qmul.ac.uk/staffinfo/andrea/opening_phd.html 

 

 

** Audio-visual face modeling (PhD position, 3 years)

 

The aim of this project is to develop joint audio-visual representations
of a 'talking head'. Such models have a wide area of possible
applications. The two that we will concentrate on are: (i)
Video-assisted speech enhancement. The visual cues can be used to
de-noise speech signals by identifying components within the signal that
are consistent with the facial movement (in particular mouth and jaw
shape). This could be further developed to provide noise-robust features
to the input of an audio-visual automatic speech recognition system.
(ii)  Generating a synthetic speech driven talking head. Identifying the
dependent components of facial expression and speech utterance would
enable an avatar to be animated purely by an inputted speech signal. The
flip side would of course be automatic lip reading where the computer
infers and possibly synthesises the speech signal purely from the video
images - clearly there are other potential applications here. The plan
of the project would be to use machine learning techniques (Bayesian
graphical models, Independent Component Analysis, manifold embedding) to
learn a set a joint audio-visual features. These can then be categorized
as: (1) features with strong audio-visual dependencies; (2) features
with predominantly no audio component; and (3) features with
predominantly no visual component. This distinction would then allow the
student to develop the two primary applications. Identifying audio
components that are unrelated to facial expression should allow us to
remove background noise sources. While distinguishing between audio
related facial movement and non-audio related facial movement would
provide, not only the ability to animate an avatar with a speech input
but also to have the further freedom to animate the non-speech related
expressive structure separately. Finally, structure could be
incorporated using Hidden Markov Models or another appropriate Dynamic
Bayesian Network.

 

Additional info:
http://www.elec.qmul.ac.uk/staffinfo/andrea/opening_phd2.html 

 

 

** Multimedia signal processing (PhD position, 3 years)

 

One of the goals of dynamic scene analysis and understanding is to find
unusual patterns (events, interactions) in large collections of
audiovisual material. Unusual patterns may be rare events or specific
interactions. Rare events and interactions are not necessarily easy to
model or to predict. The aim of this PhD research project is to address
the scene understanding problem by exploring the use of unsupervised
dimensionality reduction by isometric mapping and machine learning.
Isometric mapping aims at finding meaningful low-dimensional structures,
representing patterns, events and interactions, hidden in their
high-dimensional observations. The features to be used will be based on
both visual and acoustic information. Acoustic information allows one to
disambiguate between events that would appear similar based on visual
information only. Furthermore, additional information will be provided
by the use of data captured by multiple sensors in order to discover
events on a larger scale than that enabled by the use of one sensor
only. The isometric mapping will generate the embedding of the data
under analysis that in turn will enable the discovering of
spatio-temporal structures corresponding to meaningful events. Data
clustering will be used to separate different events and to detect
abnormal events. In addition to the above, given the nature of the
application, privacy issues will be considered for data collection and
visualisation. 

 

Additional info:
http://www.elec.qmul.ac.uk/staffinfo/andrea/opening_phd1.html

 

 

** Multi-modal object tracking in a network of audiovisual sensors
(Post-Doctoral Research Assistant, 2 years)

 

The aim of this project is to develop a unified scheme cooperative
multi-modal and multi-sensor tracking. The multi-sensor network will be
composed of stereo microphones coupled with omni-directional and with
pan-tilt-zoom cameras. Sound information will be used to discriminate
ambiguous visual observations as well as to extend the coverage area of
the sensors beyond the field of view of the cameras. Although single
modality as well as multi-modality trackers have achieved some success,
a number of important tracking issues remain open for enabling the
adoption of these algorithms in real-world scenarios. Among these
issues, three important inter-related problems will be addressed in this
project, namely the definition of a generic and flexible feature
representation for a target, a reliable mechanism to update the target
model based on incoming observations, and a robust multi-sensor handover
strategy. To evaluate the tracking scheme, a test corpus and its
associated ground-truth data will be created for use in the project as
well as for distribution to the research community to facilitate
comparisons.


 

Additional info:
http://www.elec.qmul.ac.uk/staffinfo/andrea/opening_postdoc.html

 

 

** How to apply?

 

PhD applicants should follow the guidelines that can be found at  

http://www.elec.qmul.ac.uk/study/phd/res-stud.htm 

('name of intended supervisor': Dr. Andrea Cavallaro)

Completed application forms should be returned to Theresa Willis by
email (theresa.willis@elec.qmul.ac.uk) 

 

Post doc applicants can find the application form at
http://www.hr.qmul.ac.uk/vacancies/QMApplicationFormBlue.pdf  

('Job ref': 06062) 

Completed application forms should be returned to Sharon Cording by
email (sharon.cording@elec.qmul.ac.uk)  

 

 

 

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From dbudenz at med.miami.edu  Mon Apr  3 18:59:46 2006
From: dbudenz at med.miami.edu (Budenz, Donald L., MD, MPH)
Date: Mon Apr  3 23:34:07 2006
Subject: [visionlist] RE: Post doc position
Message-ID: <536B30A1921A004D81302EEE42E8C8BA014ECA88@MEDEX11.ad.med.miami.edu>


> POSTDOCTORAL POSITION - Psychophysical and Ocular Imaging in Glaucoma
> A postdoctoral position is available immediately for a qualified PhD
> with background in visual psychophysics and/or ocular imaging. The
> initial appointment is for two years with potential for moving into a
> full time research faculty position. Current interests of the project
> include the diagnosis of glaucoma and glaucoma progression. If
> interested please send a CV including a description of your research
> interests and the addresses and phone numbers of three individuals who
> could provide letters of reference to dbudenz@med.miami.edu. Would
> like to interview during ARVO or after VSS meetings.
> 
> Donald L. Budenz, MD, MPH
> Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
> University of Miami School of Medicine
> 
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From zhaoping at gatsby.ucl.ac.uk  Mon Apr  3 19:04:38 2006
From: zhaoping at gatsby.ucl.ac.uk (Dr Zhaoping Li)
Date: Mon Apr  3 23:34:22 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Postdoc position in vision/computational neuroscience
	in London
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0604031958240.20513@flies.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk>


Applications are invited for the post of Research Assistant to work with 
Dr. Li Zhaoping (http://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/~zhaoping ) in the area of 
vision/neuroscience, particularly on biological
vision, using theoretical and/or psychophysical investigation tools. It is 
essential that the candidate should have good capability/experience in 
either theoretical/modeling area or in visual psychophysical
area, and skills/experience in both areas is not essential. The research 
assistant is expected to contribute to the research environment of the 
laboratory and should have  the capability to work well in
a team. The post is available around or after September 2006.  Salary is 
on the Grade 6 of the new salary scales (?19,645-?23,457 plus 
?2,400London allowance) and will depend upon qualifications and
experience.

Applications (email or hard copy ) by cover letter, CV and Personal 
Information form (the latter
available at http://www.psychol.ucl.ac.uk/info/Personal_Information.doc) 
to Anouchka Sterling,
Department of Psychology, UCL, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, 
a.sterling@ucl.ac.uk . If applying by
email please submit all requested information in one .pdf file names by 
your surname eg Smith.pdf.
Further information concerning the post are on the web at
http://www.psychol.ucl.ac.uk/info/psychophysics_li.htm while interested 
candidates can also contact Li
Zhaoping, z.li@ucl.ac.uk 44 20 7679 1174.

The closing date for the application is 1 June 2006

From derrick at iastate.edu  Tue Apr  4 00:36:35 2006
From: derrick at iastate.edu (derrick)
Date: Tue Apr  4 02:16:15 2006
Subject: [visionlist] The IPRIZE - A Grand Challenge for Human Computer
	Interaction
Message-ID: <20060403221204.M83841@iastate.edu>

 Eye tracking is a viable next-generation human computer interface. For 
individuals with significant motor disabilities, eye-tracking interfaces 
represent one of the few or only ways to communicate effectively. 
Unfortunately, current eye-tracking systems are expensive ($10,000 or more), 
invasive, inflexible, cumbersome and frustrating to use. Moreover, 
improvements in commercial eye tracking technology over the last 30 years have 
been only incremental.

 A revolution in eye tracking will be required in order to make eye tracking 
the next ubiquitous human computer interface. Factors of 10 improvement are 
needed in the price, intrusiveness, robustness, speed, and accuracy of eye-
tracking systems. A high-quality low-cost eye-tracking solution is needed.

 At the 2006 ACM Eye Tracking Research and Applications (ETRA) symposium last 
week, I announced the IPRIZE, a $1,000,000 Grand Challenge designed to spark 
advances in eye-tracking technology through competition. Repeatedly, 
throughout history, such Grand Challenges have lead to radical innovations 
that overcome significant technical and economic barriers. The IPRIZE 
competition will focus the efforts of scientific, engineering and 
entrepreneurial communities on high-quality low-cost eye-tracking.

 We are looking to raise a total of $1,000,000 for the IPRIZE Grand Challenge, 
and are already off to a good start with the generous commitment of $100,000 
by Hawk Laboratories. Because a low-cost solution for gaze-based communication 
has the potential to significantly enhance quality of life for millions of 
disabled individuals, we will be looking towards charitable organizations and 
private donors to fund what remains.

 At this point, we are looking for support from this community that eye 
tracking represents an important problem and that the IPRIZE competition is a 
valuable way to solve it. Please take just a second and visit the IPRIZE 
website to learn more:
http://hcvl.hci.iastate.edu/IPRIZE
and to express your support for the competition: 
http://hcvl.hci.iastate.edu/IPRIZE/index.cgi?support  

 An advisory committee is now being formed and I am looking for committed 
individuals willing to participate in fund raising and willing to help 
formulate the competition rules. The current advisory committee consists of a 
broad range of scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs:
http://hcvl.hci.iastate.edu/IPRIZE/index.cgi?advisory
Funds have been obtained to hold a workshop in the Fall of 2006 for committee 
members to meet and organize the competition.

 Please forward this notice onto anyone who might be interested in 
participating in the IPRIZE competition.

Thank you very much for your support,
Derrick Parkhurst
---
Derrick Parkhurst, PhD			
Assistant Professor, 
The Department of Psychology and
The Human Computer Interaction Program
Associate Director, 
The Virtual Reality Application Center
Iowa State University
1620d Howe Hall
Ames, Iowa, 50011
derrick@iastate.edu
http://hcvl.hci.iastate.edu/
---
Support the IPRIZE
A Grand Challenge for Human Computer Interaction
http://hcvl.hci.iastate.edu/IPRIZE/

From d.t.field at reading.ac.uk  Tue Apr  4 13:10:01 2006
From: d.t.field at reading.ac.uk (David Field)
Date: Tue Apr  4 14:55:59 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Post-Doc at university of Reading
Message-ID: <001f01c657e9$17207f40$e4c7e186@psychology.rdg.ac.uk>

Applications are now being accepted for a 3 year postdoctoral position in
the Action Research Laboratory at Reading University, UK, beginning in April
2006. Initial salary will be in the range ?19460 to ?26470.

 

The EPSRC funded project (Wann / Field / Wilkie) will undertake behavioural
experiments on perception of approaching objects (time to collision, time to
passage) and then translate these paradigms for the scanner to use fMRI to
explore the neural correlates such judgments. The second part of the project
will investigate neural correlates of heading perception and the control of
steering. 

 

We are interested in applicants with an interest in human vision and
experience of setting up visual displays for behavioural experiments. The
most important skills, will be:

 

Experience of programming visual displays (ideally with C/C++)

The capacity to acquire expertise in the use of OpenGL or DirectX libraries
to generate 3D stimuli

An interest in acquiring expertise in the acquisition and analysis of data
from functional imaging.

 

 

The Action Research Laboratory (ARL http://www.rdg.ac.uk/arl/) conducts
research into the human perception in everyday settings, with specific
interests in the
<http://www.rdg.ac.uk/arl/people/richard/richard_wilkie.htm> control of
steering and judgements of impending collision in tasks such as driving or
<http://www.rdg.ac.uk/arl/research/interceptive.htm> ball catching.  Studies
are based around using 3D simulations (virtual reality) to explore the use
of cues in pseudo-naturalistic settings.  

 

The successful candidate will be involved in the research process, from
experimental design through to writing up results for publication. The
candidate will gain a valuable introduction to 3D programming and fMRI
analysis. Informal enquiries are encouraged, and should be sent to David
Field (d.t.field@rdg.ac.uk), who can also send further particulars about the
position.

 

Please send applications in the form of a CV and covering letter no later
than April 21st 2006 by email. More information about the department can be
found at http://www.psychology.rdg.ac.uk

 

 

----------------------------------------------------

Dr David Field

Department of Psychology

University of Reading

Reading

RG6 6AL

UK

 

+44 118 3785004 office

+44 118 3786715 fax

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From ovs at osu.edu  Tue Apr  4 17:48:40 2006
From: ovs at osu.edu (Optometry & Vision Science)
Date: Tue Apr  4 17:55:39 2006
Subject: [visionlist] RE: OVS Call for Papers - Special Vision-related
	Quality of Life Issue
Message-ID: <5724F5511FADAC4987DDC5A5814B180C02169639@cliffclavin.optometry.ohio-state.edu>


CALL FOR PAPERS

Optometry and Vision Science, is soliciting papers for a Feature Issue 

"Vision-related Quality of Life"

Deadline for submission October 1, 2006.

A feature issue provides the opportunity for your work to be published
alongside similar subject matter. Past feature issues of OVS have included a
number of important and highly-cited papers. For example, the 20 or so papers
published in the 1999 feature issues on myopia have been cited well over 400
times.

Patient-centered assessments of vision have become standard supplements to
vision tests in clinical trials, with these instruments gaining importance as
main outcome measures. With a developing research focus, these instruments
are evolving from relatively simple measures to increasingly discriminatory,
reliable and valid ones. It is intended for the feature issue to include a
broad spectrum of topics associated with vision-related quality of life,
including:

* the development and validation of questionnaires that quantify
vision-related quality of life, visual disability and/or visual symptoms

* studies which demonstrate benefits of contemporary methodologies for
questionnaire design and development e.g. Rasch analysis, item banking,
computer adaptive testing

* a comparison or assessment of questionnaires that quantify vision-related
quality of life, visual disability and/or visual symptoms 

* the relationship between questionnaire scores and clinical vision tests or
task performance

* the use of quality of life measures as outcome measures in clinical
research and clinical trials

* the use of quality of life measures as clinical tools for the practitioner.

Manuscripts must be submitted online at ovs.edmgr.com and should be prepared
according to the instructions to authors at this web site. Indicate that your
paper is being submitted for this feature issue. 

Manuscripts will be subjected to peer review under the editorial leadership
of David Elliott, with Trudy Mallinson and Konrad Pesudovs serving as
Co-Editors.

Please contact the Editorial Office (ovs@osu.edu) if you have any questions.

Tony Adams, OD, PhD
Editor-in-Chief 
Optometry and Vision Science
Berkeley, CA


From gerard.lacey at cs.tcd.ie  Wed Apr  5 11:16:08 2006
From: gerard.lacey at cs.tcd.ie (Gerard Lacey )
Date: Wed Apr  5 15:00:43 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Trinity College Dublin,
	Research Fellow in Computer Vision
Message-ID: <00f601c658a2$56ad44e0$e03fe286@GLaceyLaptop>

Research Fellow in Computer Vision ? Trinity College Dublin

The role
This is a senior research position in endoscopic image analysis.  The ideal person will have strong analysis skills with an ability to innovate in the areas of video and image processing.  A detailed knowledge of feature extraction and classification methods is essential.  It is important for this person to have demonstrated their ability to build high quality working prototypes of image processing systems ideally for third party research partners.  Because of the medical focus of this research, familiarity with bioengineering research methods and previous experience in the design of clinical trials would be welcome.  The overall objective of this research is to develop technology with potential for clinical application; however the research results will be published in leading Engineering and Medical Journals thus a strong track record of publication would also be an advantage.

The primary responsibility of the Research Fellow will be to develop a prototype endoscopic image processing system that will be evaluated by clinical endoscopists as part of a clinical trial of the technology.  The candidate will be expected to attend a course in clinical endoscopy and communicate on a regular basis with medical personnel.  Good communication skills with both technical and medical personnel are essential.

Key Requirements
? PhD or equivalent in Image Analysis/Computer Vision/Artificial Intelligence
? Strong C++ programming skills in a WIN32 environment (Visual C++/XP)
? Knowledge of classification methods particularly Support Vector Machines
? Knowledge of Direct-X (direct show), OpenCV, Matlab
? Familiarity with medical imaging and clinical trials
? Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
? Strong publication record 

The position
The position is for a fixed term of one year with an earliest start date of May 1st 2006.  The candidate will be appointed on the Post-Doctoral Researcher salary scale [(Point 1 to Point 8) - (?35,886 to ?46,552)] depending on qualifications and experience to date. There are no relocation expenses with this appointment.  Trinity College Dublin is an equal opportunities employer.  

Computer Science, Trinity College Dublin
The University of Dublin, Trinity College, founded in 1592, is the oldest university in Ireland. Standing on a self-contained site in the heart of Dublin, the College covers some 40 acres of cobbled squares and green spaces, around buildings which represent the accumulated architectural riches of nearly three centuries.  At present there are over 12,000 students and 1,200 staff and a research income of ?63.9M (?04/?05).  The Department of Computer Science (www.cs.tcd.ie) is one of the largest units within Trinity College Dublin and over the last five years has produced 120 papers in refereed journals, 449 refereed conference papers and a number of spin-off companies.

Applications
Please send a detailed CV to gerard.lacey@cs.tcd.ie by April 21st 2006




From pannasch at psy2.psych.tu-dresden.de  Wed Apr  5 17:06:42 2006
From: pannasch at psy2.psych.tu-dresden.de (Sebastian Pannasch)
Date: Wed Apr  5 17:31:13 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Call for Papers - The COGAIN 2006 Conference on
	Communication by Gaze Interaction
Message-ID: <44341542.5208.1EB6270@localhost>

CALL FOR PAPERS

                 COGAIN 2006: GAZING INTO THE FUTURE
   The COGAIN 2006 Conference on Communication by Gaze Interaction

                         4-5 September 2006
                            Turin, Italy


OVERVIEW

The conference provides a unique focus on 
communication by eye-gaze. It concentrates on the 
use of eye-gaze primarily for users with 
different types of disabilities in the context of 
interacting with computer applications, 
environment control and mobility. The conference 
has a strong involvement with disabled users and 
forms a vital bridge between those who develop 
gaze measurement and communication systems, those 
who research into the construction and use, and 
those who actually use, or could use, the 
systems. There is a strong emphasis in the 
conference on a range of subjects from technical 
issues to disabled user requirements and 
usability issues. The conference is the second 
annual conference of COGAIN, a European Union 
funded research Network of Excellence, which 
comprises 25 universities, manufacturers and end-user organizations.

The theme of the conference is defining the 
future in terms of a research agenda for gaze-based communication.


FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE

The conference will be run over two days:
Day 1 (Monday 4th September, 2006): Academic Sessions
Day 2 (Tuesday 5th September, 2006): User and Industry Sessions

The academic sessions (Day 1) depart from the 
traditional format of paper presentations and 
instead will take the form of 4 workshops. The 
proceedings will be in three parts: a collection 
of short papers from participants published on 
the conference web-site and made available at the 
conference; an edited summary of the workshop 
sessions in the form of text and video and a 
special edition of the Journal of Universal 
Access in the Information Society, which will 
contain papers from invited participants based on 
their short papers and contributions to the workshop sessions.

Each workshop will have a theme around which the 
short papers will be collected, and the session 
chair will present a state-of-the-art position 
summary for each theme, together with a series of 
issues for the conference participants to 
address. All participants are invited to submit a 
short position paper that summarises their own 
work to date, and where they believe the 
priorities for the future lie. The provisional set of themes is:

* Eyetracking systems: low-cost systems, mobile 
systems, software, algorithms, calibration 
techniques and issues, integration with operating systems, standards.
* Gaze-aware communication software: eye-typing 
systems, interfaces to common applications, 
end-user configuration, gaze-aware applications, edutainment.
* Integration of gaze with other modalities: 
multimodal interaction, user performance and 
preference studies, attentive interfaces, gaze and brain integration.
* Human factors and user-related issues: 
Requirements for various disabled user groups, 
measuring usability with disabled groups, 
usability issues with gaze-based systems, case 
studies of user experience with gaze 
communication, training in the use of gaze-communication.

The user and industry sessions (Day 2) will 
follow a similar format to the successful event 
held in Copenhagen during COGAIN 2005 Conference. 
The sessions will contain presentations from 
users of gaze-based systems, from representatives 
of end-user organizations and from industry, as 
well as opportunities for end users and 
researchers to try out the latest systems from 
the participating manufacturers. One of the most 
valuable aspects of last year's meeting was the 
opportunity it gave the academic research 
community and industry to meet, listen to, and 
observe users of gaze-based systems, and to 
understand their priorities and needs for system 
design and use. Furthermore, the session will 
provide manufacturers an ideal and unique 
opportunity to showcase their products to a 
highly specialist audience of those active and 
interested in gaze-based communication. 
Photographs of last year's event are available 
at www.cogain.org/photos.


IMPORTANT DATES

Submission of short papers: 31st May 2006
Notification of acceptance: 30th June 2006
Workshops at Conference: 4th September 2006
Invitation to submit Journal Papers: 30th September 2006
Deadline for Submission of Journal Papers: 31st January 2007


SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

Authors are requested to submit their short 
papers (c. 1000 - 1500 words) using the COGAIN 
conference format (for a template and 
instructions, see 
http://www.cogain.org/cogain2006). A condition of 
acceptance is that at least one of the authors will attend the conference. 
Best papers will be invited to submit full long papers for a special issue in 
the Universal Access in the Information Society (UAIS) journal. The special 
edition editors in consultation with the editor in chief of the journal will 
distribute the papers to three reviewers who are experts in the field.

The text should be clear enough to allow 
reviewers to judge the potential of the paper's 
suitability for COGAIN 2006. The suitability of 
the paper will be judged on the following criteria:

* Originality
* Statements of main results obtained so far (need not be final results)
* Clear identification of future research needs
* Clarity of presentation
* Technical soundness


Authors are requested to email their paper for consideration to Howell Istance:
Email: howell.istance@cogain.org
Tel: +44 (0)116 2506103

Conference Co-Chairs
Howell Istance (De Montfort University)
Laura Farinetti (Politecnico di Torino)

More information is available at http://www.cogain.org/cogain2006

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From Kristy.Marulli at ngc.com  Thu Apr  6 21:05:11 2006
From: Kristy.Marulli at ngc.com (Marulli, Kristy (Contr))
Date: Thu Apr  6 21:09:00 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Northrop Grumman, Research Vision Scientist
Message-ID: <6591F529444E9748A546718B3D1A670104ECD01B@xcgv2605.northgrum.com>

 Jump start your career - join Northrop Grumman as a Research Vision
Scientist!  The primary role is conduct of research in the area of laser
bio-effects, performing experiments using non-damaging laser and
broadband light exposures and measuring the consequent effects on human
visual performance. A secondary role will be providing research support
to in the area of vision compatibility testing activities on the Laser
Eye Protection research program. Will join an experienced team of
researchers in vision science and laser biophysics working towards
enhancing the safety, survival and performance of the personnel of the
United States Air Force. The position will require interacting with
customers, proposing research projects in the area of vision science,
executing these projects by preparing and coordinating AF approval of
human use experimental protocols, working closely with systems
engineering personnel to design and instrument laboratories for new
experimental requirements, collecting and analyzing experimental data,
and presenting and documenting results in technical reports and journal
articles.

Candidates will need to have a thorough understanding of the human
visual system, including contrast sensitivity, light and dark
adaptation, and visual psychophysics, probably gained through a PhD in
experimental psychology, physiological optics, optical engineering,
cognitive science, neuroscience, or another area related to vision
science. Some knowledge of human systems engineering would be
beneficial.  *** This position requires the candidate to obtain and
maintain a Top Secret Clearance.  Therefore, US Citizenship is required.
Location:  San Antonio, Texas.

To apply, please visit :
https://sjobs.brassring.com/1033/ASP/TG/cim_advsearch.asp?partnerid=6127
&siteid=52  and enter 50462 into the keyword section.  You will then be
prompted to submit your resume for consideration.


Kristy Marulli
Technical Recruiter
Defense Group, Northrop Grumman IT
703-556-2297 - direct
703-556-2519 - fax
kristy.marulli@ngc.com



From knoblauch at lyon.inserm.fr  Fri Apr  7 11:34:25 2006
From: knoblauch at lyon.inserm.fr (ken knoblauch)
Date: Fri Apr  7 14:49:07 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Call for nominations for the Verriest Medal, 2007
Message-ID: <14d3897a5d784e88f40fff63f2d448ae@lyon.inserm.fr>

Nominations are invited for the Verriest Medal for 2007.
The Verriest Medal is bestowed by the International Colour
Vision Society (ICVS) to honor long-term contributions to the
knowledge of colour vision. The Medal was established in 1991 in
memory of Dr. Guy Verriest, and is presented at the ICVS biennial
Symposia. Previous recipients have been Harry Sperling (1991), Marrion
Marre (1993), Vivianne Smith and Joel Pokorny (1995), Jack Moreland
(1997), John Krauskopf (1999), Donald MacLeod (2001), Andre Roth (2003)
and John Mollon (2005) Candidates need not have been active in the
affairs of the ICVS but they must be either current or former ICVS
(or IRGCVD) members. The nominations of candidates previously proposed
for the award remain active for the following two award cycles.  
Submitted
materials should include a letter of nomination and the candidate's
curriculum vitae. Please take the time to consider and to nominate a
worthy candidate for this honor.

Address to whom nominations should be submitted before June 30, 2006:

Kenneth Knoblauch
Inserm U371
Cerveau et Vision
Dept. of Cognitive Neuroscience
18 avenue du Doyen L?pine
69500 Bron
France

knoblauch@lyon.inserm.fr

Electronic submission is preferable.


Cordially,

Ken Knoblauch, Chairman
Verriest Medal Committee


From S.J.Bennett at ljmu.ac.uk  Fri Apr  7 09:55:47 2006
From: S.J.Bennett at ljmu.ac.uk (Bennett, Simon)
Date: Fri Apr  7 14:49:26 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Two positions available
Message-ID: <79C2BBE432B6174296A543781AD515E90115FF35@exch3.jmu.ac.uk>

We are currently advertising to fill two new positions as highlighted below. Please pass on the information to any potentially interested candidates.

 

Professor in Motor Control/Neuroscience

 

Reference: B7112IN

 

The School of Sport and Exercise Sciences has a long history of excellence in scholarly activity and the enviable position of being the only UK Sports & Exercise Institution with a 5** ( RAE ) rating, and QAA grade of 24. We have also recently been designated a Centre of Excellence in Teaching and Learning, which will allow for an expansion of our entrepreneurial activity. In order to expand our international reputation we now seek an experienced academic to drive a significant research agenda in our world-class facilities. The school has invested heavily in a new Movement Function Laboratory, which is designed to cement research links internally between our Biomechanists and Motor Control Specialists. We invite applications from experienced academics to lead and develop research agenda in these new neuroscience facilities. Informal enquiries can be made to Professor Tim Cable: tel 0151 231 4108. e-mail t.cable@ljmu.ac.uk or Professor Tom Reilly: tel 0151 231 4324. e-mail t.p.reilly@ljmu.ac.uk <mailto:t.p.reilly@ljmu.ac.uk> 

 

Closing date: 25 Apr 2006

 

 

 

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Motor Control and Learning or Cognitive Psychology or Behavioural Neurosciences

 

One year fixed term in the first instance (?19,645 - ?29,715)

 

Reference: B7114IN

 

The Research Institute for Sport and Exercise Sciences (RISES) has a post as Research Fellow in Motor Control and Learning/Cognitive Psychology/Behavioural Neurosciences. You will help to develop research agenda in this area and should have a higher degree in a related discipline and a good publication profile. You will join a 5** (RAE) rated research group, which has state-of-the-art laboratory facilities. Informal enquiries can be made to Professor Mark Williams, 0151 231 4489 or 0151 231 8284. email M.Williams@ljmu.ac.uk. 

 

Closing date: 19 Apr 2006


From Sharon.McFadden at drdc-rddc.gc.ca  Fri Apr  7 12:31:21 2006
From: Sharon.McFadden at drdc-rddc.gc.ca (McFadden, Sharon)
Date: Fri Apr  7 14:49:59 2006
Subject: [visionlist] ISCC/CIE Expert Symposium - Ottawa, May 2006
Message-ID: <88901B46A33C2F46A4D5C0B186A8C9C50168B9FE@torontoex01.toronto.drdc-rddc.gc.ca>

Please post the following notice:

Dear Visionlist Members,

Just a reminder that the deadline for early registration for the
CIE/ISCC  Expert Symposium to celebrate the 75th Anniversary of the 1931
Standard Colorimetric Observer is the 12th of April 2006. 

The symposium will be held in Ottawa, Canada, May 16th and 17th in
conjunction with the meeting of Division 1, May 18th and 19th, 2006 and
the 75th Anniversary Meeting of the Inter Society Colour Council , May
14th and 15th, 2006. All meetings will be held at the National Research
Council in Ottawa, Canada.

We received many excellent submissions and a full programme is in place.
Details about the programme, including abstracts for all the
presentations are available at the Symposium website
http://www.iscc.org/jubilee2006.

The registration form can be downloaded from the Symposium website along
with instructions for making reservations at the symposium hotel. The
special rate for the hotel cannot be guaranteed after 12 April 2006 and
the registration fee increases substantially.

For those interested in attending both the Symposium and the ISCC
meeting, there is a special combined rate. Details on the ISCC programme
are available at the ISCC website: http://www.iscc.org/.

The Symposium will be followed by the meeting of Division 1 of the CIE
on Vision and Colour. Anyone with an interest in supporting the work of
the CIE are welcome to attend this meeting. For further information on
the CIE and in particular Division 1 visit the CIE website
http://www.cie.co.at/

The Organizing Committee looks forward to welcoming you to Ottawa in
May. Come and help to formulate the work of Division 1 in colour for the
next 75 years.
 

Sincerely

Sharon McFadden
Director, Division 1

Human Computer Interaction Group
Human Factors Research and Engineering Section
DRDC Toronto
Tel: 416-635-2189
Fax: 416-635-2013
email sharon.mcfadden@drdc-rddc.gc.ca
www.toronto.drdc-rddc.gc.ca


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From Karl.R.Gegenfurtner at psychol.uni-giessen.de  Fri Apr  7 15:44:13 2006
From: Karl.R.Gegenfurtner at psychol.uni-giessen.de (Karl Gegenfurtner)
Date: Fri Apr  7 16:20:41 2006
Subject: [visionlist] European summer school on Visual Neuroscience,
	Sept 3-15, 2006
Message-ID: <443688CD.7040404@uni-giessen.de>

E U R O P E A N   S U M M E R   S C H O O L
Visual Neuroscience: from spikes to awareness
Rauischholzhausen Castle (near Frankfurt, Germany)
September 3-15, 2006
Application deadline: May 15, 2006
Organizers: Jochen Braun, Frank Bremmer, Karl Gegenfurtner
Funded by the Volkswagen-Foundation
http://www.allpsych.uni-giessen.de/rauisch

Visual neuroscience studies the neural underpinnings of visual function and
visual sensation. Its results contribute to our understanding of cognitive brain
processes in general and also help to boost the capabilities of technological
vision systems.

Visual neuroscience involves a wide variety of methods and approaches ---
computational theory, neurophysiology, neuroanatomy, functional imaging,
psychophysics, neuropsychology, and others --- and illustrates perhaps more
clearly than any other area of brain research, the overriding need to combine
and coordinate these diverse efforts.

The European Summer School exposes young vision researchers --- at the late
pre-doctoral or early post-doctoral level --- to the principal methods and
seminal issues of contemporary visual neuroscience. In addition, it seeksto
build a basic fluency in the emerging lingua franca of computational
neuroscience. The range of topics is broad, literally from spikes to awareness,
and the pace correspondingly brisk. This intensive experience should allow
participants to take a broader view of, and make more informed decisions about,
their future research direction.

The European Summer School is taught by leading researchers in neurobiology,
neuropsychology, psychophysics, and theoretical neuroscience. Two thematically
related topics are covered each day, with approximately 3 hours allotted to each
(including discussion time). An after-dinner discussion provides an opportunity
to contrast and compare the day?s lectures. In addition, students pursue
computational and theoretical projects (based on Matlab) during the afternoon,
to experiment with key concepts and techniques of computational neuroscience.

The program for this year's school is not final yet, but the list of topics
covered will be similar to the summer school in 2004.
Speakers in 2004 included Pascal Barone (Toulouse), Heinrich B?lthoff
(T?bingen), David Burr (Florence), Jochen Braun (Magdeburg), Frank Bremmer
(Marburg), Gemma Calvert (Oxford), Gustavo Deco (Barcelona), Heiner Deubel
(Munich), Andrew Derrington (Nottingham), Karl Gegenfurtner (Giessen), Concetta
Morrone (Milano), Tony Movshon (New York), Gregor Rainer (T?bingen), Petra
Stoerig (D?sseldorf), Simon Thorpe (Toulouse), Stefan Treue (G?ttingen), Heinz
W?ssle (Frankfurt) and Christoph Zetzsche (Bremen). The exact list of speakers
for 2006 will be presented at the above website as soon as it is finalized.

The European Summer School meets at idyllic and inspiring Schloss
Rauischholzhausen in Hessia, Germany. The main selection
criterion for participants is the degree of benefit that each applicant can be
expected to derive from the course. In addition, the organizers attempt to
balance fields, nationalities, and genders among participants. All participants
receive full stipends and partial travel support.

Application forms can be downloaded from the website
http://www.allpsych.uni-giessen.de/rauisch/application.html. Please fill in the
form and return it by email to karl.gegenfurtner@psychol.uni-giessen.de.
You are also be asked to arrange for at least one letter of recommendation to
be sent separately by email to karl.gegenfurtner@psychol.uni-giessen.de. The
deadline for receipt of the complete application is 15 May 2006.

We look forward to welcome you to the summer school.

Jochen Braun, Frank Bremmer and Karl Gegenfurtner

-- 
Prof. Karl Gegenfurtner, Abteilung Allgemeine Psychologie
Justus-Liebig-Universit?t, Otto-Behaghel-Str. 10, 35394 Giessen
phone:  +49 641 9926100	  mailto:gegenfurtner@uni-giessen.de
fax:    +49 641 9926119	  http://www.allpsych.uni-giessen.de/karl


From ifine at usc.edu  Sun Apr  9 04:30:24 2006
From: ifine at usc.edu (Ione Fine)
Date: Sun Apr  9 22:50:01 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Comparison between goggles,
	eye-tracking and other fMRI equipment
Message-ID: <C05DDBF0.BA68%ifine@usc.edu>



We are in the process of setting up a functional magnetic resonance imaging
display system up from scratch at Seattle. There seem to be a lot of options
available for response boxes, goggles, eye-tracking systems, and projectors,
but it's hard to know which actually work best in practice.

Would people please be kind enough to let me know what they currently use,
and what their experience was. If I get enough responses, I'll collate them
into a public organized wiki (and distribute it to CVNet)

The equipment I am interested in is:
GOGGLES (suitability for stereo & non stereo)
RESPONSE BOXES
EYE-TRACKERS
PROJECTORS

Useful information would include
1. manufacturer
2. model
3. When you bought it
4. delivery speed 
5. technical support
6. quality
7. reliability
8. technological limitations/advantages
And of of course any other issues that are relevant


PLEASE take the time to contribute - I think this might be a really useful
resource for our community.

Many thanks
Ione

ifine@usc.edu

PS. Go to Fall Vision Meeting!
http://www.osavisionmeeting.org/

Ione Fine 
Assistant Professor
Department of Ophthalmology
Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute
Keck School of Medicine, USC
1501 San Pablo Street, Rm 441
Los Angeles, CA 90033
(323) 442-1871 



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From valerie.bonnardel at sunderland.ac.uk  Mon Apr 10 09:55:54 2006
From: valerie.bonnardel at sunderland.ac.uk (Val=?ISO-8859-1?B?6Q==?=rie Bonnardel)
Date: Mon Apr 10 13:07:24 2006
Subject: [visionlist] VCIMS workshop 28 June 06
Message-ID: <C05FEA3A.9806%valerie.bonnardel@sunderland.ac.uk>

Second call for abstract " Visual Categorisation and Image Management
Systems?
 

The objective of the workshop is to bring together Information Retrieval
researchers, Neuroscientists, Visual Scientists and Cognitive Psychologists
to present and discuss recent findings on image categorisation in artificial
and natural systems. This will give the opportunity to scientists who seldom
meet at conferences to share methods of data analysis (such as Cluster
Analysis, Multidimensional Scaling, and Consensus Analysis) and theoretical
approaches (such as Top-Down and Bottom-Up) to the image categorisation
process.

 
The workshop will be held at the University of Sunderland, St. Peter?s
Campus, on the 28th June 2006. It will comprise invited lectures, oral
presentations and a plenary discussion.
 
The workshop is now open for registration.  Participants wishing to give an
oral presentation of 15 ? 20 minutes should submit abstracts of 500 words
maximum (references excluded) by the 15th April 2006.  Notification of
acceptance will be communicated by the 21st May 2006.  Abstracts submitted
by doctoral students or researchers at early stages in their careers will be
particularly welcome.
Abstracts should submitted electronically at : vcims@sunderland.ac.uk
 
While there will be no registration fee for the workshop, participants
registering will have to cover their own travel and hotel expenses.
 
Information and registration forms are available on the conference website
at 
http://www.cet.sunderland.ac.uk/vcims
 
The workshop is sponsored by the Multimedia Knowledge Management Network
-EPSRC (www.mmkm.org/MMKM <http://www.mmkm.org/MMKM> ).
 
Organising Committee
 
Val?rie Bonnardel (Psychology)
Michael Oakes (Computing)
John Tait (Computing)
University of Sunderland.
 


From dirk at cs.yorku.ca  Mon Apr 10 17:38:45 2006
From: dirk at cs.yorku.ca (Dirk Walther)
Date: Mon Apr 10 17:50:40 2006
Subject: [visionlist] SaliencyToolbox for Matlab
In-Reply-To: <532329c40604101004w6337b80eh71f6fea7423f9daa@mail.gmail.com>
References: <532329c40604101004w6337b80eh71f6fea7423f9daa@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <532329c40604101038s2775512dwbb9ce8020f3349a0@mail.gmail.com>

I am announcing the release of version 1.0 of the SaliencyToolbox for
Matlab. It is available at:
http://www.saliencytoolbox.net

The SaliencyToolbox is a collection of Matlab functions and scripts
for computing the saliency map for an image, for determining the
extent of a proto-object, and for serially scanning the image with the
focus of attention. Being mostly written in Matlab, the code is easily
accessible, easy to experiment with, and platform independent. Major
parts of the code are reimplemented from the iLab Neuromorphic Vision
C++ Toolkit (iNVT) at Laurent Itti's lab at the University of Southern
California.

Dirk Walther

--
-------------------------------------------------
Dirk Walther
Postdoctoral Fellow
Centre for Vision Research
Room 0009, CSE Building
York University
4700 Keele Street
Toronto, ON, M3J 1P3
Canada
phone:  +1-416-736-2100 x33257
fax: +1-416-736-5857
http://klab.caltech.edu/~walther
dirk@cs.yorku.ca

From michele at cvs.rochester.edu  Mon Apr 10 17:35:13 2006
From: michele at cvs.rochester.edu (Michele Schultz)
Date: Mon Apr 10 17:51:11 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Assistant Professor position available
Message-ID: <a06230532c0604752c9ca@[192.168.80.14]>

Assistant Professor in Visual Neuroscience. The University of 
Rochester has a tenure-track position available for a scientist 
working on mechanisms of vision, broadly defined. Especially 
encouraged are candidates whose research combines multiple approaches 
to understanding vision, including psychophysical, neural, brain 
imaging, and/or computational.  The successful candidate will have a 
primary appointment in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences 
(http://www.bcs.rochester.edu/) and will be a member of the Center 
for Visual Science (http://www.cvs.rochester.edu/). Applicants should 
submit a curriculum vitae, a statement of research experience and 
plans, a statement of teaching interests, reprints, and three letters 
of recommendation to: David Williams, Center for Visual Science, 
University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14672-0268. Because this 
position has unexpectedly become available this year, evaluation of 
applications will begin immediately, though the official start date 
for the position is negotiable.  Applications will be considered 
until the position is filled, but the committee plans to start 
identifying candidates for interview no later than May 15; materials 
should be submitted by that date for full consideration.  The 
University of Rochester is an equal opportunity employer.
-- 
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Michele Schultz                         email: michele@cvs.rochester.edu
Center for Visual Science                phone: 585 275 8659
University of Rochester                    fax: 585 271 3043
Meliora Hall 274
Rochester NY 14627-0270
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
From coss.eps at ceu.es  Tue Apr 11 07:26:23 2006
From: coss.eps at ceu.es (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Carlos_Oscar_S=E1nchez_Sorzano?=)
Date: Tue Apr 11 13:04:08 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Summerschool on Advanced data analysis and modelling
Message-ID: <443B5A1F.2050900@ceu.es>

Dear colleagues,

San Pablo - CEU University in collaboration with other five universities 
(M?laga, Polit?cnica de Madrid, Pa?s Vasco, Rey Juan Carlos, and 
Castilla La Mancha), nine companies, CSIC and IEEE organizes a 
summerschool on "Advanced Data Analysis and Modeling" in Madrid between 
June 26th and July 27th. The full summerschool is 120 hours long and is 
divided into 10 courses. Attendees may register in each course 
independently. The deadline for registration is June 1st. For more 
information, please, visit  
http://biocomp.cnb.csic.es/~coss/Docencia/ADAM/ADAM.htm

Best regards, Carlos Oscar

List of courses and brief description (full description at 
http://biocomp.cnb.csic.es/~coss/Docencia/ADAM/ADAM.htm)

Course 1. STATISTICAL INFERENCE (June 26th - June 29th)
 Introduction, Some basic statistical tests, Simple linear regression. 
Practical sessions: SPSS
Course 2. MULTIVARIATE DATA ANALYSIS (June 26th - June 29th)
 Introduction, Data examination, Factor analysis, MANOVA, 
Multidimensional scaling, Structural equation modeling. Practical 
sessions: SPSS
Course 3. BAYESIAN NETWORKS (July 3rd - July 6th)
 Basics, Inference in Bayesian networks, Learning Bayesian networks from 
data. Practical sessions: Hugin, Elvira, Weka, LibB
Course 4. NEURAL NETWORKS (July 3rd - July 6th)
 Introduction, Perceptron networks, The Hebb rule, Multivariate 
optimization, Rule of Widrow-Hoff, Backpropagation. Practical sessions: 
MATLAB
Course 5. ASSOCIATION RULES (July 10th - July 13th)
 Introduction, Rule discovering, Knowledge discoverage in biological 
data, Applications. Practical sessions: Bioinformatics tools
Course 6. EXPERT SYSTEMS (July 10th - July 13th)
 Introduction, Expert system programming, Hybrid systems. Practical 
sessions: CLIPS and JESS
Course 7. HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS (July 17th - July 20th)
 Introduction, Discrete HMM, Basic algorithms, Semicontinuous HMMs, 
Continuous HMMs, Clustering, Generalized HMMs. Practical sessions: HTK
Course 8. TIME SERIES ANALYSIS (July 17th - July 20th)
 Introduction. Probability models, Regression and Fourier analysis, 
Forecasting and Data mining. Practical sessions: MATLAB, R.
Course 9. DATA MINING (July 24th - July 27th)
 Introduction, Exploring data, Classification, Cluster analysis, 
Survival analysis, Anomaly detection. Practical sessions: R, WEKA
Course 10. PATTERN RECOGNITION (July 24th - July 27th)
 Introduction, Performance of supervised classification, Preprocessing, 
k-nearest neighbor, classification trees, logistic regression, rule 
induction, combining classifiers, unsupervised classification. Practical 
sessions: WEKA

-- 
-----------------------------------------------------------
Carlos ?scar S?nchez Sorzano                coss.eps@ceu.es
Escuela Polit?cnica Superior            Tel:+34 91 372 4034
Univ. San Pablo - CEU                   Fax:+34 91 372 4049
Campus Urb. Montepr?ncipe s/n
28668 Boadilla del Monte - Madrid     http://www.uspceu.com
Spain
-----------------------------------------------------------



	
	
		
______________________________________________ 
LLama Gratis a cualquier PC del Mundo. 
Llamadas a fijos y m?viles desde 1 c?ntimo por minuto. 
http://es.voice.yahoo.com
From fng at vision.eri.harvard.edu  Thu Apr 13 22:32:56 2006
From: fng at vision.eri.harvard.edu (Frances Ng)
Date: Thu Apr 13 23:39:37 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Schepens Eye Research Institute- PostDoctoral Research
	Fellow
Message-ID: <6.2.0.14.2.20060413182957.02908248@vision.eri.harvard.edu>

Post Doctoral research position in psychophysics/computational vision

A one-year position with potential for extension is available in the 
Schepens Eye Research Institute, an affiliate of the Harvard Medical School.

Join an active group with excellent facilities in a great location doing 
state of the art work that matters.  Looking for a young collaborator with 
background in psychophysics, computational vision and an interest in 
studying spatial vision with an emphasis on real world applications.  Most 
of the time will be devoted to participating in and expanding studies 
already in progress at the Lab.  These include: simulation of normal and 
low vision, vision models for image quality metrics, perception of 
contrast, sampling in the visual system, image- and video-enhancement for 
visually-impaired people, the development of electronic and optical 
head-mounted-display-based aids for low vision, and adaptation of low 
vision observers to optical and electronic aids.  The successful candidate 
will be able to devote some time to developing an independent program of 
research within the general scope of studies in the Vision Rehabilitation Lab.

Computer programming skills are necessary, with UNIX and C knowledge an 
advantage, and Matlab experience a requirement.  Solid background in visual 
psychophysics is of great value, and an interest in working in the area of 
low vision rehabilitation is an important consideration.

Position is available immediately.  Salary is commensurate with experience 
and generally similar to  NIH fellowship levels.

Please e-mail CV (PDF format) and contact information for two references to 
Dr Eli Peli (eli@vision.eri.harvard.edu) or send resume, in confidence, 
to:  Human Resources Department, THE SCHEPENS EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE, 20 
Staniford St., Boston, MA 02114. Equal Employment Opportunity 
Employer.  M/F/H/V.

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From announcements at journalofvision.org  Fri Apr 14 00:17:57 2006
From: announcements at journalofvision.org (Journal of Vision)
Date: Fri Apr 14 00:09:55 2006
Subject: [visionlist] New Issue: Journal of Vision, Volume 6, Issue 2
Message-ID: <22ea01c65f58$e1d43760$020100c0@journalofvision.org>


Journal of Vision

Volume 6, Number 2, Pages 97-178	 doi:10.1167/6.2
http://journalofvision.org/6/2/	 ISSN 1534-7362	 

Articles

 <http://journalofvision.org/6/2/1/> 	 Contribution of chromatic
aberrations to color signals in the primate visual system
<http://journalofvision.org/6/2/1/> 
Jason D. Forte
Esther M. Blessing
Peter Buz?s
Paul R. Martin
http://journalofvision.org/6/2/1/
	
 <http://journalofvision.org/6/2/2/> 	 Cues to an Equivalent Lighting
Model <http://journalofvision.org/6/2/2/> 
Huseyin Boyaci
Katja Doerschner
Laurence T. Maloney
http://journalofvision.org/6/2/2/
	
 <http://journalofvision.org/6/2/3/> 	 Motion aftereffects specific to
surface depth order: Beyond binocular disparity
<http://journalofvision.org/6/2/3/> 
Wonyeong Sohn
Adriane E. Seiffert
http://journalofvision.org/6/2/3/
	
 <http://journalofvision.org/6/2/4/> 	 Floating square illusion:
Perceptual uncoupling of static and dynamic objects in motion
<http://journalofvision.org/6/2/4/> 
Thomas A. Carlson
Paul Schrater
Sheng He
http://journalofvision.org/6/2/4/
	
 <http://journalofvision.org/6/2/5/> 	 More evidence for sensorimotor
adaptation in color perception <http://journalofvision.org/6/2/5/> 
Aline Bompas
J. Kevin O'Regan
http://journalofvision.org/6/2/5/
	
 <http://journalofvision.org/6/2/6/> 	 The time course of visual
competition to the presentation of centrally fixated faces
<http://journalofvision.org/6/2/6/> 
Corentin Jacques
Bruno Rossion
http://journalofvision.org/6/2/6/
	
 <http://journalofvision.org/6/2/7/> 	 Crowding, feature integration,
and two kinds of "attention" <http://journalofvision.org/6/2/7/> 
Endel P?der
http://journalofvision.org/6/2/7/
	
 <http://journalofvision.org/6/2/8/> 	 Collinear facilitation is
largely uncertainty reduction <http://journalofvision.org/6/2/8/> 
Yury Petrov
Preeti Verghese
Suzanne P. McKee
http://journalofvision.org/6/2/8/
	


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From axon at cortex.rutgers.edu  Fri Apr 14 13:50:22 2006
From: axon at cortex.rutgers.edu (Ralph Siegel)
Date: Fri Apr 14 16:00:49 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Post-doctoral trainee in visual structure from motion,
 Rutgers University
In-Reply-To: <6574CC38978D184DA7B3A9CE83EA06F518EB5C@cortex.Siegellab.Rutgers.edu>
Message-ID: <00ae01c65fca$6541ee50$99c0d246@rutgers.edu>

Analysis of visual structure-from-motion in primates. 

(1) Representation of optic flow, space and attention in the parietal lobes
(7a and DP) is being examined in the behaving rhesus. These studies utilize
the novel approach of chronic intrinsic optical recording. Single unit
physiology skills crucial as well as familiarity with computational
approaches. If you know behaving primate, excellent.

(2) Two photon imaging in vivo performed in rat and primate. Same questions
as above with a different technology. Experience with rodent electrical in
vitro and/or intracellular approaches handy.

Reasonable computation skills necessary. Superb experimental and
computational facilities in a multi-disciplinary research center. NY-NJ
Metro area.

Contact: 
Ralph Siegel, Ph.D. 
Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Rutgers, The State
University 
197 University Avenue 
Newark, NJ 07102 
phone: 973-353-1080 x3261 
axon@cortex.rutgers.edu 

Papers: http://visual.rutgers.edu/~axon/reprints 
Web page: http://cmbn.rutgers.edu/faculty/siegeldocs/rsiegel.html 

Term: Available immediately. 
Salary: NIH levels plus supplement. 
Please send statement of research interests, curriculum vitae, and names of
three references. 

From bluezulu at dial.pipex.com  Tue Apr 18 13:40:38 2006
From: bluezulu at dial.pipex.com (Karen Purvis)
Date: Tue Apr 18 14:57:05 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Rhodopsin: Advances and Perspectives - Final reminder
Message-ID: <07d001c662ed$ae511b40$0100a8c0@pythagoras>

Apologies for any cross posting. You are reminded to pre-register for this pre-ARVO satellite meeting to avoid any on-site booking surcharge. 



RHODOPSIN - ADVANCES & PERSPECTIVES

Tenth Annual Vision Research Conference

 

April 28-29, 2006 * Fort Lauderdale, Florida

 



For full program and to register visit: www.visionresearch-conference.elsevier.com
 

*********************************************************************************************************

 

Organized by Vision Research / Elsevier and co-sponsored by ARVO, this two-day conference immediately prior to the 2006 Annual Meeting of ARVO will bring together leading experts in rhodopsin research for a comprehensive and stimulating program designed to provoke in-depth discussions among experimental and theoretical biophysicists, molecular and cellular biologists, and clinician scientists. 

 

Delegates are advised to pre-register now to avoid the onsite booking surcharge (up to $85) and also to secure accommodation at the Sheraton Yankee Trader Beach Hotel - the conference hotel

 

Session topics and chairs are detailed below. The full conference program is available at 

http://www.visionresearch-conference.elsevier.com

 

Structure and stability of the rhodopsin ground state 

- Chair: Paul Hargrave, University of Florida, USA 

 

Retinal isomerization and coupling to the apoprotein 

- Chair: Klaus Peter Hofmann, Humboldt University, Germany 

 

Coupling of R* to transducin, GRK1, and arrestin

- Chair: Kevin Ridge, University of Texas, USA

 

Rhodopsin and GPCRs: Similarities and differences

- Chair: Heidi Hamm, Vanderbilt University, USA 

 

Release of the retinal chromophore and rhodopsin regeneration

- Chair: Dan Oprian, Brandeis University, USA 

 

Cone pigments and evolution of color vision 

- Chair: Gerald Jacobs, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA 

 

Trafficking of rhodopsin 

- Chair: Dusanka Deretic, University of New Mexico, USA 

 

Rhodopsin mutations and retina disease 

- Chair: Wolfgang Baehr, University of Utah, USA

 


REGISTER NOW

You can register and book accommodation now at: http://www.visionresearch-conference.elsevier.com  Delegate should pre-register to avoid the late booking surcharge.

 

*********************************************************************************************************

 

The Tenth Annual Vision Research Conference is sponsored and hosted by Elsevier / Vision Research (http://www.elsevier.com). The meeting is co-sponsored by ARVO (http://www.arvo.org).

 

Organizers on behalf of the Board of Vision Research: 

- Klaus Peter Hofmann, Humboldt University, Germany 
- Kris Palczewski, Case Western Reserve University, USA 
- Wolfgang Baehr, University of Utah, USA 

 

For further details visit: http://www.visionresearch-conference.elsevier.com or contact vr-conference@elsevier.com.

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From kelley at nist.gov  Tue Apr 18 15:44:03 2006
From: kelley at nist.gov (Edward F. Kelley)
Date: Tue Apr 18 17:20:00 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Display Metrology Short Course at NIST
Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20060418093951.026168d0@mail.boulder.nist.gov>

Folks,

Andrew Watson of NASA suggested that I tell you about a Display Metrology 
Short Course at NIST in Boulder, Colorado. The next offering is coming up 
soon, May 2-4, 2006. If you are interested in measuring displays and 
becoming familiar with the kinds of problems encountered, please visit
         www.fpd.nist.gov
and follow the links to the Display Metrology Short Course.

Thanks,

Ed

-------------------------------------------------------------------
Dr. Edward F. Kelley
Physicist, Flat Panel Display Laboratory, Display Metrology Project
http://www.fpd.nist.gov/
National Institute of Standards and Technology http://www.nist.gov/
NIST, Division 815.01
Bldg 1, Rm 3540
325 Broadway
Boulder, CO  80305-3328
Phone 303-497-4599
Fax: 303-497-3387
E-mail: kelley@nist.gov 


From jbednar at inf.ed.ac.uk  Tue Apr 18 20:44:49 2006
From: jbednar at inf.ed.ac.uk (James A. Bednar)
Date: Tue Apr 18 20:52:48 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Computational maps book and software
Message-ID: <17477.20417.345695.66710@lodestar.inf.ed.ac.uk>

We are pleased to announce the publication of the book 

    "Computational Maps in the Visual Cortex"
    by Miikkulainen, Bednar, Choe, and Sirosh
    (New York: Springer).

This book presents a computational approach to understanding how the
map-like structures in the visual cortex develop and adapt to support
visual function. It reviews current theories and biological data, and
presents a detailed analysis of the laterally connected
self-organizing map model (LISSOM) and results obtained to date. The
TOC and a sample chapter, electronic versions of the figures and
references, animated demos, talks, and course material are available
at the book website:

    http://computationalmaps.org

The book was developed together with "Topographica", a general
simulator for computational modeling of cortical maps. Topographica is
intended to serve as a common software tool for the research
community, and is freely available at:

    http://topographica.org

We hope that these tools will be useful in future research on the
computational mechanisms of the visual cortex!

-- Risto, Jim, Yoonsuck, and Joe
From guillaume.masson at incm.cnrs-mrs.fr  Wed Apr 19 06:10:53 2006
From: guillaume.masson at incm.cnrs-mrs.fr (Guillaume Masson)
Date: Wed Apr 19 15:06:35 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Post-doctoral position at CNRS-Marseille
Message-ID: <8114223B-9D16-4DDE-A0C4-2FD56D95FBF8@incm.cnrs-mrs.fr>

A Postdoctoral position is available in the lab of Guillaume MASSON  
at INCM/CNRS ? Marseille (France). The position is within a  
collaborative project funded by the French National Research Agency  
to investigate the processing of natural visual scenes. The  
collaboration involves three CNRS labs (Y. Fr?gnac, Paris ; Y.  
Trotter / S. Thorpe, Toulouse and G.S Masson, Marseille). The  
Marseille project is to work on motion processing and tracking eye  
movements (ocular following and smooth pursuit) in humans and/or  
monkeys. The goal is explore what are the best natural statistics for  
driving
either reflexive or voluntary tracking. The work will be under the  
supervision of G. Masson. State-of-the-art techniques for eye  
movements recordings (EyeLinkII, Scleral search coil) are available.  
A doctoral degree in psychology, physics, biology, or computer  
science is prerequisite. Experience in programming visual displays or  
measuring eye movements are of advantage. Salary is according to CNRS  
research scale. The position is open for 18 months, starting  
immediately.

The members of the team Dynamics of Visual Perception and Action  
(Head: Dr. G. Masson) use theoretical and experimental approaches  
addressed at understanding the dynamics of visual motion processing  
an its relationships with the control of goal-oriented behaviors such  
as pursuit or saccades. The team is highly interdisciplinary, linking  
human psychophysics, human and monkey oculomotor behavior and monkey  
neurophysiology (electrophysiology and optical imaging).

A description of the team can be found at http://www.incm.cnrs-mrs.fr/ 
en_equipedyva.php

Please send applications (CV and letters of reference) by email to  
guillaume.masson@incm.cnrs-mrs.fr  Questions can be sent to the same
email address. Appointments can be made for the next VSS meeting.
From smart at neuralcorrelate.com  Wed Apr 19 15:28:33 2006
From: smart at neuralcorrelate.com (Susana Martinez-Conde)
Date: Wed Apr 19 17:38:13 2006
Subject: [visionlist] TOP TEN ILLUSION FINALISTS!!
Message-ID: <200604191527.k3JFRgVv033552@visionscience.com>

The Best Visual Illusion of the Year Contest
(http://illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com) is happy to announce that the
JUDGES HAVE SPOKEN!

Our international panel of impartial judges has now reviewed the 40 illusion
submissions to the 2006 Best Visual Illusion of the Year Contest and
narrowed them to the TOP TEN! 

Please come to the (Free!!) Contest Gala on Monday, May 8th, 3pm, in
Sarasota Florida, during the week of VSS, in Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall.
Don't forget to add the Contest to your schedule!!

The renowned sculptor and artist, Guido Moretti, has created three amazing
works of art to serve as trophies for the TOP THREE winners!
????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
See the trophies at:
http://illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_
user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=61&MMN_position=27:27  

Who will the winners be? That?s up to YOU! The audience at the Contest Gala
will vote to choose the TOP THREE illusions from current TOP TEN list. 

Do NOT miss this exciting event! Everybody is invited!

To see more details, please visit our webpage:
http://illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com   

Below are the TOP TEN illusionists for the 2006 contest: To see the
illusions themselves
 you must come to the CONTEST!!!

2006 TOP TEN ILLUSION CONTESTANTS (alphabetical order):

Max D?rsteler (Universit?tsspital Z?rich, Switzerland):
?The Freezing Rotation Illusion?

Po-Jang Hsieh (Dartmouth College, USA):
?Gradient-Offset Induced Motion?

Anthony Norcia (Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, USA):
?Coffer Illusion?

Evan Palmer & Phillip Kellman (Harvard Medical School & UCLA, USA):
?The Occlusion Velocity Illusion?

Oronzo Parlangeli & Sergio Roncato (Universit? di Padova, Italy):
?Clones and Donors Have Opposite Inclinations (In Vision)?

Baingio Pinna & Massimiliano Dasara (Universit? di Sassari, Italy):
?The Windmill Illusion?

Pawan Sinha (MIT, USA):
?Hidden Strength of the Classical Simultaneous Contrast Illusion?

Alan Stubbs (University of Maine, USA):
?Dynamic Luminance-Gradient Effect?

Peter Tse (Dartmouth College, USA):
?The Infinite Regress Illusion?

Rob Van Lier & Mark Vergeer (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands):
?Catching Patches?

On behalf of the Neural Correlate Society Executive Committee,

Susana Martinez-Conde
Coordinator, Best Visual Illusion of the Year Contest

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Susana Martinez-Conde, PhD
Director, Laboratory of Visual Neuroscience
Division of Neurobiology
Barrow Neurological Institute
350 W. Thomas Rd
Phoenix AZ 85013, USA

Phone: +1 (602) 406-3484
Fax: +1 (602) 406-4172
Email: smart@neuralcorrelate.com
http://www.neuralcorrelate.com/smc_lab/




From nathan.moroney at hp.com  Wed Apr 19 21:22:08 2006
From: nathan.moroney at hp.com (Nathan Moroney)
Date: Wed Apr 19 21:35:06 2006
Subject: [visionlist] IQSP CfP and web-based visual experiments
Message-ID: <4446AA00.6030505@hp.com>

Hi all,

The Image Quality and System Performance IV conference of the
SPIE/IS&T Electronic Imaging 2007 conference has prepared the
following call for papers:

http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Nathan_Moroney/EI107-shortcall.pdf

As a member of the program commitee I would like to solicit specific
abstracts in the general areas of online visual experiments or web-based
psychometrics. Please let me know if you or a colleague is active in this
area so that I can encourage a submission.

By way of examples, I have previously conducted a number of online
participatory experiments relating to color and image quality and found
the results of highly distributed tasks with a diverse population of 1000's
of participants to provide an interesting supplement to laboratory studies
with fewer particpants:

http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Nathan_Moroney/mlcn.html
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Nathan_Moroney/photo-quality/photo-quality.html
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Nathan_Moroney/cdd-hpl.html

Thank you in advance for you time and best regards.

Nathan Moroney

 
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From papathom at rci.rutgers.edu  Wed Apr 19 21:42:32 2006
From: papathom at rci.rutgers.edu (Thomas Papathomas)
Date: Wed Apr 19 21:58:33 2006
Subject: [visionlist] =?windows-1252?q?Julesz=92s_classic_in_print_again!?=
 =?windows-1252?q?_Foundations_of_Cyclopean_Perception?=
Message-ID: <4446AEC8.3030800@rci.rutgers.edu>

Dear Colleagues,

     We are happy to announce that MIT Press has just come out with a
reprint of Bela Julesz?s classic Foundations of Cyclopean Perception.
You can now order a copy of this classic book for your personal or
laboratory/institution library. Please visit MIT Press
http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=10888,
or your favorite book supplier. The book will also be sold at the
MIT Press booth at the Vision Sciences Society meeting this May.
For more details, please visit Flip Phillips?s web site:
http://www.skidmore.edu/~flip/Site/Julesz/Julesz.html.

     This book has influenced a generation of vision researchers,
cognitive scientists, and neuroscientists and has inspired artists,
designers, and computer graphics pioneers. Foundations of
Cyclopean Perception has had a profound impact on the vision
research community. It was chosen as one of the one hundred
most influential works in cognitive science in a poll conducted
by the University of Minnesota's Center for Cognitive Sciences.
Many copies are "permanently borrowed" from college libraries;
used copies are sought after online. Now, with this facsimile of
the original 1971 edition, the book is available again to cognitive
scientists, neuroscientists, vision researchers, artists, and designers.

     Here are the comments of J. Anthony Movshon, Professor of
Neural Science and Psychology, New York University:
"Foundations of Cyclopean Perception was one of a small number of
books that defined modern visual science in the period around 1970,
when many of us entered the field. Julesz's view transformed the way
everyone thought about binocular vision. It was a revelation for its
breadth, lucidity, technical virtuosity, and above all for its breathtaking
beauty - a unique combination of art and science. It is wonderful to
have it in print again."

     We are proud to have worked for such a worthwhile project.
Neither of us is reaping any financial benefit from this printing.
All proceeds are going to a fund to endow a scholarship and a
speaker series at Rutgers University in Prof. Julesz?s memory.

Sincerely,
Thomas V. Papathomas and Flip Phillips

P.S. The late Bela Julesz, a groundbreaking researcher in the field of
vision for 50 years, died suddenly on December 31, 2003, a few weeks
after he wrote the Preface for this new edition.



-- 
Thomas V. Papathomas, Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering	
Associate Director of the Laboratory of Vision Research
Rutgers University, 152 Frelinghuysen Road, 
Piscataway, NJ 08854-8020
Tel 732/445-6533;  FAX 732/445-6715;   papathom@rci.rutgers.edu

From dwbressler at ucdavis.edu  Wed Apr 19 22:37:36 2006
From: dwbressler at ucdavis.edu (David Bressler)
Date: Thu Apr 20 03:01:15 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Research Assistant in motion perception
Message-ID: <200604192237.k3JMba7d002399@syrphus.ucdavis.edu>


Research Assistant / Lab Manager for 1 or 2 year commitment in Dr. David Whitney's Vision and 
Action Lab at UC Davis' Center for Mind and Brain.  

Our lab studies visual and visuomotor localization, with the goal of understanding the 
perceptual, cognitive, and neural mechanisms that allow humans to perceive and interact with 
objects in a dynamic world.

Applicant will gain experience in a wide array of tools and techniques, including psychophysics, 
fMRI, TMS, and motion-tracking.  Any previous experience with these is an advantage.

Salary is competitive.

Qualifications and job responsibilities include:

BA/BS in psychology, computer science, neuroscience, or related field.

Self-motivation and ability to work without constant guidance.  Applicant must be able to take 
responsibility and pursue research goals without supervision.  Must show real dedication to 
research process and commit to leading specific projects from inception to completion.  

Ability to conduct research process.  For many projects, applicant will be responsible for 
performing background research, planning experiment parameters, programming the 
experiment interface, beta-testing and problem-shooting, running subjects and collecting data, 
analyzing the data, making meaningful conclusions, presenting the data at conferences, and 
writing portions of papers for publication.  Prior research experience is highly valued.

Ability to quickly learn new programming languages and use them adeptly.  Applicant must have 
some programming experience, but more importantly must be able to utilize those skills for a 
variety of programming needs.  Any experience with Visionshell, MATLAB, or programming visual 
stimuli is a huge plus.

Knowledge and enthusiasm for research in vision and perception.  Undergraduate course in 
vision and perception is a must.  More importantly, applicant must have the ability to quickly 
gain an understanding of many specialized topics in vision and perception.  Applicant must be 
able to formulate original research ideas and solutions for scientific problems.  Any prior 
specialization in motion perception is a plus.

Ability to manage undergraduate assistants.  Applicant will be in charge of five students and 
must allocate interesting tasks and responsibilities to them. 

Ability to manage lab functions, including IRB renewals, administrative paperwork, and 
purchasing of equipment.

Please contact David Bressler at dwbressler@ucdavis.edu with a cv and short statement of 
interest, and check out our website at http://mindbrain.ucdavis.edu/content/Labs/Whitney/
Frontpage.htm for more information.
From Kefalov at vision.wustl.edu  Thu Apr 20 17:45:38 2006
From: Kefalov at vision.wustl.edu (Kefalov, Vladimir)
Date: Thu Apr 20 18:08:54 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Washington University, Postdoctoral Fellow
Message-ID: <DC2A22497AE4024B9C8FA4C406DF4FB7415ED5@EX01.wusm-pcf.wustl.edu>

Postdoctoral Position in Photoreceptor Physiology

 

A postdoctoral position is available to study the physiological
properties of mouse photoreceptors. Seeking an energetic, highly
motivated PhD, MD, or MD/PhD with solid publication record and
experience in electrophysiology, biophysics, or neuroscience. Experience
in molecular biology is a plus and good analytical and communication
skills are essential. Possible projects include functional differences
between rod and cone photoreceptors, mechanisms of light adaptation of
cone photoreceptors, mutations in cone phototransduction proteins
causing visual disorders, and effects of aging on photoreceptors. The
specific project can be tailored to the interests and experience of the
candidate. For details on recent research see Neuron 46, 879-890, 2005;
Nature 425, 526-531, 2003; Neuron 29, 749-55, 2001. The successful
candidate will have access to state-of-the-art departmental core
facilities and the great research community in one of the best medical
schools in the nation. To apply, please send cover letter, curriculum
vitae, and list of references to: 

 

Dr. Vladimir Kefalov (kefalov@vision.wustl.edu
<mailto:kefalov@vision.wustl.edu> ) 

Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences 

Washington University School of Medicine

660 S. Euclid Ave, Box 8096

Saint Louis, MO 63110

 

http://ophthalmology.wustl.edu/faculty/kefalov/index.html

 

 

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From zjhe at louisville.edu  Thu Apr 20 21:34:32 2006
From: zjhe at louisville.edu (Zijiang He)
Date: Thu Apr 20 21:46:12 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Postdoctoral Position in Visual and Space Perception
Message-ID: <s447c64c.005@gwise.louisville.edu>

Postdoctoral Position in Visual and Space Perception

Visual Perception and Cognition Laboratory, University of Louisville,
Kentucky, USA

A postdoctoral position is available immediately at the University of
Louisville.  The research investigates how spatial layout, together with
the visual system's intrinsic bias, determines space perception and
guides action in the intermediate distance range
(www.louisville.edu/~z0he0002).  Studies are conducted in the real world
setting (indoors/outdoors) and/or in the virtual environment setting
created with the virtual reality technology.  The ideal candidate will
have a Ph.D. degree in Psychology, Neuroscience, or related disciplines,
with technical and research experiences in Human Perception and
Cognition studies.  The candidate should also have an expertise in
computer programming (e.g., Open GL, C++, Matlab).  Having research
experience using the virtual reality system would be a plus.  The salary
will be commensurate with the NIH guidelines and includes University
benefits such as health insurance.  The position is for one year and is
renewable upon performance and fund availability.  To apply, please send
a curriculum vita, sample publications/pre-publications, a one-page
statement of research interests, and contact information (email and
telephone) of 2-3 referees, to Dr. Zijiang He, Department of
Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Louisville, Louisville,
KY 40292, USA.  The University of Louisville is an Equal
Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.  A potential second
postdoctoral position on surface perception, attention and binocular
rivalry is also available.  For further inquiries, please email
zjhe@louisville.edu.




From nips06pub at hotmail.com  Fri Apr 21 08:39:19 2006
From: nips06pub at hotmail.com (M.O. Franz)
Date: Fri Apr 21 14:49:48 2006
Subject: [visionlist] CALL FOR PAPERS  NIPS*2006
Message-ID: <BAY23-F11E719F11186CF84E2D3B6AABB0@phx.gbl>

CALL FOR PAPERS – NIPS*2006

Deadline for Paper Submissions:  June 9, 2006


Submissions are solicited for the twentieth annual meeting of an 
interdisciplinary conference (December 5-7) which brings together 
researchers interested in all aspects of neural and statistical processing 
and computation. The conference will include invited talks as well as oral 
and poster presentations of refereed papers. It is single track and highly 
selective. Preceding the main conference will be one day of tutorials 
(December 4), and following it will be two days of workshops at 
Whistler/Blackcomb ski resort (December 8-9).

Invited Speakers:  To be announced.

Tutorial Speakers:  To be announced.

Submissions: Papers are solicited in all areas of neural information 
processing, including (but not limited to) the following:
* Algorithms and Architectures: statistical learning algorithms, neural 
networks, kernel methods, graphical models, Gaussian processes, 
dimensionality reduction and manifold learning, model selection, 
combinatorial optimization.
* Applications: innovative applications or fielded systems that use machine 
learning, including systems for time series prediction, bioinformatics, 
text/web analysis, multimedia processing, and robotics.
* Brain Imaging: neuroimaging, cognitive neuroscience, EEG 
(electroencephalogram), ERP (event related potentials), MEG 
(magnetoencephalogram), fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging), brain 
mapping, brain segmentation, brain computer interfaces.
* Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence: theoretical, computational, 
or experimental studies of perception, psychophysics, human or animal 
learning, memory, reasoning, problem solving,  natural language processing, 
and neuropsychology.
* Control and Reinforcement Learning: decision and control, exploration, 
planning, navigation, Markov decision processes, game-playing, multi-agent 
coordination, computational models of classical and operant conditioning.
* Hardware Technologies: analog and digital VLSI, neuromorphic engineering, 
computational sensors and actuators, microrobotics, bioMEMS, neural 
prostheses, photonics, molecular and quantum computing.
* Learning Theory: generalization, regularization and model selection, 
Bayesian learning, spaces of functions and kernels, statistical physics of 
learning, online learning and competitive analysis, hardness of learning and 
approximations, large deviations and asymptotic analysis, information 
theory.
* Neuroscience: theoretical and experimental studies of processing and 
transmission of information in biological neurons and networks, including 
spike train generation, synaptic modulation, plasticity and adaptation.
* Speech and Signal Processing: recognition, coding, synthesis, denoising, 
segmentation, source separation, auditory perception, psychoacoustics, 
dynamical systems, recurrent networks, Language Models, Dynamic and Temporal 
models.
* Visual Processing: biological and machine vision, image processing and 
coding, segmentation, object detection and recognition, motion detection and 
tracking, visual psychophysics, visual scene analysis and interpretation.

Review Criteria: New as of 2006, NIPS submissions will be reviewed 
double-blind: the reviewers will not know the identities of the authors. 
Submissions will be refereed on the basis of technical quality, novelty, 
potential impact on the field, and clarity. There will be an opportunity 
after the meeting to revise accepted manuscripts. We particularly encourage 
submissions by authors new to NIPS, as well as application papers that 
combine concrete results on novel or previously unachievable applications 
with analysis of the underlying difficulty from a machine learning 
perspective.

Paper Format: The paper format is fully described at 
http://research.microsoft.com/conferences/nips06/. Please use the latest 
style file for your submission.

Submission Instructions: NIPS accepts only electronic submissions at 
http://papers.nips.cc. These submissions must be in postscript or PDF 
format. The Conference web site will accept electronic submissions from May 
26, 2006 until midnight, June 9, 2006, Pacific daylight time.

Demonstrations: There is a separate demonstration track at NIPS. Authors 
wishing to submit to the demonstration track should consult the conference 
web site.

Organizing Committee:
   General Chair --- Bernhard Schölkopf (MPI for Biological Cybernetics)
   Program Chair --- John Platt (Microsoft Research)
   Tutorials Chair --- Daphne Koller (Stanford)
   Workshop Chairs --- Charles Isbell (Georgia Tech)
                       Rajesh Rao (University of Washington)
   Demonstrations Chairs --- Alan Stocker (New York University)
                             Giacomo Indiveri (UNI ETH Zurich)
   Publications Chair --- Thomas Hofmann (TU Darmstadt)
   Volunteers Chair --- Fernando Perez Cruz (Gatsby Unit, London)
   Publicity Chair --- Matthias Franz (Max Plack Institute, Tübingen)
   Online Proceedings Chair --- Andrew McCallum (Univ. Massachusetts, 
Amherst)

Program Committee:
   Chair --- John Platt (Microsoft Research)
   Bob Williamson (National ICT Australia)
   Cordelia Schmid (INRIA)
   Corinna Cortes (Google)
   Dan Ellis (Columbia University)
   Dan Hammerstrom (Portland State University)
   Dan Pelleg (IBM)
   Dennis DeCoste (Yahoo Research)
   Dieter Fox (University of Washington)
   Hubert Preissl (University of Tuebingen)
   John Langford (Toyota Technical Institute)
   Kamal Nigam (Google)
   Kevin Murphy (University of British Columbia)
   Koji Tsuda (MPI for Biological Cybernetics)
   Maneesh Sahani (University College London)
   Neil Lawrence (University of Sheffield)
   Samy Bengio (IDIAP)
   Satinder Singh (University of Michigan)
   Shimon Edelman (Cornell University)
   Thomas Griffiths (UC Berkeley)

Deadline for Paper Submissions: June 9, 2006

_________________________________________________________________
Don't just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! 
http://search.msn.com/

From sumitha at dcs.gla.ac.uk  Fri Apr 21 11:22:53 2006
From: sumitha at dcs.gla.ac.uk (Sumitha Balasuriya)
Date: Fri Apr 21 14:50:12 2006
Subject: [visionlist] RESEARCH ASSOCIATE POST, University of Glasgow,
	Computing Science Department
References: <BED9D15F73EDDE48BF480604236A456002784D38@ex1.ad.dcs.gla.ac.uk>
	<58577CAC1C0FB34DAA24FA9DC76613F19B9696@ex1.ad.dcs.gla.ac.uk>
	<58577CAC1C0FB34DAA24FA9DC76613F19B9697@ex1.ad.dcs.gla.ac.uk>
Message-ID: <58577CAC1C0FB34DAA24FA9DC76613F19B9698@ex1.ad.dcs.gla.ac.uk>

RESEARCH ASSOCIATE POST, University of Glasgow, Computing Science Department The Research Associate will discharge part of the Computer Vision and Graphics laboratory's responsibilities with respect to the IP-RACINE project. The postholder will contribute to the project by supplying expertise in Computer Vision and Graphics, accumulating a base of expertise and undertaking direct research. The postholder will work on research into resolution independent digital cine file formats and colour adjustment algorithms to satisfy the Technical Annex of the IP-RACINE project. Good Honours Degree in Computer Science with knowledge of digital image processing and coding theory are required. 

Programming skills ( C, C++), essential. Knowledge of Vector Quantisation and Pascal coding are also advantageous.

The salary will be on the Research & Analogous Grade RA1A of the scales for academic staff; ?20,044 - ?27,929 per annum.

 

This post is available from 1 June 2006 - 1 April 2008

 

 

  Method of Application

 

Informal enquiries can be made to Dr Paul Siebert, email: 

_psiebert@dcs.gla.ac.uk <mailto:psiebert@dcs.gla.ac.uk>_ or tel: 0141 330 3124.

 

 






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From admin at pets2006.net  Fri Apr 21 17:40:55 2006
From: admin at pets2006.net (PETS 2006 Administration)
Date: Fri Apr 21 22:14:47 2006
Subject: [visionlist] PETS 2006 Call for Papers
Message-ID: <38544.134.225.1.162.1145641255.squirrel@server27.ukservers.net>

[apologies for multiple copies]

CALL FOR PAPERS

Ninth IEEE International Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Tracking
and Surveillance (PETS 2006)

One-day workshop organised in association with CVPR 2006, and sponsored by
the EU project ISCAPS (Integrated Surveillance of Crowded Areas for Public
Security)

http://www.pets2006.net

The aim of this workshop is to evaluate the application of existing visual
surveillance algorithms/systems for the detection of left (i.e. abandoned)
luggage in a real-world environment. The scenarios are filmed from
multiple cameras and involve multiple actors.

Papers are solicited which:

* Describe an approach for left luggage detection and include evaluation
of the results obtained on the PETS 2006 datasets.

* Contribute to performance evaluation methodologies for tracking and/or
surveillance.

Deadline for electronic paper submission:  10th May 2006

PETS 2006 Organising Committee


From preeti at ski.org  Fri Apr 21 22:07:29 2006
From: preeti at ski.org (Preeti Verghese)
Date: Fri Apr 21 22:14:58 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Posdoctoral Training at the Smith Kettlewell Eye
	Research Institute
Message-ID: <444957A1.9060409@ski.org>

Posdoctoral Training at
The Smith Kettlewell Eye Research Institute
San Francisco, USA

The Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute announces three postdoctoral 
fellowships funded by the National Institutes of Health, National 
Research Service Award Program from the National Eye Institute.  
Smith-Kettlewell is a non-profit, independent research institute in San 
Francisco, California dedicated to basic and clinical research in human 
vision and sensory deficits.  The fellowships are open to any field of 
visual neuroscience, oculomotility, sensory rehabilitation and 
translational research represented by the interests of the program 
preceptors.  The fellowships require a doctoral degree and US 
citizenship or permanent residency and are normally awarded for two 
years. Funding for the second year is contingent on renewal of the NRSA 
training grant.

Review of applications will begin in June 2006 for a start date on or 
after September 30, 2006. Details of the program and application 
procedures are to be found at http://www.ski.org/General/Fellowships. If 
you have further questions, please email Dr. Tony Norcia at amn@ski.org.
 
Preceptors
John Brabyn, Ph.D.
Low vision and rehabilitation, sensory impairment, retina and disorders

Matteo Carandini, Ph.D.
Visual processing in thalamus and cortex

James Coughlan, Ph.D.
Computer vision, including Bayesian and graphical modeling, and 
applications for the blind and visually impaired

Debby Gilden, Ph.D.
Technology and rehabilitation related to blindness, low vision, and 
multi-disabilities

William Good, M.D.
Pediatric low vision, cortical visual impairment

Russell Hamer, Ph.D.
Computational modeling of vertebrate rod and cone phototransduction

Steve Heinen, Ph.D.
Cortical processing, eye movements, motion processing

Manfred MacKeben, Ph.D.
Low vision research and rehabilitation, visual attention

Suzanne McKee, Ph.D.
Psychophysics of binocular processing, motion processing and amblyopia

Rob McPeek, Ph.D.
Neural control of eye movements and attention

Joel Miller, Ph.D.
Physiology and modeling of extraocular biomechanics and oculomotor control

Anthony Norcia, Ph.D.
Human electrophysiology and  imaging of spatial vision, normal and 
abnormal visual development

Marilyn Schneck, Ph. D.
Psychophysical and electrophysiological studies of visual function in 
aging and disease

Alan Scott, M.D.
Strabismus and amblyopia, eye movements, infant vision

Erich Sutter, Ph.D.
Spatio-temporal properties of visual processing, multifocal 
electrophysiology of visual disorders

Helen Simon, Ph.D.
Hearing impairment, binaural hearing, hearing aids and rehabilitation of 
hearing loss

Christopher Tyler, Ph.D.
Functional MRI studies of stereoscopic vision, long-range interactions, 
symmetry and texture

Preeti Verghese, Ph.D.
Psychophysics and modeling of spatial vision, visual search and eye 
movements

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From schung at optometry.uh.edu  Sat Apr 22 18:47:56 2006
From: schung at optometry.uh.edu (Susana Chung)
Date: Sat Apr 22 18:50:11 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Postdoctoral Research Opportunity: Psychophysics,
	Low Vision, Amblyopia
Message-ID: <699601ad7a244c251a3325ec2509777c@optometry.uh.edu>

Postdoctoral Research Opportunity: Psychophysics, Low Vision, Amblyopia

A postdoctoral research opportunity is available at Susana Chung?s lab 
at the University of Houston College of Optometry to conduct 
psychophysical studies of factors that limit spatial vision in normal 
central and peripheral vision, as well as in people with impaired 
vision (low vision or amblyopic vision).  The position is available 
immediately.

Previous experience in psychophysics and programming will be 
invaluable.  Experience and/or interest in working with people with 
impaired vision are desirable.  The position could be ideal either for 
a vision scientist who would like to apply his/her training to clinical 
problems, or for someone with a strong clinical background who seeks 
further training in vision science.

Interested individuals please send (1) a letter of interest, (2) a CV, 
and (3) 3 letters of reference to schung@optometry.uh.edu.  I will be 
attending ARVO and VSS in May and will be available to meet with 
interested individuals.

The University of Houston is an equal opportunity employer.

From sekuler at brandeis.edu  Sat Apr 22 20:24:25 2006
From: sekuler at brandeis.edu (Robert Sekuler)
Date: Sat Apr 22 22:40:25 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Post-doctoral position in learning and imitation of
	movement sequences
Message-ID: <A612AD63-7CCD-490B-B587-0450E5C9646C@brandeis.edu>

Postdoctoral Fellowship to study Learning and Imitation of Movement  
Sequences
Vision Laboratory, Brandeis University, Waltham MA.

A postdoctoral position in sensory/cognitive neuroscience is  
available for an immediate start date in the Vision Laboratory,  
Brandeis University, Waltham, MA (Robert Sekuler, P.I.)  An excellent  
training opportunity exists for a qualified candidate to be involved  
in research that integrates modeling with empirical work on vision,  
memory, learning, and motor control.  Supported by an NSF-funded  
project, this position will focus on the neural bases of human  
subjects' imitation and learning of sequential movements. The project  
uses a combination of novel psychophysical methods, computational  
modeling, and functional neuroimaging (EEG and ERP).

Facilities. The Vision Laboratory (http://people.brandeis.edu/ 
~sekuler/) is situated in Brandeis' Volen Center for Complex Systems,  
which offers excellent research resources and a stimulating,  
multidisciplinary environment.  Lab members have access to a high- 
density 128-channel EEG, motion capture equipment, a non-invasive,  
infrared eye-tracker, and a multi- processor, Beowulf parallel  
computing system for modeling.

Term and Salary. Funding for this position is secure for at least 2  
years with the possibility of extension. Salary will be commensurate  
with experience, in accord with NIH guidelines.

Qualifications: Candidates should hold a PhD (or equivalent) in  
neuroscience or experimental psychology, and have a strong research  
background in computational modeling of biological processes.   
Interested candidates should email a CV, including a list of 3 people  
from whom references may be obtained, to sekuler@brandeis.edu
Evaluation of applications will begin immediately until the position  
is filled.  The position is available to both US nationals and non-US  
nationals.


From michele at cvs.rochester.edu  Tue Apr 25 14:31:52 2006
From: michele at cvs.rochester.edu (Michele Schultz)
Date: Tue Apr 25 14:49:57 2006
Subject: [visionlist] REMINDER:  Deadline Approaching.....
Message-ID: <a0623050bc073e344c7a6@[192.168.80.14]>

>>The registration and abstract submission deadline of 30 April 2006 
>>is quickly approaching.  If you have not already registered or 
>>submitted an abstract, please visit 
>>http://www.cvs.rochester.edu/Ireland/submit.html
>>
>>
>>Engineering the Eye II: Imaging the Retina
>>June 19-21, 2006
>>National University of Ireland, Galway
>>
>>Co-organized by Applied Optics, Department of Experimental Physics, 
>>National University of Ireland, Galway & Center for Visual Science, 
>>University of Rochester
>>
>>This conference will bring together scientists engaged in the 
>>discovery of retinal function, clinical researchers engaged in the 
>>understanding and treatment of retinal disease, and engineers with 
>>expertise in advanced optical techniques in retinal imaging. 
>>Advances in the technology of optical imaging in the eye, such as 
>>optical coherence tomography (OCT), scanning laser ophthalmoscopy, 
>>two-photon and fluorescence imaging, and adaptive optics have 
>>opened up new opportunities to advance our understanding of retinal 
>>function and disease, and allowed new diagnostic techniques to be 
>>developed.
>>
>>By bringing scientists working in these related fields together for 
>>the first time in a concentrated workshop environment, we hope to 
>>stimulate new collaborations and progress, particularly in our 
>>understanding of how new technology might accelerate our scientific 
>>understanding of normal retina and retinal disease. The format of 
>>the conference - 3 plenary papers, 20 invited talks, Evening 
>>Discussion Sessions and a poster session, with plenty of time for 
>>formal and informal discussions - is designed to encourage debate 
>>at the very highest level, and the speakers are all recognised as 
>>leaders in their speciality. We aim to make a real impact on 
>>progress in this field.
>>
>>For more information, visit http://www.cvs.rochester.edu/Ireland/

-- 
From jbisley at mednet.ucla.edu  Tue Apr 25 20:47:37 2006
From: jbisley at mednet.ucla.edu (James Bisley)
Date: Tue Apr 25 21:31:39 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Postdoctoral Position in Visual Attention
	Neurophysiology
Message-ID: <6.2.0.14.0.20060425134651.01ecd150@mail.mednet.ucla.edu>

Postdoctoral Position in Visual Attention Neurophysiology

Dept. of Neurobiology, The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los 
Angeles, CA

A postdoctoral position is available at UCLA to study the neural mechanisms 
underlying the allocation of visual attention. In this project, the 
candidate will be involved in single neuron recording as well as 
microstimulation and inactivation of cortical and sub-cortical areas 
involved in the allocation of attention. The candidate must have an M.D., 
Ph.D. or equivalent degree in Neuroscience, Computational Neurobiology, or 
a related field. The ideal candidate would have research experience in 
primate psychophysics and/or extracellular physiology, and should have 
experience in computer programming (eg. Matlab, C).  Outstanding candidates 
from other neuroscience disciplines will be considered favorably and should 
apply.  The salary will be commensurate with the NIH guidelines and 
includes benefits.

To apply, please send a cover letter and curriculum vita, including contact 
information of 2 to 3 referees, to Dr. James Bisley 
(<mailto:jbisley@mednet.ucla.edu>jbisley@mednet.ucla.edu). For further 
information, send your request to the same e-mail address. The University 
of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.




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From pz at hms.harvard.edu  Thu Apr 27 02:06:29 2006
From: pz at hms.harvard.edu (Dr. J. S. Pezaris)
Date: Thu Apr 27 03:54:58 2006
Subject: [visionlist] AREADNE 2006, 22-25 June 2006, Santorini, Greece,
	2nd Announcement
Message-ID: <200604270206.k3R26TXC029468@pz-desk.med.harvard.edu>


         2nd CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT and CALL FOR REGISTRATION

                             AREADNE 2006

                 Research in Encoding and Decoding of
                           Neural Ensembles

                          June 22 - 25, 2006
                       Nomikos Conference Center
                           Santorini, Greece

                        http://www.areadne.org
                           info@areadne.org



INTRODUCTION

One of the fundamental problems in neuroscience today is to understand
how the activation of large populations of neurons gives rise to higher
order functions of the brain including learning, memory, cognition,
perception, action and ultimately conscious awareness.
Electrophysiological recordings in behaving animals over the past
forty years have revealed considerable information about what the
firing patterns of single neurons encode in isolation, but it remains
largely a mystery how collections of neurons interact to perform these
functions.

Recent technological advances have for the first time provided a
glimpse into the global functioning of the brain.  These technologies
include functional magnetic resonance imaging, optical imaging methods
such as intrinsic, voltage-sensitive dye, and two-photon imaging,
high-density electroencephalography and magnetoencephalography, and
multi-microelectrode array electrophysiology.  These data collection
techniques have expanded our knowledge of brain functioning beyond the
single neuron level.

At the same time, our understanding of how neuronal ensembles carry
information has allowed the development of brain-machine interfaces
(BMI) to enhance the capabilities of patients with sensory and motor
deficits.  Knowledge of how neuronal ensembles encode sensory stimuli
has made it possible to develop perceptual BMIs for the hearing and
visually impaired.  Likewise, research in how neuronal ensembles
decode motor intentions has resulted in motor BMIs by which people
with severe motor disabilities can control external devices.


CONFERENCE MISSION

There are three major goals of this conference.  First and foremost,
this conference will bring together scientific leaders from around the
world to present their recent findings regarding the functioning of
neuronal ensembles.  Second, we hope that the informal yet spectacular
setting in Santorini will encourage discussion and exchange of ideas
flowing from presentations at the conference center.  Third, this
conference is the kick-off event for a long term project by Nicholas
Hatsopoulos and John Pezaris to form a systems neuroscience research
institute within Greece.  This institute will conduct state-of-the-art
research, offer meetings and courses, and provide a center for
visiting scientists from around the world to interact with Greek
researchers and students.


FORMAT AND SPEAKERS

The conference will be held at the Nomikos Conference Center on the
beautiful Greek island of Santorini.  The scientific program will span
four days, with morning and early evening sessions and a long
afternoon break.  Confirmed speakers include experts in the field of
multi-neuron experiment and analysis (in alphabetic order): Richard
Andersen, Carol Barnes, David Bradley, Gyorgy Buzsaki, Greg DeAngelis,
Michale Fee, Gerhard Friehs, Apostolos Georgopoulos, Nicholas
Hatsopoulos, Leslie Kay, Gilles Laurent, Roger Lemon, Stephen
Lisberger, Dan Margoliash, Markus Meister, Miguel Nicolelis, John
Pezaris, Barry Richmond, Alexa Riehle, Michael Shadlen, Andreas
Tolias, Phil Ulinski, Eilon Vaadia, and Matt Wilson.


CALL FOR REGISTRATION

Registration is currently open for attending AREADNE 2006.  Fees are
currently USD 500 for faculty and post-docs, and USD 300 for students.
Fees include conference registration, lunches, a welcoming reception,
and a gala banquet.  Registration and payment can be made through our
web site http://areadne.org.  Attendance will be strictly limited to
the capacity of the conference center, and few spaces remain.


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Nicholas Hatsopoulos
John Pezaris
Dora Angelaki
Thanos Siapas
Catherine Ojakangas
Apostolos Georgopoulos
Nikos Logothetis


FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

For further information please see the conference web site
http://www.areadne.org or send email to info@areadne.org.


--
Dr. J. S. Pezaris
Harvard Medical School
220 Longwood Ave, GB-203
Boston, MA 02115, USA
john@areadne.org
From Tlooi at pco.edu  Thu Apr 27 20:28:09 2006
From: Tlooi at pco.edu (Teng Leng Ooi)
Date: Thu Apr 27 22:03:18 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Postdoctoral Position in Visual Perception
Message-ID: <4450F119020000AF00009C35@smtp.pco.edu>

Postdoctoral Position in Visual PerceptionDepartment of Basic
Sciences,Pennsylvania College of Optometry, USA A postdoctoral position
is available immediately at the vision research laboratory of Teng Leng
Ooi at the Pennsylvania College of Optometry (located in suburban
Philadelphia).  The research focuses on the perceptual mechanisms of
surface representation and binocular rivalry, and the impact of
attention and learning on these mechanisms.  The candidate should have a
Ph.D. degree in Vision Science, Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, or
related disciplines, with technical and research experience in
performing human visual psychophysical and cognition studies.  The
candidate should also have an expertise in computer programming (e.g.,
C++, Matlab, etc.).  Having research experience in binocular space
perception and attention studies will be a plus.  The salary will be
competitive and includes medical benefits.  The initial position is for
one year and is renewable for subsequent years upon satisfactory
performance.  To apply, please send a one-page statement of research
interests, a curriculum vita, sample publications/pre-publications, and
contact information (email and telephone) of 3 referees, to Dr. Teng
Leng Ooi (tlooi@pco.edu).  Evaluation of applications will begin
immediately until the position is filled. Teng Leng Ooi, PhD
Associate Professor
Pennsylvania College of Optometry
Department of Basic Science
8360 Old York Road
Elkins Park, PA 19027-1598, USA
Tel: 215-780-1466
Fax: 215-780-1254
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From announcements at journalofvision.org  Fri Apr 28 00:12:25 2006
From: announcements at journalofvision.org (Journal of Vision)
Date: Fri Apr 28 00:05:14 2006
Subject: [visionlist] News from the Journal of Vision
Message-ID: <394c01c66a58$6dd63920$020100c0@journalofvision.org>

Usage

The vision community may be interested in recent usage statistics from the Journal of Vision.
The journal serves about 4,000 sessions, about 525 PDF downloads, and about 16,000 page views per day.
All of these numbers have approximately doubled since a year ago.
In the last six months, the top five papers were each downloaded an average of 648 times.
Since November 2003, the average for the top five was 2,670 downloads.

Journal of Vision will have a booth at ARVO and at VSS, and I will attend both meetings. I hope to see you there, and would be happy to answer any questions you might have about the journal.

Andrew B. Watson, Editor-in-Chief
Journal of Vision http://journalofvision.org/

From mm at 2-sight.com  Fri Apr 28 00:16:12 2006
From: mm at 2-sight.com (Matt McMahon)
Date: Fri Apr 28 05:37:38 2006
Subject: [visionlist] retinal prosthesis research positions available
Message-ID: <44515ECC.10209@2-sight.com>

Where: Second Sight Medical Products, Inc., Los Angeles, CA
What: Research Assistant, Senior Scientist, and Faculty

Second Sight Medical Products is planning to fill a number of positions 
at the research assistant, senior scientist, and faculty levels over the 
next year to work as part of a collaborative team developing an 
implantable visual prosthesis.

The goal of the project is to create a retinal prosthesis to provide 
sight to patients blinded from outer retinal degenerations, such 
retinitis pigmentosa or macular degeneration. These prostheses consist 
of electrodes placed on the ganglion cell layer of the retina of 
patients with severe degeneration of the photoreceptor layer. Ongoing 
trials with simple arrays have produced form vision in patients with 
advanced retinitis pigmentosa. Over the next year patients will be 
implanted with significantly advanced array designs.

The new employees will work as part of a team that will evaluate 
perceptual quality, improve stimulation protocols, and develop 
rehabilitation strategies for patients with these new implants.

This is a unique opportunity to carry out novel research, and we are 
looking for exceptional candidates. This project is a close 
collaboration between the Doheny Eye Institute at the University of 
Southern California and Second Sight Medical Products, so it would be 
suitable for clinical, academic, or industrial researchers. Work will be 
done in collaboration with groups at the Salk Institute and USC who are 
studying the physiological effects of electrical stimulation in various 
animal models of retinal degeneration.

Desired skills/background:
Experience studying human visual perception (psychophysics) from a 
clinical or basic science perspective. Low vision, visual 
rehabilitation, O&M or OT experience. Excellent interpersonal and 
organizational skills. Experience in programming (Matlab, JAVA or C). 
Experience or understanding of electrical engineering.

To apply, send a cover letter, curriculum vitae, and the email 
address/phone numbers of three references to Gia Pinto, 
gpinto@2-sight.com and Matt McMahon, mm@2-sight.com .
From michele at cvs.rochester.edu  Fri Apr 28 15:05:34 2006
From: michele at cvs.rochester.edu (Michele Schultz)
Date: Fri Apr 28 15:07:30 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Abstract and Registration Deadline approaching: Center
 for Visual Science 25th Symposium
Message-ID: <a06230503c077dfa2edac@[192.168.80.14]>

>>>Dear colleagues:
>>>
>>>The May 1 deadline for abstract and registration of the 25th 
>>>Center for Visual Science Symposium, titled "Statistical learning 
>>>and brain plasticity", to be held on June 1-3, 2006 at the 
>>>University of Rochester is quickly approaching.

>>>Please register at: 
>>>http://www.cvs.rochester.edu:591/symp_2006/symp_reg.html. 
>>>Abstracts for poster presentation can be submitted electronically 
>>>at: http://www.cvs.rochester.edu:591/symp06_abst/abstract.html

>>>For further information, please visit: 
>>>http://www.cvs.rochester.edu/symposium.html
>>>
>>>
>>>PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
>>>Perceptual and motor learning-David Williams, Session Chair
>>>
>>>     * Mario Svirsky, Indiana University
>>>     * Jason Gold, Indiana University
>>>     * Reza Shadmehr, Johns Hopkins University
>>>     * Alexandre Pouget, University of Rochester
>>>
>>>Learning: Role of Priors and Attention-Robbie Jacobs, Session Chair
>>>
>>>     * David Knill, University of Rochester
>>>     * Marvin Chun, Yale University
>>>     * Nick Chater, University College London
>>>     * Josh Tenenbaum, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
>>>
>>>Constraints on Pattern Learning-Mike Weliky, Session Chair
>>>
>>>     * Lori Holt, Carnegie Mellon University
>>>     * Daniel Margoliash, University of Chicago
>>>     * Richard Aslin, University of Rochester
>>>     * Toby Mintz, University of Southern California
>>>
>>>Neural Mechanisms of Learning-Daeyeol Lee, Session Chair
>>>
>>>     * Takao Hensch, Riken Institute
>>>     * Anthony Zador, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
>>>     * Nathaniel Daw, University College London, Gatsby
>>>     * Leo Sugrue, Stanford University
>>>
>>>Maturation and Plasticity-Daphne Bavelier, Session Chair
>>>
>>>     * Daphne Maurer, McMaster University
>>>     * Brian Wandell, Stanford University
>>>     * Elissa Newport, University of Rochester
>>>
>>>Wrap-up Session
>>>
>>>     * Randy Gallistel, Rutgers University
>>>
>>>Organizing Committee:
>>>Richard Aslin
>>>Daphne Bavelier
>>>Alexandre Pouget
>>>
>>>The symposium poster is available for download at
>>>http://www.cvs.rochester.edu/symp_06.pdf

-- 
From p.bex at ucl.ac.uk  Sat Apr 29 19:21:26 2006
From: p.bex at ucl.ac.uk (Peter Bex)
Date: Sat Apr 29 19:29:02 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Postdoctoral Research Opportunity UCL
Message-ID: <aa08c041fc6c33547e440434e15e1c91@ucl.ac.uk>

Postdoctoral Research Opportunity

A 3 year postdoctoral position is available in Peter Bex?s lab in 
collaboration with Steven Dakin and Gary Rubin at the Institute of 
Ophthalmology, University College London (www.ucl.ac.uk/ioo). The 
project will examine spatial and temporal vision in the central and 
peripheral visual field of normally sighted observers and those with 
visual impairment.

The candidate should have a Ph.D. or equivalent degree in Vision 
Science, Psychology, Optometry or related disciplines and have 
experience or interest in working with people with impaired vision. 
Experience in computer programming (eg. Matlab, C) is desirable.

Interested individuals please send a CV and the contact details of 2 
referees to Peter Bex (p.bex@ucl.ac.uk). Gary Rubin (g.rubin@ucl.ac.uk) 
will be available at ARVO and Steven Dakin (s.dakin@ucl.ac.uk) at VSS 
to meet with prospective candidates.

University College London is an equal opportunity employer.

_____________________
Peter Bex,
Institute of Ophthalmology,
11-43 Bath Street,
London EC1V 9EL
tel: +44 207 608 4015
fax: +44 207 608 6983
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From Julie.Harris at st-andrews.ac.uk  Mon May  1 09:11:17 2006
From: Julie.Harris at st-andrews.ac.uk (Julie M. Harris)
Date: Mon May  1 11:56:57 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Opportunities for vision scientists: St. Andrews
Message-ID: <1146474677.4455d0b50a0b9@webmail.st-andrews.ac.uk>


UPCOMING OPPORTUNITIES FOR VISION SCIENTISTS
SCHOOL OF PSYCHOLOGY
UNIVERSITY OF ST. ANDREWS

St. Andrews, founded in 1413, is the oldest University in Scotland, located on
the east coast, north of Edinburgh.  The School of Psychology is one of the
best in the UK (maximum 5* rating at last RAE), and hosts a highly active and
successful Perception and Performance group (Foldiak, Harris, Hibbard,
Jentzsch, Perrett).  We will soon have opportunities at several levels (summer
06 deadlines, appointment 06-07).  For further details, contact one of the
group or speak to Julie Harris or Paul Hibbard at the VSS meeting, or email: 
jh81@st-andrews.ac.uk, pbh2@st-andrews.ac.uk .

See:  http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/psychology/research/perception/index.shtml

(1)	Full time permanent academic position.

This is an open call for a permanent member of staff in any area of psychology
to complement our current groups with the School.  We anticipate possible
appointment at any level, according to interests and experience (Lecturer,
Reader or Professor).


(2)	RCUK Fellowship in Perception

Aimed at the very best early career scientists with around 0-2 years
postdoctoral experience.  Fellowships are for 5 years, leading to a permanent
academic period at the end of that time.  Holders develop their own research
program, with 2 years dedicated to research, and a small teaching load phased
in over the remaining period.  Applicants should demonstrate evidence of
independent academic research and have a clear plan for the future that
complements the research programs of our Perception and Performance team.


(3) EPSRC Doctoral Training Grant (DTG) Studentships

3-4 year studentships for PhD training, to start in October 2006. Projects are
available for supervision in: computational and psychophysical approaches to
visual depth perception, assessment of computer facilitated social interaction
in dementia, computer graphics applications to face perception, and modelling
of sensory, cognitive or memory systems and behaviour. Eligibility: applicants
require keen interest in psychological processes and a good first degree
(minimum 2:1 or equivalent). Programming skills and/or mathematical aptitude is
necessary for most projects. Applicants must be a British or EU citizen resident
in the UK for three years prior to appointment.  Closing date: 31 May 2006





**********************************


Julie M. Harris
Professor of Psychology
School of Psychology
University of St. Andrews
St. Mary's College
South Street
St. Andrews
KY16 9JP

Julie.Harris@st-andrews.ac.uk


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From backus at psych.upenn.edu  Tue May  2 14:27:31 2006
From: backus at psych.upenn.edu (Benjamin Backus)
Date: Tue May  2 16:44:50 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Research positions to study perceptual learning / cue
	recruitment
Message-ID: <44576C53.7000708@psych.upenn.edu>

Research positions are available to study perceptual learning,
especially the visual system?s recruitment of new signals to act as cues
during perception, for several PostDoc / PhD students and technical
staff, funded by the Human Frontier Science Program, in the following
laboratories:

Dr. Benjamin Backus (http://psych.upenn.edu/backuslab), University of
Pennsylvania, USA
Dr. Marc Ernst (http://www.kyb.mpg.de/~marc), Max Planck Inst., Germany
Dr. Michael Kearns (http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~mkearns), University of
Pennsylvania, USA
Dr. Guy Wallis (http://www.hms.uq.edu.au/staff/academic/guyw.htm),
University of Queensland, Australia

The larger goal of this project is to understand the role of associative
learning in perception, especially the construction of visual
appearance, within a theoretical framework of Bayesian statistical
inference and machine learning theory.

Positions may start after 1 July 2006. The project is collaborative and
interdisciplinary. Staff will be based at one of the three labs but
encouraged to spend extended periods at the partner institutions as part
of ongoing collaborative endeavors.

The project will explore perceptual learning in humans using a variety
of psychophysical, neuropsychological, and theoretical/computational
techniques. For experimental work we have available high-fidelity
virtual environments and sensorimotor labs with several force feedback
devices, motion platforms, large screen stereo displays, and tracking
systems at the three participating Universities.

Expertise in any of the above techniques and some programming skills is
an advantage but not required. Successful candidates should have a
background in Physics, Maths, Psychology, Computer Science, Biology, or
a related field. Preference will be given to candidates who have
conducted psychophysical work or who have demonstrated expertise in
computer vision or machine learning.

The successful candidates will join a dynamic and interdisciplinary
international group of scientists performing cutting-edge research on
human multimodal perception, computer vision, and human-computer
interaction. Further information about the research environments can be
found at the websites of the participating laboratories. Informal
inquiries can be sent to Dr. Marc Ernst (marc.ernst@tuebingen. mpg.de),
Dr. Guy Wallis (gwallis@hms.uq.edu.au), Dr. Michael Kearns
(mkearns@cis.upenn.edu), or Dr. Ben Backus (backus@psych.upenn.edu).
Ernst, Wallis and Backus will be at VSS May 5-10.

Positions are available for 2-3 years. Salary depends on qualifications
with a maximum salary equivalent to approximately 20.000 ? per year
(after tax appr. 13.000 ? per year) without Ph.D. or approximately
45.000 ? per year (27.800 ?) for advanced PhDs, depending on location.
Handicapped applicants with equal qualifications will be given
preferential treatment. Applications will be considered until the
positions are filled.

Candidates should send letter, curriculum vita, reprints, and names of
three referees to one or more of the four supervising scientists
(electronic submission preferred; postal addresses available upon request).

A PDF version of this ad is here:
http://www.psych.upenn.edu/backuslab/cuerecruitment/files/PositionsAd.pdf


From elliot.freeman at ucl.ac.uk  Tue May  2 15:53:41 2006
From: elliot.freeman at ucl.ac.uk (Elliot Freeman)
Date: Tue May  2 16:45:29 2006
Subject: [visionlist] VSS accommodation vacancy
Message-ID: <200605021653.41600.elliot.freeman@ucl.ac.uk>

--- Berth available ---

A berth on the famous 'Perception' cruiser is available, due to late 
cancellation. Moored in the Hyatt hotel marina, cost per night is about $100. 
Please contact me urgently if interested.
Elliot.



-- 
Dr. Elliot Freeman,
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience,
University College London,
17 Queen Square,
WC1N 3AR.
Tel (office):	020 7679 5429
Mobile: 07963 992979
Fax:	020 7916 8517
email:	elliot.freeman@ucl.ac.uk
From andrew.rossi at vanderbilt.edu  Tue May  2 17:18:31 2006
From: andrew.rossi at vanderbilt.edu (Andrew Rossi)
Date: Tue May  2 20:00:25 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Post-Doctoral Research Position, Vanderbilt University
Message-ID: <6.0.1.1.1.20060502121659.01fff860@r.mail.vanderbilt.edu>


Post-Doctoral Research Position
Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University

A full-time postdoctoral position is available to study the neural 
mechanisms of visual representation and attention in the Rossi lab in the 
Department of Psychology at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, 
Tennessee.  The lab uses a combination of techniques including human 
psychophysics and multi-unit recording in behaving monkeys.  Projects 
include electrophysiological studies of cognitive control in extrastriate 
cortex and the thalamus (in collaboration with Dr. Vivien Casagrande).

Candidates with experience in vision science, cognitive psychology, 
computer programming, or electrophysiology are encouraged to apply. A PhD 
or MD is required.  Vanderbilt University has a thriving neuroscience 
community and strong interdisciplinary centers in vision 
(<http://vision-research.vanderbilt.edu/>http://vision-research.vanderbilt.edu/) 
and cognitive and integrative neuroscience 
(<http://cicn.vanderbilt.edu/>http://cicn.vanderbilt.edu/). Applicants must 
be U.S. citizens or permanent residents.  Salary will be commensurate with 
experience. Vanderbilt University is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  Please 
send curriculum vitae, the names of three references, and a description of 
research interests to:

Dr. Andrew Rossi
Department of Psychology
Vanderbilt University
111 21st Avenue South, Room 301
Nashville, TN  37203
andrew.rossi@vanderbilt.edu

If you plan to attend the VSS meeting in Sarasota and would like to arrange 
a time to meet, please contact me by email.


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From anya.hurlbert at ncl.ac.uk  Thu May  4 15:11:53 2006
From: anya.hurlbert at ncl.ac.uk (Anya Hurlbert)
Date: Thu May  4 23:42:22 2006
Subject: [visionlist] PhD Studentship in Vision Science, EPSRC-funded
Message-ID: <6.2.0.14.2.20060504160929.034efb70@burnmoor.ncl.ac.uk>

PhD studentship in Vision Science, EPSRC-funded
Colour, Texture and 3D Shape Interactions in Real-World Surface Perception
Newcastle University, UK

Applications are invited for an EPSRC-funded PhD studentship in colour 
perception of natural 3D objects.  The goal of the project is to understand 
how the human perception of  real object colours is influenced by surface 
texture and shading, as well as by cognitive factors such as object 
familiarity. The project will involve computational analysis and databasing 
of natural chromatic textures, as well as measurements of human perception 
using a novel technique to manipulate the colours of real objects. Thus the 
project is at the interface of psychology and computer vision. Unilever plc 
is the industrial partner in the project.

The studentship is offered in Professor Hurlbert's lab in the School of 
Biology and Psychology at  Newcastle University. The School is one of the 
premier Psychology groupings in the UK, having scored the highest ratings 
in both research (RAE 2001 5*) and teaching (QAA Subject Review 24/24 
points).  The lab is in the new JIF-funded Henry Wellcome Building for 
Neuroecology, which also houses state-of-the-art facilities for imaging and 
neurophysiology, a computational suite for biological modelling and 
neuroinformatics, eye trackers, and a range of devices for natural image 
processing. The School also plays a vital role in the Institute of 
Neuroscience, one of the largest neuroscience communities in the UK.

Candidate requirements. Interested candidates with backgrounds in 
psychology, engineering, mathematics or a natural science are encouraged to 
apply. Candidates must have good computing skills, an enthusiasm for 
understanding human visual perception, and hold the equivalent of  a 2.1 or 
higher degree class, by October 2006. The student will gain experience in 
psychophysical experimental design and programming, colour science, and 
computational modelling. Please see www.epsrc.ac.uk/student for further 
guidelines on eligibility.

Student stipend: EPSRC sets a minimum stipend level of 12,300 UK pounds for 
the year 2006/2007.

Newcastle upon Tyne is a lively city, named by Newsweek in 2002 as one of 
the world's eight top creative cities. Home to the Baltic (Europe's largest 
contemporary art museum), the new Sage Gateshead music centre,  Newcastle 
United Football Team, and a vigorous  night life loved by its large student 
population, it is also a welcoming place to live.

Please contact <mailto:Anya.Hurlbert@ncl.ac.uk>Anya.Hurlbert@ncl.ac.uk if 
you are interested or have further questions.   (Note that Professor 
Hurlbert will also be at VSS 2006).

To apply, please send a statement of interest, CV, and the names of two 
referees directly  to anya.hurlbert@ncl.ac.uk, and complete the university 
application form online at http://www.ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate/apply/. 
Deadline for application 19 May 2006.


Anya Hurlbert MD PhD
Director, Institute of Neuroscience
Professor of Visual Neuroscience
Henry Wellcome Building for Neuroecology
Framlington Place
University of Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4HH
+44-191-222-7638 (phone)
+44-191-222-5622 (fax)
http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/anya.hurlbert
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/ion 
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From: denis.pelli at nyu.edu (Denis Pelli)
Date: Thu May  4 23:42:42 2006
Subject: [visionlist] postdoc in object recognition w pelli at nyu
Message-ID: <7355D2A4-2539-4F18-885A-AB24A4C59B1C@nyu.edu>

Wanted: Postdoc to study object recognition in Denis Pelli's lab at  
NYU. Must be curious keen observer, not stuck in rut. Psychophysics +  
MEG? + fMRI?

Denis will be at VSS and ECVP. 646-258-7524 cell. denis.pelli@nyu.edu

New York University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer.

Denis Pelli
Professor of Psychology and Neural Science
http://psych.nyu.edu/pelli/



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From s.watt at bangor.ac.uk  Wed May  3 13:52:12 2006
From: s.watt at bangor.ac.uk (Simon Watt)
Date: Thu May  4 23:43:01 2006
Subject: [visionlist] =?windows-1252?q?Chairs_in_Cognitive_Neuroscience_?=
 =?windows-1252?q?=97_University_of_Wales_Bangor?=
Message-ID: <7dfea603892c6466d33c2346d792470d@bangor.ac.uk>

UNIVERSITY OF WALES, BANGOR

SCHOOL OF PSYCHOLOGY
Professorial Appointments in
Cognitive Neuroscience (2)
		(Ref: 06-5/151)
Salary negotiable in Professorial Range

The School of Psychology at the University of Wales, Bangor - one of 
Europe?s leading psychology departments - is looking to appoint up to 
two new Professors in Cognitive Neuroscience.   Some of the funding for 
these posts is being provided by the recently established Wales 
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience (WICN), supported by the Welsh 
Assembly Government.  The Institute has been developed to promote 
collaborative research within Cognitive Neuroscience between the highly 
rated psychology departments at Bangor, Cardiff and Swansea. The post 
holders will be involved in collaborative projects with Cardiff and 
Swansea, and will have access to the research resources at these 
Universities, such as patient panels, computer systems and MEG.  
Bangor?s Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience has an established patient 
panel for neurobehavioral research and facilities for fMRI, ERP and 
fMRI guided TMS.

Though we welcome applications from any area of Psychology studied 
through a cognitive neuroscience perspective, we especially seek to 
strengthen cognitive neuroscience in the areas of memory, social 
cognition, affective neuroscience, developmental neuroscience and 
language. Bangor is located on the coast at the foot of the Snowdonia 
mountains in North Wales, offering stunning scenery as well as a clean 
and peaceful environment.

Application forms and further particulars can be obtained by contacting 
Human Resources, University of Wales, Bangor, Gwynedd LL57 2DG. Tel: 
+44 (0) 1248 382926/388132. E-mail: personnel@bangor.ac.uk (Ref: 
06-5/151).

Please quote the appropriate reference number when applying.

Closing date for applications:  Friday 23rd June 2006.

For information about these positions, please contact Professor Steve 
Tipper (s.tipper@bangor.ac.uk) and see the School of Psychology 
website: http://www.psychology.bangor.ac.uk.

Committed to Equal Opportunities
_____________________________________________
Simon Watt PhD
Lecturer
School of Psychology
University of Wales, Bangor
Gwynedd LL57 2AS
United Kingdom

Tel: +44 (0) 1248 38 8252
Fax: +44 (0) 1248 38 2599
Email: s.watt@bangor.ac.uk
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From smart at neuralcorrelate.com  Thu May  4 17:54:07 2006
From: smart at neuralcorrelate.com (Susana Martinez-Conde)
Date: Thu May  4 23:43:19 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Illusion Contest UPDATE
Message-ID: <200605041453.k44ErkY2069288@visionscience.com>

Dear Vision Sciences Society Attendee,

Apologies for multiple emails. This is to remind you that the Best Visual
Illusion of the Year Contest will be held this Monday afternoon, May 8th,
3pm, at Van Wezel Hall (5 min. walk from the Hyatt), during the VSS schedule
break. The illusion contest is not affiliated with VSS, so it will not be
listed in the VSS program: please *remember to update your calendar*! 

The event is free to everybody: family and friends are welcome. Seating is
first-come first-serve.

We are also happy to announce that the contest will be followed by free hors
d?oeuvres in the Grand Foyer of the Van Wezel Hall, with music and stunning
views of the bay. Please join us!!

http://illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com  

Susana Martinez-Conde

On behalf of the Neural Correlate Society Executive Committee (Susana
Martinez-Conde, Steve Macknik, Luis Martinez, Jose-Manuel Alonso, and Peter
Tse),

---------------------------------------------------
Susana Martinez-Conde, PhD
Director, Laboratory of Visual Neuroscience
Department of Neurobiology
Barrow Neurological Institute
350 W. Thomas Rd.
Phoenix, AZ, USA
?
Phone: +1 (602) 406-3484
Fax: +1 (602) 406-4172
Email: smart@neuralcorrelate.com
www.neuralcorrelate.com/smc_lab 
?



From pannasch at psy2.psych.tu-dresden.de  Fri May  5 15:33:46 2006
From: pannasch at psy2.psych.tu-dresden.de (Sebastian Pannasch)
Date: Fri May  5 17:01:49 2006
Subject: [visionlist] REMINDER: Call for papers for COGAIN 2006 -- 'Gazing
	into the Future'
Message-ID: <445B8C7A.15885.3CF7E9@localhost>

COGAIN 2006: ?Gazing into the Future? - Call for papers

The COGAIN 2006 Conference on Communication by Gaze Interaction
Monday 4th and Tuesday 5th September 2006
Turin, Italy

Deadline for short paper submissions: 31st May2006

The conference provides a unique focus on communication by eye-gaze. It 
concentrates on the use of eye-gaze primarily for users with different types of 
disabilities in the context of interacting with computer applications, 
environment control and mobility. The conference has a strong involvement 
with disabled users and forms a vital bridge between those who develop 
gaze measurement and communication systems, those who research into 
the construction and use, and those who actually use, or could use, the 
systems. There is a strong emphasis in the conference on a range of 
subjects from technical issues to disabled user requirements and usability 
issues. The conference is the second annual conference of COGAIN, a 
European Union funded research Network of Excellence, which comprises 
25 universities, manufacturers and end-user organizations

The conference will be run over two days:
Day 1 (Monday 4th September, 2006): Academic Sessions
Day 2 (Tuesday 5th September, 2006): User and Industry Sessions

The themes for the academic sessions  (Day1) are:
*   Eyetracking systems: low-cost systems, mobile systems, software, 
    algorithms, calibration techniques and issues, integration with 
    operating systems, standards.
*   Gaze-aware communication software: eye-typing systems, interfaces 
    to common applications, end-user configuration, gaze-aware 
    applications, edutainment. 
*   Integration of gaze with other modalities: multimodal interaction, user 
    performance and preference studies, attentive interfaces, gaze and 
    brain integration. 
*   Human factors and user-related issues: Requirements for various 
    disabled user groups, measuring usability with disabled groups, 
    usability issues with gaze-based systems, case studies of user 
    experience with gaze communication, training in the use of gaze-
    communication.

The user and industry sessions (Day 2) will follow a similar format to the 
successful event held in Copenhagen during COGAIN 2005 Conference. The 
sessions will contain presentations from users of gaze-based systems, from 
representatives of end-user organizations and from industry, as well as 
opportunities for end users and researchers to try out the latest systems from 
the participating manufacturers. One of the most valuable aspects of last 
year?s meeting was the opportunity it gave the academic research community 
and industry to meet, listen to, and observe users of gaze-based systems, 
and to understand their priorities and needs for system design and use. 

For full details of the call for papers, please see 
http://www.cogain.org/cogain2006

or contact Howell Istance, School of Computing, De Montfort University, 
Leicester LE1 9BH, UK. (hoi@dmu.ac.uk)


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From don.jackson at crsltd.com  Tue May  9 10:32:14 2006
From: don.jackson at crsltd.com (Don Jackson)
Date: Thu May 11 17:36:26 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Re: Cambridge Research Systems Ltd - Career Opportunity
Message-ID: <BAC7E86EFAEE5641B5DA31CCC47A41DD489238@crsukmx01.crs.local>

Cambridge Research Systems Ltd. has created a new career opportunity for
an Applications Engineer to join our Vision Science Division. 

 

Background

 

Cambridge Research Systems was founded in 1985 by Professor John Robson
FRS and Tom Robson, his son, to design and manufacture equipment for
Vision Scientists. Now the market leader in this field, we remain
dedicated to scientific and technical excellence in our growing range of
solutions for both basic and clinical research.

 

The Post

 

This post would suit a recent graduate in engineering, physics, computer
science, or a related scientific field - or - An MSc or PhD in a vision
science related discipline - who has proven programming skills using C
and MATLAB and is looking for a career that will build on their academic
training, and reward enthusiasm and drive for success.

 

What you must possess are good organizational skills and the desire to
work as part of a small team in a commercial environment.

 

Based at our UK office in Rochester, Kent, duties will include: 

 

- Actively extending our existing Toolbox for MATLAB to make it the
standard software interface for controlling our equipment

- Developing MATLAB programs using GUIDE to provide a complete suite of
ready-to-run classic vision science experiments

- Writing technical application notes, documentation and training guides
to show how to use the Toolbox for a wide variety of vision science
applications

- Providing first-line technical and programming support for our range
of software and hardware products. 

- Assisting with ad-hoc R&D projects to backup and support the
capabilities of our development team

 

Although primarily office based there will be opportunities for
occasional travel both in the UK and abroad working with our customers
and attending academic meetings to both participate and update technical
skills. 

 

The post is ideal for someone who enjoys solving a wide range of
research problems and wants to help our customers to get the most from
our equipment.

 

General Information

 

Cambridge Research Systems is based on the Medway City Estate,
Rochester, Kent, about 30 miles east of London and is served by
excellent transport links including the A2 and M2 main roads and
frequent trains from Victoria and Charing Cross.  

 

We offer an informal and friendly non-smoking environment and currently
employ about 20 staff. Everybody is treated as a professional and is
involved in the advancement of the products and the company direction. 

 

Employment is based on a 37.5 hour Monday to Friday week, and hours are
flexible around core office hours. Annual holiday entitlement is 25
working days in addition to statutory public holidays. Our employee
benefits scheme includes an optional package of a contributory group
personal pension scheme to which the company contributes 7.5% of basic
salary when you contribute 5%, permanent health insurance and death in
service insurance.

 

Salary will be competitive, commensurate with experience and reviewed
annually.

 

See www.crsltd.com <http://www.crsltd.com/>  for further details on the
company and our products.

 

 

Application

 

If you feel that you would fit into our organization, please provide a
CV and accompanying letter, preferably by email, explaining why you are
interested in the post, and what you feel you have to offer, to:

 

Don Jackson, 

General Manager

Cambridge Research Systems Ltd.

80 Riverside, Sir Thomas Longley Road

Rochester, Kent, ME2 4BH

Tel: 01 634 720707

Fax: 01 634 720719

Email: don.jackson@crsltd.com

 

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From kelley at nist.gov  Wed May 10 16:26:04 2006
From: kelley at nist.gov (Edward F. Kelley)
Date: Thu May 11 17:37:26 2006
Subject: [visionlist] NIST Post Doc Possible
Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20060510083118.02670470@mail.boulder.nist.gov>

Blind copies to my colleagues...

Folks,

Because I will retire after a few years, we are considering getting a 
post-doc here at NIST in Boulder, Colorado, to ultimately take over our 
display metrology operations in the Flat Panel Display Laboratory at 
Boulder. In addition to learning about the details of display metrology in 
general, the specific project could focus on, for example, verified 
deconvolution techniques in using array detectors to quantify display 
performance. Other topics that could be considered include motion-artifact 
measurements, medical displays and cameras, non-square pixels (resolution) 
measurement techniques, N-primary displays (N>3), and N-bit displays (N>8), 
3D and stereoscopic displays, holographic displays, etc. There are many new 
things coming down the pike.

A suitable candidate must be innovative, inventive, an experimentalist, and 
(especially) good with their hands (USA citizenship may be required, not 
sure on that). If you have any excellent candidates in mind, please let me 
know and I will ultimately provide more details as this opportunity 
develops. Feel free to pass this message around to others.

Thanks,

Ed


-------------------------------------------------------------------
Dr. Edward F. Kelley
Physicist, Flat Panel Display Laboratory, Display Metrology Project
http://www.fpd.nist.gov/
National Institute of Standards and Technology http://www.nist.gov/
NIST, Division 815.01
Bldg 1, Rm 3540
325 Broadway
Boulder, CO  80305-3328
Phone 303-497-4599
Fax: 303-497-3387
E-mail: kelley@nist.gov 


From l.diazsantana at gmail.com  Thu May 11 11:31:58 2006
From: l.diazsantana at gmail.com (Luis Diaz-Santana)
Date: Thu May 11 17:38:36 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Submissions. 3rd European Meeting in Physiological
	Optics
Message-ID: <a06100510c088d0bc7cc6@[192.168.0.5]>

Dear Colleagues

Submissions are now possible for the 3rd European Meeting in 
Physiological Opitcs.

Please use the pdf form available from meeting website to fill your 
details and abstract. Do not e-mail the form itself, but press the 
submit button at the end of it. This will allow us speedy processing 
of the information you send.

http://www.city.ac.uk/optometry/Luis/myresearch/3rdEMPO/3rdeuropeanmeeti.html

Note that you will need to use Adobe Reader 7.0 or higher to read 
this form. Previous versions will not allow to submit the information 
entered. Please do not change the automatic subject of the e-mail, 
otherwise I cannot warranty reception of your submission.

The deadline for submission is the 31st of May.

If you have any problems with it, please e-mail me and I will try to 
resolve the problems as soon as possible.

Appologies for double posting.

Looking forward to meet you in London
Luis Diaz-Santana
-- 
3rd European Meeting in Physiological Optics.
September 7th to 9th, 2006
City University
London, UK
http://www.city.ac.uk/optometry/Luis/myresearch/3rdEMPO/3rdeuropeanmeeti.html


Luis Diaz-Santana
Department of Optometry and Visual Science
City University, Northampton Square
London, EC1V 0HB, UK.
http://www.city.ac.uk/optometry/Luis/myresearch/
http://www.sharpeye.org/

Tel: +44 (0)20 7040 8335
Fax: +44(0)20 7040 8355
e-mail: luisd@city.ac.uk
From ohzawa at fbs.osaka-u.ac.jp  Tue May  9 07:26:14 2006
From: ohzawa at fbs.osaka-u.ac.jp (Izumi Ohzawa)
Date: Thu May 11 17:39:10 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Summer School 2006 at Osaka University
Message-ID: <A1854620-AA7E-43F5-8D02-FF0C29CE2ACE@fbs.osaka-u.ac.jp>

Osaka University Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences is pleased  
to announce the opening of Frontier Biosciences Summer School for the  
Summer 2006, with financial support by the 21-st Century Center of  
Excellence (COE) award from the Ministry of Education, Culture,  
Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT).

The Summer School consists of a week of intensive lectures by our  
faculty, followed by one week of hands-on experience in a laboratory  
of our faculty members. Fellowships covering airfare and expenses are  
available.

The Summer School is offered in 3 courses:
	1: Neuroscience
	2: Nanobiology and Photonics
	3: Molecular and Cell Biology.

Date: July 3 - July 14, 2006
Application deadline: Friday, May 19, 2006 (JST: Japan Standard Time)

Please note that the deadline is in less than two weeks.
(Email application is accepted.)

For further details, please see our web site:
http://www.fbs.osaka-u.ac.jp/summerschool2006/

Inquiries should be addressed to: summerschool2006@fbs.osaka-u.ac.jp

---


Izumi Ohzawa
Osaka University
Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences
and School of Engineering Science
1-3 Machikaneyama, Toyonaka,
OSAKA 560-8531  JAPAN

Tel (direct): +81-6-6850-6520
Tel (assistant): +81-6-6850-6522 (English OK)
Fax: +81-6-6850-6557
Email: ohzawa@fbs.osaka-u.ac.jp
Web: http://ohzawa-lab.bpe.es.osaka-u.ac.jp/



From smart at neuralcorrelate.com  Tue May  9 05:49:29 2006
From: smart at neuralcorrelate.com (Susana Martinez-Conde)
Date: Thu May 11 17:39:35 2006
Subject: [visionlist] illusion contest winners
Message-ID: <200605090248.k492mtHq090442@visionscience.com>

Dear vision science community,

 

We are happy to announce that the people have voted, and the TOP THREE
winners of the 2006 Best Visual Illusion of the Year Contest are:

 

3rd prize: Gideon Caplovitz & Peter Tse (Dartmouth College) -- ?The
Bar/Ellipse/Cross Illusion?

 

2nd prize: Peter Tse (Dartmouth College) ? ?The Infinite Regress Illusion?

 

1st prize: Max D?rsteler (Universit?tsspital Z?rich, Switzerland) -- ?The
Freezing Rotation Illusion?

 

The illusions will be posted (within the next few days) at:
http://illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com
<http://illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com/> 

 

Submissions for the 2007 contest are now welcome. Find the contest rules at:
http://illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com
<http://illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com/> 

 

Given the powerfully encouraging response from the attendees of the event
this year, the contest will continue to be hosted in Sarasota, Florida.

 

We look forward to seeing you again at next year?s contest on Saturday
evening (6.30pm), May 12th, 2007, during the week of VSS.

 

On behalf of the Neural Correlate Society Executive Committee,

 

Susana Martinez-Conde (Illusion Contest Coordinator)

 

---------------------------------------------------

Susana Martinez-Conde, PhD

Director, Laboratory of Visual Neuroscience

Department of Neurobiology

Barrow Neurological Institute

350 W. Thomas Rd.

Phoenix, AZ, USA

 

Phone: +1 (602) 406-3484

Fax: +1 (602) 406-4172

Email:  <mailto:smart@neuralcorrelate.com> smart@neuralcorrelate.com

 <http://www.neuralcorrelate.com/smc_lab> www.neuralcorrelate.com/smc_lab 

 

 

 

 

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From don.jackson at crsltd.com  Sat May 13 12:57:28 2006
From: don.jackson at crsltd.com (Don Jackson)
Date: Sat May 13 18:58:01 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Re: Cambridge Research Systems Ltd - Career
	Opportunity - Product Specialist, UK
Message-ID: <BAC7E86EFAEE5641B5DA31CCC47A41DD489301@crsukmx01.crs.local>

Cambridge Research Systems Ltd. has created a new career opportunity for
a Product Specialist to join our Vision Science Division. 

 

Background

 

Cambridge Research Systems was founded in 1985 by Professor John Robson
FRS and Tom Robson, his son, to design and manufacture equipment for
Vision Scientists. Now the market leader in this filed, we remain
dedicated to scientific and technical excellence in our growing range of
solutions for both basic and clinical research.

 

The Post

 

This post would suit an experienced vision scientist who is ready to
leave academia to use their excellent communication, problem solving and
entrepreneurial skills in a business environment. Ideally you will have
extensive experience using video-based eye trackers and already be
familiar with our range of programmable Visual Stimulus Generators.

 

What you must possess are good organizational skills and the desire to
work as part of a small team in a commercial environment.

 

Based at our UK office in Rochester, Kent, duties will include: 

 

- Strengthening our sales and support team with your scientific and
technical skills

- Actively locating and establishing contact with potential new
customers for our growing range of eye trackers, visual stimulators and
associated software applications

- Investigating and suggesting the ideal solution for solving research
problems

- Actively organising and presenting technical seminars to promote the
use of our equipment

- Attending international academic conferences to meet new and existing
customers, and to demonstrate our range of equipment

- Keeping up-to-date with the relevant vision science literature to
suggest improvements to our existing solutions

- Helping produce electronic and printed marketing material to promote
the use of our equipment in a wide range of vision research applications

- Providing training and technical support to new and existing
customers, and our international distributors

 

You must be enthusiastic, a confident networker, willing to travel
regularly, highly IT literate and genuinely interested in helping others
with their research goals. Ultimately this is a sales and marketing
role, so applicants should bear this in mind before applying.

 

General Information

 

Cambridge Research Systems is based on the Medway City Estate,
Rochester, Kent, about 30 miles east of London and is served by
excellent transport links including the A2 and M2 main roads and
frequent trains from Victoria and Charing Cross.  

 

We offer an informal and friendly non-smoking environment and currently
employ about 20 staff. Everybody is treated as a professional and is
involved in the advancement of the products and the company direction. 

 

Employment is based on a 37.5 hour Monday to Friday week, and hours are
flexible around core office hours. Annual holiday entitlement is 25
working days in addition to statutory public holidays. Our employee
benefits scheme includes an optional package of a contributory group
personal pension scheme to which the company contributes 7.5% of basic
salary when you contribute 5%, permanent health insurance and death in
service insurance.

 

Salary will be competitive, commensurate with experience and reviewed
annually.

 

See www.crsltd.com <http://www.crsltd.com/>  for further details on the
company and our products.

 

Application

 

If you feel that you would fit into our organization, please provide us
with a CV and a covering letter outlining your relevant experience, why
you are interested in joining us and what unique experience you can
bring to the role. There is a wealth of information on the CRS website
about our current products and what we do, so please show us that you
can make use of it in presenting your case!

 

Don Jackson, 

General Manager

Cambridge Research Systems Ltd.

80 Riverside, Sir Thomas Longley Road

Rochester, Kent, ME2 4BH

Tel: 01 634 720707

Fax: 01 634 720719

Email: don.jackson@crsltd.com

 

 

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From kelley at nist.gov  Fri May 12 22:24:50 2006
From: kelley at nist.gov (Edward F. Kelley)
Date: Sat May 13 18:58:29 2006
Subject: [visionlist] More Details on NIST Post Doc Possible
Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20060512162039.026f7008@mail.boulder.nist.gov>

Blind copies to my colleagues...

Folks,

Here are more details on the possible post-doctoral position that is 
available. Much work must be done to get one of these NRC post-docs, but we 
hope to be selected. You will note that this can only be open to USA citizens.

http://www4.nas.edu/PGA/rap.nsf/ByTitle/50.81.52.B4369?OpenDocument

Thanks,

Ed


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From silvio at dibe.unige.it  Mon May 15 06:22:45 2006
From: silvio at dibe.unige.it (Silvio Sabatini)
Date: Mon May 15 14:48:09 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Binocular HMD with embedded Eye Tracker
Message-ID: <44681E35.6010209@dibe.unige.it>

Dear All,

We are interested in purchasing a system composed of a Stereo Head
Mounted Display and an Eye Tracker + Head Tracker to measure scanpath
data, and head's movements in virtual reality environments.
Seemingly, not many companies offer the possibility of mounting the
binocular eye tracker  inside the HMD, and prototypical solutions are
proposed.

We are not concerned with extremely high accuracy, but we do want a
reliable system with
(1) easy-to-use software
(2) wide binocular field of view (around 60 deg)
(3) limited weight and confortable wearability
(4) limited price (up to 12,000-15,000$)


Any indications of companies and recommendation of any "affordable"
system will be greatly apreciated.

Thank you in advance.
Best regards
Silvio Sabatini

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From henning.mueller at sim.hcuge.ch  Mon May 15 15:16:31 2006
From: henning.mueller at sim.hcuge.ch (=?windows-1252?Q?Henning_M=FCller?=)
Date: Mon May 15 17:38:22 2006
Subject: [visionlist] PhD position on Medical Image Analysis on Grid
 Networks available in Geneva, Switzerland
Message-ID: <44689B4F.2050907@sim.hcuge.ch>

PhD Position in medical image analysis based on grid networks,
(Medical informatics, Geneva University and Hospitals)

Applications are invited for a position as a PhD candidate in the 
Medical Informatics Service, University and University Hospitals of 
Geneva, Switzerland. The successful applicant will join a team of 
researchers working on infrastructures, algorithms, and representations 
of medical knowledge using structured and unstructured textual data as 
well as images. The use of grid networks for the computationally 
intensive tasks of image analysis and retrieval are in the center of the 
work. The work will be carried out in the context of a European Union 
6th Framework project called KnowARC. The middleware developed in the 
project will be based on the Nordugrid ARC middleware. The work carried 
out will consist in supplying adapting current image analysis 
applications towards grid-enabled applications and profit from the 
possibilities that grids offer to develop new applications. The work 
will include a close contact with infrastructure specialists at the 
University and the Hospitals to find ways to use grid infrastructures in 
large organizations and to avoid obstacles, for example regarding 
security issues.

The candidate is expected to have a Masters/Diploma degree in computer 
science, mathematics or a closely related field, and to have strong 
programming skills particularly on Linux platforms. Knowledge in image 
processing and/or grid networks is of advantage.

The expertise and experience of the ideal applicant should fit the 
following profile in decreasing order of importance:
?	Programming skills;
?	Linux knowledge
?	experience with grid networks or middleware;
?	image processing ;
?	pattern recognition;
?	machine learning;
?	multimedia indexing;
?	information retrieval.

Experience in software development using C/C++ and Java is important. 
Applications should include a letter of motivation, a curriculum vitae, 
and names and addresses of three referees. Applications by email are 
welcome. If sufficient mutual interest develops then referees will be 
contacted to ascertain suitability for the position.

For more information on the project or the application process please 
contact: henning.mueller@sim.hcuge.ch

LANGUAGE:
Good knowledge of either French or English is mandatory. French is the 
spoken language in Geneva so some knowledge of French is beneficial. The 
candidate should be willing to learn French.

ENVIRONMENT:
o medGIFT project:		http://www.sim.hcuge.ch/medgift/
o Medical Informatics Service:	http://www.sim.hcuge.ch/
o University of Geneva:		http://www.unige.ch/
o City of Geneva:		http://www.geneva-city.ch/
o French Alps:			http://www.skifrance.fr/
o Canton of Valais and the high Swiss Alps (1.5 hours away)
o Central location in Europe:
Traveling by train to Paris takes 3.5 hrs, Milano 4 hrs, and Zurich 3 hrs.
The French border is never far away.
The city is major centre for international organizations, such as UN and 
Red Cross, so transport links are excellent.

SALARY:
Geneva is a relatively expensive place, but the salary of a PhD student 
permits to cover all living costs easily.

DURATION:
The position is expected to start in June 2006, or as soon as possible 
afterwards.
Salary is guaranteed for 3 years with a continuation possible to finish 
the PhD if required.

APPLICATION:
Please send applications to:
Henning M?ller
University & Hospitals of Geneva, Service of Medical Informatics
24, rue Micheli-du-Crest
CH-1211 Geneva 14, Switzerland
Fax  +41 22 372-8680, Email: henning.mueller@sim.hcuge.ch

From jcarroll at mcw.edu  Tue May 16 13:02:39 2006
From: jcarroll at mcw.edu (Joseph Carroll)
Date: Tue May 16 14:51:14 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Upcoming JOSA A Feature on Retinal Imaging
Message-ID: <p06230909c08f7dec1bca@[192.168.80.199]>

JOSA A Feature Announcement
Advances in Retinal Imaging

Submission Deadline: August 1, 2006

A feature issue on Advances in Retinal Imaging is planned for the 
Journal of the Optical Society of America A. Since its formation, the 
Optical Society of America has fostered a symbiotic relationship 
between the vision science and the optics communities. A recent 
application that has especially benefited from this interplay is that 
of retinal imaging. Vision scientists have long been interested in 
imaging the retina in vivo in order to diagnose retinal disease and 
to study basic visual processes, but have been limited by the tools 
available to image the retina. Recent advances in optical 
instrumentation such as adaptive optics ophthalmoscopy, confocal 
scanning laser ophthalmoscopy, and optical coherence tomography, as 
well as advances in the ability to molecularly label different cell 
types in the retina, have made it possible for vision scientists to 
make major advances in the understanding of the normal and the 
diseased retina. The goal of this issue is to highlight the advances 
made possible by the dynamic interplay between the vision science and 
the optics communities, focusing on the instrumentation for, and 
applications of, retinal imaging.

Original articles related to the theme of retinal imaging are invited 
on range of topics including but not limited to the following:

     * New instrumentation for high-resolution retinal imaging (in 
vivo and in vitro)
     * Processing and analysis of retinal images
     * Functional imaging of the retina
     * Retinal imaging in animal models
     * Clinical applications of high-resolution retinal imaging
     * Strategies for visualization of the inner retina (wavelength, 
polarization, fluorescence)

Manuscripts must be prepared according to the usual standards for 
submission to JOSA A; see the Information for Contributors in any 
printed issue or the OSA Style Guide 
(http://josaa.osa.org/submit/style/jrnls_style.cfm).

Manuscripts must also be uploaded through OSA's electronic submission 
system, located in the JOSA A website 
(http://josaa.osa.org/journal/josaa/author.cfm). Please specify that 
the manuscript is intended for the Advances in Retinal Imaging 
feature (choose from the feature issue drop-down menu).

Feature Editors
Joseph Carroll
Medical College of Wisconsin
jcarroll@mcw.edu

Wolfgang Drexler
Medical University - Vienna
wolfgang.drexler@meduniwien.ac.at

Austin Roorda
UC-Berkeley
aroorda@berkeley.edu
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From ks at rcbi.rochester.edu  Wed May 17 17:23:13 2006
From: ks at rcbi.rochester.edu (Keith Schneider)
Date: Wed May 17 17:41:39 2006
Subject: [visionlist] new fMRI discussion list
In-Reply-To: <200605041453.k44ErkY2069288@visionscience.com>
References: <200605041453.k44ErkY2069288@visionscience.com>
Message-ID: <B147D06C-083E-41AB-A520-746E247CB6C5@rcbi.rochester.edu>

I've created a new mailing list for discussions among fMRI  
researchers that are not directly related to any particular software  
analysis package.  There are a variety of software packages  
available, and each of them has their own discussion list, but there  
is no list available for more general discussions, for example,  
questions about hardware, experimental designs, job advertisements,  
etc.  Currently many of these discussions take place on software- 
specific lists, where they are not strictly appropriate, or on CVnet  
or the VSList, and people often post the same topics to multiple such  
lists to reach the widest audience, since until not a more  
appropriate forum did not exist.

To subscribe to this new "fMRIList", visit the web site: https:// 
rcbi.rochester.edu/mailman/listinfo/fmrilist

keith

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Keith Schneider
Assistant Professor
Rochester Center for Brain Imaging
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY
From jcarroll at mcw.edu  Wed May 17 20:09:59 2006
From: jcarroll at mcw.edu (Joseph Carroll)
Date: Wed May 17 20:16:07 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Postdoctoral position - please post
Message-ID: <p06230908c0912ef3978c@[192.168.80.199]>

Postdoctoral Opportunity in Adaptive-Optics Retinal Imaging

A postdoctoral position, in Dr. Joseph Carroll's lab at the Medical 
College of Wisconsin (MCW), is available to a highly motivated and 
ambitious individual with a strong background in optics and/or 
biomedical engineering. This position is appropriate for technically 
trained individuals who are looking to expand their training into 
vision science applications of retinal imaging in order to prepare 
for a career in academia.  The successful candidate will be involved 
in constructing a state-of-the-art adaptive optics ophthalmoscope for 
imaging the living human retina, and will be able to receive 
concurrent training in many aspects of human vision - including 
electrophysiology, psychophysics, and molecular genetics.  Initial 
projects in the lab will focus on using retinal imaging in 
combination with functional measures of vision in order to understand 
the mechanism of photoreceptor-based vision disorders.  The 
successful candidate will be given significant time and dedicated lab 
space to explore independent research projects of their own, and will 
have access to the career development services of the Office of 
Postdoctoral Education at MCW 
(http://www.mcw.edu/display/router.asp?docid=2414).

MCW is located in a suburban setting about seven miles west of 
downtown Milwaukee with easy highway access from all surrounding 
communities. It is one of the most rapidly growing research 
institutions in the country in terms of NIH funding.  The MCW vision 
research group consists of 13 faculty members in multiple departments 
with research in the biochemistry, genetics, cell and molecular 
biology of the retina and anterior segment. The vision research group 
is highly interactive and supported by both Core and Training Grants 
from the NEI.

Qualifications should include a Ph.D. in optics or biomedical 
engineering.  Strong quantitative skills are highly desirable, as is 
experience with MatLab and ZEMAX.    For application consideration 
please forward curriculum vitae, a statement of research activities 
and interests, and the names and contact information of three 
individuals who can provide letters of reference to the address below:

Joseph Carroll, Ph.D.
The Medical College of Wisconsin
Department of Ophthalmology
925 North 87th Street
Milwaukee, WI 53226-4812

FAX:  (414) 456-6690
E-mail:  jcarroll@mcw.edu
http://www.mcw.edu/ophthalmology/faculty/jcarroll.htm
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From opam.info at gmail.com  Wed May 17 21:54:23 2006
From: opam.info at gmail.com (OPAM Information)
Date: Wed May 17 21:58:19 2006
Subject: [visionlist] OPAM 2006 - Call for Submissions June 17th - July 1st
Message-ID: <67058f600605171454h46b497dm1d5bdff0e56583b6@mail.gmail.com>

 **************** OPAM 2006 ********************

Object Perception, Attention, and Memory
November 16, Houston
Keynote: Dr. Nancy Kanwisher


Online submissions for this year's OPAM will be accepted between June 17th
and July 1st at http://www.opam.net.  The meeting will take place on
November 16th in Houston, before Psychonomics.  We are also pleased to
announce that Dr. Nancy Kanwisher will deliver the keynote address.

We are working hard to bring yet another meeting where registration fees
will be voluntary.  If you or your organization wishes to help sponsor OPAM,
we would be most grateful.  In return, we can serve to provide exposure of
your organization to a wide audience (e.g., by including a profile in our
abstract book).  Anonymous donations are also welcome.  Please contact
andrew.leber@yale.edu or simply click the "Make a Donation" button on our
website.

OPAM is a conference dedicated to issues in object perception, attention,
and memory, as well as other areas of visual cognition. It takes place, each
year, on the first day of the meeting of the Psychonomic Society. OPAM is
intended as a forum primarily for scientists early in their careers, such as
graduate students or post docs. It represents an excellent opportunity to
present one's work to a large audience mainly drawn from the Psychonomics
community.
Research may be presented as either a talk or a poster. We would strongly
like to encourage submissions from anyone who does not yet have the
opportunity to present at Psychonomics. We would furthermore like to
emphasize that the conference embraces a diversity of approaches to the
study of object perception and memory. Such approaches can include, for
example, psychophysics, developmental psychology, or neuroscience.

Please forward this message to anyone who may be interested in presenting at
OPAM.

Regards,

Kate Arrington, Monica Castelhano, Steve Franconeri, and Andrew Leber

****************************************
contact:  opam.info@gmail.com

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From jh81 at st-andrews.ac.uk  Thu May 18 13:27:38 2006
From: jh81 at st-andrews.ac.uk (Julie Harris)
Date: Thu May 18 17:19:07 2006
Subject: [visionlist] PhD studentships, St. Andrews
Message-ID: <a06230908c092247cc96a@[138.251.155.33]>





EPSRC Doctoral Training Grant (DTG) Studentships
School of Psychology
University of St Andrews
The School of Psychology at St Andrews University, invites applicants to
apply for studentships funded through EPSRC (PhD) Doctoral Training Grant
for 3-4 years, to start in Oct. 2006 or as soon as possible.

Project descriptions
The projects are available for supervision in the following areas:
computational and psychophysical approaches to visual depth perception,
assessment of computer facilitated social interaction in dementia, computer
graphics applications to face perception, and modelling of sensory,
cognitive or memory systems and behaviour.

The studentship pays fees plus a tax-free maintenance grant of around
?12,300 per year.

Eligibility
Applicants require keen interest in psychological processes and a good first
degree (minimum 2:1 or equivalent). Programming skill or mathematical
aptitude is necessary for most projects. Applicants must be a British or EU
citizen resident in the UK for three years prior to appointment. If you meet
the EPSRC eligibility, please contact relevant academic staff (see
http://psy.st-andrews.ac.uk/ ) and email Helen Sunderland
(hes1@st-andrews.ac.uk ) or Sylvia Mercer (smm7@st-andrews.ac.uk )

Closing date: 31 May 2006


-- 

=========================================================

Julie M. Harris
Prof. of Psychology and EPSRC Advanced Fellow
St. Andrews Vision Lab
School of Psychology
University of St. Andrews
St. Mary's College
South St.
St. Andrews
KY16 9JP

tel:  44-1334-462-061
fax: 44-1334-463-042
email: Julie.Harris@st-andrews.ac.uk
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/%7Ejh81/vislab.html

=========================================================

From woldorff at duke.edu  Thu May 18 17:02:22 2006
From: woldorff at duke.edu (Marty Woldorff)
Date: Thu May 18 17:19:35 2006
Subject: [visionlist] postdoc opening at Duke Ctr. Cog. Neuroscience
Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20060518113050.03ce5ed0@imap.duke.edu>


Postdoctoral positions in the cognitive neuroscience of attention and 
perception.
Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke University.

The Woldorff Laboratory at the Duke Center for Cognitive Neuroscience is 
accepting applications for two postdoctoral openings.  We employ 
behavioral, electrophysiological (ERP, MEG), and functional MRI (fMRI) 
methods to investigate the cognitive and neural mechanisms of visual, 
auditory, and multisensory attention and perception.  Excellent research 
resources and environment, including high-density ERP recording facilities 
and state-of-the-art 3T and 4T MRI scanners fully dedicated to neuroimaging 
research.  Nearby clinical resources include Duke Hospital and the adjacent 
Durham VA Hospital. International collaborative arrangements also allow for 
full access to state-of-the-art MEG facilities. Desirable candidates will 
have a background in attention and/or perception research, some expertise 
in either fMRI or ERP (or MEG) methods, and strong computer skills.  Start 
dates flexible.  For additional information, contact Dr. Woldorff at 
woldorff@duke.edu.  To apply, please email a cover letter, a CV, and 
contact information for three potential references to:

Marty Woldorff, Ph.D.
Associate Director, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke University
Email:  woldorff@duke.edu    Tel:  919-681-0604
Center website:         www.mind.duke.edu
Lab website:    www.mind.duke.edu/woldorfflab


From a-jenafn at microsoft.com  Fri May 19 20:02:12 2006
From: a-jenafn at microsoft.com (Jenafer Nguyen (Kelly Services Inc))
Date: Fri May 19 21:20:31 2006
Subject: [visionlist] job posting
Message-ID: <CD86618C21B9E64A8A7E549C3FEC34F2065C972D@RED-MSG-53.redmond.corp.microsoft.com>

Hi,

 

Please post the following description.

 

We are looking for a Researcher with Computer Vision experience and
knowledge.  Thanks.

 

Microsoft's Digital Advertising Lab

Position: Researcher - Computer Vision

Contact: Jan Thompson

Email: jant@microsoft.com

 

Description:

Initiate incubation projects to supply advanced computer vision and
image-processing technologies to Microsoft adCenter products.  Be the
main person in research and critical person in development to ensure the
delivery of prototypes and proof of concepts.  Gather requirements from
business owners and work cross-team with other researchers and product
teams within Microsoft to productize research prototypes. Serve as
domain expert in computer vision and image analysis applied to
advertising industry.

 

Qualifications: 

 

*           PhD in Computer Science preferred. 

*           Research background in Computer Vision and Image Processing
required. 

*           Research experience in object recognition, texture
recognition, and/or image databases preferred 

*           Experience utilizing various computer vision technologies
and graphic models in solving real world problems preferred. 

*           Diverse interests in various technology centered on
advertising. 

*           Extensive experience programming in C/C++/C#. 

*           Natural inclination to think out of box and innovate. 

*           Superb communication skills both written and verbal, and
effective presentation of ideas and methodologies to diverse audience. 

*           Exposure to data mining techniques (i.e. classification,
clustering, association mining, forecasting), statistics and information
retrieval a plus.

 

 

Jenafer Nguyen
Recruiting 
Windows Live Platform Group

Ad Center

a-jenafn@microsoft.com <mailto:a-jenafn@microsoft.com> 

425.707.8553

 

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From stuart.jackson at ucdconnect.ie  Sat May 20 14:37:32 2006
From: stuart.jackson at ucdconnect.ie (Stuart Jackson)
Date: Mon May 22 17:40:27 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Biomotion
Message-ID: <fdcdff1a72c8.72c8fdcdff1a@ucd.ie>

Dear All,

I am displaying human biomotion stimuli at life-size, by projecting 
the figures onto a screen using matlab/psychtoolbox for the timing of 
the display. My query concerns the kind of projector that is best 
suited to this task. Could anyone recommend a projector that will do 
this, or does anyone have any references to work with projected images 
where accurate timing is an issue??

I can be contacted at the above email address. Thanks in advance

Yours
Stuart Jackson
University College Dublin
Ireland

 
 

From denis.pelli at nyu.edu  Mon May 22 17:55:21 2006
From: denis.pelli at nyu.edu (Denis Pelli)
Date: Mon May 22 19:08:13 2006
Subject: [visionlist] 2nd call for papers on CROWDING
Message-ID: <2E06D77F-3E01-4F82-A3FD-2C533BDBAA02@nyu.edu>

Journal of Vision, special issue on:
Crowding
Including illusory conjunctions, surround suppression, and attention.

By popular demand, the deadline for this special issue is extended to  
July 15.
?
There was a "Crowding" session at VSS (Vision Sciences Society)  
meeting this month, and there will be a "Crowding" symposium at ECVP  
(European Conference on Visual Perception) in St. Petersburg in  
August. All these presenters, along with everyone else, are  
encouraged to submit papers for this special issue.

For further details, consult http://journalofvision.org/SpecialIssues/ 
crowding.aspx

 From the Guest Editors:

Denis Pelli             New York University
Patrick Cavanagh        Harvard University
Robert Desimone         Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bosco Tjan      University of Southern California
Anne Treisman           Princeton University

Denis Pelli
Professor of Psychology and Neural Science
http://psych.nyu.edu/pelli/



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From hova at bsp.brain.riken.go.jp  Tue May 23 11:57:48 2006
From: hova at bsp.brain.riken.go.jp (Hovagim Bakardjian)
Date: Tue May 23 14:58:51 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Biomotion
Message-ID: <7.0.1.0.0.20060523205354.01c96548@bsp.brain.riken.go.jp>

Dear Stuart,

We are using Marquee 9500LC CRT projectors (VDC Display Systems, 
http://www.vdcdisplaysystems.com/), in combination with a large 
silver-coated screen, for time-accurate stimulus delivery in our EEG 
experiments.

Hope that this may help a bit,
Smile,
Hova

Hovagim Bakardjian
Laboratory for Advanced Brain Signal Processing
Brain Science Institute, RIKEN, Wako city, Japan
http://www.bsp.brain.riken.jp/~hova/





At 11:37 PM 5/20/2006, you wrote:
>Dear All,
>
>I am displaying human biomotion stimuli at life-size, by projecting
>the figures onto a screen using matlab/psychtoolbox for the timing of
>the display. My query concerns the kind of projector that is best
>suited to this task. Could anyone recommend a projector that will do
>this, or does anyone have any references to work with projected images
>where accurate timing is an issue??
>
>I can be contacted at the above email address. Thanks in advance
>
>Yours
>Stuart Jackson
>University College Dublin
>Ireland







From alex.thiele at ncl.ac.uk  Tue May 23 15:44:14 2006
From: alex.thiele at ncl.ac.uk (Alex Thiele)
Date: Tue May 23 17:09:23 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Job opportunity University of Newcastle upon Tyne:
	Lectureship/Senior Lectureship in sensory or cognitive
	neuroscience using (macaque) micro-electrode recording and/or fMRI
Message-ID: <01b501c67e7f$be7346d0$acc7f080@alex16>


Lectureships/Senior Lectureships (3 posts), School of Biology & Psychology (Psychology Division), ?31,525 - ?44,947, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK 
The Division of Psychology (in the School of Biology and Psychology) is one of the premier Psychology groupings in the UK, having scored the highest ratings in both research (RAE 2001 5*) and teaching (QAA Subject Review 24/24 points) and would like to make strategic appointments to strengthen our research and undergraduate teaching. 

A further and important aim of these appointments is to broaden our research portfolio: we seek applications from outstanding researchers in any area of Psychology. We particularly welcome applications from early career researchers of exceptional promise. For one of the posts preference will be given to candidates who will pursue a research programme in sensory or cognitive neuroscience using micro-electrode recording and/or fMRI.

Informal enquiries may be made to Prof. A. Derrington (0191) 222 8992. 

Job Reference: D1232A 
Answerphone: (0191) 222 5085



To apply, please forward send your CV, covering letter and completed Employment Record Form, to Human Resources (SAgE), 1st Floor Agriculture Building, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU to arrive no later than 23rd June 06. Please note that interviews will be held on 17th and 18th July 06.



http://www.ncl.ac.uk/vacancies/vacancy.phtml?ref=D1232A



********************************
Prof. A. Thiele
Psychology, Brain, and Behavior
Henry Wellcome Building
University of Newcastle upon Tyne
NE2 4HH
UK
Tel: ++44-191-2227564




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From vivien.casagrande at Vanderbilt.Edu  Tue May 23 17:49:30 2006
From: vivien.casagrande at Vanderbilt.Edu (Casagrande, Vivien)
Date: Tue May 23 17:54:09 2006
Subject: [visionlist] please post this ad
Message-ID: <123A73F93DDD0546A36BCF7023840D99A7781F@mailbe05.mc.vanderbilt.edu>

A postdoctoral/research associate position is available to study the
role of the visual thalamus using awake behaving monkeys as a model.
The experiments specifically test whether the neuronal activity in
lateral geniculate nucleus is modulated in relation to behavioral
demands including attention, memory, reward or input from other
modalities including audition. The student joining the laboratory also
will have the opportunity to participate in other ongoing experiments
designed to understand how parallel LGN pathways in primates contribute
to the properties of primary visual cortex and its extrastriate targets
using a combination of techniques including optical imaging, fMRI
multielectrode recording and confocal microscopy. The Casagrande
laboratory has active collaborations with the Bonds, Schall, Rossi and
Kaas laboratories. Vanderbilt University has a well known and active
Vision Center (VVRC)(http://vision-research.vanderbilt.edu/
<http://vision-research.vanderbilt.edu/> )  and a strong Cognitive and
Integrative Neuroscience Center (CICN) (http://cicn.vanderbilt.edu/
<http://cicn.vanderbilt.edu/> ). Applicants must be U.S. citizens or
permanent residents. Salary will be commensurate with experience.
Vanderbilt University is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Please send
curriculum vitae, the names of three references, and a description of
research interests to:




Contact:

 

Vivien A. Casagrande, Ph.D.

Professor

Departments of Cell & Developmental Biology, 

Psychology and Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences

(Note I will be available at SFN.  Please leave a message at the message
center if you would like to meet)

 

Address: Department of Cell & Developmental Biology

U3218 Learned Lab

Vanderbilt Medical School

Nashville, TN 37232-8240

Phone: (615) 343-4538 Fax: (615) 936-5673

Email: vivien.casagrande@mcmail.vanderbilt.edu 

www.psy.vanderbilt.edu/faculty/Casagrande/CasagrandeLab/vivien.html

 

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From z.kourtzi at bham.ac.uk  Tue May 23 19:26:46 2006
From: z.kourtzi at bham.ac.uk (zoe kourtzi)
Date: Tue May 23 19:33:25 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Brain Imaging and Cognitive Neuroscience Masters
Message-ID: <007a01c67e9e$d482eb00$f416bc93@adf.bham.ac.uk>



A new Masters level research program in Brain Imaging and Cognitive
Neuroscience is being offered by the School of Psychology, University of
Birmingham, UK. 
The School is a top class 5* department that has a strong group in Cognitive
Neuroscience and a state-of-the-art Imaging Centre.

The course runs for 12 months from Oct 2006 and is designed to provide a
strong research training in modern theory and methods of cognitive
neuroscience.  Students will be taught by a faculty of active research
scientists, using lectures, workshops and practical demonstrations. Students
will also spend much of their time in supervised research, gaining
experience in how to design, perform and analyse high-quality cognitive
neuroscientific experiments.


Details may be found at http://psg275.bham.ac.uk/.
For more information please contact Professor R.C. Miall
r.c.miall@bham.ac.uk or Zoe Kourtzi z.kourtzi@bham.ac.uk



Zoe Kourtzi, PhD
Chair of Brain Imaging
Behavioural and Brain Sciences
School of Psychology
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston, Birmingham
B15 2TT UK 

tel: 121 414 8509
fax: 121 414 4897
e-mail: z.kourtzi@bham.ac.uk

From smart at neuralcorrelate.com  Tue May 23 22:20:16 2006
From: smart at neuralcorrelate.com (Susana Martinez-Conde)
Date: Tue May 23 22:23:08 2006
Subject: [visionlist] winning illusions and pictures from 2006 illusion
	contest now posted 
Message-ID: <200605232219.k4NMJSKT046843@visionscience.com>

***Don't miss the NEW UPDATES to the 2006 BEST VISUAL ILLUSION OF THE YEAR
CONTEST WEBSITE!!***
 
http://illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com
<http://illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com/> 
 
If you enjoyed the contest. we thought you'd like these new and improved
features!!
 
New PHOTO GALLERIES from the contest!!
If you took pictures at the event, please send them to us and we will post
the best ones!!
 
New VIDEO GALLERIES!!
If you made videos of the event, please send them to us and we will post the
best ones!!
 
The winning and finalist ILLUSIONS from the 2006 BEST VISUAL ILLUSION OF THE
YEAR CONTEST are posted!
If you have made new illusions, submit them to the 2007 contest!! 
 
http://illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com/index.php?module=pagemaster
<http://illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE
_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=2&MMN_position=2:2>
&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=2&MMN_position=2:2
 
On behalf of the Neural Correlate Society Executive Committee (Luis
Martinez, Stephen Macknik, Jose-Manuel Alonso, Peter Tse and Xoana Troncoso)
 
Susana Martinez-Conde
 
----------------------------------------------------------------
Susana Martinez-Conde, PhD
Director, Laboratory of Visual Neuroscience
Division of Neurobiology
Barrow Neurological Institute
350 W. Thomas Rd
Phoenix AZ 85013, USA
 
Phone: +1 (602) 406-3484
Fax: +1 (602) 406-4172
Email: smart@neuralcorrelate.com
http://www.neuralcorrelate.com/smc_lab/
 
 
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From cibaker at MIT.EDU  Thu May 25 22:08:43 2006
From: cibaker at MIT.EDU (Chris Baker)
Date: Thu May 25 23:11:42 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Postdoctoral Fellowships at NIMH
Message-ID: <A20DEB54-60DD-4AF9-AA92-1EDABD35079E@mit.edu>

Postdoctoral Fellowships are available in the Unit of Learning and  
Plasticity within the Laboratory of Brain and Cognition at NIMH.

Postdoctoral Fellowships
Intramural Research Program
National Institute of Mental Health
Bethesda, Maryland, USA

The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Laboratory of Brain  
and Cognition, Unit on Learning and Plasticity (http:// 
lbc.nimh.nih.gov/) is seeking two postdoctoral fellows.  Research in  
the lab focuses on studying learning, plasticity and visual cognition  
primarily with fMRI. Current interests include investigating how the  
visual representation of objects changes with experience and how  
cortical visual processing is affected by loss of peripheral input  
(e.g. in individuals with macular degeneration).  The positions are  
available October 2006.

Applicants should have a Ph.D. degree and a maximum of five years of  
experience.  A strong background in neuroscience, psychology,  
cognitive science or related disciplines is required.  Previous  
experience with fMRI, statistical methods and/or programming is  
helpful, but not essential.

NIMH is a major research component of the National Institutes of  
Health and the Department of Health and Human Services, which have  
nationwide responsibility for improving the health and well being of  
all Americans.  Interested applicants should send curriculum vitae,  
bibliography, together with three letters of reference to:  Ms. Laura  
Ortiz, National Institute of Mental Health, attn: LBC-ULP opening, 10  
Center Drive, Building 10, Room 4C104, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.

NIH and DHHS are Equal Opportunity Employers.



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Dr. Chris Baker,
McGovern Institute for Brain Research,
MIT, 46-4141G,
77 Massachusetts Avenue,
Cambridge,
MA 02139

Phone: 617-258-0670
Fax: 617-258-8654

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From Amanda.Silva at uth.tmc.edu  Fri May 26 13:31:46 2006
From: Amanda.Silva at uth.tmc.edu (Silva, Amanda )
Date: Fri May 26 15:10:38 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Postdoc in attention and eye movements in humans 
Message-ID: <1691CDB61835C34681781E67B25383B002475906@UTHEVS1.mail.uthouston.edu>

A postdoctoral position is available immediately in the laboratory of Dr. A.B. Sereno at the University of Texas-Houston Medical School to study the basis of visual attention and eye movements in clinical and normal human populations. Research will involve behavioral testing of human subjects using non-invasive infrared eye-trackers. Applicants should have prior experience and hold a Ph.D. in a related field (e.g., Cognitive Psychology, Neuroscience). Programming skills (e.g. C++, Matlab) would be useful. The UTHSC-H Is an Equal Opportunity Employer: M/F/D/V. Please send vita, letter of interest, names and contact information of three references to: 

Dr. Anne B. Sereno
Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy 
UT-Houston Medical School 
6431 Fannin St., Suite 7.160A 
Houston, TX 77030
Email: Anne.B.Sereno@uth.tmc.edu
Lab website:
http://nba.uth.tmc.edu/homepage/sereno/html/staff.html



From s.a.hojjatoleslami at kent.ac.uk  Fri May 26 15:18:20 2006
From: s.a.hojjatoleslami at kent.ac.uk (Ali Hojjat)
Date: Fri May 26 17:19:02 2006
Subject: [visionlist] New MSc programme in Biomedical Imaging
In-Reply-To: <fdcdff1a72c8.72c8fdcdff1a@ucd.ie>
Message-ID: <200605261518.k4QFIWDr005614@visionscience.com>

The Kent Institute of Medicine and Health Sciences (KIMHS) at the University
of Kent has established a new MSc programme in Biomedical Imaging (BMI). The
programme is the result of joint collaboration between five departments in
the University of Kent and two Departments in King's College London.

The course covers the major forms of imaging including MRI, PET, ultrasound,
CT, X-ray, and the rapidly advancing fields of optical and molecular
imaging. There is special emphasis on the use of computer techniques for
manipulation and analysis of images, with modules on programming and medical
image computing. Visiting lecturers include international authorities in the
field. The programme includes lectures  on applications of biomedical
imaging given by leading clinicians from East Kent and London, industry
scientists and bioscience researchers, case studies, laboratory work and
visits to major facilities to see the imaging systems in action.

The BMI programme prepares graduates from a range of disciplines for a
career in biomedical imaging, medical image computing, or in the application
of medical imaging within their original professional field. It provides a
solid grounding in advanced medical imaging systems including up-to-date
coverage of commercially relevant topics. It develops a range of skills that
are highly sought after by employers. It also prepares graduates for
advanced research in the area and is an ideal grounding for a subsequent
PhD. 

Applicants with a First or Second Class Honours degree, or equivalent
qualifications, in one of the related fields can apply for the BMI MSc. The
appropriate degrees include Computing, Physics, Biomedical or Electronic
Engineering, Mathematics or Statistics, Biosciences and Medicine. 

For detailed description of the course please visit the following website
for the course description in
http://www.kent.ac.uk/kimhs/courses/postgrad/bmi-msc-course-description-deta
iled-2006-05.html.


From s.a.hojjatoleslami at kent.ac.uk  Fri May 26 15:20:29 2006
From: s.a.hojjatoleslami at kent.ac.uk (Ali Hojjat)
Date: Fri May 26 17:19:17 2006
Subject: [visionlist] PhD studentship in Medical Image Processing Available
Message-ID: <200605261520.k4QFKf2T006006@visionscience.com>

PhD position available at the Kent Institute of Medicine and Health Sciences
(KIMHS), University of Kent

There is a Medical Research Council (MRC) funded PhD studentship available
in the area of medical image computing applications in dementia research.
The project, a collaboration between KIMHS and the Institute of Mathematics,
Statistics and Actuarial Sciences will focus on the development of a new
object-based approach for co-registration of pathology images with MRI of
the same patient. The work will involve development and evaluation of
software for segmentation, co-registration, and statistical shape analysis
techniques. There will be regular liaison with collaborating imaging and
pathology departments. 

The student should hold an honours degree or MSc in computer science,
engineering, physics, statistics, mathematics, or related topics and have
experience of programming. Familiarity with Matlab, C/C++ and/or experiences
with MR techniques would be advantageous. The student must be a national of
the UK or other EU Member State or Associated State.
 
The starting stipend is ?14,300 p.a. Applications, with a detailed CV and
the names and addresses of two referees, should be sent to Professor Alan
Colchester, Institute of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Kent,
Canterbury, CT2 7PD, UK. Email: a.colchester@kent.ac.uk, Tel: +44 (0) 1227
827 200.

Closing date for completed applications is at 5.00 p.m. on Friday, 23rd
June, 2006.


From valerie.bonnardel at sunderland.ac.uk  Mon May 29 11:31:24 2006
From: valerie.bonnardel at sunderland.ac.uk (Valerie Bonnardel)
Date: Mon May 29 23:42:04 2006
Subject: [visionlist] VCIMS' programme 28/06
Message-ID: <10b60f910b5da4.10b5da410b60f9@sunderland.ac.uk>

University of Sunderland (U. K.)

Visual Categorisation and Image Management Systems 28 June 2006


The objective of the workshop is to bring together Information Retrieval researchers, Neuroscientists, Visual 
Scientists and Cognitive Psychologists to present and discuss recent findings on image categorisation in artificial 
and natural systems.


Everyone is welcome to attend. Registration is essential but free of charge and includes refreshments and buffet

Registration by email to :vcims@sunderland.ac.uk 

with your name and affiliation


Full programme is available at: http://www.cet.sunderland.ac.uk/vcims
 
Organising Committee
?
Val?rie Bonnardel (Psychology)
Michael Oakes (Computing)
John Tait (Computing)
University of Sunderland.



From alex.thiele at ncl.ac.uk  Tue May 30 15:38:03 2006
From: alex.thiele at ncl.ac.uk (Alex Thiele)
Date: Tue May 30 16:37:32 2006
Subject: [visionlist] 
	PhD position in visual Neuroscience, neuropharmacology, and fMRI
Message-ID: <18a601c683ff$0a3c9740$0132a8c0@alex16>

PhD opportunity, Neural Systems Group, School of Biology

 

A PhD position is available in the Psychology Department at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, in the laboratory of Prof. Alexander Thiele. Work in the lab focuses on the mechanisms, networks, and the neurotransmitters involved in visual attention. The work involves psychophysics, multiple channel electrophysiological recordings with simultaneous application of various neurotransmitters/neuromodulators, and fMRI studies. The exact project will depend on the interests and experience of the successful applicant. Candidates should have a strong interest in visual psychophysics, electrophysiology, neuropharmacology and fMRI. Computer and programming skills (especially Matlab and C) are desirable, but can be acquired during the PhD. The post is available with immediate effect and will be supported for 3 years. The position will remain open until a suitable candidate is found.

For further information please visit:

 

http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/alex.thiele/job_openings.html

 

 

Please mail or e-mail a CV, letter of intent, and the names and email addresses of 2-4 references to:



Prof. A Thiele. 

School of Biology,

Henry Wellcome Building, 

University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 

NE2 4HH

UK

(e-mail: alex.thiele@ncl.ac.uk).

 
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From jdvicto at med.cornell.edu  Tue May 30 18:33:26 2006
From: jdvicto at med.cornell.edu (Jonathan D. Victor)
Date: Tue May 30 18:37:12 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Postdoc position, neurophysiology, NYC-Cornell
Message-ID: <6.2.1.2.2.20060530143112.00c755b8@pop.med.cornell.edu>

A postdoctoral position (2+ years) in visual neurophysiology is available 
immediately in the laboratory of Jonathan Victor in the Department of 
Neurology and Neuroscience at the Weill Medical College of Cornell 
University (in New York City), to join ongoing studies directed at 
understanding neural coding in primary visual cortex.

The ideal candidate will have prior experience in neurophysiologic 
recording in visual cortex of anesthetized primates, good mathematical 
intuition, and a publication record indicating the potential to develop 
independent research.  Specific technical skills relevant to the project 
include tetrode recording, online spike sorting, optical imaging, and 
programming in Matlab, Delphi, or c.

The laboratory group includes Keith Purpura, Nicholas Schiff, and Ferenc 
Mechler, and the fellow will have the opportunity to interact with other 
faculty within the Departments of Neurology and Neuroscience, and 
Physiology, Biophysics, and Structural Biology with related interests 
(including Sheila Nirenberg, Emre Aksay, and Dan Gardner), adjunct faculty 
(including Partha Mitra, Cold Spring Harbor), and students. New York City 
is home to a number of major laboratories spread over several universities 
engaged in the study of visual processing.  There is ample opportunity for 
interaction with a large and diverse vision research community.

Information on housing and other matters of interest to postdoctoral 
fellows is available at http://www.med.cornell.edu/postdocs/orientation/.

The interested candidate should send a CV and letter of intent indicating 
skills in relevant areas, availability, and salary requirements via email 
to jdvicto@med.cornell.edu.  Up to three letters of recommendation should 
be sent via email or post to Jonathan Victor at Weill Medical College, 1300 
York Avenue, New York City, NY 10021 USA.

Weill Medical College is an EEO/AA/M/F/D/V.


From announcements at journalofvision.org  Wed May 31 17:30:04 2006
From: announcements at journalofvision.org (Journal of Vision)
Date: Wed May 31 17:19:47 2006
Subject: [visionlist] News from the Journal of Vision 
Message-ID: <189901c684d7$dab4b9b0$020100c0@journalofvision.org>

1.   In the first five months of this year, submissions to the Journal of Vision have increased 44% over the same period last year.

2.   I am delighted to announce the appointment of four new Editors to the Editorial Board of the Journal of Vision:

Miguel Eckstein	University of California, Santa Barbara

Don Macleod	University of California, San Diego

Pascal Mamassian	CNRS, Paris

Eero Simoncelli	New York University

The addition of these exceptional individuals adds strength to an already remarkable Editorial Board.

3.   I am also happy to report that I have been elected to a second five-year term as Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Vision, starting in January, 2008. I look forward to bringing new authors, new readers, new capabilities, and additional prominence to the journal in the years to come.

Andrew Watson
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Vision

From announcements at journalofvision.org  Fri Jun  2 00:18:12 2006
From: announcements at journalofvision.org (Journal of Vision)
Date: Fri Jun  2 00:20:46 2006
Subject: [visionlist] New Issue: Journal of Vision, Volume 6, Issue 6
Message-ID: <291501c685da$091391c0$020100c0@journalofvision.org>


Journal of Vision

Volume 6, Number 6, Pages 1a-1106a	 doi:10.1167/6.6
http://journalofvision.org/6/6/	 ISSN 1534-7362	 

Abstracts

 <http://journalofvision.org/6/6/> 	 Vision Sciences Society
<http://journalofvision.org/6/6/> 
http://journalofvision.org/6/6/
	


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From peterw at vision.psy.mq.edu.au  Fri Jun  2 03:09:42 2006
From: peterw at vision.psy.mq.edu.au (Professor Peter Wenderoth)
Date: Fri Jun  2 04:13:34 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Macquarie University Research Fellowships 2007
Message-ID: <p06230907c0a55bccd5fd@[137.111.33.71]>

Details of Macquarie University Research fellowships 2007 are available at:

http://www.ro.mq.edu.au/fund/internal/murf/

Please post under Postdocs. Thank you.

Peter Wenderoth
-- 
Professor Peter Wenderoth	Phone: +61 2 9850 8680
Psychology Department	Fax: +61 2 9850 9238 (Confidential)
Macquarie University	Mobile +61 2 0417 231 619
Sydney Australia 2109	http://vision.psy.mq.edu.au/~peterw
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From holcombea at Cardiff.ac.uk  Fri Jun  2 19:45:57 2006
From: holcombea at Cardiff.ac.uk (Alex Holcombe)
Date: Fri Jun  2 19:50:22 2006
Subject: [visionlist] postdocs at the University of Sydney
Message-ID: <4480A385020000E500002468@ZGRW50.cf.ac.uk>

The University of Sydney in Sydney, Australia offers postdoctoral fellowships to
outstanding foreign and Australian candidates, for up to three years of salary
and benefits and including a research support grant.

More information is available at
http://www.usyd.edu.au/research/fellowships/postdoc.shtml

Alex Holcombe
holcombea  at  mac.com
Department of Psychology, University of Sydney

From jh81 at st-andrews.ac.uk  Mon Jun  5 11:22:29 2006
From: jh81 at st-andrews.ac.uk (Julie Harris)
Date: Mon Jun  5 14:56:18 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Lectureship and Fellowships, St. Andrews
Message-ID: <a06230907c0a9be7f1442@[138.251.155.33]>



The School of Psychology, University of St. 
Andrews, rated 5*(A) for research and excellent 
for teaching, supports a research and teaching 
strategy which ensures that students get 
excellent instruction from staff who are at the 
forefront in their field whilst also ensuring 
that staff have sufficient time to devote to 
their research activities. These vacancies offer 
opportunities for early-career staff to thrive in 
a vibrant and well-resourced research environment.

Lectureship
?27,929 - ?36,959 pa
You will be an active researcher, with evidence 
of, or the potential to establish, an independent 
research program in biological psychology. You 
must have some experience teaching psychology to 
undergraduate students. This post is for four 
years from 1 September 2006 (or as soon as 
possible thereafter). Ref: SL204/06.

Academic Fellowships (2 posts)
?20,044 - ?36,959 pa
Under a new scheme funded by the joint Research 
Councils,we are offering two five year research 
fellowships with a lecturing position to follow, 
with a start date of 1 October 2006. The 
fellowships are for research in (1) perception 
and (2) animal cognition (including behavioural 
neuroscience). These posts initially carry only 
limited teaching obligations, though you will 
play an active part in the academic culture of 
the School of Psychology. You must already hold a 
PhD in psychology or a cognate discipline before 
taking up the position and have evidence of the 
potential to establish an independent research 
career. Ref: SL205/06.

Informal enquiries to Head of School, Professor 
Verity J Brown (vjb@st-and.ac.uk).

Application forms and further particulars are 
available from Human Resources,  University of St 
Andrews, College Gate, North Street, St Andrews, 
Fife KY16 9AJ (tel: 01334 462571, by fax: 01334 
462570 or by e-mail: jobline@st-andrews.ac.uk).

The advertisement and further particulars can be 
viewed at 
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/hr/recruitment/vacancies
Please quote the appropriate reference number on all correspondence.
Closing date for all posts: 21 June 2006.

-- 

=========================================================

Julie M. Harris
Prof. of Psychology and EPSRC Advanced Fellow
St. Andrews Vision Lab
School of Psychology
University of St. Andrews
St. Mary's College
South St.
St. Andrews
KY16 9JP

tel:  44-1334-462-061
fax: 44-1334-463-042
email: Julie.Harris@st-andrews.ac.uk
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/%7Ejh81/vislab.html

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From jon at peirce.org.uk  Mon Jun  5 17:10:10 2006
From: jon at peirce.org.uk (Jon Peirce)
Date: Mon Jun  5 17:24:03 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Postdoctoral Fellow, Nottingham Visual Neuroscience
Message-ID: <44846572.8000204@peirce.org.uk>

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From shan at pku.edu.cn  Mon Jun  5 23:31:13 2006
From: shan at pku.edu.cn (Shihui Han)
Date: Mon Jun  5 23:37:25 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Peking University, Research Professor
Message-ID: <4484BEC1.A0667F46@pku.edu.cn>

COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE
The Department of Psychology, Peking University at Beijing, China,
invites applications for a Research Professor position in cognitive
neuroscience. Outstanding candidates will be considered to augment our
research emphasis on studies of human cognition using neuroimaging
technique.  We prefer a researcher in social cognition or any other
fields with strong research experience and publications. The department
offers start-up funding and space for setting up a new lab. Salary is
provided according to standard of the university (100,000 to 200,000 RMB

depending research experience). Please send a letter of application,
curriculum vita, representative papers, a statement of goals and
interests, and three letters of recommendation to Prof. Shihui Han,
Department of Psychology, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China.
E-mail: shan@pku.edu.cn. Application review will begin in September,
2006 and will continue until the position is filled.


Shihui Han Ph. D.
Professor of Psychology
Department of Psychology
Peking University
5 Yiheyuan Road
Beijing 100871
People?s Republic of China

Phone: (86)10-6275-9138
Fax: (86)10-6276-1081
Email: shan@pku.edu.cn



From a.glennerster at reading.ac.uk  Tue Jun  6 14:51:28 2006
From: a.glennerster at reading.ac.uk (Andrew Glennerster)
Date: Tue Jun  6 14:35:16 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Oxford Virtual Reality: call for Research Fellowship
	applications
Message-ID: <44859670.5070807@rdg.ac.uk>

Oxford Virtual Reality Research Laboratory

Opportunity for Research Fellowship applications

A Wellcome funded Virtual Reality Research laboratory has recently been 
set up in the University of Oxford in a collaboration between the 
departments of Physiology, Experimental Psychology and Engineering in 
Oxford and the School of Psychology in Reading to study 3D perception 
and sensori-motor control in freely moving humans. A new Wellcome Trust 
grant has just been awarded providing secure funding for the laboratory 
and a state-of-the-art tracking system. There is a fully funded position 
for computing support and software development with an experienced 
programmer already in place. With a high resolution, wide field-of-view 
binocular head mounted display, the Oxford VR system is one of the most 
advanced for the controlled manipulation of 3D cues in freely moving 
observers.

We seek a highly motivated, bright researcher interested in 3D 
representation to apply for a Senior Research Fellowship based in the 
Oxford VR lab. Possible Fellowships include:

Wellcome Research Career Development Fellowship in Basic Biomedical 
Science (deadline November 2006)
BBSRC David Phillips Fellowship (November 2006)
EPSRC Advanced Research Fellowship (November 2006)
Royal Society University Research Fellowship (January 2007)
MRC Career Development Award (January 2007)

See: http://virtualreality.physiol.ox.ac.uk/jobs.html for further details.

-- 
Dr Andrew Glennerster
Reader and Royal Society University Research Fellow
School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences
University of Reading, Reading RG6 6AL
T: (+44) 118 378 5554
F: (+44) 118 378 6715
W: www.physiol.ox.ac.uk/~ag/


From mjw19 at psu.edu  Wed Jun  7 01:10:57 2006
From: mjw19 at psu.edu (Michael Wenger)
Date: Wed Jun  7 02:16:05 2006
Subject: [visionlist] laboratory tech opening available,
	Penn State systems neuroscience laboratory
Message-ID: <1149642657.24434.7.camel@psyprn2.la.psu.edu>

All: the position listed below would be ideal for any talented student
considering graduate training in systems/sensory neuroscience.

-Michael Wenger
-- 
-----------------------------------------------------------------

Michael J. Wenger, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology 
and
Integrative Graduate Degree Program in Neuroscience
Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park PA 16802
phone: 814.863.6023
e-mail: mjw19 {at} psu {dot} edu
URL: www.personal.psu.edu/mjw19

\

?
Research Technician - Systems Neuroscience
Pennsylvania State University ? Hershey Medical Center

Research technician position is available to provide support for
several projects investigating neural mechanisms of sensorimotor
integration.  This person would assist with small animal surgeries and
conduct immunocytochemical assays for histological analyses.  In
addition, this person would be trained to use state-of-the-art
microscopic reconstruction techniques to quantify neuronal
connections.  For further details concerning our laboratory?s
research, please visit our website:

http://www.hmc.psu.edu/neuralcircuits/ .

Applicants must have a Bachelor?s degree and a strong desire to work
in a scientific research environment.  Preference will be given to
candidates with a background in systems neuroscience or histology.
Along with a cover letter, send a vita and the names of 3 references
to Dr. Kevin Alloway, kda1@psu.edu, Dept. Neural and Behavioral
Sciences, H109, Hershey Medical Center, Penn State University, 500
University Drive, Hershey, PA, 17033.



From gfrancis at psych.purdue.edu  Thu Jun  8 08:28:15 2006
From: gfrancis at psych.purdue.edu (gfrancis@psych.purdue.edu)
Date: Thu Jun  8 16:13:24 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Visiting professor position
Message-ID: <1149755295.4487df9f87095@ponyexpress.psych.purdue.edu>

Please share with anyone who might be interested.


VISITING ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY:

The Department of Psychological Sciences at Purdue University invites
applications for a one-year, non-tenure track Visiting Assistant Professor
position in Cognitive Psychology.  Start date will be August 14, 2006.  The
successful candidate will teach a total of four courses in cognition and/or
perception over the 2006-2007 academic year.  In the Spring 2007 semester, one
of the courses might be a graduate level seminar on a specialized topic.  A
Ph.D. degree in Psychology is required, with demonstrated effectiveness in
teaching.  Applicants should submit a vita, a description of current research
and teaching interests, evidence of teaching effectiveness (if available),
reprints of publications, and three letters of recommendation to Chair,
Cognitive Psychology Search Committee, Department of Psychological Sciences,
Purdue University, 703 Third Street, West Lafayette, IN  47907-2081. 
Applications will be accepted until the position is filled.  Purdue University
is an Affirmative Action/Equal Access/Equal Opportunity Employer.  Women and
minorities are especially encouraged to apply.


-Greg Francis
Psychological Sciences
Purdue University

From helenv at aaoptom.org  Mon Jun 12 16:45:42 2006
From: helenv at aaoptom.org (Helen Viksnins)
Date: Mon Jun 12 17:32:24 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Contribute to Peak Education at Academy 2006 Denver!
Message-ID: <42FA860782A23A40B20D17EFCFECB26156B97A@observe.aaoptom.lan>

The American Academy of Optometry Annual Meeting December 7-10, 2006, in
Denver, Colorado, promises to be a peak event for optometry and vision
science!
 
It's still not too late to help us provide the best optometric
education.  The Scientific Program submission window will be open July 1
- August 1, 2006.  For guidelines on submitting a paper or poster for
consideration, please visit
http://www.aaopt.org/meetings/meeting6/Education/PapersPosters/index.asp
.
 
For more information on the excellent program offerings, visit
http://www.aaopt.org/meetings/meeting6/Education/LecturesWrkShp/index.as
p.

Helen Viksnins 
Knowledge Initiatives Facilitator 
American Academy of Optometry 
http://www.aaopt.org <http://www.aaopt.org/>  
301-984-1441, ext. 3002 

Peak Education at Academy 2006 Denver

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From mjw19 at psu.edu  Tue Jun 13 20:50:14 2006
From: mjw19 at psu.edu (Michael Wenger)
Date: Tue Jun 13 20:53:48 2006
Subject: [visionlist] position opening: head of psychology,
	Penn State University
Message-ID: <1150231814.7724.27.camel@psyprn2.la.psu.edu>

The Department of Psychology at The Pennsylvania State University
invites applications for the position of Head of the Department, to be
filled effective July 1, 2007. We seek a distinguished scholar with an
active research program to lead the Department in a time of
significant opportunity.  A record of academic administration is
desired, and candidates should be eligible for appointment at the rank
of professor.  Candidates with success attaining external funding will
be favored. Applicants from any subspecialties will be considered.

The Psychology Department is an active and collegial department, whose
40+ full-time faculty members and 100+ graduate students are engaged
in a wide array of research activities.  Programmatically, the
Department includes graduate programs in clinical (child and adult
tracks), cognitive, developmental, industrial/organizational, and
social. Facilities include a large in-house Psychological Clinic, a
highly successful interdisciplinary research center (Child Study
Center), and numerous specialty laboratories.  Interdisciplinary
networking and translational research capacities are fostered by
affiliations with two university-wide initiatives, the Social Science
Research Institute and Huck Institutes for the Life Sciences, both of
which support Psychology faculty and research initiatives.  The
Psychology Department is the home of the APA-award winning
specialization in cognitive and affective neuroscience (SCAN) -- a
department-wide effort to integrate the study of brain and behavior by
infusing neuroscience throughout the traditional areas of psychology.
The Department also supports a significant external funding portfolio:
the Department is ranked 4th nationally in terms of total research
expenditures in Psychology (NSF, 2002), 3rd in terms of total
scientific publications by faculty (2002-2004, Thomson Scientific),
and 9th nationally in terms of total citations (2002-2004, Thomson
Scientific).  Fueled by a premier Honors College, the Psychology
Department is characterized by a strong culture of undergraduate
research participation, and plays a leading role contributing to the
overall research and teaching mission of the university.

Review of applications will begin October 1, 2006, and will continue
until the position is filled.  Applications should include a letter of
interest describing qualifications and potential fit with the
department, a current vita, and the names of 3-5 references.  Send
applications to: Marie Straka, Executive Assistant to the Dean, Box ,
109 Sparks Building, Penn State, University Park, PA. 16802.  Penn
State is committed to affirmative action, equal opportunity, and the
diversity of its workforce.


From michael.spratling at kcl.ac.uk  Wed Jun 14 13:37:47 2006
From: michael.spratling at kcl.ac.uk (Michael Spratling)
Date: Wed Jun 14 14:48:16 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Post-doc position, King's College London
Message-ID: <4490112B.2000009@kcl.ac.uk>

Postdoctoral Research Associate
King's College London

An enthusiastic and well-qualified post-doctoral researcher is
required to develop a biologically inspired neural network model
that will be used to explore neural mechanisms underlying
cognitive and behavioural development. The research will involve
extending an existing hierarchical neural network in order to
simulate the learning of visual-spatial representations in the
dorsal pathway. The model will be used to incrementally learn to
control visually guided behaviour in a stereo-vision robot head
and will be evaluated by simulating infant behavioural data. This
post is funded by EPSRC grant EP/D062225/1 "Exploring Mechanisms
of Cognitive and Behavioural Development in Humans and Machines".

Applicants should have a proven ability to carry out high quality
research, have a genuine interest in the neural mechanisms
underlying visual perception and visually guided behaviour and be
keen to carry out research in epigenetic/developmental
robotics. The successful applicant is expected to have a PhD in a
relevant area, have a good knowledge of neural networks and/or
computational neuroscience, be proficient in C++ programming and
ideally should have experience in robotics and machine vision.

The position is available from the 1st September 2006 for a
period of 48 months. The starting salary is at SP6 on the RA1A
scale, currently ?24,612 per annum inclusive of London Allowance.

Further particulars and an application pack can be downloaded
directly from the King's College London website
www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs or can be obtained by contacting the Personnel
Office, King's College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS,
strand-recruitment@kcl.ac.uk. Please quote reference W1/CEE/84/06
on all correspondence.

Informal inquiries can be made to Dr Michael Spratling via e-mail
at: michael.spratling@kcl.ac.uk.

The closing date for the receipt of applications: 14th July 2006

Equality of opportunity is College policy
From kelley at nist.gov  Wed Jun 14 16:48:50 2006
From: kelley at nist.gov (Edward F. Kelley)
Date: Wed Jun 14 17:38:33 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Display Metrology Short Course #4 at NIST
Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20060614102534.025e55b0@mail.boulder.nist.gov>

Blind copies to my colleagues:

This is a notification of our fourth offering of the Display Metrology 
Short Course to be held at NIST in Boulder, Colorado, on August 8-10, 2006. 
If you or somebody you know might be interested, please visit our web site 
www.fpd.nist.gov and follow the links for more information. Feel free to 
pass this on to anybody who might be interested.

Please let me know if you don't have an interest in future announcements--I 
don't want to bother people. (Sorry if I neglected to take you off the list 
earlier.)

Thanks,

Ed


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NIST                                   Phone 303-497-4599
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From michael.herzog at epfl.ch  Thu Jun 15 17:14:06 2006
From: michael.herzog at epfl.ch (Michael Herzog)
Date: Thu Jun 15 18:53:04 2006
Subject: [visionlist] open position 
Message-ID: <4491955E.5050704@epfl.ch>

The Laboratory of Psychophysics at the Brain Mind Institute in Lausanne, 
Switzerland, is searching for a PH.D. or Post-doctoral student with 
experience with TMS. PH.D. students will enroll in the recently funded 
Graduate School of Neuroscience. The position is a three to four year 
appointment and salary is approximately 3.000 CHF/month for PH.D. 
students and 4.600 CHF/month for Post-docs.

 The Brain Mind Institute is a recently founded institution dedicated to 
research in the neurosciences ranging from neurogenetics to the 
philosophy of mind. The Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne 
provides an interactive environment with ambitious students and a 
dynamic faculty pursuing multidisciplinary research in the brain 
sciences. The Laboratory of Psychophysics investigates low and mid level 
vision processing including perceptual learning, visual masking, feature 
binding, and schizophrenia research 
(http://lpsy.epfl.ch/people/herzog/index.php).

Please, send curriculum vitae, list of publications, the names of three 
referees, and a short description of research interests by e-mail to: 
michael.herzog@epfl.ch

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From announcements at journalofvision.org  Thu Jun 15 23:11:49 2006
From: announcements at journalofvision.org (Journal of Vision)
Date: Thu Jun 15 23:05:22 2006
Subject: [visionlist] News from the Journal of Vision -- Journal of Vision
	Obtains First Impact Factor from ISI
Message-ID: <3cc001c690d1$1467f640$020100c0@journalofvision.org>

Journal of Vision Obtains First Impact Factor from ISI

Rockville, Md. -- Journal of Vision (JOV), an online-only, open access journal published by the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) has received its 2005 impact factor.  The journal's impact factor is 3.469, ranking it No. 5 in the Ophthalmology category.

The impact factor, which was calculated by Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), a division of Thomson Scientific, looked at articles published in the journal between 2003 and 2004 which were cited in indexed journals in 2005.

The 2005 impact factor for the journal was calculated as follows:

A = the number of times articles published in 2003-4 were cited in indexed journals during 2005

B = the number of articles published in 2003-2004

 

2005 impact factor = A/B.

# # #

Journal of Vision is a fully peer reviewed journal and was launched in May 2001. The journal is devoted to all aspects of visual function in humans and other organisms.  All articles are free and open to anyone at http://journalofvision.org. 

 

Established in 1928, The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) is a membership organization of more than 11,500 eye and vision researchers from over 70 countries. The Association encourages and assists its members and others in research, training, publication and dissemination of knowledge in vision and ophthalmology. ARVO's headquarters are located in Rockville, Md. The Association's Web site is http://www.arvo.org/

 

 For more information, contact:

Elinore L. Tibbetts
Marketing and Communications Manager
240-221-2923


From z.kourtzi at bham.ac.uk  Fri Jun 16 18:45:00 2006
From: z.kourtzi at bham.ac.uk (zoe kourtzi)
Date: Fri Jun 16 21:09:27 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Roberts Fellowship in Ageing & Brain Development,
	School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, UK 
Message-ID: <013e01c69174$f9153bb0$f416bc93@adf.bham.ac.uk>



A Roberts Fellowship in Ageing & Brain Development is available in the
School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, UK from October 2006.

The School of Psychology at the University of Birmingham is one of the best
departments in the UK (5* RAE 2000) with strong expertise in cognitive
neuroscience. It provides sate-of-the art equipment for behavioural,
neuropsychological and imaging (fMRI, EEG, TMS) research and is one of the
primary founders of the Birmingham University Imaging Centre.

This independent research position will last for five years in the first
instance; however, subject to normal probationary procedures will lead to a
permanent academic position. Successful applicants will be required to
perform some teaching in the last three years of the fellowship as
preparation for a long-term academic appointment. 

Candidates will be expected to demonstrate high levels of research
achievement, the potential to develop into research leaders of the future
with a high degree of compatibility with the University's research strategy.
Candidates should have background and hold a Ph.D. in Neuroscience,
Cognitive Psychology, Physics, Engineering or a related field and have
research interests in ageing, brain development and neuroimaging.

Applications should include a full CV with a covering letter stating the
area(s) of research achievement, together with the names and addresses of
three referees that may be contacted. Electronic applications are preferred
and should be submitted stating the reference number(31981) to:
Researchfellow@bham.ac.uk by Friday 30th June 2006
It is anticipated that interviews will be held in July 2006.

For further information please contact:
Zoe Kourtzi, Chair of Brain Imaging
Behavioural and Brain Sciences
School of Psychology
University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
e-mail: z.kourtzi@bham.ac.uk
 


From r_oshea at otago.ac.nz  Sat Jun 17 03:10:17 2006
From: r_oshea at otago.ac.nz (Robert O'Shea)
Date: Sat Jun 17 17:07:49 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Psychology, U Otago,
	New Zealand
Message-ID: <30B4905D-1340-4ABD-9580-10196FAFBE61@otago.ac.nz>

Dear visionlist recipient,

I'd be most grateful if you would encourage any vision researchers to
apply for the following position(s). I can field informal enquiries.

Cheers,
Robert.

Robert P. O'Shea
Department of Psychology, University of Otago, PO Box 56,
Dunedin 9054, New Zealand; phone: +64 (3) 479 7617;
fax: +64 (3) 479 8335; e-mail: r_oshea@otago.ac.nz;
home page: <http://psy.otago.ac.nz/r_oshea/>
--------------------------------
UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO
Te Whare Wananga o Otago

Dunedin, New Zealand

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer
(Confirmation Path)
(Two Positions)

DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY

Applications are invited for two confirmation path positions at the  
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer level (equivalent to North American tenure  
track Assistant Professor/Associate Professor) in the Department of  
Psychology. Appointment at a higher level may be considered for  
suitably qualified applicants. For one position, the area of research  
is open. For the second position applications are particularly  
encouraged in the areas of Psychology?Health, Clinical, Industrial,  
Organisational, Human Factors, and Social. The main selection  
criterion for both positions is international distinction in  
research, provided that there is flexibility in teaching.

The Department supports productive research in many areas of  
Psychology. The Department was the highest ranked New Zealand  
psychology department in a recent research assessment exercise, and  
had the highest number of top rated researchers in any department in  
the country. The teaching programme emphasises the development of  
student research skills. In addition to undergraduate, Masters and  
PhD degrees in Psychology, the Department offers postgraduate  
training in Clinical Psychology and contributes to interdisciplinary  
courses in Cognitive Science and Neuroscience. Excellent computing  
and technical facilities support the teaching and research programmes  
in the Department.

Specific enquiries may be directed to Professor Harlene Hayne, Head  
of Department, Department of Psychology, Tel 03 479 7644, Email  
psyhod@psy.otago.ac.nz  Applicants may wish to visit the Department?s  
website www.otago.ac.nz/psychology

Reference Number: A06/104

Closing Date: Tuesday 31 October 2006

APPLICATION INFORMATION

With each application you must include an application form, an EEO  
Information Statement, a covering letter, contact details for three  
referees and one copy of your full curriculum vitae. For an  
application form, EEO Information Statement and a full job  
description go to: www.otago.ac.nz/jobs
Alternatively, contact the Human Resources Division, Tel 03 479 8269,  
Fax 03 479 8279, Email karen.sutherland@otago.ac.nz

Equal opportunity in employment is University policy.
E tautoko ana Te Whare Wananga o Otago i te kaupapa whakaorite  
whiwhinga mahi.


From nips06pub at hotmail.com  Tue Jun 20 08:06:41 2006
From: nips06pub at hotmail.com (M.O. Franz)
Date: Tue Jun 20 17:11:53 2006
Subject: [visionlist] NIPS: Call for Workshops and Call for Demonstrations
Message-ID: <BAY117-F29EA26827E81C56CD35282AA870@phx.gbl>

Neural Information Processing Systems Conference and Workshops
Vancouver and Whistler, BC, Canada
December 4-9, 2006

The Call for Workshops and the Call for Demonstrations are now available
online at: http://www.nips.cc

The Submission deadlines are as follows:

Call for Workshops:  August 4, 2006
Call for Demonstrations:  September 24, 2006

NIPS Administration
nipsinfo@salk.edu

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From jbm at eos.arc.nasa.gov  Wed Jun 21 23:15:43 2006
From: jbm at eos.arc.nasa.gov (Jeff Mulligan)
Date: Wed Jun 21 23:18:39 2006
Subject: [visionlist] extended deadline for Intl Symposium on Visual
	Computing
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0606211613440.27439-100000@durer.arc.nasa.gov>


The International Symposium on Visual Computing is an
interdisciplinary meeting, started last year by Prof.
George Bebis (Computer Science), from the University of 
Nevada at Reno.  This year Mike Webster, Alice O'Toole and myself are 
organizing a "special track" on Visual Computing and Biological Vision.  
An overview of our special track is reproduced below, please see the 
conference website (www.isvc.net) for complete details.

The submission deadline for the symposium (including the special tracks) 
has been extended to June 30th.

We hope to see some of you in S. Lake Tahoe this November!
Please don't hesitate to contact me or any of the other organizers
if you have any questions.

-Jeff Mulligan

---------------------------------------------------------------

	Visual Computing and Biological Vision

A special track of the International Symposium on Visual Computing 2006

			Rationale

This special track aims to explore the interplay between research in 
visual computing and human visual perception. Developments in computer 
vision and graphics continue to provide new stimuli and techniques for 
probing and analyzing human vision and its neural bases. In turn, studies 
of biological vision have revealed processes that are fundamental to 
efficient and optimal coding, and human performance remains a benchmark 
for assessing machine vision.  Finally, techniques in areas such as 
visualization and virtual reality must be informed by the capacities and 
limits of human observers. Papers in this track are sought that focus on 
these many links between computational and biological information 
processing.


			Topics

Topics of interest include all aspects of visual computing applied to (or 
inspired by) biological systems, including, but not limited to, the 
following areas:

??? Neuroscience applications of graphics and visualization
	      (such as neuro-imaging and psychophysics)
??? Computational models and empirical constraints in biological vision
??? Design principles motivated by biological systems
??? Human factors in visualization and virtual reality


			Submission/Proceedings

This is an open call-for-papers.  Only original, high-quality papers, in-line
with the ISVC '06 standard guidelines (http://www.isvc.net/author.html) will
be considered for publication in this special track.  Prospective authors should
submit electronically their contributions through the website of ISVC '06.
Accepted papers will appear in the symposium proceedings, which will be
published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.



			Important Dates

Submission deadline:			June 30, 2006
Notification of acceptance:		August 4, 2006
Camera-ready version:			August 14, 2006
Advance Registration (authors):		August 14, 2006


			Organizers

Jeff Mulligan, NASA Ames Research Center, jmulligan@mail.arc.nasa.gov
Alice O'Toole, University of Texas at Dallas, otoole@utdallas.edu
Michael Webster, University of Nevada at Reno, mwebster@unr.edu




From Heinrich.Buelthoff at Tuebingen.MPG.de  Mon Jun 26 18:09:17 2006
From: Heinrich.Buelthoff at Tuebingen.MPG.de (Heinrich H. Buelthoff)
Date: Mon Jun 26 18:32:22 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Post-Doc /  PhD Position at MPI Tuebingen
Message-ID: <DB7EDE68C477074B95AF60E3675AD4BB8070C4@EXCHANGE.ad.kyb.local>

The Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics is seeking a
qualified

Postdoctoral Researcher or PhD student 

For Modeling and Measuring the Focus of Spatial Attention

see also <http://www.kyb.mpg.de/jobs/BWFIT_postdoc_int.pdf>


As part of a consortium of nine grants recently funded by
Baden-W?rttemberg (BW-FIT) on Interactive Visualization with Gigapixel
Displays, the Max-Planck-Institute for Biological Cybernetics,
Department of Cognitive and Computational Psychophysics (Prof. Heinrich
H. B?lthoff), T?bingen, Germany has a research position available for a
	PostDoc / PhD student
Investigating the measurement, prediction and manipulation of
gaze-direction

Project:
 The consortium brings together researchers from computer graphics,
visualization and psychophysics to investigate and optimize the use of
very large visual displays ("Gigapixel displays") for viewing and
interacting with vast quantities of data. Our project involves: (i)
building a gaze-contingent multi-resolution system that takes into
account the gaze and gestures of a freely-moving user, and (ii)
developing computational models of attention for predicting and
influencing the focus of attention. It is an excellent opportunity to
bring together applied and basic research while covering both
experimental and theoretical work.

Institute:
 The successful applicant would join a thriving international research
group at the Max-Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics
(http://www.kyb.tuebingen.mpg.de), which uses a combination of
psychophysics, computational modeling and cutting-edge technology to
study the human brain. The group is well-known for its experience with
Bayesian models of perception and action, as well as computer graphics
and virtual reality. The institute also offers a unique range of
technical facilities (eye-, head and body tracking, HDR and stereo
displays, render cluster, motion platforms, 3D scanners and printer,
fMRI, etc.). The scientists are supported by dedicated technicians.

Requirements:
 Applicants for the Post-doc position should have a PhD in Psychology,
Cognitive science, Neuroscience, Computer science, Biology, Physics or
related areas. A strong background in visual psychophysics,
eye-movements and/or attention is a major advantage. Applicants for the
PhD position should have a master/diploma or equivalent degree in the
previously listed areas. Prior experience in data analysis and modeling
as well as computer programming would be an advantage.

Offer:
 The position is available immediately and lasts 3 years. The salary
depends on the qualifications, based on the TV?D E13 or E14 payscale
(PostDoc: 35-46.000 ?/y, PhD: 18-20.000 ?/y), according to the German
Public Service regulations. Disabled applicants with equal
qualifications will be given preferential treatment. Applications will
be considered until the position is filled.

Candidates should send CV, reprints, and the names of two referees to
<bwfit@tuebingen.mpg.de> (electronic submission preferred; postal
addresses available upon request). Further information about the
position can be obtained from the same address.


From alex.thiele at ncl.ac.uk  Tue Jun 27 12:53:45 2006
From: alex.thiele at ncl.ac.uk (Alex Thiele)
Date: Tue Jun 27 14:31:12 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Post-doc position available
Message-ID: <006201c699e8$ba03a020$acc7f080@alex16>

Post-doctoral Research Associate (RA1A-RA1B), Neural Systems Group, School of Biology ?19645-25633

A postdoctoral position is available in the Psychology Department at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, in the laboratory of Dr. Alexander Thiele. Work in the lab focuses on the mechanisms, networks, and the neurotransmitters involved in visual attention. The work involves psychophysics, multiple channel electrophysiological recordings with simultaneous application of various neurotransmitters/neuromodulators, and fMRI studies. The exact project will depend on the interests and experience of the successful applicant. Useful background includes psychophysics, experience in electrophysiology, and possibly fMRI experience. Computer and programming skills (especially Matlab and C) are required. The post is available with effect from the 1 November 2006, tenable for 2 years, renewable on a yearly basis given adequate progress. 

Please mail or e-mail a CV, letter of intent, and the names and email addresses of 2-4 references to:

Prof. A Thiele. 
School of Biology,
Henry Wellcome Building, 
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 
NE2 4HH
UK
(e-mail:alex.thiele@ncl.ac.uk).
Closing date for applications: 1st September 2006, but applications will be accepted until the suitable candidate is found.

For additional information visit: http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/alex.thiele/further_particulars.html

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From K.Scott-Brown at abertay.ac.uk  Tue Jun 27 15:32:23 2006
From: K.Scott-Brown at abertay.ac.uk (Scott-brown, Kenneth C)
Date: Tue Jun 27 16:51:04 2006
Subject: [visionlist] 2 Psychology Lectureships and 4 Interdisciplinary PhD
	Studentships available at the University of Abertay Dundee, UK.
Message-ID: <05E1A8E234083D44A6B6C426248F518FA6A71A@uadmta03.uad.ac.uk>

2 Lectureships (Psychology) and 4 Interdisciplinary PhD Studentships (Including Vision Related Topics) available at the University of Abertay Dundee, UK.

 

http://www.abertay.ac.uk/About/Jobs/Jobs.cfm?Key=996 <http://www.abertay.ac.uk/About/Jobs/Jobs.cfm?Key=996> 

 

Lecturer in Psychology (2 posts) - SHS/06/04

 

School/Service:School of Social & Health Sciences 

Salary:?25,565 - ?36,960

Closing Date:Friday 07 July 2006

 

Summary


Psychology teaching at Abertay is underpinned by a strong research focus. You will teach at undergraduate level on a number of BPS accredited degree courses and will contribute to both introductory and advanced level modules. 

You should have expertise in any core area of Psychology, although in one of the posts preference may be given to candidates with expertise in Biological and/or Cognitive psychology. You should have a higher degree and ideally a PhD, have a record of research publications or be able to exhibit a strong research potential. 

Informal enquiries regarding the position may be made to the Divisional Leader in Psychology, Dr Scott Hardie, Tel: 01382 308587 e-mail s.hardie@abertay.ac.uk 

The University Salary and Grading Structure is currently under review

For an application pack, please contact Human Resources, University of Abertay Dundee, Bell Street, Dundee, DD1 1HG (Telephone 01382 308030) or visit our website www.abertay.ac.uk Please enclose a current curriculum Vitae and return completed applications by 7 July 2006 quoting reference SHS/06/04




ALSO


 

4 Interdisciplinary PhD Studentships Stipend ?12,300 per annum 

 

The University of Abertay Dundee is funding up to 4 interdisciplinary research studentships themed on the study of emergent behaviour in complex systems. The projects offer a unique and exciting opportunity to work at the interface between Computing, Psychology, Economics, and Computer Arts, and all are strongly linked with SIMBIOS, which is Scotland's leading environmental research centre at the interface between mathematics, computing and the life sciences. You will be based in the White Space studios, the University's innovative new interdisciplinary research and teaching space. 

The titles of the Studentships are: 

Studentship 1 Emotional avatars in digital animation 

Studentship 2 Visualising Complex Data Sets: an Integrated Haptic and Audio- Methodology 

Studentship 3 Police dilemmas of interpretation and action 

Studentship 4 Visualising Sustainable Cities 

Details of each studentship, together with a contact person, are available on the further information sheets available at

http://www.abertay.ac.uk/About/Jobs/JobDetails.cfm?JID=304&Key=996 <http://www.abertay.ac.uk/About/Jobs/JobDetails.cfm?JID=304&Key=996> 

These individuals should be contacted in the first instance for informal inquiries or further information. For an application form, please contact, Dawn Fisher, Administrative Officer, Secretariat Office, University of Abertay Dundee, Bell Street, Dundee DD1 1HG (Tel: 01382 308068); email d.fisher@abertay.ac.uk <mailto:d.fisher@abertay.ac.uk>   or visit our website www.abertay.ac.uk <http://www.abertay.ac.uk/>   Completed applications should be returned to this address e-mail or post by Friday 7 July 2006 quoting the relevant studentship number. 

 

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From fiona.newell at tcd.ie  Tue Jun 27 18:00:56 2006
From: fiona.newell at tcd.ie (Fiona Newell)
Date: Tue Jun 27 18:11:03 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Postdoctoral + PhD position at Trinity College Dublin
Message-ID: <p06110407c084bfdfbc29@[134.226.168.13]>

Please post the following ad on CVNet and Visionlist. Thanks, Fiona

-----------------------------------------
Applications are invited for an EU-funded Postdoctoral Research 
Associate and a PhD studentship in high-level multisensory perception.

The positions are offered in the Multisensory Cognition Lab headed by 
Dr. Fiona Newell in the Institute of Neuroscience at Trinity College 
Dublin, Ireland.  Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience (TCIN) is 
a purpose built research facility and offers excellent, 
state-of-the-art laboratory facilities, including a 3T fMRI scanner, 
high-density evoked potentials/EEG facilities and state-of-the-art 
laboratories for behavioural testing.  The project will involve 
travel and collaboration with other laboratories in the EU. 

Post-doctoral position:
Candidates with a good background in neuroscience, cognitive 
neuroscience, experimental psychology or a related discipline are 
encouraged to apply.  Experience with neuroimaging, particularly 
fMRI, is desirable.  The candidate will be expected to start in early 
September, 2006.  Gross starting salary is from 35,000 to 42,800 Euro 
per annum, depending on experience.   The position is for 2 years 
with a possible extension to 3 years.  To apply, please send a 
statement of research interests, publications, CV and the names of 
two academic referees to fiona.newell@tcd.ie.

PhD studentship:
Candidates should have achieved, or are on course to achieve, the 
equivalent of a good 2.1 or first class honours degree in 
Experimental Psychology, Neuroscience or related discipline. The 
candidate will be expected to start on 1st October, 2006.  The 
studentship inludes the EU equivalent of fees and a tax-free stipend 
of 16k Euro per annum.  To apply, please send a CV and the names of 
two academic referees to fiona.newell@tcd.ie. 

The deadline for receipt of applications is August 15th, 2006 (or 
sooner, if the right candidate applies). 

- Fiona Newell

-- 
School of Psychology,
Institute of Neuroscience,
University of Dublin,
Trinity College,
Dublin 2,
Ireland

My phone number has changed to:
Tel:  +353 1 896 3914
Fax: + 353 1 671 2006
web: www.psychology.tcd.ie/multisensory/
or www.psychology.tcd.ie/synres


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From stuart.jackson at ucdconnect.ie  Wed Jun 28 10:22:39 2006
From: stuart.jackson at ucdconnect.ie (Stuart Jackson)
Date: Wed Jun 28 15:00:18 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Update - Accurate timing of projected images
Message-ID: <fe8cb60c405.405fe8cb60c@ucd.ie>


Dear all,

Recently I sought information on the the kinds of projectors used for 
displaying images where accurate timing is an issue. Here's a summary 
of the information i've gathered on the topic, from responses i 
received and elsewhere. Thanks again, hope the info. is helpful: 

1) LCD projectors can have slow response times, as the colour wheel is 
not synched to the input. Also they have lower contrast than other 
types of system, and at some magnifications grid lines can be seen 
between pixels. These mightn't be appropriate where accurate stimulus 
timing is required, particularly when explicit control over the 
vertical refresh rate is desired. However, some have used 2 LCD 
projectors in combination to synchronise two separate presentations. 
2) Some DLP systems can contain motion artifacts due to a dithering 
process used to increase resolution. Single panel systems may also 
contain color-breakup artifacts due to having to sequence between r, g, 
and b. A newer projection technology, LCoS, has very high levels of 
contrast and can operate at high refresh rates. However, like some 
LCD/DLP systems, I'm not sure if any currently available systems offer 
the user explicit control over the vertical refresh rate. The 
specifications for many systems claim that vertical refresh rates 
between, for example, 50-85Hz (LCD/DLP) and 50-120Hz (LCoS), can be 
achieved. However, some sources suggest that in reality this isn't the 
case and that the projectors typically display at the lower end (e.g. 
50/60Hz), even if the input signal is at a higher rate.  
3) CRT projectors may be the most appropriate where stimulus timing is 
important, though cost can be prohibitive. Some systems can apparently 
project at frequencies between 30-200Hz+. When the display rate needs 
to be the same as the input signal rate, I think the important thing to 
look for is a reference to something like an 'auto-lock' feature, 
whereby the projector takes on whatever rate is fed into it.      

Yours

Stuart Jackson
School of Computer Science and Informatics
University College Dublin
Dublin
Ireland
From zeki.pa at ucl.ac.uk  Wed Jun 28 14:47:28 2006
From: zeki.pa at ucl.ac.uk (Zeki PA)
Date: Wed Jun 28 17:13:25 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in the laboratory of
	Professor Zeki
Message-ID: <BHEDLJIOINKGBJBKOHNMEEKPCOAA.zeki.pa@ucl.ac.uk>


Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
Organisation of the human visual brain


A postdoctoral Research Fellowship to work in the Laboratory of
Neurobiology (www.vislab.ucl.ac.uk) has become available. The work
revolves around studying the organization of the human visual
brain and is supported by the Wellcome Trust. The position is
available from July 2006 and funding is initially available for a
period of two years until 30 June 2008, with a possibility of
extension. The salary will be ?24,886 plus ?2,400 London Allowance.
The closing date for applications is 31st July 2006.

Further details should first be obtained from

http://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/Vacancies/

From vpf3 at columbia.edu  Wed Jun 28 17:32:10 2006
From: vpf3 at columbia.edu (vincent ferrera)
Date: Wed Jun 28 18:06:42 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Update - Accurate timing of projected images
In-Reply-To: <fe8cb60c405.405fe8cb60c@ucd.ie>
References: <fe8cb60c405.405fe8cb60c@ucd.ie>
Message-ID: <44A2BD1A.4010207@columbia.edu>

For LCDs it is possible to get reliable timing.  The key is to send a 
video signal at the native framerate and resolution of the monitor.  If 
you send a signal that does not match the display's native 
characteristics, then the DSP circuitry will resample the input and this 
could introduce variable delays.

I've used a CRS VSG system with an NEC2010X flat panel and an EPSON 
EMP9100 projector.  Both have native resolution of 1280 x 1024 @ 60 Hz.  
The VSG allows you to fiddle with the timing parameters of the video 
signal.  I've found that I can tweak the timing so that I get perfectly 
smooth motion, i.e. no dropped frames.  There is still a delay between 
the VSYNC signal and the actual appearance of the stimulus.  This can be 
measured using a photometer.  I've found it to be 34 ms on both 
displays, and it is consistent from trial-to-trial.

vf

Stuart Jackson wrote:

>Dear all,
>
>Recently I sought information on the the kinds of projectors used for 
>displaying images where accurate timing is an issue. Here's a summary 
>of the information i've gathered on the topic, from responses i 
>received and elsewhere. Thanks again, hope the info. is helpful: 
>
>1) LCD projectors can have slow response times, as the colour wheel is 
>not synched to the input. Also they have lower contrast than other 
>types of system, and at some magnifications grid lines can be seen 
>between pixels. These mightn't be appropriate where accurate stimulus 
>timing is required, particularly when explicit control over the 
>vertical refresh rate is desired. However, some have used 2 LCD 
>projectors in combination to synchronise two separate presentations. 
>2) Some DLP systems can contain motion artifacts due to a dithering 
>process used to increase resolution. Single panel systems may also 
>contain color-breakup artifacts due to having to sequence between r, g, 
>and b. A newer projection technology, LCoS, has very high levels of 
>contrast and can operate at high refresh rates. However, like some 
>LCD/DLP systems, I'm not sure if any currently available systems offer 
>the user explicit control over the vertical refresh rate. The 
>specifications for many systems claim that vertical refresh rates 
>between, for example, 50-85Hz (LCD/DLP) and 50-120Hz (LCoS), can be 
>achieved. However, some sources suggest that in reality this isn't the 
>case and that the projectors typically display at the lower end (e.g. 
>50/60Hz), even if the input signal is at a higher rate.  
>3) CRT projectors may be the most appropriate where stimulus timing is 
>important, though cost can be prohibitive. Some systems can apparently 
>project at frequencies between 30-200Hz+. When the display rate needs 
>to be the same as the input signal rate, I think the important thing to 
>look for is a reference to something like an 'auto-lock' feature, 
>whereby the projector takes on whatever rate is fed into it.      
>
>Yours
>
>Stuart Jackson
>School of Computer Science and Informatics
>University College Dublin
>Dublin
>Ireland
>_______________________________________________
>visionlist mailing list
>visionlist@visionscience.com
>http://visionscience.com/mailman/listinfo/visionlist
>  
>

From sobel at hpl.hp.com  Thu Jun 29 16:53:10 2006
From: sobel at hpl.hp.com (Irwin Sobel)
Date: Thu Jun 29 17:18:29 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Summer Internship at HP Labs Palo Alto Immediately
Message-ID: <200606291653.JAA02261@hplies.hpl.hp.com>

Subject: Vision & Graphics Internship, HP Labs, Palo Alto, CA

The Vision & Graphics group of Hewlett-Packard Laboratories (Palo Alto,
CA) has an immediate opening for a summer intern.  Please forward this
announcement to potential candidates.

Hewlett-Packard Laboratories (HPL) is an international research
organization with its headquarters and largest facility located in Palo
Alto California. As HP's central research organization, HP Labs' purpose
is to deliver breakthrough technologies and technology advancements that
provide a competitive advantage for HP, by investing in fundamental
science and technology in areas of interest to HP. Our research is
focused in the following areas: next-generation adaptive computing,
printing and imaging, technologies for services, consumer systems,
and emerging and disruptive technologies.

The Vision & Graphics group develops new technologies for novel
displays, cameras, and media processing. Research projects include novel
view synthesis, immersive collaborative environments, high-resolution
projector displays, a camera array architecture, and multivideo mosaics.
More details of our group is located at
    http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/mmsl/projects/vision.html.

Job description:
Work with the Vision and Graphics team to develop new technologies,
methods, and algorithms in computational vision and computer graphics.

Example projects:
1) Contribute to our multicamera research, such as building a mosaic,
   performing 3D reconstruction, etc.
2) Contribute to our MultiView display, a single display surface that
   sends different images to different viewpoints.
3) Contribute to Panoply, a curved, seamless, tiled-projector display.
4) Enhance our media processing middleware for prototyping new systems.

Required Education:
Pursuing Ph.D. or M.S. degree in a technical discipline (e.g. computer
science, electrical engineering)

Technical Skills:
Knowledge of Computer Science
Knowledge of Computer Graphics
Ability to define a problem, propose a solution, and make the solution work
Ability to write readable, maintainable, and efficient software
Ability to work individually and as a member of a team
Ability to write software using MS Visual Studio and C++

Desired Qualifications:
Advanced knowledge of computer vision and/or computer graphics

----------------

To apply for this position:
(1) Go to www.hp.com.
(2) Click the "jobs" link at the bottom.
(3) Click "Search Jobs in HP"
(4) Search for job number 939423.
(5) Click on the job title to get the description.
(6) Click the "apply" button and fill out the web application.

From announcements at journalofvision.org  Sun Jul  2 04:58:58 2006
From: announcements at journalofvision.org (Journal of Vision)
Date: Sun Jul  2 05:12:52 2006
Subject: [visionlist] New Issue: Journal of Vision, Volume 6, Issue 3
Message-ID: <b07601c69d94$3a7080d0$020100c0@journalofvision.org>


Journal of Vision

Volume 6, Number 3, Pages 179-303	 doi:10.1167/6.3
http://journalofvision.org/6/3/	 ISSN 1534-7362	 

Articles

 <http://journalofvision.org/6/3/1/> 	 A feature-tracking model
simulates the motion direction bias induced by phase congruency
<http://journalofvision.org/6/3/1/> 
M. Michela Del Viva
M. Concetta Morrone
http://journalofvision.org/6/3/1/
	
 <http://journalofvision.org/6/3/2/> 	 Dynamics of attentional
deployment during saccadic programming
<http://journalofvision.org/6/3/2/> 
Eric Castet
S?bastien Jeanjean
Anna Montagnini
Dani?le Laugier
Guillaume S. Masson
http://journalofvision.org/6/3/2/
	
 <http://journalofvision.org/6/3/3/> 	 Advantages and disadvantages of
human dichromacy <http://journalofvision.org/6/3/3/> 
Lindsay T. Sharpe
Emanuela de Luca
Thorsten Hansen
Herbert J?gle
Karl R. Gegenfurtner
http://journalofvision.org/6/3/3/
	
 <http://journalofvision.org/6/3/4/> 	 The effect of spatial
configuration on surround suppression of contrast sensitivity
<http://journalofvision.org/6/3/4/> 
Yury Petrov
Suzanne P. McKee
http://journalofvision.org/6/3/4/
	
 <http://journalofvision.org/6/3/5/> 	 Higher level chromatic
mechanisms for image segmentation <http://journalofvision.org/6/3/5/> 
Thorsten Hansen
Karl R. Gegenfurtner
http://journalofvision.org/6/3/5/
	
 <http://journalofvision.org/6/3/6/> 	 Perceptual synchrony of
audiovisual streams for natural and artificial motion sequences
<http://journalofvision.org/6/3/6/> 
Roberto Arrighi
David Alais
David Burr
http://journalofvision.org/6/3/6/
	
 <http://journalofvision.org/6/3/7/> 	 Feature-based attentional
integration of color and visual motion
<http://journalofvision.org/6/3/7/> 
Steffen Katzner
Laura Busse
Stefan Treue
http://journalofvision.org/6/3/7/
	
 <http://journalofvision.org/6/3/8/> 	 Are cone sensitivities
determined by natural color statistics?
<http://journalofvision.org/6/3/8/> 
Alex Lewis
Li Zhaoping
http://journalofvision.org/6/3/8/
	

Corrections

<http://journalofvision.org/6/3/9/> 	Corrections to: Visual field
representations and locations of visual areas V1/2/3 in human visual
cortex <http://journalofvision.org/6/3/9/> 
Robert F. Dougherty
Volker M. Koch
Alyssa A. Brewer
Bernd Fischer
Jan Modersitzki
Brian A. Wandell
http://journalofvision.org/6/3/9/
	


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From s.watt at bangor.ac.uk  Mon Jul  3 18:27:46 2006
From: s.watt at bangor.ac.uk (Simon Watt)
Date: Mon Jul  3 18:40:03 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Appointment of Head of School of Psychology,
	University of Wales Bangor
Message-ID: <f4d0f5ab2bd318c878162c5044c28c59@bangor.ac.uk>

UNIVERSITY OF WALES, BANGOR

APPOINTMENT OF HEAD OF SCHOOL OF PSYCHOLOGY


The University of Wales, Bangor aims to be a world-class research-led 
university, providing teaching and learning of the highest quality.    
The 5* School of Psychology, within the newly created College of Health 
and Behavioural Sciences, will be at the forefront of delivering this 
vision.

The School of Psychology is one of the leading academic departments in 
UK Psychology with excellence in teaching and general support for 
students to match its outstanding research profile. Its central mission 
is to conduct world-class research and it has a track record of success 
in generating research income and attracting the best staff and 
students.  Mirroring the University as a whole, the School relishes and 
seeks out partnerships.  A major development is the Welsh Institute for 
Cognitive Neuroscience, led by the School, involving the Psychology 
Schools at the Universities of Cardiff and Swansea and with funding 
from the Welsh Assembly Government.

  Bangor now seeks an outstanding individual as Head of School.  
Candidates will be able to demonstrate outstanding research credentials 
and the ability to lead a thriving and dynamic academic community.  
They will be excited by the prospect of working within the pioneering 
College structure and will properly see their role as working with the 
Head of College to deliver the overall vision for the University.

For more information, including details of how to apply, please visit 
our employment agency advisor?s website at WWW.SAXBAM.COM/ARC using 
reference AHAD.

Alternatively, please telephone +44 (0) 1483 409 713 (during office 
hours) before Wednesday 12 July 2006. Applications should arrive not 
later than noon on 19 July 2006.

_____________________________________________
Simon Watt PhD
Lecturer
School of Psychology
University of Wales, Bangor
Gwynedd LL57 2AS
United Kingdom

Tel: +44 (0) 1248 38 8252
Fax: +44 (0) 1248 38 2599
Email: s.watt@bangor.ac.uk
_____________________________________________

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From bsw at psychology.nottingham.ac.uk  Tue Jul  4 06:25:59 2006
From: bsw at psychology.nottingham.ac.uk (Ben Webb)
Date: Tue Jul  4 17:19:46 2006
Subject: [visionlist] College of Optometrists funded PhD Studentship
Message-ID: <auto-000002621549@psychology.nottingham.ac.uk>

Please would you post the following advert:-
 
School of Psychology - Visual Neuroscience Group

& School of Medical & Surgical Sciences - Division of Ophthalmology & Visual
Sciences

 

PhD Studentship (2006-2009)

 

A Study of Perceptual Learning Effects in Human Amblyopia

 

A research project supported by the College of Optometrists

 

Applications are invited for a College of Optometrists funded PhD
Studentship to work on a project investigating the effects of perceptual
learning in individuals with amblyopia.  The project will seek to establish
the degree of neural plasticity in the mature and developing amblyopic
visual system. In addition, we hope to develop new clinical tools for the
effective treatment of amblyopia.  This project will involve a range of
investigative techniques including visual psychophysical (behavioural)
testing and possibly functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).  This
work will supplement ongoing studies within the group, examining the neural
basis of perceptual learning in the normal visual system.  The proposed
experiments will be conducted in collaboration with Professor Martin
Rubenstein (Queen?s Medical Centre, Nottingham).  This studentship
represents a unique training opportunity for an individual with a background
in optometry and a strong interest in clinical science.

 

The School of Psychology at the University of Nottingham has a thriving
Visual Neuroscience Group, with five faculty members, researchers and PhD
students.  The group has a diverse range of interests in human vision, is
supported by excellent laboratory and research facilities, and is firmly
committed to the development of young researchers.

 

Students should hold, or be about to obtain, an honours degree (upper second
or first class) in optometry.  A highly motivated individual is required
with an interest in developmental disorders of vision and good computing and
technical skills.

 

This studentship provides a stipend of ?16,010 per annum (to include fees
and maintenance). This full-time studentship is available from 1 October
2006 for a period of three years.

 

Informal enquiries may be addressed to Dr Paul McGraw, Email:
pvm@psychology.nottingham.ac.uk.  Further details about the School of
Psychology are available at: http://www.psychology.nottingham.ac.uk
<http://www.psychology.nottingham.ac.uk/> .

 

Applications, with a detailed CV and the names and addresses of three
referees, should be sent (preferably by Email) to Dr P V McGraw, School of
Psychology, The University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, NG7
2RD.  Closing date: 1 August 2006.

 

 
Many thanks,
 
Ben Webb 
 
_______________________
Visual Neuroscience Group
School of Psychology, 
University of Nottingham,
Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK
tel: +44(0)1159515328
fax: +44(0)1159515324
email: bsw@psychology.nottingham.ac.uk
web: http://www.psychology.nottingham.ac.uk/research/vision/bsw/home.html
 
 
 

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From ehud.kaplan at mssm.edu  Wed Jul  5 13:21:50 2006
From: ehud.kaplan at mssm.edu (kaplae01)
Date: Wed Jul  5 15:53:43 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Post doc position in Mount sinai
Message-ID: <44ABBCEE.70302@mssm.edu>

*/_Post Doctoral position in Neurophysiology_/*

A Post Doctoral position in mammalian neurophysiology is available at 
The Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. The research 
involves work on cortical organization and dynamics, using optical 
imaging, electrophysiology, and computer simulations and analysis. We 
prefer people with prior experience in (quantitative) neurophysiology 
who are computer literate.

Our group includes: Ehud Kaplan, Youping Xiao, Alexander Casti, Larry 
Sirovich, Bruce Knight and Fernand Hayot.  You can get an idea about our 
research interests at:

http://camelot.mssm.edu/~kaplane/ekhomepage.html 
<http://camelot.mssm.edu/%7Ekaplane/ekhomepage.html>

The Mount Sinai School of Medicine is an equal opportunity employer.

Please send your CV and names of 3 references (with a phone number or 
email) to:

Dr. Ehud Kaplan,
The Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Box 1065
One Gustave Levy Place,
NY, NY, 10029
Phone: (212) 241-9607

The best mode of communication is by email:ehud.kaplan@mssm.edu 
<mailto:kaplane@rockvax.rockefeller.edu>

 

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From announcements at journalofvision.org  Wed Jul  5 22:02:32 2006
From: announcements at journalofvision.org (Journal of Vision)
Date: Wed Jul  5 22:05:39 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Journal of Vision - Call for Papers - Special Issue on
	Sensorimotor Processing
Message-ID: <b5b201c6a07e$b7146b50$020100c0@journalofvision.org>

Sensorimotor processing and goal-directed movement

Research in sensory processing and motor control have traditionally followed parallel but independent paths. Recent work, however, has highlighted the importance of studying both as parts of an integrated sensorimotor system rather than as separate processing modules in the brain. On the one hand, task demands of natural motor behaviors play a critical role in shaping sensory computations. On the other hand, constraints on sensory processing determine optimal motor control strategies. Researchers from both vision and motor control have now begun to apply computational and experimental methods to the interface between perception and action. This is evidenced by a number of international workshops that have recently been organized on this topic and by the over eighty presentations in the last five years devoted to sensorimotor coordination at the Vision Sciences Society conference.

In response to these developments, the Journal of Vision invites papers for a special issue on sensorimotor processing, with special emphasis on how vision in conjunction with other sensory modalities is used to plan and control hand movements. 

Suggested topics for submission include, but are not limited to

	Multi-sensory integration for motor planning
	Feedback control of hand movements
	Applications of statistical decision theory to goal selection and planning
	Sensorimotor learning and adaptation
	Computational models of sensorimotor control
	Neurophysiological mechanisms of sensorimotor control
	Effects of neurological deficits on sensorimotor control

Guest Editors: 

David C. Knill	University of Rochester, USA	knill@cvs.rochester.edu
Laurence T. Maloney	New York University, USA	laurence.maloney@nyu.edu
Julia Trommersh?user	Giessen University, Germany	Julia.Trommershaeuser@psychol.uni-giessen.de

Deadline for submission:	November 1, 2006

Target publication date:	May, 2007

Online call for papers:	http://journalofvision.org/specialissues/


Journal of Vision is an open-access online journal that encourages the use of images, color, movies, hyperlinks, demonstrations, original datasets, and other digital enhancements. To submit a paper to this special issue please follow the Instructions for Authors at http://www.journalofvision.org/info/info_for_authors.aspx.

From christoph.kayser at tuebingen.mpg.de  Thu Jul  6 07:05:18 2006
From: christoph.kayser at tuebingen.mpg.de (Christoph Kayser)
Date: Thu Jul  6 14:46:56 2006
Subject: [visionlist] 
	Postdoc positions in Physiology of Cognitive Processes,
	MPI Tuebingen
Message-ID: <auto-000020670037@tuebingen.mpg.de>

Postdoctoral Positions available at the MPI for Biological Cybernetics:
Department of Physiology of Cognitive Processes

Research theme: Visual perception and its neural basis.

The project investigates neural events that underlie spontaneous switches of
visual percepts during binocular rivalry. The work involves behavioral
training of monkeys to report their percepts and measurements of neural
activity by means of fMRI and electrophysiology. Candidates are required to
have considerable experience with electrophysiological experiments in
behaving primates as well as good programming skills. Familiarity with
advanced statistical or information-theoretical techniques, which are
routinely used for data analysis in the lab, is of benefit but not
mandatory. Selected individuals will have access to the high-field MRI
scanners of the laboratory and a complete setup, equipped with a
multi-electrode recording-system. They will receive help from exquisitely
trained personnel and will have to supervise one to two graduate students,
working in the same research line. Interested candidates that match the
requirements should contact Nikos K. Logothetis
(Nikos.logothetis@tuebingen.mpg.de).

Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Department of Physiology of
Cognitive Processes, Spemannstrasse 38, 72076 Tubingen, Germany.




From john.m.henderson at ed.ac.uk  Thu Jul  6 10:22:31 2006
From: john.m.henderson at ed.ac.uk (John M. Henderson)
Date: Thu Jul  6 14:47:32 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Ph.D. Studentship in eye movements and scene perception
Message-ID: <5AE1AD87-F515-474C-94B0-BB10D9C858BB@ed.ac.uk>

A Ph.D. Studentship is available to begin Autumn 2006 in eye  
movements and scene perception with Prof John M. Henderson,  
University of Edinburgh. Candidates should have a good Honours degree  
in Psychology, Cognitive Science or a related discipline.

The University of Edinburgh hosts a large, active, and  
internationally recognized community of cognitive scientists located  
in a beautiful, culturally rich and cosmopolitan city. Research in  
cognitive science and cognitive neuroscience continues to grow in  
George Square in the heart of Edinburgh, with the new Potterrow  
building providing additional state-of-the-art lab and office space  
for staff and students in the School of Informatics and the School of  
Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences. The building will also  
house a research-dedicated Cognitive Imaging Unit.

The Studentship project will involve investigation of gaze control  
during real-world scene perception combining eyetracking with  
computational and neuroimaging methods. Topics of study include  
visual selective attention, scene recognition, visual short- and long- 
term memory, and the integration of language and vision. The lab  
houses Eyelink 1000 and Eyelink II eyetrackers. A large number of  
additional eyetrackers are located in surrounding labs in George  
Square, including a Generation 6.3 Fourward Technologies Dual- 
Purkinje Image (DPI) eyetracker, several Eyelink 1000 and Eyelink II  
eyetrackers, and two joined Eyelink II eyetrackers. This critical  
mass ensures a large base of theoretical and practical knowledge and  
technical support for eyetracking at Edinburgh. Interaction with the  
internationally ranked groups in Informatics and Language Sciences  
will be encouraged.

Studentship holders will be awarded an annual stipend of ?10,800  
until completion of the degree, a research allowance of ?420 and have  
their fees paid (limited to the UK/EU rate). Initial enquiries should  
be addressed to Prof John M. Henderson (john.m.henderson@ed.ac.uk);  
http://www.psy.ed.ac.uk/people/jhender9/henderson_index.html .




From d.osorio at sussex.ac.uk  Thu Jul  6 18:17:04 2006
From: d.osorio at sussex.ac.uk (Daniel Osorio)
Date: Thu Jul  6 18:26:10 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Meeting announcement: Animal vision. Bristol. Sept
	21st 2006
Message-ID: <E76EA342B72554F1D518B628@LS0868>

From

Daniel Osorio
School of Life Sciences
University of Sussex


***************************************************
AVA & Colour Group One-day Scientific Meeting

Animal Vision

University of Bristol, Dept. of Experimental Psychology

21st September 2006. 10.00-17.30

Invited speakers include:
?	Doekele Stavenga (Groningen) 'Butterfly coloration and colour vision.'
?	Mike Land (Sussex)  'Animal eye-movements'
?	Olle H?stad (Uppsala). 'Evolution of avian colour vision systems'.

Contributions are invited on both invertebrate and vertebrate vision. For 
example:

?	Navigation and motion
?	Object recognition and colour
?	Comparative colour vision
?	Visual ecology and Image statistics

Oral contributions, posters, and demonstrations of results/methods are 
welcome - please specify which type of presentation you prefer.

The submission deadline is 18 August 2006.

Updated information and meeting registration are on the AVA website: 
http://www.theAVA.net

For further information and abstract submission (250 words) please contact:

Daniel Osorio 			
School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex. Brighton. BN1 9QG.
d.osorio@sussex.ac.uk


From s.a.hojjatoleslami at kent.ac.uk  Fri Jul  7 12:09:23 2006
From: s.a.hojjatoleslami at kent.ac.uk (Ali Hojjat)
Date: Fri Jul  7 12:16:17 2006
Subject: [visionlist] EPSRC MSc studentship in BioMedical Imaging
In-Reply-To: <5AE1AD87-F515-474C-94B0-BB10D9C858BB@ed.ac.uk>
Message-ID: <200607071209.k67C9ha0007536@visionscience.com>

The Kent Institute of Medicine and Health Sciences (KIMHS) at the University
of Kent has established a new MSc in BioMedical Imaging
<http://www.kent.ac.uk/kimhs/courses/postgrad/bmi-msc-course-description-det
ailed-2006-05.html>  in collaboration with Departments at the University of
Kent and King's College London.
 
The course covers the major forms of medical imaging including MRI, PET,
ultrasound, CT, X-ray, and also the rapidly advancing fields of optical and
molecular imaging. There is special emphasis on the use of computer
techniques for manipulation and analysis of images, with modules on
programming and medical image computing. Visiting lecturers include
international authorities in the field. The programme includes lectures on
applications of medical imaging given by leading clinicians from East Kent
and London, industry scientists and bioscience researchers, case studies,
laboratory work and visits to major facilities to see the imaging systems in
action.

The
<http://www.kent.ac.uk/kimhs/courses/postgrad/bmi-msc-course-description-det
ailed-2006-05.html> BioMedical Imaging MSc is aimed at those with a first
degree in a numerate subject wishing to pursue a career and/or gain further
knowledge in the area of medical imaging and image analysis. The information
below is aimed at providing some general background information on this
rapidly developing area with details about the Kent?s MSc
<http://www.kent.ac.uk/kimhs/courses/postgrad/bmi-msc-course-description-det
ailed-2006-05.html>  in BioMedical Imaging.

Because the course is a leading element of a programme
<http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/PostgraduateTraining/CollaborativeTrainingAccounts/d
efault.htm>  supported by EPSRC, we are also able to offer you a
studentship, if you qualify for EPSRC support. This is worth ?12000 and we
will also pay your fees for the course.

 

You may apply for a place on the programme using the online form
<http://records.kent.ac.uk/external/admissions/pgapplication.php>  by
selecting "MSc - Master of Science Taught", and then choosing "BioMedical
Imaging".  For further information contact Louise Bullock
<mailto:L.A.Bullock@kent.ac.uk>  [L.A.Bullock@kent.ac.uk], Tel: +44 (0)1227
824780.

 

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From jcarroll at mcw.edu  Mon Jul 10 21:33:45 2006
From: jcarroll at mcw.edu (Joseph Carroll)
Date: Mon Jul 10 21:45:40 2006
Subject: [visionlist] JOSA A Feature on Retinal Imaging - Deadline
	Approaching
Message-ID: <p0623091ec0d876ea04b1@[141.106.183.103]>

JOSA A Feature Announcement
Advances in Retinal Imaging

Submission Deadline: August 1, 2006

A feature issue on Advances in Retinal Imaging is planned for the 
Journal of the Optical Society of America A. Since its formation, the 
Optical Society of America has fostered a symbiotic relationship 
between the vision science and the optics communities. A recent 
application that has especially benefited from this interplay is that 
of retinal imaging. Vision scientists have long been interested in 
imaging the retina in vivo in order to diagnose retinal disease and 
to study basic visual processes, but have been limited by the tools 
available to image the retina. Recent advances in optical 
instrumentation such as adaptive optics ophthalmoscopy, confocal 
scanning laser ophthalmoscopy, and optical coherence tomography, as 
well as advances in the ability to molecularly label different cell 
types in the retina, have made it possible for vision scientists to 
make major advances in the understanding of the normal and the 
diseased retina. The goal of this issue is to highlight the advances 
made possible by the dynamic interplay between the vision science and 
the optics communities, focusing on the instrumentation for, and 
applications of, retinal imaging.

Original articles related to the theme of retinal imaging are invited 
on range of topics including but not limited to the following:

     * New instrumentation for high-resolution retinal imaging (in 
vivo and in vitro)
     * Processing and analysis of retinal images
     * Functional imaging of the retina
     * Retinal imaging in animal models
     * Clinical applications of high-resolution retinal imaging
     * Strategies for visualization of the inner retina (wavelength, 
polarization, fluorescence)

Manuscripts must be prepared according to the usual standards for 
submission to JOSA A; see the Information for Contributors in any 
printed issue or the OSA Style Guide 
(http://josaa.osa.org/submit/style/jrnls_style.cfm).

Manuscripts must also be uploaded through OSA's electronic submission 
system, located in the JOSA A website 
(http://josaa.osa.org/journal/josaa/author.cfm). Please specify that 
the manuscript is intended for the Advances in Retinal Imaging 
feature (choose from the feature issue drop-down menu).

Feature Editors
Joseph Carroll
Medical College of Wisconsin
jcarroll@mcw.edu

Wolfgang Drexler
Cardiff University
wolfgang.drexler@meduniwien.ac.at

Austin Roorda
UC-Berkeley
aroorda@berkeley.edu
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From suzanne at ski.org  Tue Jul 11 23:53:43 2006
From: suzanne at ski.org (Suzanne McKee)
Date: Wed Jul 12 17:24:21 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Human Visual Scientist Position at Smith-Kettlewell
Message-ID: <DB9DB577-F595-44AC-AC71-295BA32AD3B6@ski.org>

Human Visual Scientist

The Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute in San Francisco invites  
applications for a Scientist position in Human Vision. Candidates  
whose basic research program is translational towards the clinical or  
rehabilitation setting are especially welcome. Candidates working in  
any area of Human Vision that complements existing programs of  
research in visual processing,  eye movements, visual development and  
brain-imaging are encouraged to apply.  The candidate is expected to  
lead his or her own externally funded research program.

Smith-Kettlewell offers an outstanding, collaborative research  
environment with one of the largest groups of investigators sharing  
the goal of understanding vision.

Instructions for submitting applications are available at www.ski.org/ 
opening.

Applications will be accepted until January 5, 2007. 
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From nancy.place at jax.org  Thu Jul 13 18:28:50 2006
From: nancy.place at jax.org (Nancy Place)
Date: Thu Jul 13 20:40:36 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Jackson Lab Vision Research Meeting and Scholarship
	Announcement
Message-ID: <20060713142850710.00000003676@captainjack>

ProgId Word.Document Generator Microsoft Word 11 Originator Microsoft Word 11 Experimental Tools in Model Systems of Translational Vision Research
To be held September 27 - 30, 2006 in Bar Harbor, Maine
This conference will provide a forum that brings together investigators who have a common interest in the use of the laboratory mouse in vision research as a tool for understanding human visual system biology and disease, with an emphasis on retina. Hands-on workshops and seminar based information focus on basic technical aspects of using the mouse for studies of visual function and are a unique feature of this meeting. This dual format provides an opportunity for interaction and for exchange of ideas focused upon the use of the laboratory mouse and molecular genetics to study the retina, its associated diseases, as well as their relation to extra retinal visual function. The intimate nature of the conference and the inclusion of scientists from different sub-disciplines, promotes a degree of interaction rarely found at larger conferences. 

Topics for three platform sessions (held each morning) are broad, ranging from development, processing and disease in the RPE/photoreceptors and inner retina to the central visual nervous system. Afternoon workshops include:
Basic Tools for Working with Mice Behavioral Assessment Clinical Assessment: indirect ophthalmoscopy, slit lamp biomicroscopy, etc. Electrophysiological Assessment Genetic Mapping/Modifiers Histological Assessment and Imaging Microarray Experiment Design and Analysis Retinal explants and Electroporation Visual Cortical Recordings 

Abstract submissions will be reviewed and selections made for presentations and poster session. Abstract Deadline: August 27, 2006 

Postdoctoral and graduate students are encouraged to attend. 
A number of travel scholarships to partially defray conference costs are available for students, postdocs and medical research fellows.

For complete information, including schedule, speaker list and on-line registration, please visit: http://www.jax.org/courses/events/coursedetails.do?id=212&detail=scope

Please email nancy.place@jax.org for more information or to submit an abstract.

Participation by women, minorities, and persons with disabilities is strongly encouraged.



Nancy Place Course & Conference Coordinator The Jackson Laboratory 600 Main Street Bar Harbor, ME 04609-1500 Telephone - (207) 288-6257 Fax - (207) 288-6080 http://www.jax.org/courses
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From Karl.R.Gegenfurtner at psychol.uni-giessen.de  Fri Jul 14 10:18:55 2006
From: Karl.R.Gegenfurtner at psychol.uni-giessen.de (Karl Gegenfurtner)
Date: Fri Jul 14 16:19:47 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Postdoc position in Giessen, Germany
Message-ID: <44B76F8F.2080804@uni-giessen.de>

A Postdoctoral position is available in the lab of Karl Gegenfurtner at Giessen
University. The position is for someone interested in the relationship between
sensory processing and motor control. We are particularly interested in visual
signals for visual perception and for the control of eye movements. Examples for
recent research papers addressing these issues are:

Braun, D.I., Pracejus, L. & Gegenfurtner, K.R. (2006)  Motion aftereffect
elicits smooth pursuit eye movements. Journal of Vision, 6, 671-684.
http://journalofvision.org/6/7/1

White, B., Gegenfurtner, K.R. & Kerzel, D. (2005) Effects of structured
non-target stimuli on saccadic latency. Journal of Neurophysiology, 93, 3214-3423.

The position could start in October 2006, but a later start could easily be
arranged. A doctoral degree in psychology, physics, biology, or computer science
is prerequisite. Experience in programming visual displays or measuring eye
movements are of advantage. Salary is according to German research scale BAT
IIa. The position is for up to 3 years.

Please send applications before September 1st 2006 per email (PDF preferred).
More information about our group can be found at http://www.allpsych.uni-giessen.de.

Do not hesitate to contact me for informal inquiries.

Karl Gegenfurtner
-- 
Prof. Karl Gegenfurtner, Abteilung Allgemeine Psychologie
Justus-Liebig-Universit?t, Otto-Behaghel-Str. 10, 35394 Giessen
phone:  +49 641 9926100	  mailto:gegenfurtner@uni-giessen.de
fax:    +49 641 9926119	  http://www.allpsych.uni-giessen.de/karl


From freemant at cardiff.ac.uk  Tue Jul 18 08:07:49 2006
From: freemant at cardiff.ac.uk (Tom Freeman)
Date: Tue Jul 18 15:03:23 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Cardiff Psychology - 2 Chairs, 3 Fellowships
Message-ID: <6.2.1.2.1.20060718090602.02d064a8@grwcon17.cf.ac.uk>

Professors (2 posts) and Research Fellows (3 posts) in Cognitive Neuroscience

School of Psychology

The School of Psychology at Cardiff University - one of Europe?s leading 
psychology departments - wishes to appoint two new Professors (permanent 
posts) (Vacancy no. 429) and three Research Fellows, (fixed-term for 3 
years), (Vacancy no. 428) in Cognitive Neuroscience. The Chairs are tenured 
positions (and for the first 3 years research-dedicated) in the School of 
Psychology and will comprise part of the recently established Wales 
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience (WICN), supported by the Welsh Assembly 
Government. The Institute promotes collaborative research within Cognitive 
Neuroscience between the three psychology departments at Cardiff, Bangor 
and Swansea 
(<http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/newsevents/18928.html>http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/newsevents/18928.html). 


Following the recent merger with University of Wales College of Medicine, 
the School of Psychology at Cardiff University is undergoing a period of 
considerable growth and has been successful in obtaining in excess of ?20M 
in research funds since 2001, including some ?6M to develop CUBRIC, a state 
of the art cognitive neuroscience and imaging facility. Successful 
applicants will have access to all resources including MEG, MRI, ERP and 
fMRI-guided TMS as well as advanced computer systems (see 
<http://www.cf.ac.uk/psych/cubric/>http://www.cf.ac.uk/psych/cubric/).

Applications are invited from ANY area of Psychology studied through a 
cognitive neuroscience perspective.

Salary: Professors: A point on the Cardiff professorial salary scale

Research Fellows: ?20044 - ?30002 per annum (under review)

For information about these positions, please contact Tom Freeman 
freemant@cardiff.ac.uk

See School of Psychology website 
<http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/psych/>http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/psych/

For an application pack and details of all our vacancies, visit 
www.cardiff.ac.uk/jobs Alternatively email vacancies@cardiff.ac.uk or 
telephone + 44 (0) 29 2087 4017 quoting the relevant vacancy number.

Closing date for applications: 8 September 2006

--------------------------------
School of Psychology
Cardiff University
Tower Building
Park Place
CF10 3AT
Wales UK
+44 (0)29 2087 4554
http://www.cf.ac.uk/psych/home/freemant/indexmain.html
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From ishai at hifo.unizh.ch  Tue Jul 18 14:51:45 2006
From: ishai at hifo.unizh.ch (Alumit Ishai)
Date: Tue Jul 18 15:03:37 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Postdoc positions in Zurich, Switzerland 
Message-ID: <6.1.2.0.0.20060718165040.01bd4820@webmail.unizh.ch>

Applications are invited for two postdoctoral positions to study visual 
perception, memory and plasticity, using fMRI.  Zurich is a thriving 
interdisciplinary imaging community with two research-dedicated (3T and 
1.5T) Philips scanners and other useful resources.  Competitive salaries 
are guaranteed. Candidates with fMRI experience should send their CV, 
statement of research interests, representative publications, and 2-3 
letters of recommendation to Alumit Ishai, 
<mailto:ishai@hifo.unizh.ch>ishai@hifo.unizh.ch.


Alumit Ishai, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Institute of Neuroradiology
University of Zurich
Winterthurerstrasse 190
8057 Zurich, Switzerland

Phone:  41-44-635-3440
FAX:      41-44-635-3449

http://www.ini.unizh.ch/~alumit/


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From matthias.franz at tuebingen.mpg.de  Tue Jul 18 13:01:17 2006
From: matthias.franz at tuebingen.mpg.de (Matthias Franz)
Date: Tue Jul 18 15:03:54 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Research Position in Computer Vision and Machine
 Learning at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics
Message-ID: <44BCDB9D.7040302@tuebingen.mpg.de>

A research position in the field of computer vision is available in the 
Department for Empirical Inference of Prof. B. Sch?lkopf at the Max 
Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, T?bingen, Germany.

The successful applicant will join the Computer Vision and Robotics 
Research Group and will be working on the European-funded project CLASS: 
Cognitive-level annotation using latent statistical structure. The focus 
on the project is to design and analyse novel machine-learning 
algorithms for the annotation of images and intelligent content
analysis. CLASS project partners include Oxford, Grenoble, Leuven, and 
Helsinki. It is expected that the applicant will co-supervise two PhD 
students also working on CLASS, and be the main coordinator of 
CLASS-specific activities in the department.

Applicants should hold a PhD and have experience in computer vision, 
machine learning and optimisation methods. Prior knowledge of modern 
machine learning techniques (in particular kernel methods, structured 
output learning, and/or probabilistic approaches) will be an advantage, 
a strong analytical background is a must. We are looking for a highly 
motivated and creative individual who enjoys working in an excellent 
research environment including adequate funding for equipment and 
conference travel.


Conditions of Employment: The successful candidate will receive a salary 
according to the German civil service pay scale. Depending on 
qualifications, the position can either be BAT IIa (postdoc) or BAT Ib 
(roughly corresponding to a non-tenured research assistant professor). 
The Max Planck Society is an equal opportunity employer and is committed 
to employing more handicapped individuals and especially encourages them 
to apply. The Max Planck Society wishes to increase the proportion of 
women in areas in which they are underrepresented. Women are strongly 
encouraged to apply. The position is available until the end of 2008, at 
which point follow-up opportunities in our lab may be available.


Formal applications should include a brief statement of research 
experience and interests, CV, as well as the contact details of two 
referees. Please send applications before September 1st, 2006 to:

Prof. B. Sch?lkopf
sekretariat-schoelkopf@tuebingen.mpg.de
Max Planck Institute for
Biological Cybernetics
Spemannstr. 38
D-72076 T?bingen
Germany


-- 
Dr. Matthias Franz		phone: +49 - 7071 - 601564
Max-Planck-Institut		fax  : +49 - 7071 - 601552
f. biologische Kybernetik	email: matthias.franz@tuebingen.mpg.de
Postfach 21 69, 72012 Tuebingen, Germany




From Jacqueline.Mein at cnib.ca  Thu Jul 20 14:22:05 2006
From: Jacqueline.Mein at cnib.ca (Jacqueline Mein)
Date: Thu Jul 20 18:30:23 2006
Subject: [visionlist] CNIB Director of Research position in Toronto, ON
Message-ID: <3BF9DC4A5502784595FE3687FAD943C603459D64@CNIBEVS1.org.cnib.ca>

Director of Research

CNIB 

 

Founded in 1918, CNIB is a nationwide, community-based, registered
charity committed to research, public education and the vision health of
all Canadians. CNIB provides the services and support necessary to enjoy
a good quality of life while living with vision loss. 

 

CNIB supports research to advance knowledge in the field of 

vision health. Our research program funds projects that focus on ways to
cure, treat and prevent eye disease, and improve the quality of life for
people living with vision loss. Our aim is to ensure the development of
ongoing, evidence-based program improvements at CNIB and to provide the
essential research data that is necessary for developing and influencing
public policy initiatives. 

 

CNIB is currently recruiting candidates for the position of Director of
Research based in the CNIB Centre in Toronto. The successful applicant
will lead a dynamic research enterprise to enhance CNIB's international
reputation for advancing the knowledge base that underpins the provision
of treatments and services, as well as the translation of research into
the continuing improvement of programs, services, and social policy to
benefit persons living with vision loss.  

 

As our research enterprise is in an exciting growth phase, the
successful candidate will have the responsibility for budgeting and
developing a strategic plan that includes describing how CNIB's
resources can be used to achieve high-impact results.  This includes
advising on how client data management systems can support research.
S/he will develop policies and procedures for managing the research
operations of CNIB, including the research grants and fellowship
training programs of the CNIB Baker Foundation for Vision Research that
focus on causes and prevention of blindness.  

 

S/he will report directly and solely to the President and be a member of
the senior management team.  S/he will liaise appropriately with the
Research Committee of the national CNIB Board and assist it in meeting
its mandate.  S/he will broaden and strengthen CNIB's partnerships with
allied agencies, governments, the corporate sector, philanthropic
organizations and academic institutions.  With a demonstrated passion
for vision research and its translation, s/he will conduct, direct,
supervise and coordinate all research activities.  S/he will help ensure
CNIB's commitment to a culture of research excellence.  

 

This position requires a person who (1) holds a Doctorate or equivalent
in a field or discipline relevant for vision research; (2) has a
distinguished record of achievement and leadership in research and
administration; (3) has significant experience in dealing with
government research funding agencies; and (4) will be an enthusiastic
and energetic leader of research initiatives within the CNIB.  The
successful applicant's strong interpersonal, organizational and
strategic planning skills allow him or her to work effectively with a
broad range of vision care and rehabilitation professionals, volunteers
and academic colleagues, and manage the multiple demands of the
fast-paced, competitive environment for research in Canada.

 

This is a full-time position.  The start date and salary are negotiable.

 

Interested applicants should forward a copy of their CV and names of
three references by November 30, 2006 to:

 

Ms. Barbara Marjeram

Executive Director

CNIB Baker Foundation for Vision Research

1929 Bayview Avenue

Toronto, Ontario  M4G 3E8

barbara.marjeram@cnib.ca <mailto:barbara.marjeram@cnib.ca> 

 



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From l.diazsantana at gmail.com  Thu Jul 20 17:04:50 2006
From: l.diazsantana at gmail.com (Luis Diaz-Santana)
Date: Thu Jul 20 18:30:36 2006
Subject: [visionlist] 3rd European Meeting in Physiological Optics
Message-ID: <a06100528c0e567058246@[192.168.1.3]>

Dear Colleagues

Registration is now open for the 3rd European Meeting in 
Physiological Optics, to take place at City University, London. 7 to 
9 September 2006.

To register, please e-mail Alison Lee <Alison.Lee.1@city.ac.uk> for 
instructions on how to pay and registration form. She can also 
provide information on accommodation and venue.

Preliminary programme is available on-line at
http://www.city.ac.uk/optometry/Luis/downloads/Short%20Programme_.pdf

Further information can be found at
http://www.city.ac.uk/empo


Lookign forward to see you in London
Sincerely

Luis Diaz-Santana
Meeting Chairman



-- 
3rd European Meeting in Physiological Optics.
September 7th to 9th, 2006
City University
London, UK
http://www.city.ac.uk/optometry/Luis/myresearch/3rdEMPO/3rdeuropeanmeeti.html


Luis Diaz-Santana
Department of Optometry and Visual Science
City University, Northampton Square
London, EC1V 0HB, UK.
http://www.city.ac.uk/optometry/Luis/myresearch/
http://www.sharpeye.org/

Tel: +44 (0)20 7040 8335
Fax: +44(0)20 7040 8355
e-mail: luisd@city.ac.uk
From gerard.lacey at cs.tcd.ie  Wed Jul 26 12:43:12 2006
From: gerard.lacey at cs.tcd.ie (Gerard Lacey )
Date: Wed Jul 26 17:44:58 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Trinity College Dublin,
	Ireland - 2 Post Doctoral Positions in Computer Vision
Message-ID: <000001c6b0b1$0eb7bbe0$6d26e286@GLaceyLaptop>

Where:
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

What :
2 Post Doctoral Positions in Computer Vision

--
2 Post Doctoral Positions in Computer Vision
  ? Research Fellow in Endoscopic Computer Vision (One Year contract)
  ? Post Doc in embedded computer vision (Two Year contract)

Research Fellow in Endoscopic Computer Vision 

The Project
This project is investigating the use of computer vision in endoscopy.  The aim is to improve the reporting and detection of colon cancers.

The role
This is a senior research position in endoscopic image analysis.  The ideal person will have strong analysis skills with an ability to innovate in the areas of video and image processing.  A detailed knowledge of feature extraction and classification methods is essential.  It is important for this person to have demonstrated their ability to build high quality working prototypes of image processing systems ideally for third party research partners.   Good communication skills with both technical and medical personnel are essential.

The position
The position is for a fixed term of one year with an earliest start date of September 1st 2006.  The candidate will be appointed on the Post-Doctoral Researcher salary scale [(Point 1 to Point 8) - (?35,886 to ?46,552)] depending on qualifications and experience. There are no relocation expenses with this appointment.  Trinity College Dublin is an equal opportunities employer.  


Post Doc in Embedded Computer Vision

The Project
The aim of this project is develop an embedded image motion analysis and classification system on an FPGA platform.  The image processing system will be using a fixed camera to detect and classify hand motion gestures.  

The Role 
This role will require someone with a PhD or equivalent industrial experience (i.e. 4 years).  This person will have demonstrated the ability to manage research projects and complete prototypes etc. for research partners in the area of image processing or FPGA development.  The applied nature of this research will suit someone with a commercial flair.  Experience of any of the following would be considered an advantage: image based motion analysis and classification, DSP or FPGA development, support vector machine classification, Xilinx FPGAs, or Handel C.

The position
The position is for a fixed term of two year with an earliest start date of September 1st 2006.  The candidate is expected to appointed at about Point 1 on the Post-Doctoral Researcher salary scale (indicative salary ?35,886) depending on qualifications and experience. There are no relocation expenses with this appointment.  Trinity College Dublin is an equal opportunities employer.  

Trinity College Dublin, IRELAND
The University of Dublin, Trinity College, founded in 1592, is the oldest university in Ireland. Standing on a self-contained site in the heart of Dublin, the College covers some 40 acres of cobbled squares and green spaces, around buildings which represent the accumulated architectural riches of nearly three centuries.  At present there are over 12,000 students and 1,200 staff and a research income of ?63.9M (?04/?05).  

The Department of Computer Science (www.cs.tcd.ie) is one of the largest units within Trinity College Dublin and over the last five years has produced 120 papers in refereed journals, 449 refereed conference papers and a number of spin-off companies.

Applications
Please send a detailed CV or Resume to gerard.lacey@cs.tcd.ie by August 21st 2006





From Hema.Radhakrishnan at manchester.ac.uk  Wed Jul 26 10:25:02 2006
From: Hema.Radhakrishnan at manchester.ac.uk (Hema Radhakrishnan)
Date: Wed Jul 26 17:45:11 2006
Subject: [visionlist] PhD studentship at University of Manchester, UK
Message-ID: <20060726112502609.00000002884@mb-00c2101>

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From abarrett at kmrrec.org  Wed Jul 26 19:54:32 2006
From: abarrett at kmrrec.org (Anna Barrett)
Date: Thu Jul 27 09:52:06 2006
Subject: [visionlist] research technician position
Message-ID: <s4c79052.052@mail.kmrrec.org>

A part-time (20 hours/weekly) research technician/assistant position is
available working with healthy controls and subjects with visual-spatial
disorders after stroke, in the laboratory of Anna M. Barrett, MD at the
Kessler Medical Rehabilitation Research and Education Corporation, West
Orange, NJ.  The successful candidate has a bachelor's or master's
degree in psychology, biology, neuroscience, or a related field, and has
experience with collecting behavioral data in healthy subjects or people
with neurological conditions. Candidates should be familiar with
statistical analysis using SPSS, and it is desirable that they have
experience programming visual behavioral experiments. 

Ongoing studies focus on spatial neglect and related disorders as well
as other post-stroke cognitive deficits.  A full-time position may
become available depending upon success of submitted grants.
Primary or coauthorship on manuscripts originating from the laboratory
is a goal for all of Dr. Barrett'sl research staff, many of whom are now
in academic positions.  KMRREC is an equal opportunity employer, and
women, minorities, and the differently abled are encouraged to apply. 
Interested candidates may send a resume, writing sample, and three
references to Dr. Barrett at abarrett@kmrrec.org .

Anna M. Barrett, MD
Behavioral Neurology/Cognitive Rehabilitation
Associate Professor of Physical Medicine 
and Rehabilitation, and Neurology and Neurosciences,
UMDNJ--NJMS
Director, Stroke Rehabilitation Research
Kessler Medical Rehabilitation Research and Education Corporation
~a not for profit organization devoted to rehabilitation research
affiliated with the Henry H. Kessler Foundation~
(973) 324-3569 
(973) 243-6984 (fax)

Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail may contain protected health
information that is strictly confidential.  If you are not the intended
recipient, you are hereby notified that any use, disclosure, copying,
distribution or action taken in reliance on the content of this
communication is strictly prohibited. Please notify the sender and then
delete this e-mail and any attachments. 
From jasonbarton at shaw.ca  Thu Jul 27 05:41:06 2006
From: jasonbarton at shaw.ca (Jason Barton)
Date: Thu Jul 27 09:52:19 2006
Subject: [visionlist] graduate studentship
Message-ID: <C0EDA002.3960%jasonbarton@shaw.ca>

We have a new funded position available for someone interested in studying
inter-trial and top-down effects in saccadic control, using behavioural
studies, fMRI, and patient-based studies in schizophrenia.

For more information on our program, please see:

http://www.neuroophthalmology.ca/UBCNeuroOp/JBarton/Frtraining.html

Interested parties can send their c.v. and references to:

jasonbarton@shaw.ca

Jason J S Barton MD PhD FRCPC
Professor and Canada Research Chair
Neurology, Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Psychology
University of British Columbia


From jelder at yorku.ca  Fri Jul 28 14:30:34 2006
From: jelder at yorku.ca (James Elder)
Date: Fri Jul 28 15:34:11 2006
Subject: [visionlist] POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP IN COMPUTIONAL VISION,
 YORK UNIVERSITY CENTRE FOR VISION RESEARCH
Message-ID: <44CA1F8A.1060308@yorku.ca>

POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP IN COMPUTIONAL VISION
YORK UNIVERSITY CENTRE FOR VISION RESEARCH
TORONTO, CANADA

A postdoctoral position is available in the laboratory of James Elder at 
the York University Centre for Vision Research in Toronto, Canada.   The 
candidate should have a research background in computer vision and/or 
computational modeling of biological vision systems.

The general interest of the laboratory is in statistical approaches to 
visual computation.  Application areas of interest include:

    * Natural scene statistics
    * Perceptual organization
    * Contour processing
    * Texture coding
    * Image segmentation
    * Shape representation
    * Face detection and recognition
    * Motion tracking
    * Attentive vision systems
    * Data fusion
    * Geomatics
    * Single-view reconstruction
    * Classification image and reverse correlation techniques
    * Neural modeling


The salary for this position is competitive and the starting date is 
flexible.  The position is for one year, with the expectation of 
renewal.  Applications will be accepted until Monday, September 4, 
2006.  International applications are encouraged.

The York Centre for Vision Research is an interdisciplinary centre 
spanning the laboratories of 23 faculty members in the Departments of 
Psychology, Computer Science and Engineering, Biology and Philosophy.  
Members pursue fundamental and applied research in human and computer 
vision, vestibular and auditory perception, eye-movements, virtual 
reality and robotics.  The Centre receives substantial research funding 
from a variety of sources, and is very well equipped with attentive 
sensing devices, stereo rigs, immersive reality environments, advanced 
graphics engines, eye- and head-tracking devices, stereo projection 
systems and head-mounted displays.

More information about the Elder Laboratory is available at:  
www.elderlab.yorku.ca <http://www.elderlab.yorku.ca/>
More information about the Centre is available at www.cvr.yorku.ca 
<http://www.cvr.yorku.ca/>

Applicants should send a c.v. and the names of 3 referees to:

James Elder
Centre for Vision Research
York University
4700 Keele Street
Toronto, ON
Canada
M3J 1P3

Fax:  (416) 736-5857

email:  jelder@yorku.ca <mailto:jelder@yorku.ca>
www:  www.yorku.ca/jelder <http://www.yorku.ca/jelder>

-- 

James H. Elder
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering &
Department of Psychology


From nick at psico.univ.trieste.it  Mon Jul 31 08:14:00 2006
From: nick at psico.univ.trieste.it (Nicola Bruno)
Date: Mon Jul 31 09:47:58 2006
Subject: [visionlist] please post
Message-ID: <B19D87BA-9033-46AA-9492-A08849F2DA9C@psico.univ.trieste.it>

--First Announcement --
The XIVth Kanizsa Lecture & Trieste Symposium on Perception and  
Cognition
Trieste, Italy
26-27 October 2006

The Department of Psychology and the BRAIN Center for Neuroscience of  
the University of Trieste are pleased to invite you to the 14th  
Kanizsa Lecture. This year, the lecture will be given by Melvyn A.  
Goodale (University of Western Ontario) who will speak on ?Visual  
Duplicity: Action without Perception in the Human Visual System?.   
The lecture will be on Friday, October 27 at 4.00 pm in the  
Revoltella Museum Auditorium.

The accompanying Symposium on Perception and Cognition will begin on  
Thursday, October 26 at 3 pm and it will include additional selected  
oral presentations (Thursday afternoon), an invited workshop (Friday  
morning), and an open poster session (Friday lunch time). The  
Symposium will be held at the Psychology Department.  Social  
activities will include a buffet lunch at the Friday poster session,  
sponsored by Cambridge Research Systems, and a social dinner on  
Friday night.

If you wish to contribute a presentation to the Symposium, please  
send us a title and a brief abstract. Traditionally, the Symposium is  
open to all areas and approaches to the study of cognition,  has no  
registration fee, and runs on an informal, relaxed pace. Please  
submit the title of your contribution by electronic mail to either of  
the following addresses: nick@psico.univ.trieste.it  or  
battagli@univ.trieste.it as soon as possible and no later than  
October 1. Please also specify whether you would like to be  
considered for oral presentations or have a need for special  
demonstration equipment.

Workshop on ?Integrative Approaches to Perception and Action?
The lecture will be accompanied by an invited workshop. The following  
specialists have agreed to contribute a presentation: Claudio  
Galletti (Bologna), Elisabetta L?davas (Bologna), Laila Craighero  
(Ferrara), Frank Durgin (Swarthmore), David Westwood (Dalhousie), and  
Volker Franz (Giessen).  The workhop will run from 8.30 to 12.30 am  
on Friday  27. Everyone is invited to join the discussion.

GUIDELINES FOR SYMPOSIUM SUBMISSIONS
Oral presentations
There will be space for 10-12 oral presentations only.  Presentations  
will be selected based on the timing of submission and the general  
interest of the topic. Each participant will have 15-20 minutes to  
present the paper, including discussion.
Posters
Submitted posters will be grouped thematically and displayed for at  
least three hours. Recommended poster size is 100 x 140 cm (hor x  
vert). Posters should be readable from a distance of 2 meters.

Nicola Bruno & Paolo Battaglini, Symposium Organizers
Walter Gerbino, Kanizsa Lecture Organizer

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From announcements at journalofvision.org  Thu Aug  3 22:50:01 2006
From: announcements at journalofvision.org (Journal of Vision)
Date: Mon Aug  7 09:53:44 2006
Subject: [visionlist] New Issue: Journal of Vision, Volume 6, Issue 8
Message-ID: <112c01c6b74f$26fd9450$020100c0@journalofvision.org>


Journal of Vision

Volume 6, Number 8, Pages 760-857	 doi:10.1167/6.8
http://journalofvision.org/6/8/	 ISSN 1534-7362	 

Articles

 <http://journalofvision.org/6/8/1/> 	 Combining achromatic and
chromatic cues to transparency <http://journalofvision.org/6/8/1/> 
Jacqueline M. Fulvio
Manish Singh
Laurence T. Maloney
http://journalofvision.org/6/8/1/
	
 <http://journalofvision.org/6/8/2/> 	 The interaction of eye
movements and retinal signals during the perception of 3-D motion
direction <http://journalofvision.org/6/8/2/> 
Julie M. Harris
http://journalofvision.org/6/8/2/
	
 <http://journalofvision.org/6/8/3/> 	 Learning to discriminate
complex movements: Biological versus artificial trajectories
<http://journalofvision.org/6/8/3/> 
Jan Jastorff
Zoe Kourtzi
Martin A. Giese
http://journalofvision.org/6/8/3/
	
 <http://journalofvision.org/6/8/4/> 	 Perceived orientation of
complex shape reflects graded part decomposition
<http://journalofvision.org/6/8/4/> 
Elias H. Cohen
Manish Singh
http://journalofvision.org/6/8/4/
	
 <http://journalofvision.org/6/8/5/> 	 Changes in expectation
consequent on experience, modeled by a simple, forgetful neural circuit
<http://journalofvision.org/6/8/5/> 
Andrew J. Anderson
R. H. S. Carpenter
http://journalofvision.org/6/8/5/
	
 <http://journalofvision.org/6/8/6/> 	 Visual perception of biological
motion by form: A template-matching analysis
<http://journalofvision.org/6/8/6/> 
Joachim Lange
Karsten Georg
Markus Lappe
http://journalofvision.org/6/8/6/
	
 <http://journalofvision.org/6/8/7/> 	 Adaptation aftereffects in the
perception of gender from biological motion
<http://journalofvision.org/6/8/7/> 
Nikolaus F. Troje
Javid Sadr
Henning Geyer
Ken Nakayama
http://journalofvision.org/6/8/7/
	


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From Hualou.Liang at uth.tmc.edu  Fri Aug  4 00:00:04 2006
From: Hualou.Liang at uth.tmc.edu (Hualou Liang)
Date: Mon Aug  7 09:54:03 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Postdoctoral Positions Available
Message-ID: <BCC038D6A0EDDF45BBFE79550BE6D5BD0257AF5E@ut167692.shis.uth.tmc.edu>



Postdoctoral Positions Available
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

Applications are invited for two postdoctoral positions currently open in the group of Dr. Hualou Liang at University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston to participate in an ongoing research project that analyzes large time series datasets being gathered under various tasks including visual selective attention, multistable visual perception and visuomotor pattern discrimination etc. The project involves the development and application of modern signal processing techniques to multielectrode neural recordings. The successful candidates should be highly motivated, and are expected to work in a team, with the opportunity to work with distinguished collaborators in neural data acquisition, analysis, and algorithm development. Our current facilities include a 90-node (2 CPUs per node) Linux cluster and a 128-channel EEG system dedicated for research activities.?? 

The ideal candidate should have, or be about to receive, a Ph.D. in a relevant discipline with substantial mathematical/computational experience (especially in signal processing, time series analysis, dynamical systems, multivariate statistics). Programming skills in C and Matlab are essential. Experience in neuroscience is advantageous but not required. 

Interested individuals should email a curriculum vitae, a brief statement of research interests, the expected date of availability and the names of three references to Dr. Hualou Liang at Hualou.liang@uth.tmc.edu 

---------------------------
Hualou Liang, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
The University of Texas at Houston
7000 Fannin, Suite 600
Houston, TX 77030

Phone: 713-500-3914
Fax:?? 713-500-3929
Email:? hualou.liang@uth.tmc.edu
http://www.sahs.uth.tmc.edu/hliang



From ifine at usc.edu  Wed Aug  2 22:47:46 2006
From: ifine at usc.edu (Ione Fine)
Date: Mon Aug  7 09:54:47 2006
Subject: [visionlist] annual Optical Society of America Vision Meeting
Message-ID: <C0F679A2.DFA0%ifine@usc.edu>

The deadline for submitting an abstract to the 6th annual Optical
Society of America Vision Meeting has been extended from August 1
until August 15.  Meeting details and abstract submission information
can be found at http://www.cvs.rochester.edu/fvm_2006/index.html.

The meeting will be held at the University of Rochester on October 6,
7, and 8, 2006.  This year's meeting has 28
internationally-recognized speakers spanning a broad range of topics
in vision science. We will honor Donald I.A. MacLeod, the 2006
recipient of the OSA Tillyer Award. The Young Investigator Award,
which includes a cash prize, will be given to the student or post-doc
who gives the best presentation at the meeting.

Look forward to seeing you in Rochester!

Best Wishes,

Ione Fine
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From Marcello.Rosa at med.monash.edu.au  Sun Aug  6 12:12:29 2006
From: Marcello.Rosa at med.monash.edu.au (mrosa)
Date: Mon Aug  7 09:55:28 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Job advertisement- Professor of Physiology,
	Monash University, Melbourne Australia
Message-ID: <a8de63679c7d8bb88f85025777c6be90@med.monash.edu.au>

PROFESSOR OF PHYSIOLOGY
  AND
HEAD, DEPARTMENT OF PHYSIOLOGY

FACULTY OF MEDICINE, NURSING AND HEALTH SCIENCES


Monash University seeks an outstanding appointee for the position of 
Professor of Physiology and Head, Department of Physiology.  The 
appointee will have a well-developed strategic view for the role of 
physiology in the 21st century, a proven commitment to excellence in 
both research and teaching and will provide innovative academic 
leadership to the department within the School of Biomedical Sciences.

Excellence in research and education and great diversity in location, 
culture and people distinguish Monash as a leading Australian and 
proudly international university.  With campuses in Australia, Malaysia 
and South Africa and centres in the UK and Italy, it provides exciting 
international research and education opportunities.  National and 
international students benefit from extensive curriculum choices 
offered by Monash?s ten faculties in the sciences, professions and 
humanities.

Energy, vision and an outstanding record in research (demonstrated by 
published work in top-ranked international journals and significant 
research grant success) are essential.  A track record of links with 
industry and/or involvement in a decision-making capacity with relevant 
government and community bodies is an advantage.

The appointment as a professor will be on a continuing basis, with the 
departmental headship being for the initial 5 years of the appointment.

Remuneration: professorial salary: $A121,459 per annum, plus 
superannuation.  An allowance will be applicable for the departmental 
headship role.  A competitive remuneration package will be negotiable 
for an outstanding appointee. Relocation travel and removal allowances 
and salary packaging are available.

Selection documentation may be accessed electronically on the World 
Wide Web:
http://www.adm.monash.edu/sss/employment/senior

Confidential inquiries regarding the position may be made to Professor 
Christina Mitchell, Head, School of Biomedical Sciences, Monash 
University, +61 3 9905 3790, email Christina.Mitchell@med.monash.edu.au

Applications should reach Ms Bronwen Meredith, Manager, Senior Academic 
Appointments (Advertised), Monash University, Victoria 3800, Australia, 
no later than Friday 22 September 2006.

Inquiries regarding the application process may be directed to Ms 
Meredith, telephone +61 3 9905 6193, facsimile +61 3 9905 6016, email 
bronwen.meredith@adm.monash.edu.au

The university reserves the right to appoint by invitation.

Monash respects the privacy of your personal information.  For more 
details visit
www.privacy.monash.edu.au

Dr. Marcello Rosa
Associate Professor, Department of Physiology
Director, Monash University Centre for Brain and Behaviour

Monash University
Clayton, VIC 3800
Australia

Fax: +61 3 9905 2547
Ph:   +61 3 9905 2522 (office)
Ph:   +61 3 9905 2538 (Vision Research Laboratory)
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From vpf3 at columbia.edu  Fri Aug  4 20:38:35 2006
From: vpf3 at columbia.edu (vincent ferrera)
Date: Mon Aug  7 09:55:51 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Post-doc in FMRI and Neurophysiology at Columbia
	University
In-Reply-To: <b5b201c6a07e$b7146b50$020100c0@journalofvision.org>
References: <b5b201c6a07e$b7146b50$020100c0@journalofvision.org>
Message-ID: <44D3B04B.7020004@columbia.edu>

Post-doctoral Fellow in Functional Imaging and Neurophysiology
Columbia University, New York City

We are looking for a highly motivated post-doctoral fellow to work on a 
project that involves parallel studies of perceptual decision-making 
using fMRI in humans and monkeys, as well as alert monkey neurophysiology.

Candidates should have a strong quantitative background and a Ph.D. in 
Neuroscience, Physics, Computer Science, Engineering, Psychology or a 
related field and a record of publication in internationally recognized 
journals.  Expertise with Matlab is essential, and C/C++ highly 
desirable.  The position is funded for 2 years, but the candidate will 
also be expected to apply for independent funding.

The laboratory is located in the Keck-Mahoney Center for Brain and 
Behavior Research at the Health Sciences Campus of Columbia University 
in Northern Manhattan. We share a floor with 5 other groups also working 
on issues of systems neuroscience with diverse interests ranging over 
early vision, attentional mechanisms, oculomotor control, emotional 
circuitry and computational neurobiology.  Our Center is particularly 
committed to maintaining a strongly interactive and collaborative 
atmosphere among the different laboratories.

Imaging experiments will be done in collaboration with the Columbia fMRI 
Research Center
http://www.fmri.org

Please send inquiries or CVs plus the names of 3 references to:
Dr. Vincent Ferrera (vpf3@columbia.edu).

Columbia University is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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From d.h.foster at manchester.ac.uk  Mon Aug  7 11:15:00 2006
From: d.h.foster at manchester.ac.uk (David H. Foster)
Date: Mon Aug  7 12:28:55 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Call for papers: 2ND SHANGHAI INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
Message-ID: <44D720B4.2000002@manchester.ac.uk>

Call for papers

2ND SHANGHAI INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PHYSIOLOGICAL BIOPHYSICS - 
AUDITION & VISION (SICPB 2006)

3-7 November, 2006, Shanghai, China
Further information at http://www.ssbiophysics.com.cn/sicpb/

MINI-SYMPOSIA RELATED TO VISION

Development and plasticity of auditory and visual system
Organizer: Leo M Chalupa

Corticofugal modulation on audition and vision
Organizer: Jun Yan

Neural coding in audition and vision
Organizer: Xiaoqin Wang

Invertebrate Visual Perception and Navigation
Organizer: S W Zhang

Advances in the Pathophysiology and Treatment of Dry Eye Disease
Organizer: Stefano Barabino

Refractive surgery and biomechanics of the cornea and lamellar corneal 
surgery
Organizer: Herbert E Kaufman

Visual cortical function and perception: Human and Mammals
Organizer: Trichur Vidyasagar

Energy transmission and signal transduction in eyes and ears
Organizer: David He

Auditory and visual Central Processing (through imaging) in human and 
primates
Organizer: Jennifer Melcher

Recognition of vocal and visual communication signals
Organizer: Jag Kanwal

Retinal implants
Organizer: Marco Pelizzone

IMPORTANT DEADLINES

August 10th, 2006: Submission of abstracts & proposals for mini-symposia 
& special sessions. All abstracts and proposals should be e-mailed to:

Sicpb2006@ssbiophysics.com.cn and copied to fjgu@fudan.edu.cn

Further information at http://www.ssbiophysics.com.cn/sicpb/
From Mark.Mccourt at ndsu.edu  Mon Aug  7 21:44:30 2006
From: Mark.Mccourt at ndsu.edu (Mark McCourt)
Date: Tue Aug  8 17:21:52 2006
Subject: [visionlist] lightproof goggles
Message-ID: <200608072144.k77LiUL2014924@smtp1.NoDak.edu>

Dear Colleagues:

 

I want to present CRT images to observers in various states of light/dark
adaptation. For this purpose I want to use lightproof goggles into which I
can introduce various amounts of neutral density attenuation. Rather than
reinvent the wheel I was wondering whether anyone had developed such a
system who would be willing to share the particulars with me.

 

Thank you very much.

 

Mark 

 

*****************************************************

Mark E. McCourt, Ph.D.

Director, Center for Visual Neuroscience

Professor, Department of Psychology

North Dakota State University

Fargo, ND 58105

 

V: (701) 231-8625

F: (701) 231-8426

mark.mccourt@ndsu.edu

 

http://www.cvn.psych.ndsu.nodak.edu/

http://www.psych.ndsu.nodak.edu/mccourt/xindex.htm

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If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they
do not realize how complicated life is. 

John von Neumann (1903-1957)

 

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From shannon.cain at vanderbilt.edu  Tue Aug  8 21:51:04 2006
From: shannon.cain at vanderbilt.edu (Shannon Cain)
Date: Tue Aug  8 22:33:02 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Tenure Track EEG/ERP Faculty Position at Vanderbilt
	University
Message-ID: <44D90748.9040302@vanderbilt.edu>

Vanderbilt University: The Department of Psychology, College of Arts & Science,
invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor faculty position. We seek a cognitive 
neuroscientist who has expertise in the use of EEG/ERP methods to study attentional and/or memory 
processes with the ability to translate between human and nonhuman primate experimental models. We 
particularly invite applications from women and minority scholars. The institutional resources in 
neuroscience and cognitive neuroscience at Vanderbilt are outstanding and include the Vanderbilt 
Vision Research Center, the Center for Cognitive and Integrative Neuroscience, and the Vanderbilt 
Institute of Imaging Science housed in a new state-of-the-art facility. Applicants should send 
vitae, copies of relevant publications, a letter describing research and teaching interests, 
teaching evaluations (if available), and at least three letters of
reference to:

EEG/ERP Search Committee
Department of Psychology
Vanderbilt University
111 21st Avenue South
301 Wilson Hall
Nashville, TN 37203

Informal inquiries may be sent via email to rene.marois@vanderbilt.edu. Review of
applications will begin immediately. To receive full consideration, applications
should arrive by October 15, 2006.  Vanderbilt University is an affirmative
action/equal opportunity employer.


From yeewhye at gmail.com  Wed Aug  9 06:24:24 2006
From: yeewhye at gmail.com (Yee Whye Teh)
Date: Wed Aug  9 14:14:19 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Postdoctoral Training Fellowships in Machine Learning
	at Gatsby Unit, UCL
Message-ID: <90231e670608082324y18022eb5nbf9dd785cc9a1d0b@mail.gmail.com>

Postdoctoral Training Fellowships

Machine Learning

Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL, UK

http://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/

The Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit invites applications for
postdoctoral training fellowships in machine learning and related
areas. The Unit is especially keen to recruit researchers with
expertise in graphical models, Bayesian statistics, nonparametric
methods, kernel methods, semi-supervised learning, reinforcement
learning, game theory or machine learning applied to neural data, natural
language processing, machine vision or bioinformatics.

The Unit is a world-class centre for theoretical neuroscience and
machine learning. Yee Whye Teh will join the faculty in January 2007.
For further details of our research please see:
http://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/research.html

The Unit provides a unique environment in which a critical mass of
theoreticians interact closely with each other and with other
world-class research groups in related departments at University
College London (UCL).  The Unit's visitor and seminar programmes
enable staff and students to engage with leading researchers from
across the world.

Candidates must have a strong analytical background and demonstrable
interest and expertise in statistical machine learning.

Stipend according to experience and achievement. Funding for the
fellowships is available for up to two years.

Applicants should send in pdf, plain text or Word format a CV, a
statement of research interests, and the names and full contact
details (including e-mail addresses) for three academic referees to:
asstadmin@gatsby.ucl.ac.uk

Applicants are directed to further particulars about the positions
available from: http://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/vacancies/; academic
enquiries can be directed to ywteh@gatsby.ucl.ac.uk

The closing date for applications is 14 September 2006.
From nancy.place at jax.org  Wed Aug  9 13:50:07 2006
From: nancy.place at jax.org (Nancy Place)
Date: Wed Aug  9 14:14:54 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Jackson Lab Vision Research Meeting and Scholarship
	Announcement
Message-ID: <20060809095007857.00000003948@captainjack>

Generator Microsoft Word 11 (filtered medium) Experimental Tools in Model Systems of Translational Vision Research
To be held September 27 - 30, 2006 at the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine
This conference will provide a forum that brings together investigators who have a common interest in the use of the laboratory mouse in vision research as a tool for understanding human visual system biology and disease, with an emphasis on retina. Hands-on workshops and seminar based information focus on basic technical aspects of using the mouse for studies of visual function and are a unique feature of this meeting. This dual format provides an opportunity for interaction and for exchange of ideas focused upon the use of the laboratory mouse and molecular genetics to study the retina, its associated diseases, as well as their relation to extra retinal visual function. The intimate nature of the conference and the inclusion of scientists from different sub-disciplines, promotes a degree of interaction rarely found at larger conferences. 

Topics for three platform sessions (held each morning) are broad, ranging from development, processing and disease in the RPE/photoreceptors and inner retina to the central visual nervous system. Afternoon workshops include:
Basic Tools for Working with Mice Behavioral Assessment Clinical Assessment: indirect ophthalmoscopy, slit lamp biomicroscopy, etc. Electrophysiological Assessment Genetic Mapping/Modifiers Histological Assessment and Imaging Microarray Experiment Design and Analysis Retinal explants and Electroporation Visual Cortical Recordings 

Abstract submissions will be reviewed and selections made for presentations and poster session. Abstract Deadline: August 27, 2006 

Postdoctoral and graduate students are encouraged to attend. 
A number of travel scholarships to partially defray conference costs are available for students, postdocs and medical research fellows.

For complete information, including schedule, speaker list and on-line registration, please visit: http://www.jax.org/courses/events/coursedetails.do?id=212&detail=scope

Please email nancy.place@jax.org for more information, inquire about scholarships, or to submit an abstract.

Participation by women, minorities, and persons with disabilities is strongly encouraged.



Nancy Place Course & Conference Coordinator The Jackson Laboratory 600 Main Street Bar Harbor, ME 04609-1500 Telephone - (207) 288-6257 Fax - (207) 288-6080 http://www.jax.org/courses
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From thomas.thesen at med.nyu.edu  Wed Aug  9 19:15:31 2006
From: thomas.thesen at med.nyu.edu (Thomas Thesen)
Date: Wed Aug  9 21:34:11 2006
Subject: [visionlist] projectors for stimulus presentation
Message-ID: <1155150931.44da34535158b@imp.med.nyu.edu>



Dear Visionscience List,

I wanted to see if anyone has a recommendation for a good projector under $4000.
The current model we are using for MEG experiments has the tendency to drop
frames and does not synchronize perfectly with the PC graphics card output. We
found this out while trying to presenting visual stimuli (with Presentation
software)at an SOA of 400 ms (at 60Hz refresh rate). Even though the refresh
rate and resolution of PC and projector were matched, we got an extra frame
after every 11th frame when we double-checked with a photosensor. Unfortunately
that's not acceptable for our purposes.

ANY suggestions on how to circumvent this problem are very much appreciated!

cheers,

Thomas

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From strasburger at uni-muenchen.de  Thu Aug 10 09:09:06 2006
From: strasburger at uni-muenchen.de (Hans Strasburger)
Date: Thu Aug 10 14:52:30 2006
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From d.osorio at sussex.ac.uk  Fri Aug 11 14:09:07 2006
From: d.osorio at sussex.ac.uk (Daniel Osorio)
Date: Fri Aug 11 14:37:56 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Animal Vision meeting announcement
Message-ID: <CB38FFB9348E1BF77A57DC8E@ls1334.lifesci.susx.ac.uk>

from

Daniel Osorio
School of Life Sciences
University of Sussex
Brighton. BN1 9QG.
UK

***************************************************
AVA & Colour Group One-day Scientific Meeting.

2nd announcement

Animal Vision

University of Bristol, Dept. of Experimental Psychology

21st September 2006. 10.00-17.30

Speakers include:
?	Doekele Stavenga (Groningen) 'Butterfly coloration and colour vision.'
?	Mike Land (Sussex)  'Animal eye-movements'
?	Olle H?stad (Uppsala). 'Evolution of avian colour vision systems'.
.	Jules Davidoff (Goldsmiths, London). 'Species differences in colour 
categorization'
.	Rob Harris (Sussex). 'Memory retrieval by ants'.
.   Christian Wehrhahn (Tuebingen). 'S-cones and brightness'.

Contributions are invited on both invertebrate and vertebrate vision. For 
example:

?	Navigation and motion
?	Object recognition and colour
?	Comparative colour vision
?	Visual ecology and Image statistics

Oral contributions, posters, and demonstrations of results/methods are 
welcome - please specify which type of presentation you prefer.

The submission deadline is 18 August 2006.

Updated information and meeting registration at the AVA website: 
http://www.theAVA.net

For further information and abstract submission (250 words) please contact:

Daniel Osorio 			
School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex. Brighton. BN1 9QG.
d.osorio@sussex.ac.uk


From wyethb at hotmail.com  Sat Aug 12 19:11:55 2006
From: wyethb at hotmail.com (Wyeth Bair)
Date: Sat Aug 12 23:09:25 2006
Subject: [visionlist] post-doc in Computational Visual Neuroscience
Message-ID: <BAY101-F13BE00BFFDBF613D21C118DA480@phx.gbl>

Dear Vision Science,
Below is an ad for  a post-doc at Oxford University, UK, in computational
visual neuroscience.
Sincerely,
Wyeth Bair

A vacancy exists for a Postdoctoral Research Scientist in computational
neuroscience to model neural circuits and neural coding in the visual
system.  The post is for 3 years in the first instance and will be funded
by the Wellcome Trust.

The general aim of this work is to advance our understanding of neural
coding and neural circuitry by developing a flexible, modular, and
biophysically plausible model of the responses of major
physiologically-defined cell types in the visual cortex.  The modelling
will be guided by a set of principles designed to ensure that the model
remains flexible and generally useful.  Our goal is to build a model that
operates on arbitrary time-varying visual stimuli and that accounts for
the predominant spatio-temporal adaptive properties of receptive fields in
the visual cortex.  We will focus on responses in V1 and those in the
cortical motion area V5/MT.  We aim to create an online modelling
framework that will allow scientists to submit arbitrary stimuli to our
models and to receive output for various cell types in the form of spike
trains.  Expertise is required in computational modeling and experience
with single-neuron or network modelling would be beneficial.  This
position is part of a project that is tightly coupled with experimental
approaches; therefore, there will be ample opportunity to propose and
immediately carry out novel experiments in the visual cortex to directly
test predictions from the modelling.

Further particulars and details of how to apply are available from
reference@physiol.ox.ac.uk or by telephoning 01865 272465.  Please quote
reference number AS06/014.

_________________________________________________________________
Be the first to hear what's new at MSN - sign up to our free newsletters! 
http://www.msn.co.uk/newsletters

From michael.herzog at epfl.ch  Mon Aug 14 13:35:07 2006
From: michael.herzog at epfl.ch (Michael Herzog)
Date: Mon Aug 14 14:27:27 2006
Subject: [visionlist] open position
Message-ID: <44E07C0B.9020501@epfl.ch>

The Laboratory of Psychophysics at the Brain Mind Institute in Lausanne, 
Switzerland, invites applications for a PhD-position and a post-doc 
position. The Brain Mind Institute is a recently founded institution 
dedicated to research in the neurosciences ranging from neurogenetics to 
the philosophy of mind. The Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne 
provides an interactive environment with ambitious students and a 
dynamic faculty pursuing multidisciplinary research in the brain sciences.

The Laboratory of Psychophysics investigates low and mid level vision 
processing including perceptual learning, visual masking, feature 
binding, and schizophrenia research 
(http://lpsy.epfl.ch/people/herzog/index.php). The lab language is English.

We are searching for a Ph.D. candidate with a background in 
psychophysics, TMS, or EEG. Ph.D. students will enroll in the recently 
funded Graduate School of Neuroscience at the Brain Mind Institute. The 
position is a three to four year appointment and salary is approximately 
50.000 CHF/year.

Please, send curriculum vitae, list of publications, the names of three 
referees, and a short description of research interests by e-mail to: 
michael.herzog@epfl.ch.

Michael Herzog will be at ECVP.

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From S.J.Bennett at ljmu.ac.uk  Mon Aug 14 13:50:57 2006
From: S.J.Bennett at ljmu.ac.uk (Bennett, Simon)
Date: Mon Aug 14 14:28:04 2006
Subject: [visionlist] PhD Studentship
Message-ID: <79C2BBE432B6174296A543781AD515E901797036@exch3.jmu.ac.uk>

Behavioural Neuroscience Research Studentship

?12,308 per year plus tuition fees for M.Phil/Ph.D. registration

Three year project

 

Applications are invited for a 3-year research studentship in the Research Institute for Sport and Exercise Sciences at Liverpool John Moores University. The successful applicant will work under the supervision of Dr. Simon J. Bennett on a series of experiments examining oculo-manual pursuit during transient occlusion of moving objects in depth. The work will be conducted in the Behavioural Neuroscience Laboratory, which is equipped with specialist visual display technologies (Barco Graphics 908 projector, ViSaGe stimulus generator), on-line motion analysis systems (Vicon Peak), and eye tracking devices (Chronos Vision, Skalar Iris).

 

The candidate should hold a good undergraduate Honours degree (at least 2.1 in UK system or equivalent) in a relevant discipline. Experience in collecting and analyzing eye and upper limb movement data is preferred, but not essential. Experience with MATLAB and SPSS is desirable. The candidate should be enthusiastic to learn new data analysis and processing techniques, and be willing to work with others as part of larger Perceptual-Motor research group.

 

The position is funded through the Research Institute for Exercise and Sports Science (5* RAE rating), with a starting date from October 1, 2006. The position is funded for three years (subject to satisfactory progress) and supported by a stipend of ?12,308 per year plus full tuition fees for UK/EU students. The successful applicant will be expected to register for an MPhil/PhD award.  Applicants should send a CV, a statement of reasons for applying for the position, and a letter of reference to Rachel Martyn at the address below. 

 

Closing date for applications is 8 September 2006.

 

Rachel Martyn

Research Institute for Sport and Exercise Sciences

Liverpool John Moores University

Henry Cotton Campus

Webster Street

Liverpool L3 2ET

 

r.j.martyn@ljmu.ac.uk

 

Please contact Dr Simon Bennett for informal enquires about the position.

 

0151 231 4352

S.J.Bennett@ljmu.ac.uk <mailto:S.J.Bennett@ljmu.ac.uk> 

 


From p.roelfsema at nin.knaw.nl  Tue Aug 15 08:00:37 2006
From: p.roelfsema at nin.knaw.nl (Pieter Roelfsema)
Date: Tue Aug 15 13:31:53 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Amsterdam : Postdoc or PhD position in cognitive
	neuroscience
Message-ID: <00a401c6c040$e4d9d980$870b57c0@pietcom>

Postdoc or PhD position in cognitive neuroscience:
Neurophysiology of visual cognition

A PhD or Postdoctoral position is available to study the neural correlates
of visual perception, attention, and conscious awareness in the Dept. Vision
& Cognition (head Pieter Roelfsema) at the Netherlands Institute for
Neuroscience in Amsterdam. The project aims to characterize how an
artificially stimulated group of neurons causes a visible percept. The
successful applicant will use single and multiple neuron recording as well
as microstimulation techniques. The ideal candidate will have a strong
background in cognitive neuroscience, preferably with some experience in
neurophysiological techniques, and strong programming skills.

Appointment:
The position involves a temporary appointment for 3 years (postdoc) or 4
years (PhD student).

To apply, please send application letter, CV and two letters of
recommendation to:

Ernita Pfaff, management assistant
The Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience
Meibergdreef 47
1105 BA Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Telephone: +31-20-5664587
E-mail: e.pfaff@nin.knaw.nl


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From adrian.schwaninger at tuebingen.mpg.de  Tue Aug 15 21:28:40 2006
From: adrian.schwaninger at tuebingen.mpg.de (Adrian Schwaninger)
Date: Tue Aug 15 21:37:02 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics,
 PhD Position in Computer Vision
Message-ID: <web-22281206@tuebingen.mpg.de>

PhD Position in Computer Vision

Project Goals

A PhD position in the field of computer vision is available
in the Department for Cognitive Psychophysics of Prof. H.
H. B?lthoff at the Max Planck Institute for Biological
Cybernetics, T?bingen, Germany.

The successful applicant will be working in a
European-funded project that applies basic research results
to the field of aviation security. In this context, the
goal of the PhD project is to investigate, implement and
test novel computer vision and machine learning algorithms
for the automatic recognition of objects in x-ray images. 
 
Applicants should have a strong analytical background and
have experience in at least one of the following areas:
computer vision, machine learning, image processing. We are
looking for a highly motivated and individual who enjoys
working in a team in an excellent, interdisciplinary
research environment.

Conditions of Employment

The PhD position is paid according to the German civil
service pay scale and corresponds to a BAT IIa/2 position.
The Max Planck Society is an equal opportunity employer and
is committed to employing more handicapped individuals and
especially encourages them to apply. The Max Planck Society
wishes to increase the proportion of women in areas in
which they are underrepresented. Women are strongly
encouraged to apply.

Formal applications should include a brief statement of
research experience and interests, as well as a detailed
CV. Please send applications before October 1st, 2006 to:

Dr. Adrian Schwaninger
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics
Dept. B?lthoff
Spemannstrasse 38
72076 T?bingen
Germany
Phone: +49 7071 601 729
Mobile: +41 76 393 24 46
Email: Adrian.Schwaninger@tuebingen.mpg.de
Homepage: www.kyb.mpg.de/~aschwan

From adrian.schwaninger at tuebingen.mpg.de  Tue Aug 15 21:30:45 2006
From: adrian.schwaninger at tuebingen.mpg.de (Adrian Schwaninger)
Date: Tue Aug 15 21:37:17 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics,
 PhD Position in Computational Psychophysics
Message-ID: <web-22281253@tuebingen.mpg.de>

PhD Position in Computational Psychophysics

Project Goals

A PhD position in the field of computational psychophysics
is available in the Department for Cognitive Psychophysics
of Prof. H. H. B?lthoff at the Max Planck Institute for
Biological Cybernetics, T?bingen, Germany.

The successful applicant will be working in a
European-funded project that applies basic research results
to the field of aviation security. In this context, the
goal of the PhD project is to investigate, develop and test
object recognition and perceptual learning theories to
understand the processes and representations used in x-ray
image interpretation.

Applicants should have experience in psychophysics,
experimental psychology, and statistics. In addition,
applicants should be interested and if possible have
experience in data mining (using SQL) and image processing
(using Matlab). We are looking for a highly motivated and
individual who enjoys working in a team in an excellent
interdisciplinary research environment.

Conditions of Employment

The PhD position is paid according to the German civil
service pay scale and corresponds to a BAT IIa/2 position.
The Max Planck Society is an equal opportunity employer and
is committed to employing more handicapped individuals and
especially encourages them to apply. The Max Planck Society
wishes to increase the proportion of women in areas in
which they are underrepresented. Women are strongly
encouraged to apply.

Formal applications should include a brief statement of
research experience and interests, as well as a detailed
CV. Please send applications before October 1st, 2006 to:

Dr. Adrian Schwaninger
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics
Dept. B?lthoff
Spemannstrasse 38
72076 T?bingen
Germany
Phone: +49 7071 601 729
Mobile: +41 76 393 24 46
Email: Adrian.Schwaninger@tuebingen.mpg.de
Homepage: www.kyb.mpg.de/~aschwan

From ecvp2006 at conferencesoft.com  Tue Aug 15 21:38:32 2006
From: ecvp2006 at conferencesoft.com (ECVP2006)
Date: Tue Aug 15 22:15:58 2006
Subject: [visionlist] ECVP2006 program is available on-line
Message-ID: <0a0201c6c0b3$283d9000$a549e88f@N262.arc.nasa.gov>

Reminder, the ECVP2006 on-line program is available at
http://www.ConferenceSoft.com/ECVP/Program/

 

With 312 lectures and 442 posters, this promises to be an exceptional
meeting.

 

We look forward to seeing you in St.Petersburg!

 

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From taylorw at ohsu.edu  Tue Aug 15 23:07:07 2006
From: taylorw at ohsu.edu (Rowland Taylor)
Date: Tue Aug 15 23:30:11 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Postdoctoral position, Portland, OR, USA
Message-ID: <34F1095A-9C61-4401-A562-DC7B11489DD6@ohsu.edu>

A two year postdoctoral position is available immediately as part of  
the Training Program in Neurological Sciences.
The position would be part of a collaborative research program at the  
Neurological Sciences Insitute, within the Oregon Health & Sciences  
University. The research is aimed at discovering the mechanisms of  
synaptic signal transduction mediated by metabotropic receptors  
within the mammalian retina, using a range of techniques, including  
electrophysiology, imaging, immunohostochemistry and molecular  
biology. The precise research project can be flexible, depending on  
the skills and interests of the successful applicant.

This NIH funded position is open only to US citizens or green-card  
holders.

Interested persons should send a letter, CV and list of references to:

Rowland Taylor, Ph.D.
Neurological Sciences Institute,
Oregon Health & Science University,

Office: 503 418 2680
Email: taylorw@ohsu.edu


From s.a.hojjatoleslami at kent.ac.uk  Wed Aug 16 18:59:44 2006
From: s.a.hojjatoleslami at kent.ac.uk (Ali Hojjat)
Date: Wed Aug 16 19:08:28 2006
Subject: [visionlist] PhD studentship in Medical Image Computing
Message-ID: <00d201c6c166$2328cfe0$561f0c81@ad.kent.ac.uk>

 

A Medical Research Council (MRC) funded PhD studentship is available in the
area of medical image computing applications in dementia research.

 

The project will focus on the development of a new object-based approach for
co-registration of pathology images with MRI of the same patient. The work
will involve development and evaluation of software for segmentation,
co-registration, and statistical shape analysis techniques. There will be
regular liaison with collaborating imaging and pathology departments.

 

Candidates should hold an honours degree or MSc in computer science,
engineering, physics, statistics, mathematics, or related topics and have
experience of programming. Familiarity with Matlab, C/C++ and/or experiences
with MR techniques would be advantageous. Candidates must be nationals of
the UK or other EU Member State or Associated State.

 

The starting stipend is ?14,300 p.a. 

 

To apply please send a detailed CV with the names and addresses of two
referees:

 

Professor Alan Colchester

Institute of Medicine and Health Sciences

University of Kent

Canterbury

CT2 7PD

United Kingdom. 

 

Email: a.colchester@kent.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0) 1227 827 200.

 

 

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From announcements at journalofvision.org  Thu Aug 17 00:43:52 2006
From: announcements at journalofvision.org (Journal of Vision)
Date: Thu Aug 17 00:31:21 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Search Links at Journal of Vision
Message-ID: <41de01c6c196$366435b0$020100c0@journalofvision.org>

In April of this year, there were over 27,000 visits to our search page at the Journal of Vision (http://journalofvision.org/search.aspx). The search page allows one to search the journal content by entering criteria such as a word in the title, a keyword, a range of dates, or an author's name. The searches can be performed over articles, or over conference abstracts, or both.

We have recently added a modest new feature to Journal of Vision. It allows you to construct a link that will perform a search at Journal of Vision. These links may be useful as a browser bookmark, on a web page, in an email to a colleague, or even in a published paper. 

As an example, here is a link that checks how often helmholtz has been cited at JOV:

http://journalofvision.org/search.aspx?references=helmholtz

Of course, you can replace helmoltz with your own name to see how you compare.

Here is an example that searches for all articles whose title includes the word "feature"

http://journalofvision.org/search.aspx?title=feature

Many other variations are possible. The search link feature is described in detail at

http://journalofvision.org/info/search-links.aspx/

We hope you will find this search link feature useful. As always, we appreciate your feedback on this or other aspects of the Journal of Vision.

Andrew B. Watson, Editor-in-Chief
Journal of Vision http://journalofvision.org/

From bfisher at sfu.ca  Fri Aug 18 19:08:25 2006
From: bfisher at sfu.ca (brian fisher)
Date: Fri Aug 18 20:50:25 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Tenure track faculty position in interaction science
Message-ID: <200608181908.k7IJ8PuI000770@rm-rstar.sfu.ca>

Faculty Positions in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology
in the Faculty of Applied Sciences, Simon Fraser University
Surrey (in the greater Vancouver area), Canada

The School of Interactive Arts & Technology (SIAT) is accepting applications
for six assistant professors and four lecturers across SIAT's instruction
areas. In exceptional instances, appointment at the associate level may be
considered.

1. Digital Media: Video, 3D, VR and/or Animation
2. Game Design and Development
3. Interaction Sciences
4. Interaction Design and Physical Computing
5. Design Theory
6. Performance and Technology
7. Applications of Programming and Computation in Multimedia (lecturer)
8. Media Specialist (lecturer)
9. Interactive Technologies, Prototyping and Technology (lecturer)
10. Design Process: Media & Design Prototyping (lecturer)

For more information see http://www.siat.sfu.ca/faculty_positions.

...


Interaction Sciences

Applicants for this tenure track position should have completed their Ph.D.
in cognitive science or
a related discipline. The successful candidate will bring a deep
understanding of theory and
research methods from the cognitive and/or social sciences to design and
testing of human
interaction with technology. Examples of possible research specialisations
include: perception
and action (e.g., perceptual and enactive cognition, perceptual-motor
performance, attention),
multi-participant interaction (distributed and social cognition), or
high-level cognition (such as
decision-making, skill acquisition and spatial cognition).
From ad2069 at columbia.edu  Tue Aug 22 15:33:18 2006
From: ad2069 at columbia.edu (Aniruddha Das)
Date: Sun Aug 27 23:35:14 2006
Subject: [visionlist] meeting announcement: Engineering Principles in
 Biological Systems, Dec 3-6, CSHL
Message-ID: <6.2.5.6.0.20060822112602.02e9ba00@columbia.edu>

[This may be of some interest to the vision science community. NOTE 
that I'm just forwarding this on behalf of the organizers, please 
contact them directly, not me...Thanks, Aniruddha Das]

From: Cold Spring Harbor Meetings & Courses
Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 3:55 PM
Subject: SUBJECT: engineering principles in biology conference at 
Cold Spring Harbor, December 3 - 6

Dear Colleague

We would like to draw your attention to a new Cold Spring Harbor meeting
on design principles in biological systems. CSHL meetings provide a great forum
for exchange of the latest ideas & approaches in a beautiful academic setting
near New York City.

Engineering Principles in Biological Systems (December 3 - 6, 2006)
http://meetings.cshl.edu/meetings/engine06.shtml
Abstracts due: September 15
Abstracts are welcomed for consideration as talks or posters.

Topics include, but are not limited to:

* Engineering Principles: From Bacterial
     & Biochemical Systems to Neural Systems
* Dynamics, Feedback & Control I
* Dynamics, Feedback & Control II
* Game Theory & Learning
* Evolution & Synthetic Biology
* Signaling & Communications

We look forward to seeing you at Cold Spring Harbor before the holidays.

On behalf of the organizers: Bud Mishra, Partha Mitra & Richard Murray

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Meetings & Courses Programs

http://meetings.cshl.edu

From J.Starck at surrey.ac.uk  Fri Aug 25 11:23:23 2006
From: J.Starck at surrey.ac.uk (J.Starck@surrey.ac.uk)
Date: Sun Aug 27 23:35:27 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Research Fellowship at the Centre for Vision,
	Speech and Signal Processing
Message-ID: <798670B35DD7C940921AFAE38CC79393015FC13A@EVS-EC1-NODE1.surrey.ac.uk>

Research Fellow
Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP)
School of Electronics & Physical Sciences
University of Surrey, Guildford, UK
 
(Ref: 5597) 
Salary: Up to ?27,193 per annum
(Subject to Qualifications and Experience) 
 
This is your opportunity to join the Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing, one of the UK's premier research centres in image processing and visual media. This position is due to commence from January 2007 and is available for up to three years.
 
You will be responsible for the development of new technologies to create interactive animated content at the quality of conventional video from multiple view video footage. This project will be based within the new multiple camera high-definition video laboratory at CVSSP, a unique facility within Europe. The work will be highly suited to individuals with a keen interest in the application of computer vision techniques for computer graphics. 
 
Applicants should have a degree in computer science, engineering, physics or mathematics with strong mathematical, analytic and programming skills. Applicants at the post-graduate level will be given the opportunity to study for their PhD. Post-doctoral research fellows should have completed a PhD in a relevant area, and have experience in computer graphics, vision and video with a track-record of international publications.
 
Informal enquiries are welcome and may be made to Prof. Adrian Hilton (a.hilton@surrey.ac.uk) and Dr. Jonathan Starck (j.starck@surrey.ac.uk).
 
Apply online or download application documents and further information at www.surrey.ac.uk/vacancies. If you are unable to apply on-line please contact Miss A Colebrook on A.Colebrook@surrey.ac.uk or +44 (0)1483 689135. 
 
Closing date for applications is Friday 22 September 2006 

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From kelley at nist.gov  Sun Aug 20 21:15:20 2006
From: kelley at nist.gov (Edward F. Kelley)
Date: Sun Aug 27 23:35:41 2006
Subject: [visionlist] NIST Display Metrology Short Course #05
Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20060820150104.02636968@mail.boulder.nist.gov>

Blind copies to my colleagues:

This is a notification of our fifth offering of the Display Metrology Short 
Course to be held at NIST in Boulder, Colorado, on November 14-17, 2006. If 
you or somebody you know might be interested, please visit our web site 
www.fpd.nist.gov and follow the links for more information. Feel free to 
pass this on to anybody who might be interested. A single page description 
is available at:
http://www.fpdl.nist.gov/DISPLAY%20METROLOGY%20SHORT%20COURSE.pdf

Thanks,

Ed



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From bart.a at unsw.edu.au  Mon Aug 28 01:24:04 2006
From: bart.a at unsw.edu.au (Bart Anderson)
Date: Mon Aug 28 14:51:52 2006
Subject: [visionlist] (no subject)
Message-ID: <c4692e077e99a84363add1c82598232c@unsw.edu.au>

Postdoctoral Fellow
SCHOOL OF PSYCHOLOGY UNSW
Sydney, Australia
REF. 4531


Applications are invited for a post-doctoral position in mid-level 
vision available mid-October. The primary areas of interest are the 
role of segmentation and grouping processes in vision, which includes 
(but is not limited to) lightness/color perception, contour synthesis 
and integration, 3D shape, and grouping.  The ideal candidate could 
have a Ph.D. in visual psychophysics, computational vision, or visual 
neuroscience, although other areas may also be considered.  Some 
expertise in computer programming  (particularly graphics displays) is 
also highly desirable. Compensation and benefits are generous, and 
depend on qualifications of the applicant.

UNSW is one of the top Australian Universities, situated in one of the 
most beautiful cities in the world.  Sydney is host to a growing and 
vibrant vision science community that spans a number of Universities 
both in and around Sydney.

The salary range is A$59,342 - A$63,473 per year depending on 
qualifications and experience.  Initial term is for a year, with the 
possibility of extension upon suitable performance.

Further enquiries should be addressed to Bart Anderson at: 
bart.a@unsw.edu.au

To apply, please visit:

http://www.hr.unsw.edu.au/services/recruitment/jobs/25080606.html

and follow the "how to apply" instructions at the bottom.  Please also 
forward such materials directly to Bart Anderson at the email address 
above.
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From jg2141 at columbia.edu  Mon Aug 28 21:35:59 2006
From: jg2141 at columbia.edu (Jacqueline Gottlieb, PhD)
Date: Mon Aug 28 22:26:31 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Postdoctoral position, neurophysiology,
	Columbia University
In-Reply-To: <mailman.76.1156800826.15180.visionlist@visionscience.com>
References: <mailman.76.1156800826.15180.visionlist@visionscience.com>
Message-ID: <1156800959.44f361bf752a6@cubmail.cc.columbia.edu>

Postdoctoral position, neurophysiology, Columbia University

A post-graduate research position is available in the laboratory of
Dr. Jacqueline Gottlieb at Columbia University to study the
relationship between attention, reward, learning and plasticity in
the parietal cortex.  The experiments use single-neuron recordings
in conjunction with behavioral analysis in awake, trained rhesus
monkeys. Two monkeys underwent extensive training and are ready for
immediate recording.
	The successful candidate must have a PhD in physical or biological
sciences, strong analytical and computational skills and proven
ability and interest in an academic career.  Good programming
skills (C and Matlab) and experience with neurophysiology strongly
desired. Prior experience with monkeys is preferred but not
strictly necessary. The researcher will design and run experiments,
train monkeys, analyze and track behavioral performance, collect and
analyze single-neuron data, and write papers. Salary starts at
$42,000 per annum depending on experience.
	The laboratory is part of the Center for Neurobiology and Behavior
at Columbia University Medical School and shares a floor with 4
other primate laboratories spanning related fields (early visual
processing, oculomotor control, reward and motivation and
computational modeling). This provides superior technical resources
and an extraordinarily dynamic and interactive environment to
support intellectual and professional development. Please see
http://www.cumc.columbia.edu/dept/neurobeh/
	Please respond with CV, publication list and statement of research
interest to jg2141@columbia.edu, or by regular mail to Jacqueline
Gottlieb, 1051 Riverside Drive, Kolb Research Annex, Rm. 569, New
York, NY 10032.
From mark.bolding at gmail.com  Tue Aug 29 14:55:47 2006
From: mark.bolding at gmail.com (Mark Bolding)
Date: Tue Aug 29 15:20:21 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Frontiers in Neuroimaging Symposium, October 19-20,
	2006
Message-ID: <112b880d0608290755w9c85e0bh7be053307d0bff48@mail.gmail.com>

Frontiers in Neuroimaging Symposium
October 19-20, 2006

Hello,
 I would like to announce the Frontiers in Neuroimaging symposium to
be held October 19th and 20th at UAB in Birmingham, AL in following
the Society for Neuroscience meeting. The focus for this years
symposium is on recent findings in neural mapping, especially in
primates, and the latest techniques by which this mapping can be
accomplished, such as fMRI, MRI, NMR spectroscopy, and optical
imaging.
 There is a website for the symposium. You can register or the
conference there. This site will always have the most up to date
information.
 http://www.neuroimagingfrontiers.org


The site has a list of speakers, draft program, contact information,
etc. There are also two flyers that can be downloaded and displayed in your
department if you wish to do so.
 http://foo.vsrc.uab.edu/~markbold/FiN/FiNflyer5.pdf
 http://foo.vsrc.uab.edu/~markbold/FiN/FiNflyer2.pdf

Feel free to forward this email to other individuals who might be
interested in the symposium.

If you would like to present a poster at the symposium contact
mbolding@uab.edu. All attendees are welcome to present posters.
From maarten.hogervorst at tno.nl  Wed Aug 30 06:54:50 2006
From: maarten.hogervorst at tno.nl (Hogervorst, M.A. (Maarten))
Date: Wed Aug 30 15:07:59 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Applied research position at TNO, Netherlands
Message-ID: <1A7F09509ACB294B835A94B2C8EB50F402045E94@MS-DT01VS01.tsn.tno.nl>

We invite applicants for a position as a research scientist at TNO Human
Factors in the Netherlands (Soesterberg) with a background in perception
research. TNO is an independent research organisation that carries out
applied research for companies, government bodies and public
organisations. It provides contract research and specialist consultancy
as well as grant licences for patents and specialist software. TNO tests
and certifies products and services, and issues an independent
evaluation of quality. 


DETAILED JOB DESCRIPTION (In Dutch, see also
http://www.dagvandeperceptie.nl):

Vacature

ONDERZOEKER PERCEPTIE MEDIOR/SENIOR 

Vacaturenummer  70033505 

Opleidingsniveau  WO 

Ontwikkelingslijn  Toegepaste Technologie 

Werktijd perc.  100 

Dienstverband  bepaalde tijd, met uitzicht op dienstverband onbepaalde
tijd 

TNO Onderdeel  TNO DEFENSIE EN VEILIGHEID 

Business Unit  GTP 

Standplaats  Soesterberg 

Datum plaatsing vacature  20-7-2006 

Datum sluiting vacature  25-08-2006 

 

Algemeen

Het optimaliseren van de menselijke prestatie binnen complexe
(technische) omgevingen is een uitdagend interdisciplinair vakgebied.
Onze onderzoeksresultaten, adviezen, ontwerpen en evaluaties worden
gebruikt door onze partner Defensie en door onze nationale en
internationale klanten binnen het veld maatschappelijke veiligheid.
Binnen onze business unit Human Factors, een van 5 business units van
het kerngebied TNO Defensie en Veiligheid, voeren we toegepast onderzoek
en brengen we advies uit naar: 

Human Interfaces: mens-machine interfaces ter verbetering van de
menselijke effectiviteit, efficiency, veiligheid en comfort; 

Human in Command: het versterken van beleidsmatige en operationele
besluitvorming in complexe en ambigue situaties; 

Human Performance: optimalisatie van menselijke prestatie, gezondheid en
veiligheid; 

Training & Instruction: het versterken van effectiviteit en efficiency
van opleidings- en trainingsprocessen. 
 

Wij zoeken voor de afdeling Human Interfaces (werkveld Perceptuele
Ergonomie) een initiatiefrijke toegepast wetenschapper met visie op het
vakgebied Perceptie, zowel auditief als visueel.
 

Wat houdt de functie in?

* het aansturen en uitvoeren van wetenschappelijk onderzoek op het
gebied van auditieve en visuele perceptie; 

* sturing geven aan de ontwikkeling van het onderzoeksgebied auditieve
en visuele perceptie; bewaken van de innovativiteit en kwaliteit van dit
onderzoeksgebied 

* Inhoudelijke coaching van (junior) medewerkers binnen dit
onderzoeksgebied 

* Klanten adviseren op grond van onderzoeksresultaten. 

Wat vragen we van jou?

* Gepromoveerd, danwel in staat aanzienlijke ervaring binnen het
wetenschappelijk onderzoek aan te tonen, liefst binnen de perceptie. 

* Overtuigende publicaties, waaronder in internationale peer-reviewed
tijdschriften 

* ervaring in het leiden van onderzoeken en projecten. 

* internationaal netwerk binnen het (eigen) vakgebied 

* ervaring met experimenteel onderzoek, statistiek en proefpersonen 

* begrip van (hogere) programmeertalen; ervaring met talen zoals Matlab 

* goede uitdrukkingsvaardigheid in woord en geschrift in Nederlands en
Engels; 

Inlichtingen bij: 

De heer Prof.dr. A.W. Bronkhorst, hoofd van de afdeling Human
Interfaces. Telefoon : (+31) 346-356234 

 

Sollicitatie per E-mail 

Mw Drs. J. Kessener, Senior P&O Adviseur 

Telefoon : (+31) 346-356272 

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From marie at psy.gla.ac.uk  Wed Aug 30 13:06:30 2006
From: marie at psy.gla.ac.uk (Marie Smith)
Date: Wed Aug 30 15:08:13 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Postdoctoral Research Assistant position
Message-ID: <D1309F60-AEF5-425A-994D-F3EC1C55E597@psy.gla.ac.uk>

UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW
CENTRE FOR COGNITIVE NEURO IMAGING
DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY
Postdoctoral Research Assistant
?25633 - ?31525 per annum
REF #12426/DPF/A3

Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Assistant to  
work with Professor Philippe Schyns, Dr Klaus Kessler and Dr Marie  
Smith on a BBSRC funded project ?Cortical Networks for Flexible  
Organisations?, which is aimed at providing a flow-chart of  
information processing within the cortical networks associated with  
the integration of facial features during face categorisation tasks,  
such as gender and expression.

Under the guidance of the grant holders you will have the opportunity  
to: contribute to the design of event-related MEG experiments;  
collect the data with a state of the art MEG system; apply cutting  
edge techniques to analyse brain signals in the time and frequency  
domain; solve the inverse problem in order to identify processing  
networks; and reverse correlate brain activity with facial features.  
Finally, this will also give you the opportunity to practice your  
skills in writing scientific articles for high impact journals. For  
three years you will be part of a successful team of researchers in  
Glasgow who work on this and related topics. This post is available  
from 1 October 2006.

You will be qualified, with a PhD, or equivalent, in cognitive  
neuroscience or a related discipline. You will also have experience  
of running psychophysical, cognitive and brainimaging experiments,  
with experience in MEG and/or EEG date collection and analysis. You  
will have excellent programming skills, particularly with MATLAB and  
will be experienced in image processing, signal analysis in the time  
and frequency domain, the inverse-problem and beamforming / source  
localisation methods. Finally you should have a strong interest in  
pursuing a research career.

Informal enquiries may be made to Professor P Schyns, (+44 (0)141 330  
4937; p.schyns@psy.gla.ac.uk Dr Klaus Kessler (+44 (0)141 330 4774;  
k.kessler@psy.gla.ac.uk) or Dr Marie Smith (+44 (0)141 330 3987;  
m.smith@psy.gla.ac.uk).

For further details about the post and how to apply:
see our web site at http://www.psy.gla.ac.uk/jobs.php or contact Ms  
Lynsay McGinlay, Department of Psychology, University of Glasgow, G12  
8QQ (+44 (0)141 330 3986, e-mail l.mcginlay@psy.gla.ac.uk or the  
University web site at www.gla.ac.uk

Closing Date : September 21st 2006
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From landy at nyu.edu  Wed Aug 30 17:45:47 2006
From: landy at nyu.edu (Michael Landy)
Date: Wed Aug 30 18:18:02 2006
Subject: [visionlist] postdoc position at NYU
Message-ID: <p06230908c11b7f34dca4@[128.122.114.53]>




	POSTDOCTORAL POSITION AT NEW YORK UNIVERSITY:
		PERCEPTION AND CODING OF TEXTURE


A postdoctoral position is available now in the Department of 
Psychology and Center for Neural Science at New York University for 
research on the visual perception and coding of texture.  The overall 
project includes psychophysics, statistical and computational 
characterization of natural textures, and fMRI measurements of 
cortical coding of texture, and is a collaborative effort of Profs. 
Michael Landy, David Heeger and Eero Simoncelli. We are currently 
looking for a postdoc with skills in spatial vision, psychophysics 
and/or fMRI. Experience with image/signal processing would be 
helpful.  The NYU vision group includes over 20 faculty members 
spanning 6 departments.  It includes research in all areas of visual 
science including psychophysics, computational and mathematical 
modeling and physiology.  The appointment is initially for one year, 
renewable to as many as three.  An application should include a CV, 
sample publications, and references.


Michael S. Landy                Voice:  (212) 998-7857
New York University             Fax:    (212) 995-4349
Department of Psychology        Email:  landy@nyu.edu
and Center for Neural Science   WWW: http://www.cns.nyu.edu/~msl
6 Washington Place, #961
New York, NY   10003

NYU Vision Group:  http://vision.nyu.edu


-- 
Michael S. Landy
New York University
Dept. of Psychology
6 Washington Place, Room 961
New York, NY 10003
(212) 998-7857
fax: (212) 995-4349
landy@nyu.edu
http://www.cns.nyu.edu/~msl
From zili8102118 at yahoo.com  Wed Aug 30 19:33:36 2006
From: zili8102118 at yahoo.com (Zili Liu)
Date: Wed Aug 30 21:05:39 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Postdoc position (psychophysics) available at UCLA
Message-ID: <20060830193336.22160.qmail@web53807.mail.yahoo.com>

    Postdoctoral position available to study shape perception  and recognition
       
      A postdoc position in Zili Liu?s lab at UCLA is available immediately  to study, primarily, how the visual system abstracts from input stimulus  information to build an internal shape representation.  Research on other topics in visual perception  (e.g., motion, perceptual learning, fMRI, tracking eye movement, computational  modeling) is also possible depending on qualifications and mutual interests.  A candidate should have solid background in  visual psychophysics and in computer programming (e.g., MatLab).  The position is for one year with a strong  possibility of renewal.
       
      Please visit http://zililab.psych.ucla.edu/research.htm for  more detailed information of the lab.  The  candidate will also be able to interact with the larger vision research  community at UCLA in psychology, neuroscience, computer science, and statistics  (including James Bisley, Steve  Engel, Phil Kellman, Dario Ringach, Stan Schein, Ladan Shams, Stefano Soatto, Jim  Thomas, Yingnian Wu, Alan Yuille, and Songchun Zhu).
       
      To apply, please send a letter of research interests, CV,  and names (with email addresses) of three references to: zili at psych.ucla.edu.

-- Zili Liu
I support Rural China Education Foundation http://www.ruralchina.org/
 		
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From bal at dal.ca  Thu Aug 31 16:56:47 2006
From: bal at dal.ca (Balwantray Chauhan)
Date: Thu Aug 31 17:28:42 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Foundation Scholar in Glaucoma Research (endowed
	faculty position)
Message-ID: <9CE55AEE-963D-42CA-A387-3B484914D15B@dal.ca>

Dear Colleagues:

The Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at Dalhousie  
University is
pleased to announce the Foundation Scholar in Glaucoma Research.   
This is an
endowed faculty position (equivalent to a Tier II Canada Research  
Chair).
Details are available on http://ophthalmology.medicine.dal.ca/.  I  
would be be
grateful if you could display this notice in your department or  
communicate it
to any interested individuals.  Please do not hesitate to contact me for
further information.

With kindest regards,

Balwantray Chauhan



______________________________________________
Balwantray C. Chauhan, Ph.D.
Professor, Research Director and Chair in Vision Research
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
Dalhousie University
QEII Health Sciences Centre
1278 Tower Road, Halifax, NS
Canada B3H 2Y9

Tel: 902-473-3202  Fax: 902-473-2839  Email: bal@dal.ca

From kreiman at MIT.EDU  Fri Sep  1 06:16:00 2006
From: kreiman at MIT.EDU (gabriel kreiman)
Date: Fri Sep  1 14:51:36 2006
Subject: [visionlist] postdoc in systems neuroscience
Message-ID: <001401c6cd8e$1904c170$6a01a8c0@lifebook>


PostDoc Position in Computational and Systems Neuroscience at Harvard
Medical School

Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Position in Computational and
Systems Neuroscience

We are looking for talented, innovative and enthusiastic researchers with a
Ph.D. in Mathematics, Physics, Electrical Engineering, Neuroscience or
related disciplines (including Computer Science, Biophysics, etc.). 

The post-doc will work in a highly collaborative environment within the
Harvard Medical School scientific community in the Kreiman lab. Research
topics include models of visual object recognition, attentional modulation
and neural coding. 

Please submit your application including CV with a list of publications and
names of three possible referees to kreiman@mit.edu

For a list of recent publications and further information, please visit the
following web page (in preparation):
http://ramonycajal.mit.edu/kreiman/index.html

Gabriel Kreiman
Assistant Professor
Children's Hospital Boston / Harvard Medical School
kreiman@mit.edu

From r.vanee at phys.uu.nl  Tue Sep  5 12:56:06 2006
From: r.vanee at phys.uu.nl (Raymond van Ee)
Date: Tue Sep  5 15:00:42 2006
Subject: [visionlist] fMRI grad student Visual Awareness UTRECHT
Message-ID: <a06230910c122e3b94bb5@[10.0.1.3]>

We have a job opening for a graduate student (4 yr) on Brain reading 
of Conscious Depth Perception and Awareness using the combination of 
fMRI and psychophysics, available immediately.
WE ASK:
Applicants MUST have
1) hands-on experience with either fMRI or psychophysics;
2) an MS degree in the field of Vision Science (including Psychology, 
Physics, Biology or Neuroscience).

Programming the visual stimuli is a major part of the work so it is 
important that the applicant has experience in (and finds pleasure 
in) programming computer code (we use OpenGl, Matlab, Mathematica, 
C). And it is important that the applicant understands that real 
insight in how the brain works, is not possible without a model of 
underlying mechanisms. In addition, creativity is important. Although 
we have an inspiring team and although we share and discuss our 
findings, the applicant should be able to work independently in 
programming, creating ideas, in running subjects, and in modeling the 
data. For the imaging experiments we require that applicants have 
hands on experience with designing and analyzing such experiments 
using platforms such as SPM and/or BrainVoyager.

The imaging experiments could be carried out at both the F.C. Donders 
Center for Cognitive Neuroimaging and Utrecht University. Our 
laboratory is equipped with a large field projection system, 
eye-tracking devices and state-of-the-art computers. On a daily basis 
you will be working in a group consisting of three full Profs; 2 
tenure track Profs; 2 post-docs and 10 graduate students. There are 
several international collaborations going on. Our group is part of 
the Helmholtz Institute which combines internationally acknowledged 
research groups, concepts and methods in neurophysiology, biophysics, 
psychophysics and psychology. We offer an excellent training in all 
areas of vision science, including perception and action, material 
perception, stereo-motion interaction, and conscious vision. Utrecht 
is a beautiful, vibrant and historic city. It is very close to 
Amsterdam. Salary is competitive (depending on qualifications and 
experiences). The yearly salary is supplemented by an annual holiday 
bonus of 8% and allowance to compensate costs of private 
health-insurance.

Address:
Applicants are invited to send (preferably by email) their CV, 
publication list, list of notes for University courses, and names of 
2 references to:
r.vanee@phys.uu.nl
or Dr. R. van Ee, Helmholtz Institute, Utrecht University, 
PrincetonPlein 5, 3584 CC Utrecht, The Netherlands
More info:
http://www.phys.uu.nl/~vanee
and also
http://www.phys.uu.nl/~wwwfm for our Helmholtz Institute
http://www.kun.nl/fcdonders for the Image Center
From announcements at journalofvision.org  Tue Sep  5 20:12:50 2006
From: announcements at journalofvision.org (Journal of Vision)
Date: Tue Sep  5 20:23:51 2006
Subject: [visionlist] New Issue: Journal of Vision, Volume 6, Issue 9
Message-ID: <cdb001c6d127$a97e8a50$020100c0@journalofvision.org>


Journal of Vision

Volume 6, Number 9, Pages 858-1007	 doi:10.1167/6.9
http://journalofvision.org/6/9/	 ISSN 1534-7362	 

Articles

 <http://journalofvision.org/6/9/1/> 	 Visual search: The role of
peripheral information measured using gaze-contingent displays
<http://journalofvision.org/6/9/1/> 
Wilson S. Geisler
Jeffrey S. Perry
Jiri Najemnik
http://journalofvision.org/6/9/1/
	
 <http://journalofvision.org/6/9/2/> 	 Humans can perceive heading
without visual path information <http://journalofvision.org/6/9/2/> 
Li Li
Barbara T. Sweet
Leland S. Stone
http://journalofvision.org/6/9/2/
	
 <http://journalofvision.org/6/9/3/> 	 Perception of surface slant
from oriented textures <http://journalofvision.org/6/9/3/> 
Jeffrey A. Saunders
Benjamin T. Backus
http://journalofvision.org/6/9/3/
	
 <http://journalofvision.org/6/9/4/> 	 The role of memory in guiding
attention during natural vision <http://journalofvision.org/6/9/4/> 
Ran Carmi
Laurent Itti
http://journalofvision.org/6/9/4/
	
 <http://journalofvision.org/6/9/5/> 	 The mechanisms of collinear
integration <http://journalofvision.org/6/9/5/> 
John Cass
David Alais
http://journalofvision.org/6/9/5/
	
 <http://journalofvision.org/6/9/6/> 	 Vernier acuity of illusory
contours defined by motion <http://journalofvision.org/6/9/6/> 
Jose F. Barraza
Vincent J. Chen
http://journalofvision.org/6/9/6/
	
 <http://journalofvision.org/6/9/7/> 	 The accuracy and reliability of
perceived depth from linear perspective as a function of image size
<http://journalofvision.org/6/9/7/> 
Jeffrey A. Saunders
Benjamin T. Backus
http://journalofvision.org/6/9/7/
	
 <http://journalofvision.org/6/9/8/> 	 Transient covert attention and
the perceived rate of flicker <http://journalofvision.org/6/9/8/> 
Barbara Montagna
Marisa Carrasco
http://journalofvision.org/6/9/8/
	
 <http://journalofvision.org/6/9/9/> 	 Two cases requiring external
reinforcement in perceptual learning <http://journalofvision.org/6/9/9/>

Aaron R. Seitz
Jose E. Nanez Sr.
Steve Holloway
Yoshiaki Tsushima
Takeo Watanabe
http://journalofvision.org/6/9/9/
	
 <http://journalofvision.org/6/9/10/> 	 Perceptual asynchrony between
color and motion with a single direction change
<http://journalofvision.org/6/9/10/> 
Daniel Linares
Joan L?pez-Moliner
http://journalofvision.org/6/9/10/
	
 <http://journalofvision.org/6/9/11/> 	 Role of focal attention on
latencies and trajectories of visually guided manual pointing
<http://journalofvision.org/6/9/11/> 
Joo-Hyun Song
Ken Nakayama
http://journalofvision.org/6/9/11/
	
 <http://journalofvision.org/6/9/12/> 	 Nonlinearities in color coding:
Compensating color appearance for the eye's spectral sensitivity
<http://journalofvision.org/6/9/12/> 
Yoko Mizokami
John S. Werner
Michael A. Crognale
Michael A. Webster
http://journalofvision.org/6/9/12/
	


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From: dorr at inb.uni-luebeck.de (Michael Dorr)
Date: Wed Sep  6 15:20:42 2006
Subject: [visionlist] PhD / Postdoc positions
Message-ID: <200609061436.44228.dorr@inb.uni-luebeck.de>


For an EU funded interdisciplinary project
on gaze-based communication we are seeking several

? ? ?PhD students and/or Postdoctoral Researchers


Project abstract
----------------

Vision is the dominant perceptual channel through which we interact with 
information and communication systems, but one major limitation of our visual 
communication capabilities is that we can attend to only a very limited 
number of features and events at any one time. This fact has severe 
consequences for visual communication, because what is effectively 
communicated depends to a large degree on those mechanisms in the brain that 
deploy our attentional resources and determine where we direct our gaze.
We therefore propose that future ICT systems should use gaze guidance to help 
the users deploy their limited attentional resources more effectively. The 
same technology can be used to create augmented vision aids that improve 
human visual capabilities by complementing natural vision with computer- 
vision technology in an unobtrusive way.

Position at the Institute for Neuro- and Bioinformatics, 
University of Luebeck, Germany
(http://www.inb.uni-luebeck.de)
--------------------------------------------------------

Work at INB will focus on eye-tracking, gaze-contingent displays, and 
eye-movement prediction. This involves high-speed image processing, tracking, 
and graphics, machine-learning techniques, and the mathematical modeling of 
visual functions.

Applicants for the PhD student position should have a Master, Diploma or 
equivalent degree in computer science, physics, mathematics, or related 
areas. Applicants for the postdoctoral position should have a PhD in one of 
the areas listed above. All applicants should show enthusiasm for 
interdisciplinary research.

Additionally, applicants should have a strong background in several of 
the?following areas:
- Image Processing and Image Analysis
- Computer Vision
- Machine Learning
- Software Development

Applications, including CV and references, should be sent via email to 
barth@inb.uni-luebeck.de, with Cc to dorr@inb.uni-luebeck.de. The deadline 
for applications is midnight CEST on 15 September 2006, but later 
applications might be considered.

Position at Abteilung Allgemeine Psychologie, 
Justus-Liebig-Universitaet Giessen, Germany
(http://www.allpsych.uni-giessen.de/)
---------------------------------------------

Applicants for the PhD student position should have a Master, Diploma or 
equivalent degree in psychology, biology, neuroscience, or related areas. 
Applicants for the postdoctoral position should have a PhD in one of the 
areas listed above. All applicants should show enthusiasm for 
interdisciplinary research.

Additionally, applicants should have a strong background in at least one
of the following areas:
- Visual Neuroscience
- Oculomotor system
- Attention

Some background in programming visual displays would be highly beneficial.

Applications, including CV and references, should be sent via email to 
gegenfurtner@uni-giessen.de. The deadline for applications is midnight CEST 
on 15 September 2006, but later applications might be considered.

A similar position is available at the Laboratory for Experimental 
Ophthalmology at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. Please contact
Frans Cornelissen <f.w.cornelissen@med.rug.nl> for more details.

Duration and salary
-------------------
The positions last for three years and are available from 1 October 2006. 
Applicants should ideally be available from this date, though applicants who 
require a later starting date may also be considered.

The salary will be based on the German public service BAT IIa payscale (from 
around 38,000 EUR per annum, the exact amount depending on age and marital 
status).

From j.c.anderson at sussex.ac.uk  Thu Sep  7 12:54:45 2006
From: j.c.anderson at sussex.ac.uk (John Anderson)
Date: Thu Sep  7 15:34:31 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Jobs at the University of Sussex
Message-ID: <45001695.7080704@sussex.ac.uk>

Faculty posts are available in Neuroscience and in Psychology at the 
University of Sussex, School of Life Sciences. We will welcome 
applications or expressions of interest from those who work in any area 
of Vision Science or on Visual Behaviour. Closing date 13th October 
2006. For details see: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/jobs. Informal enquiries 
to Daniel Osorio. d.osorio@sussex.ac.uk
From mitroff at duke.edu  Thu Sep  7 13:48:20 2006
From: mitroff at duke.edu (Stephen Mitroff)
Date: Thu Sep  7 15:35:43 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Three Open-Rank Faculty Positions,
 Department of Psychology & Neuroscience, Duke University
Message-ID: <a06230904c125d2a158b7@[152.3.33.221]>

The Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University 
seeks to fill positions in
behavioral neuroscience, cognitive psychology/cognitive neuroscience, 
and social/affective
neuroscience. The mission of the newly formed Department of 
Psychology and Neuroscience is
to integrate the behavioral and social sciences with the brain and 
health sciences. The department
will be the primary locus of the neuroscience of behavior in the 
College of Arts and Sciences and
home of the diverse subdisciplines of psychology at Duke. We are 
seeking outstanding
applicants who are experts in their fields and who wish to further 
integrate their research and
teaching across psychology and neuroscience and beyond the 
traditional boundaries of the
discipline. We anticipate up to eleven new hires over the next 
several years, including open-rank
(with tenure or tenure track) hires this year in:

Behavioral Neuroscience. We are particularly interested in applicants 
with interdisciplinary
research programs aimed at understanding the neural mechanisms of 
behavior, and whose
research combines systems neuroscience and/or molecular genetic approaches with
developmental or neuroendocrine aspects of cognition and motivation. 
First-class research
facilities for the study of brain-behavior relations in small animals 
are available in Duke's new
Genome Science Research Building II.

Cognitive Psychology/Cognitive Neuroscience. We seek applicants in 
the areas of cognitive
psychology and cognitive neuroscience who study high level cognition 
in humans purely
behaviorally or who integrate behavioral and neuroscience research. 
The position is also open to
researchers who use a developmental or lifespan approach to the study 
of cognition.

Social/Affective Neuroscience. We seek applicants with 
interdisciplinary research programs in
all areas of social/affective neuroscience that might include, but 
are not limited to, social and
affective perception, personality and neurogenomics, neuroeconomics, 
emotion and self
regulation, emotion-cognition interactions, stress, anxiety and mood 
disorders, and drug
addiction. 

Available human research facilities include research-dedicated 3T and 
4T MRI scanners, state-
of-the-art EEG equipment, a fully-immersive virtual reality 
environment, and patient clinics at
Duke Hospital and the Durham VAMC. 

All new hires will have the opportunity to participate in related 
cross-departmental programs,
including the Brain Imaging and Analysis Center, the Center for 
Cognitive Neuroscience,  the
Center for Neuroeconomic Studies, the Institute for Genome Sciences 
and Policy, the Social
Science Research Institute, and the Institute of Mind, Brain, Genes 
and Behavior, which is
currently under development. Faculty responsibilities include 
undergraduate and graduate
teaching, as well as the development of a nationally recognized 
research program. Applications
should include a curriculum vitae, statement of research and teaching 
interests, 3 letters of
recommendation (junior candidates) or names of referees (senior 
candidates), and selected
publications. Please indicate in a cover letter which of the three 
areas is most appropriate for the
application. Mail to: Chair, "Area" Search Committee, Department of 
Psychology and
Neuroscience, 9 Flowers Drive, Box 90086, Duke University, Durham, NC 
27708.  Applications
received by December 1 will be guaranteed consideration. Duke 
University is an Affirmative
Action/Equal Opportunity Employer.
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From mleyton at dimacs.rutgers.edu  Thu Sep  7 18:33:17 2006
From: mleyton at dimacs.rutgers.edu (Michael Leyton)
Date: Thu Sep  7 23:29:16 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Quantum Interaction Symposium
Message-ID: <007101c6d2ac$16c73640$2c5b6c42@LEYTON>

We are opening the call-for-papers on

the following AAAI Symposium:



Michael Leyton







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QUANTUM INTERACTION SYMPOSIUM (QI-2007)

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as part of the American Association of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2007) spring symposia series held at Stanford University, March 26-28, 2007.

 

Quantum Mechanics (QM) is emerging from physics into non-quantum domains such as human language, cognition, information retrieval, biology, political science, organizations, and social interaction. 

 

The goal of this symposium is to bring together researchers working in these areas for the first time using artificial intelligence (AI) as a background theme. For example,  whether a QM approach to AI can be supported by field results in a specific content area; e.g., non-monotonic reasoning (NMR), or organizational decision-making.

 

 

The symposium will present research dealing with the use of concepts taken from the general body of research in quantum mechanics on the physical, epistemological, mathematical or philosophical levels and applied to modelling and better understanding phenomena in social, political, linguistic, cognitive, mathematical and computer sciences.

 

 

RELEVANT TOPIC AREAS

 

Papers should also address one or more content areas by specifying the relevance to AI or how AI may be used to solve a specific content area (especially prized will be those papers with a plan to craft quantum agents, systems or robots with methods that merge AI and QM in addressing these topics):

 

. Language

. Cognition and Brain (attention, pauses)

. Information retrieval 

. Biology (e.g., neural or mental processing; biology systems)

. Political Science

. Illusions (bistable visual, auditory or other dual perceptual phenomena)

. Entertainment (e.g., the relationship between consciousness and the mental phenomenon of media to entrain human observers)

. Social Interaction

. Quantum agents; quantum multi-agent systems; quantum robots.

. Organizations ( including corporations; also processes such as mergers; and end results such as culture, ethnicity, etc.)

. Other (possible topics: complex systems; traffic congestion, environmental disasters; and environmental contamination cleanup decisions; creativity; social power)

 

SUBMISSIONS OF PAPERS

 

Potential participants are invited to submit either a full paper (up to EIGHT pages), or a position paper (up to FOUR pages) outlining their relevant research activities and how they would like to contribute to the symposium. Submissions will be judged by at least two referees on technical merit and on potential to provoke active discussions.

 

Submissions, in PDF format, should be sent no later than 6 October 2006 to p.bruza@qut.edu.au using the subject line "QI-2007 Submission". 

In the email you should specify if you intend it to be a LONG or POSITION paper.

All submissions should conform to the AAAI style format.

Typesetting instructions can be found at: http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/formatting-instructions.pdf

 

 

The organizers are planning to have a number of accepted papers expanded into an edited volume, the first in this area.

 

Further notes for authors can be located at : http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php

 

Up-to date information on the symposium  can be found at: 

http://ir.dcs.gla.ac.uk/qi2007 

 

 

IMPORTANT DATES

 

Oct 06, 2006: Submissions due.

 

Nov 03, 2006: Acceptance/rejection notices are mailed out.

 

Dec 01, 2006: Graduate student travel grant application due.

 

Jan 15, 2007: Acceptance/rejection notices for student travel mailed out.

 

Jan 26,2007: Fax "Permission to Distribute" and A/V requests to +1 650-321-4457.

 

Jan 26, 2007: Submit camera-ready versions via the AAAI web site.

 

Feb 09, 2007: Registration deadline.

 

Mar 26, 2007: Start of the symposium.

 

Mar 28,2007: End of the symposium.

 

 

ORGANIZING CHAIRS

Peter Bruza, Queensland University of Technology, Australia (p.bruza@qut.edu.au)

William Lawless, Paine College, USA (lawlessw@mail.paine.edu)

C. J. (Keith) van Rijsbergen, University of Glasgow, UK (keith@dcs.gla.ac.uk )

Don Sofge, Navy Center for Applied Research in Artificial Intelligence (don.sofge@nrl.navy.mil)

 

 

Programme Committee

---------------xxx------------

Badredine Arfi            (University of Florida)

Jerome Busemeyer   (Indiana University) 

Teresa Castelao        (Grand Valley State University) 

Laurent Chaudron    (ONERA-CERT)

Bob Coeke                 (Oxford University)

Kurt Engesser            (University of Konstanz)

Liane Gabora             (University of British Columbia)

Andre Khrennikov     (V?xj? University)  

Michael Leyton          (Rutgers University)

Jorge Louca              (ISCTE)

Shimon Malin             (Colgate University)

Massimo Melluci        (University of Padua)

Stephen Pullman       (Oxford University)

Ian Turner          (Queensland University of Technology) 

Dominic Widdows     (Maya Corp.)

Alexander Wilce        (Susquehanna University) 

John Woods               (University of British Columbia)
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From: s.santillo at cib.na.cnr.it (Silvia Santillo)
Date: Fri Sep  8 15:14:50 2006
Subject: [visionlist] BVAI 2007 - Announcement & Call for Papers
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From s.c.pont at phys.uu.nl  Mon Sep 11 08:01:19 2006
From: s.c.pont at phys.uu.nl (Sylvia Pont)
Date: Mon Sep 11 09:42:55 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Post-doctoral fellowship, VISIONTRAIN project,
	Helmholtz Institute, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
Message-ID: <C12AE46F.6EB7%s.c.pont@phys.uu.nl>

Post-doctoral fellowship, VISIONTRAIN project, 1 year, at the Helmholtz
Institute, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Utrecht University, in the
Netherlands

The post-doctoral fellow will work within the ecological optics group (prof.
Koenderink, Dr. Pont, Dr. van Doorn and three PhD students) and in
conjunction and in association with the VISIONTRAIN PhD student, Stefan
Karlsson (see http://www.phys.uu.nl/~wwwpm/HumPerc/index.html).

The aim is to extend our previous studies into illuminance flow (see below)
to 3D solid rough objects, with systematical variations of the shape,
surface roughness and light field. Concrete aims are to 1. test shape and
light field perception (psychophysics), and 2. compare the results of those
psychophysics studies with analyses of illuminance flow patterns (computer
vision), for those 3D objects.

For conditions and application procedures see
http://visiontrain.inrialpes.fr/?page=post_proposals

For further information about the VISIONTRAIN project see
http://visiontrain.inrialpes.fr/

For other inquiries please contact prof. Jan J. Koenderink
(j.j.koenderink@phys.uu.nl) or dr. Sylvia C. Pont (s.c.pont@phys.uu.nl).

 

Background information about previous studies:

In many scenes the light field is similar at different positions in the
scene because it is due to a single distant source. This induces similar
structures in the illuminance of objects at different positions in the
scene. Local light vectors can be decomposed into normal and tangential
components with respect to a surface. Lambertian ?shading? of the surface
depends upon the normal component only. The surface illuminance flow is
defined as the vector field of directions of the tangential light vector
components. Texture gradients over rough objects depend upon the tangential
components and reveal the illuminance flow. Using the finding that patches
of roughly uniform 3D texture reveal the local orientation of the
illumination we were able to map the global structure of the illuminance
flow. We found that it is a robust indicator of the light field and an
important entity for many subsequent inferences from the image such as shape
from shading. Furthermore, through psychophysical experiments we found that
human observers are able to estimate the local illumination orientation from
3D texture. The results of these experiments were in many regards similar to
estimates on the basis of our computer vision algorithm, using the squared
gradient or Hessian. Our latest psychophysics findings seem to point in the
direction that the squared gradient might be the effective stimulus for
estimating local illumination orientation from 3D textures on globally flat
surfaces by human observers. Our latest photometry and computer vision
studies shed light onto systematical effects on the illuminance orientation
estimates due to non-Lambertian reflectance, due to oblique viewing and due
to anisotropical surface structures.

 

 

-- 
Dr Sylvia C. Pont
Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
Physics of Man
Helmholtz Institute
Buys Ballot Laboratory 358
Princetonplein 5
3584 CC Utrecht
The Netherlands

Tel: +31 (0)30 253 2809
Email: s.c.pont@phys.uu.nl

http://www.phys.uu.nl/~pont/
http://www.phys.uu.nl/~wwwpm/
http://www.fys.ruu.nl/~wwwfm/Home.html



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From: s.santillo at cib.na.cnr.it (Silvia Santillo)
Date: Mon Sep 11 09:43:13 2006
Subject: [visionlist] BVAI 2007 - Announcement & Call for Papers
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From Mark.Mccourt at ndsu.edu  Tue Sep 12 15:06:15 2006
From: Mark.Mccourt at ndsu.edu (Mark McCourt)
Date: Tue Sep 12 22:52:43 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Computer Programmer Position
Message-ID: <00b501c6d67c$fe4f81b0$7f428186@psydomain.psych.ndsu.nodak.edu>

COMPUTER PROGRAMMER (FULL-TIME)

 

The North Dakota State University Center for Visual Neuroscience seeks to
hire a computer programmer to assist faculty in developing real-time data
acquisition and stimulus control software to conduct behavioral and
electrophysiological experiments using human subjects. Required
qualifications include a BS/BA degree in Engineering, Computer Science,
Mathematics or related field; experience with writing real-time data
acquisition and control software; experience with Windows operating systems,
Matlab, C/C++ or other programming language (such as Neurobehavioral Systems
Presentation) providing real-time control of video graphics and data
input/output; knowledge of mathematics, engineering; excellent computer
skills; knowledge of microcomputer hardware; and good interpersonal
communication skills. Preferred qualifications include knowledge of
microcomputer hardware, microcomputer maintenance/troubleshooting skills,
and knowledge in experimental design. Salary $40,000+ per year with
excellent benefits.

 

Applicants should submit the following supporting documents to the Office of
Human Resources, PO Box 5345, Fargo, ND 58105 (see
http://www.ndsu.edu/jobs/broadbanded/ for details) by the close of business
on October 2, 2006: 1) cover letter; 2) current resume; and 3) names,
addresses, and phone numbers of three professional references. Informal
inquiries can be directed to mark.mccourt@ndsu.edu.

 

For additional information about the Center for Visual Neuroscience see:
http://www.cvn.psych.ndsu.nodak.edu <http://www.cvn.psych.ndsu.nodak.edu/> 

For additional information about North Dakota State University see:
http://www.ndsu.edu <http://www.ndsu.edu/> 

For additional information about the Fargo/Moorhead region see:
www.fmchamber.com/community/qualityoflife.html

 

 

Mark E. McCourt, Ph.D.

Director, Center for Visual Neuroscience

Professor, Department of Psychology

North Dakota State University

Fargo, ND 58105

 

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From r.vanee at phys.uu.nl  Tue Sep 12 18:37:22 2006
From: r.vanee at phys.uu.nl (Raymond van Ee)
Date: Tue Sep 12 22:53:02 2006
Subject: [visionlist] POST DOC fMRI Brain Reading UTRECHT vacancy
Message-ID: <a06210207c125750a9c5c@[145.98.106.45]>

In addition to the previously posted Graduate Student vacancy,
we also have a job opening for a POST DOC (1 yr, with possible 
extension to 2 or more yrs)
on Brain reading of Conscious Depth Perception and Awareness
using the combination of fMRI and psychophysics;
available immediately.
WE ASK:
Applicants MUST have
1) hands-on experience and accepted journal publications in the field of fMRI;
2) a PhD in the field of Vision Science (including Psychology, 
Physics, Biology or Neuroscience).

Programming the visual stimuli is a major part of the work so it is 
important that the applicant has experience in (and finds pleasure 
in) programming computer code (we use OpenGl, Matlab, Mathematica, 
C). And it is important that the applicant understands that real 
insight in how the brain works, is not possible without a model of 
underlying mechanisms. In addition, creativity is important. Although 
we have an inspiring team and although we share and discuss our 
findings, the applicant should be able to work independently in 
programming, creating ideas, in running subjects, and in modeling the 
data. For the imaging experiments we require that the applicant gets 
hands on experience in designing and analyzing such experiments using 
platforms such as SPM and/or BrainVoyager.

The imaging experiments could be carried out both at the F.C. Donders 
Center for Cognitive Neuroimaging and at Utrecht University. Our 
laboratory is equipped with a large field projection system, 
eye-tracking devices and state-of-the-art computers. On a daily basis 
you will be working in a group consisting of three full Profs; 2 
tenure track Profs; 2 post-docs and 10 graduate students. There are 
several international collaborations going on. Our group is part of 
the Helmholtz Institute which combines internationally acknowledged 
research groups, concepts and methods in neurophysiology, biophysics, 
psychophysics, and psychology. We offer an excellent training in all 
areas of vision science, including perception and action, material 
perception, stereo-motion interaction, and conscious vision. Utrecht 
is a beautiful, vibrant and historic city. It is very close to 
Amsterdam. Salary is competitive (depending on qualifications and 
experiences). The yearly salary is supplemented by an annual holiday 
bonus of 8% and allowance to compensate costs of private 
health-insurance.

Raymond van Ee (PhD)
More info:
r.vanee@phys.uu.nl
http://www.phys.uu.nl/~vanee
and also
http://www.phys.uu.nl/~wwwfm for our Helmholtz Institute
http://www.kun.nl/fcdonders for the Imaging Center
From vpf3 at columbia.edu  Tue Sep 12 16:29:46 2006
From: vpf3 at columbia.edu (vincent ferrera)
Date: Tue Sep 12 22:53:14 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Post-doc in FMRI and Neurophysiology at Columbia
	University
In-Reply-To: <b5b201c6a07e$b7146b50$020100c0@journalofvision.org>
References: <b5b201c6a07e$b7146b50$020100c0@journalofvision.org>
Message-ID: <4506E07A.5060708@columbia.edu>

Post-doctoral Fellow in Functional Imaging and Neurophysiology
Columbia University, New York City

We are looking for a highly motivated post-doctoral fellow to work on a 
project that involves parallel studies of perceptual decision-making 
using fMRI in humans and monkeys, as well as alert monkey neurophysiology.

Candidates should have a strong quantitative background and a Ph.D. in 
Neuroscience, Physics, Computer Science, Engineering, Psychology or a 
related field and a record of publication in internationally recognized 
journals.  Expertise with Matlab is essential, and C/C++ highly 
desirable.  The position is funded for 2 years, but the candidate will 
also be expected to apply for independent funding.

The laboratory is located in the Keck-Mahoney Center for Brain and 
Behavior Research at the Health Sciences Campus of Columbia University 
in Northern Manhattan. We share a floor with 5 other groups also working 
on issues of systems neuroscience with diverse interests ranging over 
early vision, attentional mechanisms, oculomotor control, emotional 
circuitry and computational neurobiology.  Our Center is particularly 
committed to maintaining a strongly interactive and collaborative 
atmosphere among the different laboratories.

Imaging experiments will be done in collaboration with the Columbia fMRI 
Research Center
http://www.fmri.org

Please send inquiries or CVs plus the names of 3 references to:
Dr. Vincent Ferrera (vpf3@columbia.edu).

Columbia University is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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From alfredo.petrosino at uniparthenope.it  Sat Sep 16 14:39:53 2006
From: alfredo.petrosino at uniparthenope.it (Alfredo Petrosino)
Date: Sat Sep 16 21:14:39 2006
Subject: [visionlist] PhD studentship in Machine Learning for Computer
	Vision - Naples (Italy)
Message-ID: <450A852C0012E665@vsmtp4.tin.it> (added by postmaster@virgilio.it)

The Department of Applied Science of University Parthenope of Naples (Italy)
(HYPERLINK "http://www.uniparthenope.it/"http://www.uniparthenope.it) is
recruiting PhD students for a 3 year Doctoral Program in Computer Science
starting in 2007. The best admitted PhD student will be supported with a
3-year grant, funded to conduct research on the following topics ?Machine
Learning for Computer Vision?. 

 

Candidates should hold an honours degree or MSc in computer science,
engineering, physics, statistics, mathematics, or related topics and have
experience of programming. Familiarity with C/C++, Java and/or experiences
with image processing and/or machine learning techniques would be
advantageous.  A complete description of the application process can be
found at HYPERLINK
"http://pixel.dma.unina.it/~alfredo/Teaching_file/download/CallPhD2007Parthe
nope.pdf"http://pixel.dma.unina.it/~alfredo/Teaching_file/download/CallPhD20
07Parthenope.pdf

Forms and documents concerning this application must be sent by September
22, 2006.

 

For all enquires regarding the present call, please contact me.

 

--------- 

 

Prof. Alfredo Petrosino

Department of Applied Science

University ?Parthenope? of Naples

Via A. De Gasperi 5 

I-80131 Naples (ITALY)

Phone: +39 081 5476601

Fax: +39 081 5522293

Email: alfredo.petrosino@uniparthenope.it

URL: HYPERLINK
"http://pixel.dma.unina.it/~alfredo"http://pixel.dma.unina.it/~alfredo

 


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From: pannasch at psy2.psych.tu-dresden.de (Sebastian Pannasch)
Date: Mon Sep 18 15:13:53 2006
Subject: [visionlist] COGAIN Student Competition: Creative Gaze
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From trj4 at leicester.ac.uk  Mon Sep 18 17:23:38 2006
From: trj4 at leicester.ac.uk (Jordan, Professor T.R.)
Date: Mon Sep 18 17:47:04 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Research Fellowship
Message-ID: <1F2CE8D4B0195E488213E8B8CCF7148605C558BC@Saffron.cfs.le.ac.uk>

 

Research Council UK Fellowship
Research Fellow in Mathematical Modelling of Neural Function
School of Psychology, Departments of Biology and Engineering, and Centre for Mathematical Modelling


University of Leicester, UK


Salary - Grade 8:  ?34,448 to ?38,772 

Ref: R2987 

Research Councils UK is continuing its Academic Fellowship scheme to provide an attractive path to academia for researchers with potential for outstanding research careers.  The fellowship is aimed at the very best early-career scientists with around 0-5 year's postdoctoral experience and interests in modelling neural function.  The Fellowship is for 5 years with the guarantee of an open-ended academic position, subject to successful completion of standard academic probation within the five years of the fellowship.   

Holders will be expected to develop their own independently funded research program, with the first 2 years of the Fellowship dedicated wholly to research, and a small teaching role phased-in over the remaining period.  You will already hold a PhD in an appropriate discipline before taking up the position and you will have evidence of the potential to establish an independent research career.  The start date is flexible. 

The rationale for the Fellowship is to link existing research strengths in Psychology, Biology, Engineering, and Mathematical Modelling to develop fresh insights into the mathematical modelling of neural function.  The level of investigation is flexible but could include any aspect of mathematical modelling of neural function, including computational neuroscience, molecular interactions, neural networks, brain functions and structures, sensory and cognitive processing, individual behaviour, and the dynamics of social interactions.  The development of this research for real-world applications would be welcome. 

We provide an intellectually invigorating environment where individual excellence can be supported within a broad framework of scientific expertise.  We will promote development of the Fellow's research strengths and provide opportunities to collaborate with researchers from a range of backgrounds in Psychology, Biology, Engineering, and Mathematical Modelling (for web pages, see: http://www.le.ac.uk/psychology ; http://www.le.ac.uk/biology ; http://www.engg.le.ac.uk <http://www.engg.le.ac.uk/>  ; http://www.math.le.ac.uk <http://www.math.le.ac.uk/>  ).  The principal Departmental affiliation(s) of the successful candidate will be tailored to their particular interests and the nature of their research.  Ample formal training for the Fellow will be provided prior to involvement in undergraduate teaching.

Full details about the scheme are available at: www.rcuk.ac.uk/acfellow/what.asp.  

Informal enquiries are welcome and should be addressed to: Professor Tim Jordan, email Prof.TimJordan@leicester.co.uk, tel: +44 (0)116 229 7189

Downloadable application forms and further particulars are available from: www.le.ac.uk/personnel/jobs or in hardcopy from Personnel Services, tel: +44 (0)116 252 2438, fax: +44 (0)116 252 5140, email: recruitment3@le.ac.uk  

Please note that CVs will be accepted only in support of a fully completed application form. 

Closing date:  Friday 6 October 2006

 

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From stefano at ecvp2007.org  Mon Sep 18 19:10:54 2006
From: stefano at ecvp2007.org (ECVP 2007 Chair)
Date: Mon Sep 18 19:14:33 2006
Subject: [visionlist] ECVP 2007 Arezzo, 1st Announcement
Message-ID: <DD7FD1CE-CB11-4B1D-805A-907277DB09E3@ecvp2007.org>

Dear All,
this is to announce the 30th European Conference on Visual  
Perception, to be held in Arezzo, Tuscany, Italy, 27-31 August 2007.
The ECVP has been steadily growing in attendance and has become one  
of the leading conferences of the planet in the field of Vision  
Science, putting together an outstanding scientific level with an  
authentic touch of the culture and folklore of the hosting city.
The scope of the conference is broad, including visual psychophysics,  
physiology and anatomy of the visual system, visual cognition,  
computational vision, multisensory perception, eye movements, applied  
vision, vision and art, etc.. The conference proceedings will be  
published in a special issue of Perception.
ECVP 2007 Arezzo promises to be a memorable conference for the  
exceptional level of the scientific content of both the core event  
and its satellites, for the beauty of the hosting city and of its  
surrounding countryside, for the celebrations of the 30th edition and  
for several novel features to be announced soon.
Additional detailed information can be found in the conference  
website (www.ecvp2007.org) where you will be able to complete our  
surveys and post your ideas in the forums. Direct requests of  
information can be addressed by email to info@ecvp2007.org.
We invite you to keep in mind the following milestone dates,  
corresponding to main ECVP 2007 Events

-       1 November 2006: website open for pre-registrations and for  
full registrations with abstract submission (1st call for papers)

-       15 November 2006: website open for hotel reservations. We do  
recommend early booking.

-       15 March 2007: abstract submission deadline

-       26-27 August 2007: Satellite symposium ?Renaissance Vision:  
Dialogues between arts and Science?

-       27 August 2007: Perception Lecture and Conference Opening  
Cerimony

-       28-31 August 2007: ECVP core event. Additional events to be  
announced soon.

-       29 August 2007: The 1st Rank Prize Funds lecture.



Thanks for your attention,

ci vediamo ad Arezzo.


The ECVP 2007 Arezzo chairs

Stefano Baldassi, PhD      stefano@ecvp2007.org

Francesca Pei, PhD      francesca@ecvp2007.org



Stefano Baldassi, PhD
Executive Chair of ECVP 2007 Arezzo

c/o University of Florence, Department of Psychology
Via di San Niccol?, 93
50125 Florence, Italy

www.ecvp2007.org






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From stefano at ecvp2007.org  Mon Sep 18 19:18:08 2006
From: stefano at ecvp2007.org (ECVP 2007 Chair)
Date: Mon Sep 18 19:50:17 2006
Subject: [visionlist] ECVP 2007 - Call for Symposia
Message-ID: <2F8C4E4F-6DE4-405C-8CA0-B442BBB68C6A@ecvp2007.org>

The 30th edition of the European Conference on Visual Perception  
(ECVP) will take place in Arezzo, Tuscany, Italy, from August 27th to  
August 31st 2007.
The conference has a very wide scope, spanning all the sub-fields of  
Vision Science and its related disciplines. Traditionally, within the  
regular program ECVP features a number of symposia where specific  
topics of particular relevance are discussed by leading experts  
invited by the symposium organizer.  Additional information can be  
found in www.ecvp2007.org.
For ECVP 2007, we decided to limit the number of symposia relative to  
the latest editions, and to select among proposals based on  
scientific and organizative criteria. We prefer topics that would not  
overlap with regular sessions of the meeting, although any idea is  
wellcome.
Symposia will tipically last for two hours, ideally fragmented in 10  
minutes of introduction by the organizer, one half-hour talk by a  
keynote speaker,  four 15? talks and 20 minutes for final discussion.
There is no financial support from the ECVP organization.

The 1st stage submission should include:

1. Organizer's address with affiliation, email and phone number.

2. Draft of the proposed symposium program with title. It should  
clearly state the motivation of the proposed symposium (max 250 words).

3. List of speakers with mention of whether they were contacted,  
accepted, etc.



DEADLINE FOR 1st STAGE SUBMISSION:  November 30th 2006

The Scientific Committee will assess each proposal and will rank them  
in three categories, Accepted, Queue, Rejected. In order for an  
Accepted symposium to be actually taken at ECVP 2007,  within 3 weeks  
from the comunication of acceptance we need to obtain the following  
information for the 2nd stage submission:

- Summary of symposium (160 words) for use in printed material.
- List of agreed speakers, affiliations, email and mailing addresses

- Temporal structure of the symposium with exact sequence of talks.  
Include time for discussion and questions.

- Abstract of each individual talk (160 words).

- Special requests (audio-video, etc.)



All the accepted symposia missing this deadline will be replaced by  
proposals in the Queue status.

  1st stage proposals should be submitted by email to  
stefano@ecvp2007.org.

  Thanks for your attention,

                                     ci vediamo ad Arezzo!



Stefano Baldassi, PhD
Executive Chair of ECVP 2007 Arezzo

c/o University of Florence, Department of Psychology
Via di San Niccol?, 93
50125 Florence, Italy

www.ecvp2007.org






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From jdc at yorku.ca  Mon Sep 18 20:49:37 2006
From: jdc at yorku.ca (Doug Crawford)
Date: Mon Sep 18 21:11:57 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Conference Announcement: Cortical Mechanisms of Vision
 (York U, Toronto, June 2007)
Message-ID: <450F0661.9090000@yorku.ca>

Preliminary Conference Announcement:

Please hold the dates of June 19-23, 2007 for the next York Centre for 
Vision Research (CVR) International Conference, to be held at the main 
campus of York University, Toronto, Canada. Details on registration, 
accommodations, travel, conference web site, and call for poster 
abstracts will follow at a later date.

Tentative schedule:

CVR Conference 2007: Cortical Mechanisms of Vision

Organizers: Hugh R. Wilson & Doug Crawford

Tuesday, June 19
Evening reception and registration

Wednesday, June 20
Morning: Cortical Mechanisms of Object Recognition (Chair: F. Wilkinson)
      Kari Hoffman (York)
      Bruno Rossion (Universit? Catholique de Louvain)
      Kalanit Grill-Spector (Stanford)
      TBA
Afternoon: Cortical Mechanisms of Motion Processing (Chair: H. Wilson)
      David Bradley (U of Chicago)
      Charles Duffy (U of Rochester)
      Tony Movshon (NYU)
      Greg DeAngelis (Washington University, St. Louis)
Poster Sessions
Evening Free

Thursday, June 21
Morning: Parietal-Frontal Transformations for Visually Guided Reach 
(Chair: L. Sergio)
       Lauren Sergio (York)
      Alexandra Battaglia-Mayer (La Sapienza, Rome)
      Bijan Pessaran (NYU)
      Steve Wise (NIH)
Afternoon: Cortical Mechanisms of Visual Attention (Tsotsos)
      Max Hopf (Magdeburg, Germany)
      John Maunsell (Baylor)
      Leonardo Chelazzi (Verona)
      Maurizio Corbetta (Washington University, St. Louis)
Poster Sessions
Evening Free

Friday, June 22
Morning: Cortical Mechanisms for Eye Movements (Chair: J.D. Crawford)
Jeff Schall (Vanderbilt)
      Steve Lisberger (UCSF)
      Martin Pare (Queens U)
      Dora Angelaki (Washington University, St. Louis)

Afternoon: Top-down Influences of Fronto-Parietal Cortex on Vision 
(Chair: M. Fallah)
     Maz Fallah (York)      
     James Bisley (UCLA)
     Joe DeSouza (York)

Lab tours
Conference Banquet

Saturday, June 23
Morning: Visual Integration and Consciousness (Chairs: Wilson & Crawford)
    Christof Koch (Cal Tech)
    Frank Tong (Vanderbilt)
    Mel Goodale (U of Western Ontario)

Afternoon Free
Evening: Conference Barbeque & Party

-- 



-- 
J. Douglas Crawford
Canada Research Chair in Visuomotor Neuroscience,
York Centre for Vision Research & CIHR Group for Action and Perception,
Professor of Psychology, Biology, and Kinesiology & Health Sciences
York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M3J 1P3
Web: http://www.yorku.ca/jdc
Phone: 416 736-2100 x 88621
Fax:  416 736-5857
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From z.kourtzi at bham.ac.uk  Tue Sep 19 13:20:44 2006
From: z.kourtzi at bham.ac.uk (Zoe Kourtzi)
Date: Tue Sep 19 15:22:56 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Post-doctoral Position, School of Psychology,
	University of Birmingham, UK
Message-ID: <468E635F877FE94BBEFFC0309BCA195417E367@psgfs4.adf.bham.ac.uk>


Post-doctoral Position on fMRI studies of visual learning.

Applications are invited for a Post-doctoral Position at the School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, UK. The work focuses on fMRI studies of visual learning in the human brain. Our research uses behavioural and imaging methods (MRI, EEG, MEG) in combination with advanced mathematical approaches to examine the computations that mediate the recognition of complex objects and natural scenes in the human brain. Further, we study the development of these processes throughout the lifespan, and the neural plasticity mechanisms that shape these functions through visual experience. For further information, please check: http://psg275.bham.ac.uk/cnil/

The School of Psychology at the University of Birmingham is a top class 5* department that has a strong group in Cognitive Neuroscience and a state-of-the-art Imaging Center (3T scanner), access to a large group of screened neuropsychological patients, EEG/ERP systems, TMS delivery systems, robot systems for haptic  research, and several systems for eye movement tracking and kinematic analysis.

Candidates should have background and hold a Ph.D. in Neuroscience, Cognitive Psychology, Computer Science, Engineering or a related field. Programming skills (e.g. Matlab, C, OpenGL) and experience with behavioural, imaging and signal processing methods are desirable.

Please, send curriculum vitae, a research statement, and names of three referees to:

Zoe Kourtzi, PhD
e-mail: z.kourtzi@bham.ac.uk

From lyle at biomedicale.univ-paris5.fr  Tue Sep 19 16:38:35 2006
From: lyle at biomedicale.univ-paris5.fr (Lyle Graham)
Date: Tue Sep 19 17:29:09 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Postdoctoral Position in Visual Cortical
	Neurophysiology - CNRS Paris
Message-ID: <039a01c6dc0a$0d2155f0$0d3e14ac@biomedicale.univparis5.fr>

Postdoctoral Position in Visual Cortical Neurophysiology - CNRS Paris

I am looking for an experimental postdoc for a project aimed at 
characterizing the functional impact of membrane channels and synaptic 
dynamics in visual cortical neurophysiology (see lab website at 
www.neurophys.biomedicale.univ-paris5.fr/~graham). This person will focus on 
in-vivo whole cell patch recordings in the cat and rat, including the 
development of several novel protocols and methods. The work will be closely 
allied with the analysis of the stochastic component of evoked and 
background activity from intracellular recordings, and of 
biophysically-detailed models of cortical neurons and networks. The contract 
will be initially for one year, with possible extension to a total of three 
years, and can start as early as November 2006. Experience required in 
either computational neuroscience, electrical engineering, applied physics, 
or electrophysiology. Interested candidates may send their c.v. and two 
letters of recommendation to lyle@biomedicale.univ-paris5.fr or to this mail 
address:

Lyle J. Graham
Laboratory of Neurophysics and Physiology, CNRS UMR 8119
Universit? Ren? Descartes
45 rue des Saint-P?res, 75006 Paris, France 

From pannasch at psy2.psych.tu-dresden.de  Wed Sep 20 14:54:09 2006
From: pannasch at psy2.psych.tu-dresden.de (Sebastian Pannasch)
Date: Wed Sep 20 15:40:09 2006
Subject: [visionlist] PhD studentship at the Applied Cognitive Research Unit
Message-ID: <45117231.4703.16A44C6@pannasch.psychomail.tu-dresden.de>

PhD studentship for an EU funded interdisciplinary project on understanding and 
interpreting subjective visual perception (PERCEPT)


Project abstract
----------------

PERCEPT pioneers an approach for explicating a person?s subjective interpretation 
of visual material. This will be achieved through the rendering of "Interpretation 
Maps" (IM) -- visualisations of a person?s emotional and attentional states coupled 
with gaze direction and on-line scene analysis. Attention and emotions will be 
measured using neurophysiological (fMRI, NIRS, EEG/ERP, MEG) and behavioural 
methods (eye-tracking, recognition of emotion in speech and facial expression). We 
will introduce new techniques of high temporal resolution (such as eye-fixation-
based methods of EFRP and FIBER) to allow free visual exploration and in order to 
facilitate working with individual subjects. One exemplary problem is the treatment 
of fixations as indices of attention. We resolve this by selectively linking behavioural 
analysis to activities of the dorsal and ventral brain pathways. The ventral pathway is 
hypothesized to drive "attentive fixations" which we consider relevant for IM. 
Moreover, automated on-line analysis of textures and material will allow us to couple 
attention and emotion to objects rather than to isolated spatial locations. We will 
demonstrate PERCEPT?s principles with masterpieces of European art and 
scientific images. We will also begin to explore the application of IM in medicine, 
education, geosciences, human-machine interfaces, industrial design and product 
evaluation. 

Position at the Applied Cognitive Research Unit, 
Technische Universit?t Dresden, Germany
http://tu-dresden.de/

--------------------------------------------------------

This research will focus on eye tracking experiments with picture inspection tasks, 
studies combining eye movement analyses with neurophysiological methods. 
Candidates are expected to have knowledge of and interest in cognitive 
psychophysiology, perception and psychophysics, as well as basic skills in 
registration of physiological data and statistics. Additionally, experience with 
programming (MATLAB, Delphi) and experimental design are desirable, but not 
essential.
Applicants for the position should have a Masters, Diploma or equivalent degree in 
psychology, cognitive science, neuroscience, or related areas. 

Applications, including CV and references, should be sent via email to 
liebers@psychomail.tu-dresden.de. The deadline for applications is midnight CEST 
on 20 November 2006, but later applications may be considered.

Duration and salary
-------------------
The position lasts for three years and is available from 1 March 2007. Applicants 
should ideally be available from this date, though applicants who require a later start 
date may also be considered.

The salary will be based on the German public service BAT IIa /2 payscale (around 
12,000 EUR per annum, the exact amount depending on age and marital status).


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From gfrancis at psych.purdue.edu  Thu Sep 21 14:13:12 2006
From: gfrancis at psych.purdue.edu (gfrancis@psych.purdue.edu)
Date: Thu Sep 21 15:34:57 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Two faculty positions in Cognitive Psychology
Message-ID: <1158847992.45129df8e96e1@ponyexpress.psych.purdue.edu>

FACULTY POSITIONS

Associate Professor and Assistant Professor of Psychology
(Tenure track, Cognitive Psychology)

The Department of Psychological Sciences at Purdue University invites
applications for two tenure track positions in Cognitive Psychology, one at the
rank of Associate Professor and one at the Assistant Professor level, beginning
in the fall semester, 2007. Area of specialization is open, but we are
particularly interested in individuals with backgrounds in cognitive
neuroscience and/or human factors. Since Cognitive Psychology at Purdue has a
history of strength in the study of human memory and perception-action, we hope
to build on this tradition as well. Applicants are expected to have a
demonstrated record of excellence in both research and teaching. A history of
publications in refereed journals is expected. Applicants at the associate
level should have an established research program with an international
reputation. 

Application review begins November 1, 2006, but applications will be accepted
until the position is filled. Applicants should submit a vita, a description of
current research and teaching interests, reprints of publications, evidence of
teaching effectiveness (if available), and three letters of recommendation.
Materials can be submitted by mail to Chair, Cognitive Psychology Search
Committee, Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University, 703 Third
Street, West Lafayette, IN 47907-2081, or electronically to
cogsearch@psych.purdue.edu 

Purdue University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Access/Equal Opportunity
Employer. Women and individuals from underrepresented groups are especially
encouraged to apply.



From fchance at uci.edu  Fri Sep 22 18:36:29 2006
From: fchance at uci.edu (Frances S. Chance)
Date: Fri Sep 22 20:23:30 2006
Subject: [visionlist] faculty position in systems neuroscience
Message-ID: <DBB384B7-D551-44AB-9562-CBFD0D20514A@uci.edu>


School of Biological Sciences, University of California, Irvine
Department of Neurobiology and Behavior

Open Position: Assistant Professor

Applications are invited for a tenure-track position at the level of  
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR. The Department of Neurobiology and Behavior  
engages in interdisciplinary approaches to the study of neurobiology,  
with an emphasis on neural plasticity and behavior. Current  
Departmental research themes include: (i) mechanisms underlying age- 
related neurodegenerative disorders, (ii) learning and memory, (iii)  
sensory and integrative neuroscience (including molecular / genetic,  
synaptic and systems levels, (iv) development, (v) neurocomputation,  
and (vi) the neurobiology of substance abuse. Preference will be  
given to applicants whose research integrates with one or more of  
those themes and whose approach is at the systems level, preferably  
in behaving animals.

Please submit by November 1, 2006, curriculum vitae, description of  
research interests, and the names and addresses of three potential  
referees to the Chair.

more info (and link to application):
http://128.200.122.64/jobtemplate_new.cfm?jobid=399


_______________________________________________________

Frances S. Chance
Department of Neurobiology and Behavior
2205 McGaugh Hall
University of California
Irvine, CA 92697
http://chancelab.bio.uci.edu/

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From j-singer at northwestern.edu  Fri Sep 22 18:35:54 2006
From: j-singer at northwestern.edu (Joshua Singer)
Date: Fri Sep 22 20:23:41 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Postdoctoral position available
Message-ID: <e8fbf3c4ccf0c86b1fa9eaad82c2cac5@northwestern.edu>

A postdoctoral position in the Feinberg School of Medicine at 
Northwestern University is available for candidates interested in 
synaptic transmission and/or visual neuroscience. Applicants must have 
a PhD or/and MD degree and previous experience making 
electrophysiological recordings from intact animals or in vitro tissue 
slice preparations. The successful applicant will pursue 
electrophysiological studies of synaptic transmission at retinal ribbon 
synapses with the goal of understanding the pre- and postsynaptic 
factors that govern the strength and timing of signal transfer in a 
well-characterized neural circuit. Appointments are for one year and 
are renewable on the basis of good performance.

Applicants should send a CV, a brief statement of research interests 
and goals, and the names of three references to Joshua Singer via 
e-mail (j-singer@northwestern.edu).
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From smart at neuralcorrelate.com  Sat Sep 23 20:36:30 2006
From: smart at neuralcorrelate.com (Susana Martinez-Conde)
Date: Sun Sep 24 22:12:09 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Call for Illusion Submissions: the Third Annual Best
	Visual Illusion of the Year Contest
Message-ID: <200609232035.k8NKZKDT016321@visionscience.com>

****CALL FOR ILLUSION SUBMISSIONS: THE THIRD ANNUAL BEST VISUAL ILLUSION OF
THE YEAR CONTEST****

http://illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com  

*** We are happy to announce the world?s 3rd annual Best Visual Illusion of
the Year Contest!!*** The deadline for illusion submissions is February
15th, 2007!

The 2007 contest will be held in Sarasota, Florida (Van Wezel Performing
Arts Hall) on Saturday, May 12th, 2007, during the week of the Vision
Sciences Society (VSS) conference. 

The 2006 annual contest, also held In Sarasota, Florida, was a huge success,
which drew numerous accolades from attendees as well as international media
coverage. The First, Second and Third Prize winners were Max Dursteler
(Universit?tsspital Z?rich, Switzerland), Peter Tse (Dartmouth College,
USA), and Gideon Caplovitz & Peter Tse (Dartmouth College, USA). To see the
illusions, photo galleries and other highlights from the 2006 contest, go to
http://illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com  

Visual Illusion Contestants are invited to submit novel visual or multimodal
illusions (unpublished, or published no earlier than 2006) in standard
image, movie or html formats. An international panel of impartial judges
(http://illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE
_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=85&MMN_position=21:21) will rate the submissions
and narrow them to the top ten. Then, at the Contest Gala in Sarasota, the
top ten illusionists will present their contributions and the attendees of
the event (that means you!) will vote to pick the TOP THREE WINNERS!

The renowned sculptor and artist, Guido Moretti, has created three amazing
works of art to serve as trophies for the TOP THREE winners!
                                                   
See the trophies at:
http://illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_
user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=98&MMN_position=41:41    

Illusions submitted to previous editions of the contest can be re-submitted
to the 2007 contest, as long as they meet the above requirements and were
not among the top three winners in previous years.

Submissions will be held in strict confidence by the panel of judges and the
authors/creators will retain full copyright. No illusions will be posted on
the illusion contest?s website without the creators? explicit permission. As
with submitting your work to any scientific conference, participating in to
the Best Illusion of the Year Contest does not preclude you from also
submitting your work for publication elsewhere.

Submissions can be made to Dr. Susana Martinez-Conde (Illusion Contest
Coordinator, Neural Correlate Society) via email (smart@neuralcorrelate.com)
until February 15, 2007. Illusion submissions should come with a (no more
than) one-page description of the illusion and its theoretical underpinnings
(if known). Illusions will be rated according to: 

? Significance to our understanding of the visual system ? Simplicity of the
description ? Sheer beauty ? Counterintuitive quality ? Spectacularity 

Visit the illusion contest website for further information and to see last
year?s illusions: http://illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com    

Submit your ideas now and take home this prestigious award!

On behalf of the Neural Correlate Society: Susana Martinez-Conde (Illusion
Contest Coordinator)

Neural Correlate Society Executive Committee: Jose-Manuel Alonso, Stephen
Macknik, Luis Martinez, Xoana Troncoso, Peter Tse

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Susana Martinez-Conde, PhD
Director, Laboratory of Visual Neuroscience
Division of Neurobiology
Barrow Neurological Institute
350 W. Thomas Rd
Phoenix AZ 85013, USA

Phone: +1 (602) 406-3484
Fax: +1 (602) 406-4172
Email: smart@neuralcorrelate.com 
http://www.neuralcorrelate.com/smc_lab/







From ws234 at cam.ac.uk  Mon Sep 25 12:50:06 2006
From: ws234 at cam.ac.uk (Wolfram Schultz)
Date: Mon Sep 25 14:59:21 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Ad for PhD student position Cambridge University
Message-ID: <a06200708c13d80e8bdad@[131.111.40.110]>

May I ask if you could kindly post this ad for a graduate student 
position? Many thanks, Wolfram Schultz


PhD Studentship in Human Neuroeconomics

Human social decision-making: collaborative project in economics and 
neuroscience, University of Cambridge, UK

A three year PhD studentship is available on a Leverhulme Trust 
funded project on the Neural Basis of Human Herding Behaviour, 
involving behavioural economics and brain imaging (fMRI) of 
decision-making under social influence.

Principal Investigator: Michelle Baddeley, Economics 
(www.econ.cam.ac.uk/faculty/baddeley).
Co-investigators: Wolfram Schultz & Philippe Tobler, Neuroscience 
(www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/staff/schultz/).

The studentship will cover university fees at UK-EU rate, college 
fees and living expenses at UK Research Council rates. For reasons of 
university fees, only candidates residing in the UK, European Union 
or Switzerland since at least three years can be considered.

Applicants should be graduates in experimental psychology, 
behavioural or experimental economics or finance, neuroscience, 
behaviour, physiology, biology, medicine, physics or robotics with an 
interest in the quantitative analysis of brain and behaviour 
functions. The project offers training in the following techniques, 
and the ideal candidate would have existing experience in one or more 
of these: experimental analysis of behaviour including econometric 
and psychometric procedures, human fMRI imaging with data analysis 
using Anovas and regressions (primarily SPM), computer programming 
for behavioural control (primarily in Matlab). Excellent writing and 
social skills are essential.

Please send applications with CV, half-page list of skills, half-page 
statement of scientific interests and professional plans, and contact 
details of two references by email to Dr. Michelle Baddeley at 
mb150@cam.ac.uk. All shortlisted candidates will be notified.

Deadline for application is October 30, although the search will 
continue until the post is filled.
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From tshipley at temple.edu  Mon Sep 25 15:31:21 2006
From: tshipley at temple.edu (Thomas Shipley)
Date: Mon Sep 25 17:48:33 2006
Subject: [visionlist] COGNITIVE AND AFFECTIVE NEUROSCIENCE POSITIONS AT
 TEMPLE UNIVERSITY
Message-ID: <C13D6E89.8C4E%tshipley@temple.edu>

COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE: The Department of Psychology at Temple University is
seeking two outstanding cognitive neuroscientists for open rank,
tenure-track appointments beginning Fall 2007.  Candidates with research
interests in any domain of cognitive neuroscience (e.g., normal and
pathological features of memory, perception, language, emotion, executive
function, addiction, development and plasticity) are encouraged to apply.
Temple University is devoting significant resources to building the
cognitive neurosciences, including the acquisition of a new 3T magnet for
functional neuroimaging.  The new faculty members will join recent hires in
this discipline.  The successful candidates will be expected to forge links
and collaborations with University-wide cognitive neuroscience interests,
and, especially with colleagues at Temple University Medical School. The
successful candidates will be expected to build an energetic and visible
grant-funded collaborative program of research at Temple.  Applicants should
send a curriculum vitae, a statement of research interests, a statement of
undergraduate and graduate teaching interests, three letters of
recommendation, and copies of representative publications to: Chair,
Cognitive Neuroscience Search Committee, Department of Psychology, Temple
University, 656 Weiss Hall, 1701 N. 13th St., Philadelphia, PA 19122-6085.
Women and minority candidates are especially encouraged to apply.
Applications should be received by November 1, 2006.  However, we will
continue to review applications until the positions are filled.



From f.w.cornelissen at rug.nl  Mon Sep 25 19:53:43 2006
From: f.w.cornelissen at rug.nl (Frans Cornelissen)
Date: Mon Sep 25 19:56:57 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Groningen, The Netherlands ,
	PhD and post-doc positions in neuro-imaging
Message-ID: <2A0F963F-8C66-4B43-ADCE-B4E25BC830EC@rug.nl>

PhD and post-doc positions in neuro-imaging ? Groningen, The Netherlands

Can we make visible what a person experiences when observing the  
visual world?
Can we predictably influence what people feel and expect when they  
see or touch objects?
Can we augment vision by influencing were people look and what they  
perceive?

These challenging questions are posed by three European research  
projects (summaries below). Besides being interesting questions from  
a neuro-scientific point of view, each has its potential relevance in  
communication, design, medicine and education. The Laboratory of  
Experimental Ophthalmology (LEO) and the BCN Neuro-imaging Center   
(BCN-NIC) of the University of Groningen, The Netherlands will  
provide the neuro-scientific background as well as perform the neuro- 
scientific experiments for these different projects.

Interested to work on these questions as a Ph.D. or as a post-doc?

We are looking for people with a passion for neuroscience and a  
specific interest in (and knowledge of) visual and emotional  
processing, visual attention and search, and eye-movements, and who  
are eager to apply state-of-the-art imaging and eye-tracking  
technologies to answer the above questions. Experience in neuro- 
imaging and psychophysics, programming skills (in particular Matlab),  
good oral and writing skills, are all considered important. The  
projects encourage and offer numerous possibilities for scientific  
interactions with other groups and companies throughout Europe.  
Salaries and benefits are according to Dutch standards and  
commensurate on experience. PhD positions are for four years, with an  
evaluation after the first year. Post-doctoral positions are for  
three years. Groningen offers affordable living in a pleasant and  
relaxed university town in the north of the Netherlands.
To apply, please send, in electronic format, a curriculum vitae,  
sample papers of previous work, and the names and contact information  
of two or three references to: Frans W. Cornelissen (email:  
f.w.cornelissen@rug.nl). Positions are open until suitable candidates  
have been found. Preference is for candidates that can start early  
(preferably this year).

Links:
http://franswcornelissen.webhop.org/
http://www.bcn-nic.nl/
http://www.rug.nl/
http://www.groningen.nl/



Project summaries

Project 1: SYNTEX: measuring cortical processing of texture, and  
feelings and expectation associated with texture

Despite the wide use of visual and haptic texture in industrial  
design, architecture and art to convey information (e.g. about the  
atmosphere or safety of buildings, or the strength, quality, or  
intended users or use of objects), there is virtually no systematic  
research on the emotional qualities and expectations associated with  
specific textures. SynTex aims at providing methods and a theory to  
objectively measure, model and predict such psychological effects and  
will use neuro-imaging, psychophysical and computational methods to  
achieve its goals. SynTex is expected to have substantial impact on  
product design in its most general sense. Designers of buildings  
(architects), consumer products, interfaces of computer programs,  
internet pages, and games, will profit from the ability to use  
texture in a predictable way to communicate additional information  
and achieve intended psychological effects.
The Groningen projects will study cortical processing of visual and  
haptic texture, as well as emotional responses to texture and  
textured objects, using psychophysics and fMRI (and other neuro- 
imaging techniques).


Project 2: PERCEPT: neuro-imaging of visual exploration, search, and  
interpretation: mapping the content of our ?mind?s eye?

PERCEPT pioneers an approach for explicating a person?s subjective  
interpretation of visual material. This will be achieved through the  
measurement and rendering of ?Interpretation Maps? (IM);  
visualizations of a person?s emotional and attentional states coupled  
with gaze direction and on-line scene analysis. As a result, thus far  
hidden personal views will be available for sharing with others,  
allowing enhanced and even entirely novel ways of communication and  
collaboration. Depending on the task, IM can become Beauty Maps  
(evaluating the aesthetics of art) or Relevance Maps (assessing  
technical or medical images).
Attention and emotions will be measured using neurophysiological  
(fMRI, EEG) and behavioural methods (eye-tracking, recognition of  
emotion in speech and facial expression). We will introduce new  
techniques of high temporal resolution (such as eye-fixation-based  
methods) to allow free visual exploration, working with individual  
subjects, and combining measures in a novel way. We will demonstrate  
PERCEPT?s principles with masterpieces of European art and scientific  
images.
The Groningen project will combine fMRI (potentially combined with  
other imaging techniques such as EEG) and eye-tracking to elucidate  
mechanisms involved in visual exploration, search, and interpretation  
of natural and artificial scenes and textures.


Project 3: GAZECOM: guiding gaze to augment vision: neuro-imaging of  
natural and augmented visual task performance
Vision is the dominant perceptual channel through which we interact  
with information and communication systems, but one major limitation  
of our visual communication capabilities is that we can attend to  
only a very limited number of features and events at any one time.  
This fact has severe consequences for visual communication, because  
what is effectively communicated depends to a large degree on those  
mechanisms in the brain that deploy our attentional resources and  
determine where we direct our gaze.
We therefore propose that future ICT systems should use gaze guidance  
to help the users deploy their limited attentional resources more  
effectively. The same technology can be used to create augmented  
vision aids that improve human visual capabilities by complementing  
natural vision with computer-vision technology in an unobtrusive way.
The Groningen project will use fMRI and eye-tracking to study  
cortical responses during natural and augmented visual task performance.



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Laboratory of Experimental Ophthalmology & BCN NeuroImaging Centre,  
School of Behavioural and Cognitive Neurosciences, University Medical  
Centre Groningen,
PO Box 30.001, Groningen 9700 RB, The Netherlands,
Email: f.w.cornelissen@rug.nl, Tel: +31 (0) 50-3614173




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From trj4 at leicester.ac.uk  Tue Sep 26 17:05:50 2006
From: trj4 at leicester.ac.uk (Jordan, Professor T.R.)
Date: Tue Sep 26 17:30:51 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Research Associate Position, University of Leicester,
	UK
Message-ID: <1F2CE8D4B0195E488213E8B8CCF7148605C558FD@Saffron.cfs.le.ac.uk>

 

 3-year Research Associate Position

 

Visual Processes in Word Recognition

 

School of Psychology

University of Leicester, UK

 

 

Salary Grade 6: ?22,111 to ?25,633 p.a.

 

 

 

Ref: R3002

 

(Note: this post is in addition to the RCUK Fellowship in Mathematical Modelling of Neural Function also being advertised)

 

Applications are invited for a full-time Research Associate position in the School of Psychology, working in Tim Jordan's laboratory investigating the role of basic visual cues in written word recognition and reading.  The project is part of a programme of investigations in human perception and cognition which aim to delineate the processes involved in word recognition and reading from early visual processing to lexical access.

 

The successful applicant will join a supportive, well-equipped and well-funded laboratory using a wide range of techniques to study fundamental issues in word recognition.  The postholder will also have a strong desire to develop their career further in scientific research and, with appropriate guidance, will become involved in all aspects of the research, including publications in leading international journals.

 

Applicants should have (or be in a position to obtain) a postgraduate qualification in psychology, visual science, neuroscience, computer science, or other relevant discipline, and have experience in visual or cognitive research and proven skills in the computational control of visual displays (e.g., using C++, Delphi, CRS VSG systems).  Starting salary will be ?22111-?25633 (with annual increments), depending on qualifications and experience.  Starting date is as soon as possible but negotiable.

 

Informal enquiries are welcome and can be directed to Professor Tim Jordan by e-mail Prof.TimJordan@le.ac.uk <mailto:Prof.TimJordan@le.ac.uk>  or telephone (+44) (0)116 229 7189 (direct).

 

Downloadable application forms and further particulars are available from http://www.le.ac.uk/personnel or in hardcopy from Personnel Services, tel: 0116 223 1013, Fax: 0116 252 5140, email: recruitment2@le.ac.uk <mailto:recruitment2@le.ac.uk> .

Please note that CVs will be accepted only in support of a fully completed application form.

 

Closing date: 13 October 2006

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From t.s.meese at aston.ac.uk  Wed Sep 27 15:34:37 2006
From: t.s.meese at aston.ac.uk (Tim Meese)
Date: Wed Sep 27 17:20:03 2006
Subject: [visionlist] AVA Xmas meeting (UK): Call for papers
Message-ID: <a0611044ac1404a70e7f5@[134.151.100.63]>

Apologies if you receive multiple postings - this has been circulated 
over several lists.

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ELEVENTH AVA CHRISTMAS MEETING, MONDAY 18TH DECEMBER 2006
                    ABSTRACT DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 3RD
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We will be celebrating eleven years of AVA Christmas Meetings in the 
Warwick Room (talks) and Cafe Lago (registration, posters and evening 
reception), on the sixth floor of the Main Building at Aston 
University on Monday 18th December 2006.

This year's invited talks will be given by:

                       1)  David Tolhurst
                          (University of Cambridge, UK)

                       2)  Christopher Tyler
                           (Smith-Kettlewell, USA)

                       3)  Frans Verstraten
                           (Utrecht University, Holland)

Abstracts (max length: 250 words) should be submitted by e-mail to 
Tim Meese (t.s.meese@aston.ac.uk) by November 3rd. Abstracts will be 
peer reviewed and published in the journal Perception (so long as 
presenting authors attend the meeting) and should cover previously 
unreported research on any aspect of vision. Abstracts must be in the 
standard format for ECVP/Perception (including addresses etc), 
examples of which can be seen at:

http://www.perceptionweb.com/perc0100/ava99xms.pdf
and
http://www.perceptionweb.com/perc0101/index.html

References should be given in the body of the abstract in full, but 
without the title.
e.g. (Rayner et al, 2001, Vis Res, 41, 943-954)

PLEASE NOTE:
1) Abstracts should be appended with a statement of preference for a 
talk or a poster.
2) The e-mail accompanying the abstract should indicate which of the 
authors will and will not be attending the meeting.
3) Unless otherwise stated, it will be assumed that the first author 
will be the presenting author.

It is expected that speakers will use their own laptop, or will bring 
a powerpoint presentation on either a CD or memory stick suitable for 
use with either a PC or a MAC.

The organizers will try to accommodate preferences for a talk or 
poster but the number of submissions that this meeting now attracts 
means that this is not always possible. In particular, authors should 
note that tardy submissions are much less likely to be accepted as 
talks.


With the exception of overseas visitors, attendees *should* pay in 
advance at the registration rate shown below. If needs be, payment 
will be accepted on the door though credit card facilities will *not* 
be available. Overseas visitors may pay on the door but, in any case, 
we would be most grateful if you could give us advance warning of 
your intention to attend.

                            R E G I S T R A T I O N   F E E S
                        Students          Other          Premium
Members               15                 30                  80 
Pounds Sterling
Non-members       25                 40                  80
Membership plus   35                 50                  80
registration

As many of you will know, the AVA has moved to a policy of a one 
payment, life membership fee (of 25.00 pounds sterling). One way in 
which we hope to offset some of our meeting costs is by introducing 
the 'premium' category of registration fee. There is no obligation to 
pay this fee, and we expect that most people will pay either the 
'student' or 'other' rates as appropriate. But, we do hope that grant 
holders might consider paying the premium rate. In all cases, a 
receipt will be provided on the day for the fee paid, but this will 
not indicate the category.

We will be accepting registration fees using Paypal.
The web address for the payment site will be: 
http://www.theava.net/meetings/aston2006.html
Or you can visit the AVA web site at: http://www.theAVA.net/
When you use Paypal for the first time it takes a little time to set 
things up, but thereafter it is quite quick. We do hope you will find 
this a convenient way of paying your registration fee.
Alternatively, we still accept cheques which should be sent to Stuart 
Wallis at the address below. (If sending cheques please indicate the 
registration category and who the cheque is for.)

Stuart Wallis <wallissa@aston.ac.uk>
School of Life and Health Sciences
Aston University
Aston Triangle
Birmingham
B4 7ET UK

If you're planning on attending the AVA Christmas meeting, please 
send an e-mail to either <t.s.meese@aston.ac.uk> or 
<wallissa@aston.ac.uk>, so that we can cater for the appropriate 
numbers.

DIRECTIONS
Information on how to get to Aston University can be found at: 
http://www.aston.ac.uk/contact/
Once at the University's main building enter the red sky lift in the 
reception area and go to the sixth floor. Exit the lift and turn 
right through the double doors. Walk to the end of the wide corridor 
(part of the Aston Business School) and turn left at the stairs. Walk 
through two more sets of double doors and you will find the reception 
desk in Cafe Lago.

CARS
There is some car parking space on the campus. You should inform 
security that you are attending the AVA Christmas meeting at the 
intercom by the campus entrance barrier.

TRAINS
Aston University is about a 15 minute walk from Birmingham New Street 
train station. (See site map above for directions).

ACCOMMODATION
A list of local hotels can be provided on request. <wallissa@aston.ac.uk>

We look forward to seeing you on the 18th December.
_______________________________________________


From michael.herzog at epfl.ch  Thu Sep 28 10:24:21 2006
From: michael.herzog at epfl.ch (Michael Herzog)
Date: Thu Sep 28 15:14:07 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Open PhD Positions
Message-ID: <451BA2D5.6020201@epfl.ch>

PhD positions within the graduate school "Processes of Human Perception"

Within the recently established graduate school (Pro*Doc) "Processes of 
Human Perception", from October 1st, 2006, a total of nine PhD positions 
in five experimental psychology projects are available at the Swiss 
Universities of Fribourg, Geneva, Lausanne, Zurich and the Swiss Federal 
Institute of Technology (SFIT) Lausanne.

The graduate school is funded by the Swiss National Research Council 
within the framework of the Pro*Doc program, a specific feature of which 
is that the members of the graduate school convene regularly for 
discussions with experts internationally leading the research in their 
respective fields.

The specific research projects investigate the following topics: 
"Top-down and bottom-up processes in perceptual learning" (Michael 
Herzog, SFIT Lausanne); "Selection of perceptual dimensions for 
oculomotor control" (Dirk Kerzel, University of Geneva); "Theoretical 
and empirical integration of process- and parameter-based accounts of 
visual perception" (Joseph Krummenacher, University of Fribourg); 
"Perception of faces, bodies, and objects and their format of 
representation" (Fred Mast, University of Lausanne); "Developmental 
Psychophysics" (Friedrich Wilkening, University of Zurich).

Candidates interested in one of the PhD positions should be highly 
motivated, have a degree in psychology or a related discipline and 
excellent methodological skills (experience in the use of statistics 
packages SPSS or MatLab). They are expected to have acquired advanced 
knowledge of and experience in experimental work. Assignments will be 36 
months for all PhD positions.

For any further information, please do not hesitate to contact Joseph 
Krummenacher (spokesman of the graduate school) at 
joseph.krummenacher@unifr.ch or the scientist responsible for the project.

Prof. Michael Herzog, Laboratory of Psychophysics, Brain Mind Institute, 
SFIT Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Tel: +41-21-6939646, Email: 
michael.herzog@epfl.ch.

Prof. Dirk Kerzel, Cognitive Psychology, Facult? de Psychologie et des 
Science de l'Education, University of Geneva, 40 bd. du Pont d'Arve, 
1205 Geneva, +41-22-3799132, dirk.kerzel@pse.unige.ch.

Prof. Joseph Krummenacher, Department Psychologie, Cognitive Psychology, 
Universit? de Fribourg, Rue de Faucigny 2, 1701 Fribourg, +41-26-300 
7490, joseph.krummenacher@unifr.ch.

Prof. Fred Mast, Psychologie, Universit? de Lausanne, B?timent 
Anthropole, 1015 Lausanne, +41-21-692 32 51, fred.mast@unil.ch.

Prof. Friedrich Wilkening, Allgemeine und Entwicklungspsychologie, 
Psychologisches Institut, Universit?t Z?rich, Binzm?hlestrasse 14/21, 
8050 Z?rich, +41-44-635 74 80, f.wilkening@psychologie.unizh.ch.

Please direct your complete CV together with at least two references, a 
statement motivating your application as well as your current ideas 
about your career to the scientist responsible for the project you are 
interested in.

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From John.M.Henderson at ed.ac.uk  Fri Sep 29 10:40:52 2006
From: John.M.Henderson at ed.ac.uk (John Henderson)
Date: Fri Sep 29 15:37:14 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Tenure-track post, University of Edinburgh
Message-ID: <EE044C50-9244-455E-B9A6-C1619A154A55@ed.ac.uk>

Tenure Track Academic Fellowship in Visual Cognition

The University of Edinburgh, UK, invites applications for an Academic  
Fellowship in Visual Cognition. This prestigious Fellowship is for a  
period of five years and is intended to lead to a permanent academic  
appointment (tenure track). This is an ideal position for a young,  
motivated researcher, as it allows a focus on research without  
teaching duties in the early years of the appointment. You will  
engage in basic research and have the potential to collaborate  
actively with other members of the visual cognition community. Visual  
cognition is expanding at Edinburgh with the recent appointment of a  
Chair in Visual Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience, newly appointed  
Lecturers in related areas in Psychology, Informatics and  
Neuroinformatics, expanding neuroimaging facilities, and  
consolidation of vision researchers from across the university within  
George Square. Candidates with research interests in any area of  
human visual cognition are encouraged to apply, including (but not  
limited to) visual attention, visual search, eye movement control,  
visually guided action, object and scene perception and recognition,  
and visual memory. You might use one or more methodologies including  
psychophysics, behavioural methods, eyetracking, computational or  
mathematical modeling, and cognitive neuroimaging. You will  
complement and extend existing strengths in the visual cognition  
group within Psychology.

You will have the opportunity to take part in the growth of one of  
the leading centres for cognitive science, neuroscience, cognition  
and computation worldwide, based in one of the most attractive and  
culturally rich cities in Europe. Ongoing research is supported by  
substantial funding from UK and overseas research councils and the  
Wellcome Trust, as well as through a significant portfolio of  
industrial collaborations and research contracts.

You should have a PhD or equivalent experience. Preference will be  
given to those candidates who have a record in applying for, and  
being successful in obtaining research funding.

Informal enquiries may be addressed to Professor John M. Henderson,  
tel. +44 131 650 9863 or email John.M.Henderson@ed.ac.uk

Apply online plus a CV, list of publications and grants and a  
statement of research interests (www.jobs.ed.ac.uk). Alternatively,  
telephone the recruitment line on 0131 650 2511. Ref: 3006335TH.  
Closing date: 1 December 2006.

Committed to Equality and Diversity

-----

Additional Background

A hallmark of the University of Edinburgh is the large and  
interactive cognitive science community, with a tradition of research  
combining behavioral and computational methods, and a strong  
commitment to the integration of the cognitive and neural sciences.  
Within Psychology, cognition is heavily represented in the Human  
Cognitive Neuroscience and the Language and Cognition units. Beyond  
Psychology, the School of Informatics is the only department in the  
UK awarded a top (5*A) rating in the RAE exercise and focuses on how  
natural and artificial systems store, process and communicate  
information. Excellent opportunities exist for interactions with  
colleagues in cross-disciplinary units including the Institute of  
Perception, Action and Behaviour (IPAB), the Institute for Adaptive  
and Neural Computation (ANC), the Human Communication Research Centre  
(HCRC), and Cognitive Science within the School of Informatics.  
Ground has been broken for the Informatics Forum, a new state-of-the- 
art building that will house integrated office and research space, co- 
locating within George Square students and staff in computational and  
cognitive neuroscience, informatics, cognitive psychology and  
cognitive science, language sciences, and related areas. The Forum  
will house a Cognitive Imaging Unit with research-dedicated  
neuroimaging facilities directed toward research in brain and  
cognition. Extensive eyetracking facilities are also available in the  
School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences for the study  
of scene perception, reading, and the integration of language and  
vision.

The University of Edinburgh (http://www.ed.ac.uk) is situated in the  
heart of Scotland's capital city (http://www.ed.ac.uk/city).  
Edinburgh has a rich cultural life, culminating in the annual  
International Festival of Music and Drama, the International Film  
Festival, the International Jazz Festival, the International Book  
Festival and the International Festival Fringe. There are numerous  
public and private art galleries, concert halls, and theatres.  
Edinburgh is one of Europe's most beautiful capital cities, with a  
legacy of mediaeval and Georgian architecture awarded UNESCO World  
Heritage Site designation, and is visited by over 2 million people  
each year, second only to London as the most visited destination in  
the British Isles.
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From michele at cvs.rochester.edu  Fri Sep 29 17:51:51 2006
From: michele at cvs.rochester.edu (Michele Schultz)
Date: Fri Sep 29 17:55:32 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Assistant Professor in Vision Science
Message-ID: <a06230516c1430d97efb6@[192.168.80.14]>

Assistant Professor in Vision Science. The University of Rochester 
has a tenure-track position available for a scientist working on 
mechanisms of vision, broadly defined. Especially encouraged are 
candidates whose research combines multiple approaches to 
understanding vision, including optical, psychophysical, 
physiological, brain imaging, and/or computational.  The successful 
candidate will have a primary appointment in the Department of Brain 
and Cognitive Sciences (http://www.bcs.rochester.edu/) and will be a 
member of the Center for Visual Science 
(http://www.cvs.rochester.edu/). Applicants should submit a 
curriculum vitae, a statement of research experience and plans, a 
statement of teaching interests, reprints, and three letters of 
recommendation to: David Williams, Center for Visual Science, 
University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14672-0268. Materials should 
be submitted by December 1, 2006 for full consideration.  The 
University of Rochester is an equal opportunity employer.
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From zhaoping at gatsby.ucl.ac.uk  Mon Oct  2 19:47:50 2006
From: zhaoping at gatsby.ucl.ac.uk (Dr Zhaoping Li)
Date: Mon Oct  2 20:12:21 2006
Subject: [visionlist] postdoc on vision available in London
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0610022046210.28618@crick.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk>


Applications are invited for the post of a postdoc to work with
Dr. Li Zhaoping ( http://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/~zhaoping ) in the area of
vision/neuroscience, particularly on biological vision, using
theoretical and/or psychophysical investigation tools. It is essential
that the candidate should have good capability/experience in either
theoretical/modeling area or in visual psychophysical area, and
skills/experience in both areas is not essential. The research assistant
is expected to contribute to the research environment of the laboratory
and should have the capability to work well in a team. The post is
available around or after January 2007.  Salary is on the Grade 6 of the
new salary scales (20,234-24,161 plus 2,472 London allowance) and
will depend upon qualifications and experience.

Applications (email or hard copy) by cover letter, CV and Personal
Information form (the latter available at
http://www.psychol.ucl.ac.uk/info/Personal_Information.doc) to Anouchka
Sterling, Department of Psychology, UCL, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT,
a.sterling@ucl.ac.uk . If applying by email please submit all requested
information in one .pdf file names by your surname eg Smith.pdf. Further
information concerning the post are on the web at
http://www.psychol.ucl.ac.uk/info/psychophysics_li.htm while interested
candidates can also contact Li Zhaoping for any further information,
z.li@ucl.ac.uk 44 20 7679 1174 (However, formal application has to be
sent to Ms. Sterling to be considered).

The closing date for the application is 15 November 2006.

Taking Action for Equality.

From pmerikle at uwaterloo.ca  Tue Oct  3 15:23:20 2006
From: pmerikle at uwaterloo.ca (Phil Merikle)
Date: Tue Oct  3 17:54:43 2006
Subject: [visionlist] 2007 ASSC William James Prize
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0610031121230.25556@watarts.uwaterloo.ca>

ASSOCIATION FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF CONSCIOUSNESS (ASSC)

The ASSC William James Prize for Contributions to the Study of 
Consciousness

Each year one prize is awarded for an outstanding published contribution 
to the empirical or philosophical study of consciousness by a graduate 
student or postdoctoral scholar/researcher within 5 years of receiving a 
PhD or other advanced degree.

The prize for 2007 consists of:  a) An award of $1000 (USD), b) An 
invitation to present a plenary address at ASSC11 which will be held 
Friday June 22nd through Monday June 25th 2007 at the Imperial Palace 
Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada (Travel, accommodation, and registration paid 
by ASSC), c) A lifetime membership in ASSC.

Nominations, including self nominations, should be sent to Phil Merikle, 
Chair, ASSC Prize Committee (pmerikle@uwaterloo.ca).  The nomination 
letter should include a brief statement as to why the contribution is 
outstanding, and for co-authored publications, there should be a statement 
describing the nominee's role.  To be considered, the contribution must be 
published or accepted for publication and be written in English. 
Electronic copies in PDF format of the contribution and the nominee's CV 
should be attached to the nomination letter.

Prize Committee:

Ned Block, New York University
Chris Frith, University College London
Christof Koch, California Institute of Technology
Phil Merikle, University of Waterloo

Deadline for submission of nominations is December 15, 2006

http://assc.caltech.edu/prize.htm

From peterw at vision.psy.mq.edu.au  Wed Oct  4 01:15:57 2006
From: peterw at vision.psy.mq.edu.au (Professor Peter Wenderoth)
Date: Wed Oct  4 02:51:31 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Level B/C any area position at Macquarie University
Message-ID: <p06230923c148ba3a5772@[137.111.33.71]>

This job is advertised at

http://macquarieuniversity.nga.net.au/bin/fnt_info_page.cfm?JobID=492&info_mode=new_app&MemberID=0

It is one of three jobs (the others in Organisational and Statistics) 
and it is an Open Area job at level B (Lecturer) or C (Senior 
Lecturer). Closing Date: 8 November.

Peter Wenderoth


-- 
Professor Peter Wenderoth	Phone: +61 2 9850 8680
Psychology Department	Fax: +61 2 9850 9238 (Confidential)
Macquarie University	Mobile +61 2 0417 231 619
Sydney Australia 2109	http://vision.psy.mq.edu.au/~peterw
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From andrew.b.watson at nasa.gov  Wed Oct  4 21:12:12 2006
From: andrew.b.watson at nasa.gov (Andrew Watson)
Date: Wed Oct  4 21:28:01 2006
Subject: [visionlist] JOSA A Feature Announcement
Message-ID: <p06230906c149d3da575a@[143.232.72.120]>

JOSA A Feature Announcement

Image Quality

Submission Deadline: 1 March 2007

The Journal of the Optical Society of America A (JOSA A) announces a 
call for papers to be published in a special feature issue on image 
quality. The digital age and the increasing importance of images in 
human activities ranging from entertainment and security to remote 
sensing and medical decisions have created a critical need for new 
approaches evaluating image quality. Images are interpreted primarily 
by humans although use by machines or joint machine/human observers 
are also common. For this reason an understanding of information 
theoretic approaches and human vision and decision making is central 
to our conception of image quality. A review of the increasing body 
of literature on image quality shows a multiplicity of meanings and 
metrics. The techniques include:

	*	Reference-based image quality metrics such as the 
classic root mean square error/peak signal to noise ratio and more 
contemporary perceptual difference (just noticeable difference/image 
discrimination) and structural similarity measures
	*	Task-based metrics evaluated with optimal observers 
and/or human model observers using Fourier as well as spatial domain 
approaches

The goal of this special issue is to bring together work by 
investigators from different disciplines with an emphasis on 
theoretical and experimental developments that might advance the 
understanding of image quality by introducing new approaches or by 
elucidating the interplay among the different state of the art 
metrics.

Manuscripts must be prepared according to the usual standards for 
submission to JOSA A; see the Information for Contributors in any 
printed issue or the OSA Style Guide 
(<http://josaa.osa.org/submit/style/jrnls_style.cfm>http://josaa.osa.org/submit/style/jrnls_style.cfm).

Manuscripts must also be uploaded through OSA's electronic submission 
system, located in the JOSA A website 
(<http://josaa.osa.org/journal/josaa/author.cfm>http://josaa.osa.org/journal/josaa/author.cfm). 
Please specify that the manuscript is intended for the Image Quality 
feature (choose from the feature issue drop-down menu).


Feature Editors

Matthew Kupinski
College of Optical Sciences
University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona
E-mail: <mailto:mkupinski@optics.arizona.edu>mkupinski@optics.arizona.edu

Andrew Watson
NASA Ames Research Center
Moffet Field, California
E-mail: <mailto:andrew.b.watson@nasa.gov>andrew.b.watson@nasa.gov

Jeffrey Siewerdsen
Department of Medical Biophysics
University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada
E-mail: <mailto:jsiewerd@uhnres.utoronto.ca>jsiewerd@uhnres.utoronto.ca

Kyle Myers
Center for Devices and Radiological Health
Food and Drug Administration
Rockville, Maryland
E-mail: <mailto:kyle.myers@fda.hhs.gov>kyle.myers@fda.hhs.gov

Miguel Eckstein
Department of Psychology
University of California Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, California
E-mail: <mailto:eckstein@psych.ucsb.edu>eckstein@psych.ucsb.edu
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From dayan at gatsby.ucl.ac.uk  Thu Oct  5 15:42:40 2006
From: dayan at gatsby.ucl.ac.uk (Peter Dayan)
Date: Thu Oct  5 17:44:51 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Gatsby Postdoc Training Fellowships
In-Reply-To: <20060113094900.GC23422@flies.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk>
References: <20060113094900.GC23422@flies.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk>
Message-ID: <20061005154240.GA30345@flies.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk>

Postdoctoral Training Fellowship Positions

Theoretical Neuroscience

Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit
UCL, UK
http://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/

The Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit invites applications for
postdoctoral fellowship positions in theoretical neuroscience and
related areas.

The Gatsby Unit is a world-class centre for theoretical neuroscience
and machine learning, focusing on the interpretation of neural data,
population coding, perceptual processing, neural dynamics,
neuromodulation, and learning. The Unit also has significant interests
across a range of areas in machine learning.

For further details of our research please see:
http://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/research.html

The Unit provides a unique environment in which a critical mass of
theoreticians interact closely with each other and with other
world-class research groups in related departments at University
College London, including Anatomy, Computer Science, Functional
Imaging, Physics, Physiology, Psychology, Neurology, Ophthalmology,
and Statistics, and the new cross-faculty Centre for Computational
Statistics and Machine Learning.

The Unit's visitor and seminar programmes enable staff and students to
engage with leading researchers from across the world.  

Candidates must have a strong analytical background and demonstrable
interest and expertise in theoretical neuroscience.

Stipends are competitive, based on experience and
achievement. Fellowships are typically offered for two years in the
first instance.

Applicants should send in pdf, plain text or Word format a CV, a
statement of research interests, and the names and full contact
details (including e-mail addresses) of three referees to:
asstadmin@gatsby.ucl.ac.uk

Applicants are directed to further particulars about the positions
available from: http://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/vacancies/index.html

The closing date for applications is 12th November 2006.
From macknik at neuralcorrelate.com  Thu Oct  5 18:02:26 2006
From: macknik at neuralcorrelate.com (macknik@neuralcorrelate.com)
Date: Thu Oct  5 20:44:10 2006
Subject: [visionlist] FIRST CALL FOR SYMPOSIA PROPOSALS -- ASSOCIATION FOR
 THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF CONSCIOUSNESS 11TH ANNUAL MEETING
Message-ID: <14345.206.132.94.6.1160071346.squirrel@www.neuralcorrelate.com>

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FIRST CALL FOR SYMPOSIA PROPOSALS

ASSOCIATION FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF CONSCIOUSNESS 11TH ANNUAL MEETING.
Imperial Palace Hotel, Las Vegas June 22 - June 25, 2007

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The 11th annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of
Consciousness will be held from June 22nd to June 25th, 2007 in Las Vegas,
Nevada (Imperial Palace Hotel). This is a first call for symposia
proposals. The calls for tutorial proposals, abstract submissions and
registration will be circulated at a later date.

ASSC11 is intended to promote interdisciplinary dialogue in the scientific
study of consciousness. The overall goal of the conference is to promote
the scientific study of consciousness in all of its forms. Following last
year's successful symposia, ASSC members (or non-members who are planning
to join ASSC) are again invited to submit proposals for symposia relevant
to the overall goal of the conference. Non-members can also submit
proposals for tutorials.

Symposia will address current empirical and theoretical issues in the
study of consciousness, from the perspectives of philosophy, neuroscience,
clinical medicine, psychology, and computer science.

For latest updates, please check the conference website:

http://assc2007.neuralcorrelate.com

The web site will be continually evolving, so please visit often for
updated information.
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CALL FOR SYMPOSIA PROPOSALS

SYMPOSIA PROPOSALS MUST BE RECEIVED BY 15TH NOVEMBER 2006
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The Program committee invites proposals from ASSC members for symposia on
any topic relevant to the scientific study of consciousness. Non-members
are also encouraged to propose symposia but the proposer will be required
to join ASSC if the proposal is accepted (see http://www.assc.caltech.edu
for membership details; USD30 per annum for full members).

Symposia will typically have three speakers (plus Chair if not speaking).
Only the proposer need be an ASSC member. Each symposium is 2 hours long,
and the Chair is limited to 15 minutes at the beginning to introduce the
topic. The Chair will be expected to coordinate any questions and lead
discussion after each talk.

Symposium/talks should be spread over topics in consciousness studies,
paying close attention to areas that may have been overlooked last year or
in previous years (see http://assc.caltech.edu/conferences.html for
previous programs). ASSC has a strong preference for symposia proposals to
focus on specific questions rather than a set of loosely related talks.
Accepted symposia will be subject to limited compensation for travel
expenses (in discussion with the organizers) and registration fees will be
waived. Participants will be expected to cover their own accommodation
costs.

Since ASSC aims to cover general issues of interest to consciousness
research in both breadth and depth, proposals may include multiple
theoretical perspectives and/or multiple methodologies. The Program
Committee may recommend changes in speakers to achieve program balance.

Send the proposal along with the following to Stephen
Macknik(macknik@neuralcorrelate.com) as soon as possible but no later than
15th November 2006.

The submission should include:

1. Chair's address with affiliation, email and phone number.
2. Draft of the proposed symposium program with title.
3. Summary of symposium (150 words) for use in printed material.
4. List of speakers, affiliations, email and mailing addresses (Chairs
should have prior agreement from speakers).
5. Time allotted for each talk. Include time for discussion and questions.
6. Summary or abstract of each individual talk (150 words).
7. Audio/Visual requirements for each talk.
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ASSC11 Scientific Program Committee: Susana Martinez-Conde (co-chair),
Stephen Macknik (co-chair), Marisa Carrasco, Zoltan Dienes, Allen Houng,
Steven Laureys, Alva Noe, and Elisabeth Pacherie

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Stephen L. Macknik, Ph.D.
Director, Laboratory of Behavioral Neurophysiology
Divisions of Neurosurgery and Neurobiology
Barrow Neurological Institute
350 W Thomas Rd
Phoenix, AZ  85013    USA
+1 (602) 406-8091
macknik@neuralcorrelate.com
http://neuralcorrelate.com
From vivien.casagrande at Vanderbilt.Edu  Thu Oct  5 20:38:24 2006
From: vivien.casagrande at Vanderbilt.Edu (Casagrande, Vivien)
Date: Thu Oct  5 20:44:22 2006
Subject: [visionlist] could you please post this postdoc ad?
Message-ID: <123A73F93DDD0546A36BCF7023840D99FC6B4B@mailbe05.mc.vanderbilt.edu>

A postdoctoral/research associate position is available to study the
role of the visual thalamus using awake behaving monkeys as a model.
The experiments specifically test whether the neuronal activity in
lateral geniculate nucleus is modulated in relation to behavioral
demands including attention, memory, reward or input from other
modalities including audition. The student joining the laboratory also
will have the opportunity to participate in other ongoing experiments
designed to understand how parallel LGN pathways in primates contribute
to the properties of primary visual cortex and its extrastriate targets
using a combination of techniques including optical imaging, fMRI
multielectrode recording and confocal microscopy. The Casagrande
laboratory has active collaborations with the Bonds, Schall, Rossi and
Kaas laboratories. Vanderbilt University has a well known and active
Vision Center (VVRC) (http://vision research.vanderbilt.edu/) and a
strong Cognitive and Integrative Neuroscience Center (CICN)
(http://cicn.vanderbilt.edu/ <http://cicn.vanderbilt.edu/> ). Applicants
that are U.S. citizens or permanent residents are preferred. Salary will
be commensurate with experience. Vanderbilt University is an Equal
Opportunity Employer. Please send curriculum vitae, the names of three
references, and a description of research interests to:

Vivien A. Casagrande, Ph.D.

Professor

Departments of Cell & Developmental Biology, 

Psychology and Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences

(Note I will be available at SFN.  Please leave a message at the SFN
message center if you would like to meet)

 

 

Office Address: T2302 Medical Center North

Mail Address:

Department of Cell & Developmental Biology

U3218 Learned Lab

Vanderbilt Medical School

Nashville, TN 37232-8240

 

Phone: 615-343-4538

Fax: 615-936-5673

Email: vivien.casagrande@vanderbilt.edu

www.psy.vanderbilt.edu/faculty/Casagrande/CasagrandeLab/vivien.html

 

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From vishton at wm.edu  Fri Oct  6 16:40:24 2006
From: vishton at wm.edu (Peter M. Vishton)
Date: Fri Oct  6 21:38:56 2006
Subject: [visionlist] two open positions at the College of William & Mary
Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20061006123844.02f39aa0@mail.wm.edu>

Apologies to those who receive more than one of these announcements. Our 
Department would be delighted to see applications from vision and cognition 
scientists interested in development and/or social psychology. Please don't 
hesitate to contact me for more information.

Best regards,
   Peter Vishton

The College of William & Mary Psychology Department invites applications 
for two tenure-track positions at the rank of Assistant Professor. 
Successful candidates will be expected to maintain an active, high-quality, 
fundable research program that focuses on (a) DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY or 
(b) SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, both positions to begin August 2007. Candidates 
should apply online by following instructions found at 
http://www.wm.edu/psyc/search. The College of William & Mary is a highly 
selective liberal arts university that values both quality teaching at both 
the undergraduate and graduate levels. The department offers a predoctoral 
M.A. in general experimental psychology and participates in a consortial 
Psy.D. program that integrates practice and research (Virginia Consortium 
Program in Clinical Psychology). Review of applications will begin October 
31, 2006, and continue until appointments are made. The College is an 
EEO/AA employer.


Peter M. Vishton
Psychology Department
College of William & Mary
Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795
vishton@wm.edu
http://pmvish.people.wm.edu
(757) 221-3879 (voice)
(757) 221-3896 (fax)
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From LFrishman at OPTOMETRY.UH.EDU  Tue Oct 10 14:10:35 2006
From: LFrishman at OPTOMETRY.UH.EDU (Frishman, Laura)
Date: Tue Oct 10 16:53:29 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Tenure-track Faculty Position in Vision Sciences at
	the Universi ty of Houston
Message-ID: <CCABD0059BF1534AADE0F7ABFF904877032E9ECA@MX.Optometry.uh.edu>

Tenure-track Faculty Position in Vision Sciences
       University of Houston
      College of Optometry

The University of Houston seeks an outstanding vision scientist to join the
faculty in the Department of Vision Sciences in its College of Optometry
(http://www.opt.uh.edu/ <http://www.opt.uh.edu/> ).  A tenure-track position
is open for a promising assistant, an associate or full professor with
expertise in cell biology or neurobiology of the retina, anterior segment or
central visual pathways. Experience using mammalian animal models is
desirable. The successful candidate will be expected to conduct a nationally
recognized, independent, externally funded research program in vision
science that utilizes the existing modern bio-imaging facilities in the
college which include confocal and transmission electron microscopes, and
would have the expertise to advance and further develop their use. The
candidate would be prepared to lecture and run advanced seminars on topics
in his/her area of expertise in the graduate program and to teach
anatomy/histology in the college's optometry curriculum. 

The successful applicant will join a diverse group of vision researchers
studying normal and abnormal visual processes, diseases and disorders of the
eye and visual pathways and the development of treatments to prevent loss of
vision using a variety of approaches ranging from molecular and cellular, to
behavioral and optical. The research program is supported by a P30 core
grant from the National Eye Institute (NEI), and T32 and T35 training grants
from the NEI support research training for profession and graduate students.


Candidates are expected to have a Ph.D., or equivalent degree, postdoctoral
experience, and a record of high productivity at their current rank. Salary
and rank will be commensurate with the candidate's qualifications and
experience and the startup package will be competitive. To apply, please
send a Curriculum Vitae, a two page description of your research experience,
current interests and projects and long-term goals, representative reprints
and the names and contact information for three references to:

Earl L. Smith III, O.D., Ph.D.  
Dean
University of Houston
College of Optometry
505 J. Davis Armistead Building
Houston, Texas 77204-2020
713-743-1899   esmith@uh.edu <mailto:esmith@uh.edu> .

Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the
position is filled.
For fullest consideration by the committee, applications should be received
by Nov. 1, 2006.

The University of Houston is an equal opportunity/affirmative action
employer. Minorities, women, veterans and persons with disabilities are
encouraged to apply.


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From danweiss at umich.edu  Tue Oct 10 23:07:18 2006
From: danweiss at umich.edu (Weissman, Daniel)
Date: Tue Oct 10 23:30:21 2006
Subject: [visionlist] POSTDOCTORAL POSITION IN COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE,
	Department of Psychology, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
In-Reply-To: <2B9F45F1BFDB044ABEAFB48119760D9636D55B@ECLUST2-VS1.adsroot.itcs.umich.edu>
Message-ID: <2B9F45F1BFDB044ABEAFB48119760D96502BF1@ECLUST2-VS1.adsroot.itcs.umich.edu>

POSTDOCTORAL POSITION IN COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE
Laboratory of Dr. Daniel Weissman, Department of Psychology, University
of Michigan at Ann Arbor
 
A full-time postdoctoral position in cognitive neuroscience is available
as early as January 1, 2007.  The postdoctoral position is ideal for a
recent PhD who would like to gain experience with using fMRI in creative
ways to investigate various aspects of attention and cognitive control.
Candidates should be independent thinkers who would like to work as part
of a team to carry out research projects.  Candidates should have
previous experience conducting fMRI experiments, analyzing fMRI data,
and programming in MATLAB.  Additional experience with behavioral and
EEG methods would also be attractive.  Interested applicants should send
a resume and contact information for 2-3 references to Dr. Weissman at
danweiss@umich.edu.

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From M.L.Rodriguez-Carmona at city.ac.uk  Wed Oct 11 19:18:20 2006
From: M.L.Rodriguez-Carmona at city.ac.uk (Rodriguez-Carmona, Marisa)
Date: Wed Oct 11 19:53:06 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Symposium: Coloured Filters in the Eye, 17-18 Nov,
	London.
Message-ID: <B275C8556CC10248B260951E0DB0719B02675222@nsq038ex.enterprise.internal.city.ac.uk>

Dear All, 

We are organising a course / symposium on "Coloured filters in the eye".
I would be grateful if you could bring this to the attention to anyone
who would be interested in attending.

Thanks, 
Marisa 

----------------------------------------------------

COLOURED FILTERS IN THE EYE:  protective functions and effects on visual
performance with emphasis on colour vision

 

17 & 18 November

City University, London, United Kingdom.

 


 


SYMPOSIUM:


 

Day 1

*         Review of pre-receptor filters and measurement techniques

*         Macular pigment in relation to colour vision

*         Aging of the lens and its effects on colour vision

*         Macular pigment in relation to mesopic vision, scattered light
and visual acuity

 

Day 2 

*         Genetic factors in MP and ARMD

*         Macular pigment / supplementation in relation to degenerative
diseases of the eye

*         Laboratory visits and demonstration of MP and short wavelength
lens absorption measurement techniques

 

 

WHO SHOULD ATTEND:

 

Ophthalmologists, medical and psychology students, optometrists,
occupational health professionals, artists / painters/ dyers, vision
scientists, industrial colour measurement & reproduction specialists,
IOL and carotenoids manufacturers, nutritionists 

 

 

SPEAKERS:

 

John Barbur, Richard Bone,  Tos Berendschot, Nigel Davies, Billy
Hammond, Chris Hammond, Melissa Liew, John Marshall, John Mellerio, Jack
Moreland, Tony Robson, Marisa Rodriguez-Carmona, Max Snodderly, Meike
Treischmann, Dirk Van Norren, Robert Weale. 

 

MORE INFORMATION:
http://www.city.ac.uk/avrc 

If you have any further questions about any aspect of the symposium,
please feel free to get in touch with me. 

Marisa 

_________________________________________

Marisa Rodriguez-Carmona, MSci, PhD

City University, Applied Vision Research Centre,

The Henry Wellcome Laboratories for Vision Science

Northampton Square

London EC1V 0HB

Tel. 0207 040 0262

http://www.city.ac.uk/avrc/

 

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From nick at psico.univ.trieste.it  Thu Oct 12 13:37:56 2006
From: nick at psico.univ.trieste.it (Nicola Bruno)
Date: Thu Oct 12 13:41:27 2006
Subject: [visionlist] final announcement: XIV Kanizsa Lecture
Message-ID: <2EE41BBA-E8BF-406C-A69F-7C615B9E920D@psico.univ.trieste.it>

--Final Announcement --
The XIVth Kanizsa Lecture & Trieste Symposium on Perception and  
Cognition
Trieste, Italy
26-27 October 2006

The Department of Psychology and the BRAIN Center for Neuroscience of  
the University of Trieste are pleased to invite you to the 14th  
Kanizsa Lecture. This year, the lecture will be given by Melvyn A.  
Goodale (University of Western Ontario) who will speak on ?Visual  
Duplicity: Action without Perception in the Human Visual System?.   
The lecture will be on Friday, October 27 at 4.00 pm in the  
Revoltella Museum Auditorium.  The accompanying Symposium on  
Perception and Cognition will begin on Thursday, October 26 at 3 pm  
and it will include additional selected oral presentations (Thursday  
afternoon), an invited workshop (Friday morning), and an open poster  
session (Friday lunch time). The full program of the symposium,  
workshop, and Kanizsa Lecture is at http://www.psico.units.it/ 
convegni/kanlect/2006/symposium.php3. For further information contact  
the Kanizsa Lecture organizer gerbino@univ.trieste.it .

CALL FOR PAPERS
Papers are solicited for a special issue of Cognitive Neuropsychology  
on ?Integrative approaches to perception and action?. Papers on any  
aspect of the integration of perceptual systems with motor systems  
are welcome, including (but not limited to): (i) actions, illusions,  
and independence of visual modules; (ii) visuomotor priming; (iii)  
perception and action at near and far distances; (iv) vision-for- 
manipulation vs. vision-for-locomotion; (v) multimodal control of  
action; (vi) multimodal interactions between perception and action.  
All studies with neuropsychological implications (broadly conceived)  
will be considered. Papers will be refereed in accord with the  
standard procedures of Cognitive Neuropsychology. Guidelines for  
submitting manuscripts at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/authors/ 
pcgnauth.asp. Suggested maximum length around 10000 words.  Deadline  
for submissions January 15, 2007. For additional information or  
presubmission inquiries, contact the guest editors Nicola Bruno   
nick@psico.univ.trieste.it  or P. Paolo Battaglini  
battagli@univ.trieste.it .

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      __  BRAIN Center for Integrative Neuroscience
|\   |    \  via S. Anastasio 12, 34134    TRIESTE, Italy
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From pbh2 at st-andrews.ac.uk  Thu Oct 12 13:41:41 2006
From: pbh2 at st-andrews.ac.uk (Paul Hibbard)
Date: Thu Oct 12 23:36:58 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Postdoc position in binocular vision at St Andrews
Message-ID: <1C331D83-7DF1-47C9-95E3-82542607B685@st-andrews.ac.uk>

[PS056/06] Research Fellow
School of Psychology
?26915-?29409 per annum

* Salary is subject to confirmation under the new Framework Agreement.

We have a 2 year post, available from 1 December 2006, or as soon as  
possible thereafter, to work with Dr Paul Hibbard on a BBSRC funded  
project ?Binocular Vision and the Statistics of Binocular  
Disparity?.  This project aims to determine whether human binocular  
depth perception makes use of knowledge of the statistical  
distributions of binocular disparity that are found in real objects.   
The project will combine psychophysics with the statistical  
characterisation of natural disparities.

You should have a PhD in a related area of Psychology, Physiology or  
other relevant discipline, or equivalent experience.  You should also  
have experience in designing and running psychophysical experiments,  
and good programming skills.

Informal enquiries to: Dr Paul Hibbard (pbh2@st-andrews.ac.uk).

Further details are available at:

http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/hr/recruitment/vacancies/vacancy-list/ 
Vacancy.2006-10-11.1504

  Closing date: 03/11/2006
For a paper application form, e-mail: jobline@st-andrews.ac.uk, tel:  
01334 462571, fax: 01334 462570. Quote reference PS056/06.
From tshipley at temple.edu  Fri Oct 13 00:29:41 2006
From: tshipley at temple.edu (Thomas Shipley)
Date: Fri Oct 13 02:45:27 2006
Subject: [visionlist] SPATIAL INTELLIGENCE AND LEARNING CENTER (SILC). 
Message-ID: <C1545635.9020%tshipley@temple.edu>

SPATIAL INTELLIGENCE AND LEARNING CENTER (SILC). The National Science
Foundation has just awarded a Science of Learning Center grant to Temple
University, Northwestern University, the University of Chicago and the
University of Pennsylvania to study various aspects of the learning and
development of spatial cognition from preschool to adulthood. The research
encompasses basic spatial skills, interactions with symbolic systems such as
maps and spatial language, and effects of schooling, with an emphasis on
learning for science, technology, engineering and mathematics participation.
Projects cover a wide span of topics from the perspective of different
disciplines and using varying methodologies. Work is generally collaborative
across investigators and institutions and we emphasize opportunities to work
with more than one research supervisor. To find out more about SILC, visit
www.spatiallearning.org <http://www.spatiallearning.org/> . Prospective
graduate students should apply to the constituent university or universities
that seem to best suit their needs, using standard procedures and deadlines.
Prospective post-doctoral fellows should contact individual investigators;
start dates are flexible. We welcome inquiries from women, under-represented
minorities and people with disabilities. 


From dayan at gatsby.ucl.ac.uk  Fri Oct 13 12:28:57 2006
From: dayan at gatsby.ucl.ac.uk (Peter Dayan)
Date: Fri Oct 13 22:45:01 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Gatsby PhD Programme
Message-ID: <20061013122857.GA10331@flies.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk>

Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit
4 year PhD Programme

The Gatsby Unit is a world-class centre for theoretical neuroscience
and machine learning, focusing on unsupervised, semi-supervised and
reinforcement learning, neural dynamics, population coding, Bayesian
and nonparametric statistics and applications of these to the analysis
of perceptual processing, neural data, natural language processing,
machine vision and bioinformatics.  It provides a unique opportunity
for a critical mass of theoreticians to interact closely with each
other, and with other world-class research groups in related
departments at University College London, including Anatomy, Computer
Science, Functional Imaging Laboratory, Physics, Physiology,
Psychology, Neurology, Ophthalmology and Statistics, with the nascent
cross-faculty Centre for Computational Statistics and Machine
Learning, and also with other Universities, notably Cambridge.

The Unit always has openings for exceptional PhD candidates.
Applicants should have a strong analytical background, a keen interest
in neuroscience and/or machine learning and a relevant first degree,
for example in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics,
Neuroscience, Physics, Psychology or Statistics.
 
The PhD programme lasts four years, including a first year of
intensive instruction in techniques and research in theoretical
neuroscience and machine learning.  It is described at
http://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/teaching/phd/
 
A number of competitive fully-funded studentships are available each
year (to students of any nationality) and the Unit also welcomes
students with pre-secured funding or with other
scholarship/studentship applications in progress.
 
In the first instance, applicants are encouraged to apply informally
by sending, in pdf, plain text or Word format, a CV, a statement of
research interests, and full contact details (including e-mail
addresses) for three academic referees to:
admissions@gatsby.ucl.ac.uk.  General enquiries should also be
directed to this e-mail address.  For further details of research
interests please see: http://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/research.html
 
Applications for 2007 entry (commencing late September 2007) should be
received no later than 14 January 2007.



From l.diazsantana at gmail.com  Fri Oct 13 23:18:35 2006
From: l.diazsantana at gmail.com (Luis Diaz-Santana)
Date: Sat Oct 14 01:39:57 2006
Subject: [visionlist] JMO: Special issue in Physiological Optics 
Message-ID: <2D3AE192-11EA-413F-A790-A753082A4965@gmail.com>

Dear Colleague,

The 3rd European Meeting in Physiological Optics hosted by the  
Applied Vision Research Centre at City University this summer, was a  
great success. The quality of presentations was of very high standard  
and in a large variety of topics in this very active research area.  
In order to consolidate the impact of this meeting in the field, a  
special issue on Physiological Optics is being prepared by the  
Journal of Modern Optics. The issue is open to all members of the  
scientific community, and it is not limited to those who attended the  
meeting.

This special issue will accept papers in all aspects of physiological  
optics, including, but not limited to:

Limits of visual performance
Models of the human eye
Quality of Ocular Optics
Dynamics of Ocular aberrations
Developments in Adaptive Optics for Ophthalmology and Visual Science
Wavefront sensing in the eye
Ophthalmic Instrumentation
Polarising properties of the human eye
Animal models

Submissions are open until the 15th of December. Papers published in  
this issue will be completely free of cost, including a limited  
number of colour prints. When submitting a paper, please ensure the  
words "Special Issue in Physiological Optics" are included next to  
the title. Guidelines for submission to the Journal of Modern Optics  
can be found in this link:

http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/authors/tmopauth.asp

Sincerely yours
Dr Luis Diaz-Santana
Chairman of the 3rd EMPO



Luis Diaz-Santana
Department of Optometry and Visual Science
City University, Northampton Square
London, EC1V 0HB, UK.
http://www.sharpeye.org/

Tel: +44 (0)20 7040 8335
Fax: +44(0)20 7040 8355
e-mail: luisd@city.ac.uk




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From d.j.whitaker at Bradford.ac.uk  Tue Oct 17 09:39:20 2006
From: d.j.whitaker at Bradford.ac.uk (David Whitaker)
Date: Tue Oct 17 14:38:25 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Bradford Postdoctoral Research Assistants
Message-ID: <C15A6358.9BA1%d.j.whitaker@bradford.ac.uk>

School of Life Sciences
Division of Optometry
POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH ASSISTANTS            REF: ROP2311
?20,842 - ?31,525 per annum
Fixed term contracts of approximately 18 months duration

This represents an exciting opportunity for promising researchers to join a
vibrant vision science research community. You will be an enthusiastic
participant in research, have obtained (or be about to obtain) a Ph.D.
degree in a relevant discipline and have evidence of publication in
peer-reviewed academic journals.

Further details and application information are available at

http://www.brad.ac.uk/admin/personnel/jobvacancies/ExternalSite/Bradford/res
earch.html

Informal enquiries about these posts are welcome, and should be addressed to
Dr Brendan Barrett, Director of Research (01274 235589,
b.t.barrett@bradford.ac.uk) or Professor David Whitaker (01274 234642,
d.j.whitaker@bradford.ac.uk).

Closing date: 10th November 2006
___________________________
David Whitaker
Professor of Vision Science
University of Bradford
Bradford BD7 1DP
UK

d.j.whitaker@bradford.ac.uk

Tel: 01274 234642
Fax: 01274 235570
___________________________



From e.c.leek at bangor.ac.uk  Tue Oct 17 16:42:38 2006
From: e.c.leek at bangor.ac.uk (Dr. Charles Leek)
Date: Wed Oct 18 14:28:08 2006
Subject: [visionlist] BMVA Symposium on Vision and Psychophysics. London.
	November 22nd.
Message-ID: <1161103358.453507fe3c47c@webmail.bangor.ac.uk>

British Machine Vision Association and Society for Pattern Recognition

VISION AND PSYCHOPHYSICS

One Day BMVA symposium at the British Computer Society, 5 Southampton
Street, London, WC2E 7HA, on November 22nd 2006. www.bmva.ac.uk/meetings

Chairs: Dr. Neil Thacker (U. of Manchester), Dr. Charles Leek (U. of Bangor)

10.00 Registration and coffee
10.30 Welcome and Introduction
10.45 Statistical Principles for Selection of Computer Vision Algorithms as
Modules for Visual Perception Neil Thacker, University of Manchester.
11.25 Object recognition in man and machine: Constraints from psychometric
studies of human vision Charles Leek, University of Bangor.
12.05 Attention and Log-Polar Image Features Robert B. Fisher and Yaoru Sun,
School of Informatics, Univ. of Edinburgh.
12.45 Lunch
13.45 Machine Learning of Building Parts Daniel Heesch, Maria Petrou,
Imperial College, London.
14.25 Visual Attention Managment when using a Space-variant,
Randomly-sampled retina model Paul Siebert, University of Glasgow.
15.05 Geometric Texton Theory Lewis Griffin, UCL, London
15.45 Discussion
16.30 End

Program may be subject to change. Please note that due to fire regulations,
this meeting will be restricted to 50 participants. Early registration is
encouraged to avoid disappointment.

REGISTRATION FORM: 22nd November 2006 Meeting

Please return this form to BMVA Secretary, Royston Parkin, 95 Queen Street,
Sheffield, S1 1WG, Tel 0114 272 0306, Fax 0114 272 6158 or via email to
BMVA@roystonparkin.co.uk. The meeting is free to members of the BMVA but a
charge of ?20 is payable by non-members. A sandwich lunch is available at a
cost of ?5 and should be booked in advance. When registering please enclose
a cheque for the appropriate amount made payable to "The British Machine
Vision Association".

NAME:
ADDRESS:
TEL:
BMVA MEMBER: YES/NO
EMAIL:
LUNCH: YES/NO
VEGETARIAN: YES/NO


Simon Prince
Department of Computer Science
University College London
Gower Street
London, WC1E 6BT

Tel.  020 7679 3692
Fax. 020 7387 1397
http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/S.Prince/

Dr.Charles Leek
Associate Professor/Senior Lecturer
Wolfson Centre for Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience
School of Psychology
University of Wales
Bangor, Gwynedd, UK
LL57 2AS

Tel: +44 (0) 1248 382948
http://staff.psychology.bangor.ac.uk/Members/pss034

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From kowler at rci.rutgers.edu  Tue Oct 17 16:40:32 2006
From: kowler at rci.rutgers.edu (Eileen Kowler)
Date: Wed Oct 18 14:28:47 2006
Subject: [visionlist] PostDoc, Rutgers University
Message-ID: <45350780.4080708@rci.rutgers.edu>

Eye movements and visual attention:

A postdoctoral position is available in E. Kowler's lab at Rutgers 
University for the study of eye movements and visual attention.   
Ongoing projects are using concurrent measurements of eye movements and 
perception to investigate the attentional mechanisms responsible for the 
planning and guidance of eye movements.  Studies will focus on the 
coordination of eye movements and attention during natural task 
performance, and the consequences of attentional deployment for natural 
visual perception.  For additional description of the laboratory 
and research projects, see http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~kowler 
<http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/%7Ekowler>.

The ideal candidate would have a doctoral degree in some aspect of  
visual perception involving psychophysical or computational  
approaches.  However, applicants with other academic backgrounds will be 
considered.   Technical qualifications include experience with 
programming  languages such as Matlab and C++.

Applicants should send a CV, a statement of research accomplishments and 
interests, copies of 2-3 selected papers, and names of two references 
to:    kowler@rci.rutgers.edu <mailto:kowler@rci.rutgers.edu>.
Address:  Eileen Kowler, Department of Psychology, Rutgers University, 
152  Frelinghuysen Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854.  Rutgers University is an 
Equal Opportunity Employer.

The Rutgers environment:  The postdoctoral student joining the 
laboratory would become part of the growing Rutgers community in 
Interdisciplinary Perceptual Science, which comprises scientists and 
students at all levels from the Departments of Psychology,  Computer 
Science, Computer Engineering, and Biomedical  Engineering, as well as 
the Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science.   This community is linked by 
a new Graduate fellowship program and Core Curriculum in 
Interdisciplinary Perceptual Science, funded by an NSF IGERT training 
grant.  For further information about the Perceptual Science programs, 
see  http://perceptualscience.rutgers.edu

 

 

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From thibos at indiana.edu  Wed Oct 18 19:34:44 2006
From: thibos at indiana.edu (Larry Thibos)
Date: Wed Oct 18 20:04:20 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Postdoctoral position in Visual Optics at Indiana
	University
Message-ID: <f06200749c154614f2384@[192.168.1.2]>

The School of Optometry seeks a qualified researcher to join the 
Visual Optics Laboratory at Indiana University School of Optometry. 
The Visual Optics Laboratory, under the direction of Prof. L. Thibos, 
is part of the Visual Optics Group, a community of vision scientists 
working in the areas of visual optics, retinal imaging, and adaptive 
optics (http://research.opt.indiana.edu).  Research activities will 
focus on studies of the optical quality of the human eye and the 
limitations imposed on visual function by the eye's optical 
imperfections.
For further details, see http://www.opt.indiana.edu/news/jobs/thibos_pdoc.htm

Qualifications of applicants include a Ph.D. or terminal degree in a 
relevant field of study and experience in visual science or visual 
optics research, as well as proven quantitative skills.  Experience 
in MatLab programming, wavefront aberrometry and/or other 
technologies for studying the eye's optical system is preferred.

Applications including curriculum vitae, cover letter, statement of 
research interests along with publications, and the contact 
information of three references should be addressed to: 
Thibos@indiana.edu   or

L. Thibos, Search & Screen Chairperson
School of Optometry
Indiana University
800 E. Atwater, Room 307
Bloomington, IN 47405

Indiana University is an equal opportunity, affirmative action 
employer, and minority and women candidates are especially encouraged 
to apply. 
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IN 47405 Voice: (812) 855-9842, FAX: (812) 855-7045,  e-mail: 
thibos@indiana.edu
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From aarditi at lighthouse.org  Fri Oct 20 18:29:57 2006
From: aarditi at lighthouse.org (Arditi, Aries)
Date: Fri Oct 20 18:39:02 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Associate Vision Scientist position available at
	Lighthouse International
Message-ID: <7300144209720B45B0773007B0E33F1E04ABED8C@USJRAEXCH01.Lighthouse.PRI>

Lighthouse International seeks a qualified researcher to join its Vision
and Accessibility Research Division.  Current vision research activities
at the Lighthouse focus on functional issues of vision impairment, and
include clinical psychophysical studies, studies of reading and
legibility in normal and low vision, visual accessibility of computer
and other imagery, and Web accessibility.

The ideal candidate will have an advanced degree in a discipline
relevant to vision science or accessibility, such as psychology,
neuroscience, physiological optics, or computer science.  Knowledge and
experience in visual psychophysics, computer vision, sensory
neuroscience is preferred.  Must have excellent communication and
writing skills.  Quantitative and computer programming skills a plus. 

Send vitae with cover letter including a statement of research interests
and salary requirements to Human Resources, Lighthouse International,
111 East 59th Street, NY, NY, 10022 Fax (212) 821-9708. (or via email to
Jobs@lighthouse.org).



From gandersen at comcast.net  Fri Oct 20 21:19:31 2006
From: gandersen at comcast.net (gandersen@comcast.net)
Date: Fri Oct 20 21:22:16 2006
Subject: [visionlist] tenure track position: visual cognition 
Message-ID: <102020062119.22067.45393D6300096D88000056332200761438020A9C9D0A0B020E09@comcast.net>

The Department of Psychology, University of California, Riverside, invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Cognitive Psychology with a research focus in visual cognition beginning July 1, 2007.  The Ph.D. degree is required at the time of the appointment and applicants should have a significant record or promise of outstanding research.  Salary will be commensurate with education and experience.  We seek applicants with research experience in any area of visual cognition (e.g., perceptual organization, scene perception, object recognition, face perception, visual attention, visual memory, perceptual learning or multimodal processing) that utilizes experimental, neurocognitive or computational approaches.  Applicants should be committed to excellence in undergraduate and graduate education.   Review of completed applications will begin December 20, 2006 and will continue until the position is filled.   Interested candidates should send their curriculu
m vitae, reprints if available, a cover letter describing research and teaching interests, and arrange to have three letters of recommendation sent to:
 
            Dr. John Andersen
            Chair, Cognitive Search Committee
            Department of Psychology 
            University of California – Riverside
            Riverside, CA 92521
 
The Riverside campus of the University of California is growing rapidly and has an excellent psychology department with a strong record of success in research, teaching and extramural funding.  For information on the Department of Psychology, see our web site at: www.psych.ucr.edu.  The campus is centrally located in Southern California, about 50 miles east of Los Angeles and less than an hour’s drive from the area’s mountains, deserts and beaches.
 
The University of California, Riverside is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.


From announcements at journalofvision.org  Sat Oct 21 01:09:13 2006
From: announcements at journalofvision.org (Journal of Vision)
Date: Sat Oct 21 00:53:25 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Journal of Vision - Final Call for Papers - Special
	Issue on Sensorimotor Processing
Message-ID: <060b01c6f4ad$85c83d50$020100c0@journalofvision.org>

The deadline for this special issue has been extended to November 15, 2006.

Sensorimotor processing and goal-directed movement

Research in sensory processing and motor control have traditionally followed parallel but independent paths. Recent work, however, has highlighted the importance of studying both as parts of an integrated sensorimotor system rather than as separate processing modules in the brain. On the one hand, task demands of natural motor behaviors play a critical role in shaping sensory computations. On the other hand, constraints on sensory processing determine optimal motor control strategies. Researchers from both vision and motor control have now begun to apply computational and experimental methods to the interface between perception and action. This is evidenced by a number of international workshops that have recently been organized on this topic and by the over eighty presentations in the last five years devoted to sensorimotor coordination at the Vision Sciences Society conference.

In response to these developments, the Journal of Vision invites papers for a special issue on sensorimotor processing, with special emphasis on how vision in conjunction with other sensory modalities is used to plan and control hand movements. 

Suggested topics for submission include, but are not limited to

	Multi-sensory integration for motor planning
	Feedback control of hand movements
	Applications of statistical decision theory to goal selection and planning
	Sensorimotor learning and adaptation
	Computational models of sensorimotor control
	Neurophysiological mechanisms of sensorimotor control
	Effects of neurological deficits on sensorimotor control

Guest Editors: 

David C. Knill	University of Rochester, USA	knill at cvs.rochester.edu
Laurence T. Maloney	New York University, USA	laurence.maloney at nyu.edu
Julia Trommersh?user	Giessen University, Germany	Julia.Trommershaeuser at psychol.uni-giessen.de

Deadline for submission:	November 15, 2006

Target publication date:	May, 2007

Online call for papers:	http://journalofvision.org/specialissues/


Journal of Vision is an open-access online journal that encourages the use of images, color, movies, hyperlinks, demonstrations, original datasets, and other digital enhancements. To submit a paper to this special issue please follow the Instructions for Authors at http://www.journalofvision.org/info/info_for_authors.aspx.

From gabriel.peyre at gmail.com  Sun Oct 22 15:15:51 2006
From: gabriel.peyre at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Gabriel_Peyr=E9?=)
Date: Sun Oct 22 20:09:09 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Workshop 8-9 January 2007 in Paris: An
	interdisciplinary approach to Textures and Natural Images Processing
Message-ID: <508999800610220815h1a830c18gd5364ebeb74b1a33@mail.gmail.com>

Our apologies if you receive multiple copies.

Please diffuse to relevant people in your lab.

This is a call about the Workshop
   "An interdisciplinary approach to Textures and Natural Images Processing"

Paris, 8-9 January 2007

Institut Henri Poincare

A high level scientific workshop entitled "An interdisciplinary approach
to Textures and Natural Images Processing" will be held in Paris 8-9
January 2006 at Henri Poincar? Institute for Mathematical Sciences. This
workshop is intended to give an overview of cutting edge research in
textures and natural images processing, and to bridge the gap between
several communitees including mathematics, computer vision/graphics,
neurosciences and experimental psychology. The scientific program will
include invited conferences given by top scientists in their field. The
workshop is supported by the GDR "Math?matiques des Syst?mes Perceptifs
et Cognitifs".

Registration is free but mandatory before December 15th 2006.

All information (Program, registration, participant list, maps and
hotels) is available on the workshop web page.
       see http://www.ceremade.dauphine.fr/~peyre/workshop-textures/

Scientific commitee
Laurent Cohen (Universite Paris Dauphine)
Yves Fregnac (UNIC-CNRS Gif-sur-Yvette)
Olivier Faugeras (Inria)
Yves Meyer (Cachan)
Jean-Luc Starck (CEA Saclay)


Organizing commitee.
Gabriel Peyre (Universite Paris Dauphine)
Jean Francois Aujol (ENS Cachan)
Jalal Fadili (GREYC-ENSICAEN)


Themes.
    * Mathematics - functional spaces for natural
      images and oscillating pattern modelling.
    * Image processing - sparse representation
      of natural images and textures.
    * Computer graphics - texture and
      reflectance acquisition, modeling and synthesis.
    * Computer vision and psychophysics - texture
      and natural image perception and recognition.
    * Neurosciences - neurogeometry and visual
      perception of textures and natural images.

List of speakers.
Olivier Faugeras (INRIA)
Jean-Michel Morel (ENS Cachan)
Steven Zucker  (Yale)
Xavier Descombes (INRIA Sophia)
Yann Gousseau  (ENST)
Javier Portilla  (Universidad de Granada)
Song-Chun Zhu  (UCLA)
Jalal Fadili  (GREYC-ENSICAEN)
Jean Luc Starck  (CEA Saclay)
Gabriel Peyre  (Ceremade)
Jean Francois Aujol (ENS Cachan)
Laure Blanc-Feraud (I3S)
Yves Meyer  (ENS Cachan)
Sylvain Lefebvre (INRIA)
Simon Masnou  (Universite Paris 6)
Jerome Darbon  (UCLA)
Yves Fregnac  (UNIC-CNRS Gif-sur-Yvette)
Pascal Mamassian (Universite Paris 5)


We look forward to your participation

Gabriel, Jean-Francois and Jalal.

From mregan at yorku.ca  Sun Oct 22 22:58:20 2006
From: mregan at yorku.ca (Marian Regan)
Date: Sun Oct 22 23:36:17 2006
Subject: [visionlist] FW: Henk Spekreijse
Message-ID: <000f01c6f62d$91dfc3c0$0301000a@athlon>

Sent on behalf of David Regan
 

HENK SPEKREIJSE 1940 - 2006

Henk Spekreijse suffered a fatal heart attack in Amsterdam on the 20th
October.

>From 1991 to 2004 Henk was Chairman of the board and Editor in Chief of the
journal " Vision Research".Under his guidance the journal flourished and
expanded to 28 issues per year. He worked with Elsevier to introduce and
fund the pre - ARVO special symposia, and initiated the publication of
special issues of the journal which bring together scientists from different
disciplines to discuss questions of high interest in vision research. Henk
was closely involved in the integration of resources and expertise in
Ophthalmology Departments throughout the Netherlands , and was Director of
Research at the Netherlands Interuniversity Eye Institute.

Henk is internationally recognised as one of the outstanding vision
scientists of his time.

In the mid - 1960s Henk burst in to top level research as a pioneer in the
application of nonlinear systems analysis to electrophysiology. 

With his students and colleagues he adopted this approach in studies of
retinal and cortical single - unit electrophysiology in monkeys, and slow -
wave electrophysiology in human and monkey cortex and in fish and human
retinas. More recently the work of his laboratory, combining psychophysics
with electrophysiology in studies on alert behaving monkeys produced
important discoveries on object - based attention.His innovative thinking
and advanced experimental techniques immediately attracted wide attention in
the mid - 1960s and continued to characterise his work throughout his life.
Henk was supervisor of electrophysiological research at the Amsterdam
University Eye Clinic. 

The medical research of that group is, perhaps, best known for the
documentation of the normal development of visual evoked potentials from the
age of a few weeks up to 10 years that provided physicians with a baseline
for developmental disorders.

In 1985 Henk was elected Fellow of the Netherlands Royal Academy of Arts and
Science.

An obituary will be published in " Vision Research". 

David Regan 

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From: Branka.Stirn at guest.arnes.si (Branka Stirn)
Date: Mon Oct 23 18:27:38 2006
Subject: [visionlist] [Fwd: EPOS 2007 European pediatric ophthalmology
	society congress]
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From lbaitch at amvtlaser.com  Mon Oct 23 21:04:13 2006
From: lbaitch at amvtlaser.com (Larry Baitch)
Date: Mon Oct 23 21:09:00 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Stereo Graphics System Goggles
Message-ID: <453D2E4D.6090802@amvtlaser.com>

Hello:

I have an 11 year-old Tektronix SGS 19U stereo graphics system which I 
still use. Does anyone know where I can get the stereo glasses (passive 
circular polarizers) for this system? Tektronix closed down this 
division of their company and stopped supporting this system ages ago.

Thanks,
Larry Baitch

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Larry Baitch, OD, PhD
President and
Director of Clinical & Technical Services
American Medical Vision Technologies

Phone: 734-347-8949
Toll Free: 888-838-2688
Fax: 734-213-6011
lbaitch@amvtlaser.com
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From Catherine.O-Brien.1 at city.ac.uk  Tue Oct 24 13:34:46 2006
From: Catherine.O-Brien.1 at city.ac.uk (O'Brien, Catherine)
Date: Tue Oct 24 15:14:30 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Research Symposium,
	City University: Coloured Filters in the Eye
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From nq6 at columbia.edu  Wed Oct 25 21:53:58 2006
From: nq6 at columbia.edu (Ning Qian)
Date: Wed Oct 25 23:56:43 2006
Subject: [visionlist] postdoc position at Columbia
Message-ID: <453FDCF6.7040607@columbia.edu>

Postdoctoral Position in Computational Neuroscience
Center for Neurobiology and Behavior
Columbia University

A postdoctoral position is available immediately in Dr. Ning Qian's
lab at Columbia University.  Research projects include (but not
restricted to) computational modeling of motor control, stereovision,
motion perception, and visuomotor integration.  Publications from the
lab can be found at: http://brahms.cpmc.columbia.edu.  The lab is part
of Mahoney Center for Brain and Behavior Research, and Center for
Theoretical Neuroscience at Columbia.  The position is for three to
four years.  Salary is commensurate with NIH levels (plus benefits).

The candidate should be highly motivated, and have a strong research
background in mathematical modeling and programming, as evidenced by
first-authored publications.  Please send CV, names/email
addresses/phone numbers of two to three referees, and representative
publications to the address below. Email applications and inquiries
are preferred.

Dr. Ning Qian
Ctr. Neurobiology & Behavior
Columbia University / NYSPI
Kolb Annex, Rm 519
1051 Riverside Drive
New York, NY 10032, USA

nq6@columbia.edu
212-543-6931x600
http://brahms.cpmc.columbia.edu
From J.Buckley at Bradford.ac.uk  Thu Oct 26 11:30:08 2006
From: J.Buckley at Bradford.ac.uk (J Buckley)
Date: Thu Oct 26 15:36:19 2006
Subject: [visionlist] PhD position
Message-ID: <002801c6f8f2$176559d0$fdde358f@RichBDyn5>

Dear Visionlist,

could you please post the attached PhD position advertisement onto the
Vision science mailing list

thanks
Sincerely

John Buckley


Vision & Movement Control Research Studentship - fully funded 3-year project

The Vision and Mobility Research Laboratory is currently seeking two
enthusiastic, self-motivated PhD students, to work on two ongoing research
projects which are supported by grants from The Health Foundation UK, and
Vicon Motion Systems Ltd. Candidates should have a good background in motor
control, biomechanics and/or vision science. The successful candidates will
join a multi-disciplinary research team which has members from the Schools
of Life Science, Health Science and Engineering Design and Technology. The
team is lead by a clinical biomechanist (Dr John Buckley) and a clinical
vision scientist (Prof David Elliott).

One PhD will investigate how central and peripheral vision is used in the
control of gait and posture. The successful candidate will be expected to
undertake their PhD within the Vision Science Research Group, School of Life
Sciences.

The other PhD will investigate the importance of 'online' vision in the
control of adapted gait involving, for example, stepping up or down to a new
level or over obstacles. The successful candidate will be expected to
register to undertake their PhD within the Medical Engineering Research
Group, School of Engineering Design and Technology.

Applicants should send a CV, a statement of reasons for applying for the
position, and a letter of reference to Shamim Haider at the address below. 

Closing date for applications is 24th November 2006.

Shamin Haider
Research School Office
School of Life Science
K Floor Richmond Building
University of Bradford
Bradford, BD7 1DP
s.a.haider@bradford.ac.uk

Interested candidates can contact Dr John Buckley (at
j.buckley@bradford.ac.uk) or Prof David Elliott (d.elliott1@bradford.ac.uk).

For further information about the Vision and Mobility Research Group go to
http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/lifesci/optometry/index.php?n=Areas.VisionAndMobi
lity
Information about the University of Bradford and its surrounds is at
http://www.bradford.ac.uk/internal/index.php

From bijan at nyu.edu  Thu Oct 26 17:17:11 2006
From: bijan at nyu.edu (Bijan Pesaran)
Date: Thu Oct 26 17:40:32 2006
Subject: [visionlist] COSYNE 2007 Update
Message-ID: <4540ED97.1@nyu.edu>

******************************************************************

                Computational and Sytems Neuroscience (Cosyne)

                   MAIN MEETING                    WORKSHOPS
                 Feb 22-25, 2007                Feb 26-27, 2007
               Salt Lake City, UTAH            The Canyons, UTAH

                               http://cosyne.org

       *******************************************************************

IMPORTANT DATES
---------------
   * Early registration begins: 15-Nov-06
   * Abstract submission deadline: 15-Dec-06
   * Complete schedule release: 25-Jan-07
   * Regular registration begins: 01-Feb-07
   * On-line registration ends: 20-Feb-07

The annual COSYNE meeting provides an inclusive forum for the exchange 
of experimental and theoretical approaches to problems in systems 
neuroscience.  The meeting is expected to draw about 350-400 researchers 
from a wide variety of disciplines.   Topics include but are not limited 
to: neural coding; natural scene statistics; dendritic computation; 
neural basis of persistent activity; nonlinear receptive field mapping; 
representations of time and sequence; reward systems; synaptic 
plasticity; map formation and plasticity; population coding; attention; 
computation with spiking networks.

The MAIN MEETING, held in Salt Lake City, will be single-track, and will 
consist of both oral and poster sessions. Some oral presentations will 
be invited, while others will be drawn from short submitted abstracts. 
Poster presentations will be drawn from submitted abstracts.
Invited speakers for this year are as follows:

   * Ehud Ahissar (Weizmann Institute)
   * Richard Andersen (Caltech)
   * Ed Callaway (Salk Institute)
   * Paul Glimcher (NYU)
   * Michael Goldberg (Columbia)
   * Judith Hirsch (USC)
   * Mitsuo Kawato (ATR)
   * Eric Knudsen (Stanford)
   * Mike Lewicki (CMU)
   * Zhaoping Li (UCL)
   * Dan Margoliash (U Chicago)
   * Bruce McNaughton (U Arizona)
   * Bartlett Mel (USC)
   * Sheila Nirenberg (Cornell)
   * Mike Shadlen (U Washington)


The WORKSHOPS will be at the Canyons ski resort nearby, and will offer 
parallel sessions for more in-depth discussion of specialized topics. 
Preliminary workshop topics are as follows:

    1. How silent/active is the brain?
    2. Hippocampal and entorhinal coding across species (2 days)
    3. Emerging information-theoretic measures and methods in neuroscience
    4. Neurally plausible statistical inference
    5. Functional requirements of a visual theory
    6. Conserved functions of the basal ganglia circuit
    7. What role does spike synchrony or correlation play in sensory 
processing?
    8. Asking why - normative models in neuroscience
    9. Quantitative analysis of shape representation in mid and higher
     level visual areas
   10. Random matrix theory and neural networks
   11. Motor control
   12. Decision making


For further information, please consult the web site

    http://cosyne.org

or send email to:

   cosyne@rochester.edu

From sbuck at u.washington.edu  Fri Oct 27 20:40:03 2006
From: sbuck at u.washington.edu (Steve Buck)
Date: Fri Oct 27 20:46:03 2006
Subject: [visionlist] 2007 Verriest Medalist: Barry Lee
Message-ID: <5b5d51f08a9680637c503982e5ed0d49@u.washington.edu>

The International Colour Vision Society is pleased to announce that the 
Verriest Medal will be awarded at the 2007 biennial symposium in Bel?m, 
Brazil (July 27-31, 2007) to Barry B. Lee, Professor of Biological 
Sciences at the State University of New York, College of Optometry, New 
York, NY, USA.

This award is bestowed by the Society to honor long-term contributions 
to the field of color vision.  Professor Lee is an innovative 
multidisciplinary scientist who has had an extraordinary record of 
productivity.  He has made significant contributions to our 
understanding of basic coding mechanisms in visual processing and is 
recognized for his efforts at bridging the gap between psychophysics 
and physiology.  In addition, through collaborative efforts, he has 
been at the center of the great advances that have been made in the 
last 20 years in unraveling the relations between structure and visual 
function in the retina.  Finally, the Society recognizes his long-term 
service to the society, as member of the board of directors, meeting 
organizer and proceedings editor.

More information about the 2007 ICVS biennial symposium in Belem, 
Brazil, at which Barry Lee will give the Verriest Lecture and the medal 
will be presented, can be found at www.ufpa.br/icvs2007

Steve Buck
General-Secretary
International Colour Vision Society
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From xrli at ustc.edu.cn  Mon Oct 30 22:15:32 2006
From: xrli at ustc.edu.cn (Xiangrui Li)
Date: Mon Oct 30 22:30:17 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Video Switcher: An economic solution to high
	grayscale-resolution display
Message-ID: <362246532.24450@ustc.edu.cn>

Video Switcher bases on the same principle as Pelli-Zhang video attenuator, while it can drive both monochrome and color monitors (analog). A trigger can be used to measure reaction time or synchronize response recording accurately. The design and test results are described in Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 2003, 130(1): 9-18.
New versions have been developed, and the switch between grayscale and color displays can be controlled by software. So it works as if it did not exist!
For more information, please go to website http://lobes.usc.edu/videoSwitcher.

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From smyth at ics.uci.edu  Thu Nov  2 16:36:22 2006
From: smyth at ics.uci.edu (Padhraic Smyth)
Date: Thu Nov  2 17:01:20 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Two Tenure-Track Faculty Positions at UC Irvine
Message-ID: <9d909ca60611020836j1ac5352cm6ee6f5d397dc3eb7@mail.gmail.com>

FACULTY POSITIONS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE

The Department of Computer Science at the University of
California, Irvine is currently inviting applications for two open
tenure-track faculty positions. Areas of particular emphasis
include computer vision and machine learning. The
Department has a very active graduate program in these
areas with faculty such as Max Welling, Padhraic Smyth, Don
Patterson, Eric Mjolsness, Ramesh Jain, Rick Lathrop, Rina
Dechter, and Pierre Baldi. There are strong
collaborations with faculty in departments such as Cognitive
Science (e.g., Mark Steyvers) and Statistics (e.g., David van Dyk,
Gang Liang, and Hal Stern), as well as multiple interdisciplinary
opportunities on campus with other departments, in particular
through campus-wide research centers. These include the Institute
for Genomics and Bioinformatics, the California Institute for
Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), the
Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences, and the
newly-formed Center for Machine Learning and Data Mining.

In early 2007 the Department will be moving to the
newly-constructed Bren Hall, housing the Computer Science,
Informatics, and Statistics departments. The UC Irvine campus is
one of the youngest UC campuses and has been targeted for
significant growth by the University of California. UC Irvine has
received three Nobel prizes in the past 10 years. The campus is
located three miles from the ocean in sunny Southern California
with an excellent year-round Mediterranean climate. The area
surrounding campus offers numerous outdoor and cultural
opportunities and the public school system in Irvine is one of the
highest-ranked in the nation.

Full application details can be found at:
http://www.ics.uci.edu/employment/employ_faculty.php#cs_prof
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From coughlan at ski.org  Thu Nov  2 19:31:05 2006
From: coughlan at ski.org (James Coughlan)
Date: Thu Nov  2 21:17:26 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Postdoc position at Smith-Kettlewell (San Francisco)
Message-ID: <454A4779.9040401@ski.org>

Post-doctoral Fellowship in Computer Vision for Blind/Low Vision 
Applications

The Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute (located in San Francisco, 
CA) seeks a qualified researcher to join the Computer Vision Lab as a 
post-doctoral fellow. The Computer Vision Lab, under the direction of 
Dr. James Coughlan, is part of the Smith-Kettlewell Rehabilitation 
Engineering Research Center, a group focusing on the development of 
assistive technology and visual assessment for blindness and low vision.

Research activities will concentrate on developing computer vision 
algorithms for blind and low vision applications. Current applications 
include detecting and reading signs in indoor and urban environments, 
inferring the layout of traffic intersections and finding features such 
as curbs and curb cuts. Most of these algorithms will be designed to run 
in real time on a camera cell phone platform (running Symbian C++), and 
will be tested by blind and low vision users.

A Ph.D. in a computational field such as computer science, engineering, 
physics or math is required, and the applicant must have experience in 
computer vision. Proficiency in C++ is also required. Since the Computer 
Vision Lab emphasizes the use of Bayesian methods, the applicant will 
ideally have experience in probabilistic modeling and/or machine learning.

The fellowship will be funded by the National Research Service Award 
Program from the National Eye Institute (part of the National Institutes 
of Health), and must begin any time before Sept. 2007. One year of 
funding is guaranteed, and a second year is very likely. US citizenship 
or permanent residency is required; however, alternate funding may be 
available for people who do not fulfill these requirements.

Please contact Dr. Coughlan at coughlan@ski.org if you are interested in 
applying for the position. For more information about the Computer 
Vision Lab, see http://www.ski.org/Rehab/Coughlan_lab/

From kategrieve at berkeley.edu  Thu Nov  2 17:54:55 2006
From: kategrieve at berkeley.edu (Kate Grieve)
Date: Thu Nov  2 21:17:33 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Call for applications: Research Center "Institut de la
	Vision"
Message-ID: <6.2.1.2.2.20061102095343.01da8300@calmail.berkeley.edu>

Research Center "Institut de la Vision"
National Institute for Biomedical Research on Vision
Call for applications

The National Ophthalmology Hospital (CHNO), the largest Eye Hospital of 
continental Europe, is currently building on its campus a 5500 sqm. 
Institute devoted to research and innovation, in vicinity of the Clinical 
Building where the management of ophthalmic diseases is carried out as well 
as clinical research in a dedicated Clinical Investigation Center. Within 
the frame of a partnership between the CHNO, Inserm, the Pierre et Marie 
Curie University and the National Scientific Interest Group on Vision, this 
call for applications
is open to the teams and scientists that could potentially settle on this site.
Due to be open by the end of 2007, this four story building will 
accommodate on more than 3000 square meters, academic research teams of 
various size.
Technical platforms (e.g. transgenic and regular animal facility, 
experiment and phenotyping animal facility, transcriptomics and proteomics, 
bioinformatics, P2 laboratory, cellular imaging ...) will be shared with 
young innovative companies working in the field of vision disorders (from 
assessment, imaging to therapy) occupying adjacent spaces.
Any area of research aiming at improving the understanding of the visual 
system will be developed within this research facility.

The principles for the development and management of the centre established 
by the community of group leaders will be based on the following:
- plasticity of the architecture and evolution of the composition of the 
participating teams strictly based on scientific criteria
- strong interactions between independent groups combined with a commitment 
to establish and coordinate shared objectives
- sharing of platforms and common facilities and of corresponding means
- insertion into a research continuum, combining both the vicinity and 
emphasis on research in a clinical environment and the commitment to 
welcome and strengthen basic science
- association with teaching and clinical activities

The centre will be integrated at the international level (e.g. evaluation, 
international scientific board, participation in the Framework Programs of 
the EU, partnership with European Centers), and will facilitate the 
partnership of research with private entities as a member of the World 
Competitivity Pole Medicen and as a Carnot Institute.

Presently staffed by over 80 persons (researchers postdocs,students, and 
technicians), the Institute will expand to include up to 5 more groups (50 
persons). Any researcher wishing to create a new group and established 
teams are eligible; The candidates, after selection by an international 
committee, will be supported in the preparation of their installation 
(applications to programs of Inserm e.g. Join Inserm, Avenir programme, 
Interface contracts, University positions within the Chaires d'Excellence 
programme, European Mobility  Programme, partnering foundations and Charities).

Applicants should send a CV, a list of publications, and a cover letter to:

Jos?-Alain SAHEL
U592 - B?timent Kourilsky
184 rue du Faubourg Saint-Antoine
75571 Cedex 12
France

j-sahel@quinze-vingts.fr
Olivier.Lorentz@st-antoine.inserm.fr
isabelle.henry@tolbiac.inserm.fr

Deadline: 15 December 2006


From ifine at usc.edu  Sun Nov  5 01:11:03 2006
From: ifine at usc.edu (Ione Fine)
Date: Sun Nov  5 02:06:44 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Family Fellowships
Message-ID: <002e01c70077$438b2850$96347d80@ksoma.hsc.usc.edu>

Dear Fellow Scientists, 

 

A proposal has recently been submitted asking the NIH to fund merit based
family fellowships for maternity and paternity benefit. The proposal is
below. 

 

If you support this idea please take 1 minute:

 

1) Go to: http://familyfellowships.wikispaces.com/home. 

2) Click on the discussion tab at the top of the page. 

3) Add a comment, or just add your name in support.

 

Also, PLEASE pass this email on to other colleagues who might support this
proposal.

 

Many thanks!

 

Ione

 

 

 

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Initiative for "family fellowships"


(Submitted 10/30/2006 in response to NIH request for information
NOT-OD-01-011)

Obstacle/Opportunity/Need/Challenge statement

Many female scientists choose to have children in their late twenties and
early thirties: the postdoctoral stage of their careers. At this career
stage the opportunity to take extended maternity leave is extremely limited
in most university institutions. Consequently, a large number of women
reluctantly leave academia at this point in their careers.
"Family fellowships" would offer up to 12 months of financial support for
each child. These fellowships should be available to both men and women, and
be based on academic merit. Fellowships could be used for either a 12 month
leave of absence or be used to subsidize part time work for up to 5 years.
These grants will retain highly trained researchers in the academic
environment during a period of time where juggling career, family and
financial stability is currently extremely difficult. These fellowships will
play a vital role in increasing the proportion of highly qualified women
within the higher ranks of academe.

Proposed approach

Eligibility
Postdoctoral researchers and research scientists should be eligible.
Eligible researchers would include American citizens, permanent residents,
and researchers currently being paid from an NIH grant. Fellowships should
be available to both men and women, and would be awarded based on academic
merit.

Support
Up to 12 months (beginning in the third trimester) of financial support for
each child, for up to three children (born or adopted). Fellowships could be
used for either a 12 month leave of absence or subsidize part-time work for
up to 5 years.

There are four reasons the NIH should invest in family fellowships:

a) A large amount of money has already been invested in these scientists.
Currently, a significant amount of funding spent on training female
scientists is largely wasted when they are forced to leave science.

b) In many cases maternity leave is already being supported indirectly by
the NIH.
NIH Principal Investigators often pay for family leave for their
postdoctoral researchers. However this support depends on individual
university policies or the attitude of the PI. Often a PI is forced to steer
a very difficult course between providing a supportive environment for a
researcher who wishes to have a family, and the need to make productive use
of valuable research funds. By providing a separate source of funding to
cover family leave, these fellowships will rationalize the provision of
these benefits and make PIs much less ambivalent about hiring postdoctoral
researchers who may be planning on starting families.

c) These scientists are potentially as productive as those that don't
require family fellowships.
Evidence suggests that women who successfully negotiate this stage in their
careers are as scientifically productive as their male counterparts.
Moreover, these fellowships will be based on academic merit and will
therefore target the most talented scientists.

d) It is the NIH, not universities, that is invested in the success of these
researchers.
It is not in the interest of universities to provide generous maternity
leave to postdoctoral researchers and research scientists, because they are
not long-term employees. But at the postdoctoral level these researchers
already have made a 'commitment to science'. If given the support they need,
they will continue to make valuable contributions to our nation's science.
It is for this reason that the NIH needs to fill the gap, and provide
financial as well as moral leadership.

For these reasons, providing additional support for researchers at this
particular stage in their careers will dramatically increase the
effectiveness of the training funds that NIH currently provides.

Rationale - does the proposal meet established criteria?

Is the initiative transforming? Most attempts to address the lack of
faculty-level women within the sciences have focused on changes within
universities. Providing benefits within the NIH is a fundamentally different
approach. Many universities already offer generous maternity leave to
faculty. But the age at which researchers obtain faculty positions is
relatively old in the sciences compared to the humanities (the average age
of a first RO1 is now 42). Many women are not prepared to assume that they
will remain fertile into their late 30s. However, most universities do not
provide generous maternity leave to postdoctoral researchers/research
scientists, because they are not long-term employees. So, women in science
are offered generous benefits by universities, but only after the age at
which they actually need these benefits. Benefits timed to match women's
biological imperatives offer the potential to dramatically decrease
attrition at this career stage.

Will outcomes synergistically promote the individual missions of Institutes
and Centers?
Largeamounts of money are wasted across the entire NIH in training women who
leave science in their late 20s and early 30s. The proposed family
fellowship will increase the efficacy of NIH training funds.

Does the proposed initiative require participation from NIH as a whole?
An NIH-wide fellowship program will provide a psychologically important
signal that retaining women researchers is important across the NIH.

Is the proposed initiative something no other entity is likely to do? Is
there a public health benefit?
As described above, universities are unlikely to provide the necessary
support at this particular stage in researchers' careers. Family fellowships
will increase the efficacy of NIH training funding by stemming the attrition
of extremely talented researchers. Like Pioneer awards, these grants have
the potential to dramatically improve the quality of our nations' science.

 

 

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From LFrishman at OPTOMETRY.UH.EDU  Sun Nov  5 15:43:13 2006
From: LFrishman at OPTOMETRY.UH.EDU (Frishman, Laura)
Date: Sun Nov  5 19:19:54 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Post-doctoral position in Houston
Message-ID: <CCABD0059BF1534AADE0F7ABFF904877032EA0A4@Optometry.uh.edu>


Post-doctoral position in Houston

A post-doctoral position, supported by the Houston Area Vision Training
Grant from NEI, is available, starting as early as January 1, 2007, for a
period of 1 year.  Applicants must be US citizens or permanent residents
with a recent a Ph.D., O.D., M.D. or equivalent.  

The Houston Area Vision Training Grant is held jointly between the
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and The University of
Houston College of Optometry.  The research projects of the participating
faculty cover a wide range of Vision Science, including Visual Neuroscience,
ERG, Visual Development, Visual Optics, Retinal Circuitry, Molecular
Genetics, Glaucoma, Ocular Surface and Anterior Segment.  Together, we form
a wide ranging collaborative group with many common interests and
outstanding research facilities.  Applicants  with expertise in
electrophysiology, imaging or cell and molecular biology are especially
encouraged to apply, but all areas are welcome.

Applications and enquiries, by email, to Dr. Stephen C. Massey
(steve.massey@uth.tmc.edu <mailto:steve.massey@uth.tmc.edu> )  at UT or Dr.
Laura Frishman at UH (lfrishman@uh.edu <mailto:lfrishman@uh.edu> ).
Applicants may also contact the appropriate mentor at either institution.


	University of Texas Program Faculty

	Dr. Louvenia Carter-Dawson		Mechanism of Damage in
Glaucoma
	Dr. Steve Daiger				Retinal Degenerative
Diseases
	Dr. Yas Furuta				Lens Development
	Dr. Ruth Heidelberger			Synaptic Transmission in the
Retina
	Dr. Roger Janz				Ribbon Synapses in the
Retina
	Dr. William Klein				Transcription
Factors in Retinal Development
	Dr. David Marshak				Retinopetal Axons of
Mammalian Retinas
	Dr. Steve Massey, Research Director	Retinal Circuitry and
Confocal Imaging
	Dr. Steve Mills				Parallel Pathways in the
Retina
	Dr. John O'Brien				Electrical Synapses
in the Retina
	Dr. Steve Wang				Retinal Development 
	Dr. Xinping Zhao				Molecular Genetics
of Corneal Dystrophies	


	University of Houston, College of Optometry Program Faculty

	Dr. Raymond Applegate. 			Visual optics and refractive
error
	Dr. Harold E. Bedell. 			Perceptual Stability and
Nystagmus 
	Dr. Yuzo M. Chino. 				Plasticity in the
Developing and Mature Visual System
	Dr. Susana Chung. 				Psychophysical study
of normal vision and vision loss
	Dr. Donald Fox. 				Developmental
Biology in Lead-Exposed Animals
	Dr. Stuart Dryer				Channel Development,
Circadian Regulation in Retina
	Dr. Laura Frishman. 			Retinal physiology and the
electroretinogram (ERG).
	Adrian Glasser. 				Mechanism of
Accommodation & Etiology of Presbyopia.
	Dr. Ronald S. Harwerth			Structure Function
Relationships in Glaucoma
	Dr. Heidi Hofer				Color Mechanisms, Adaptive
Optics Imaging of the Retina
	Dr. Ruth E. Manny 				Development of
Normal and Abnormal Vision  
	Dr. Alison McDermott. 			Corneal Cell Biology, Wound
Healing, and Pathology
	Dr. Deborah Otteson 			Regulation of Cell-specific
Gene Expression in Retina
	Dr. Earl L. Smith III 			Factors Affecting Ocular
Growth & Emmetropization
	Dr. Scott B. Stevenson.			Stereoscopic Depth
Perception, Eye Alignment 


Stephen C. Massey, Ph.D.
Elizabeth Morford Professor and Research Director
Ophthalmology and Visual Science
University of Texas Medical School at Houston

Email: steve.massey@uth.tmc.edu <mailto:steve.massey@uth.tmc.edu> 


Laura J. Frishman, Ph.D.
Moores Professor and Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies
College of Optometry, University of Houston

Email: lfrishman@uh.edu <mailto:lfrishman@uh.edu> 




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From: l.carney at qut.edu.au (Leo Carney)
Date: Mon Nov  6 05:05:09 2006
Subject: [visionlist] QUT School of Optometry, Lecturer/Senior Lecturer
Message-ID: <6.2.5.6.2.20061103144155.02be5e10@qut.edu.au>

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From J.A.Solomon at city.ac.uk  Mon Nov  6 20:26:36 2006
From: J.A.Solomon at city.ac.uk (Solomon, Joshua)
Date: Mon Nov  6 20:35:47 2006
Subject: [visionlist] TWO POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH POSITIONS AVAILABLE IN
	CENTRAL LONDON
Message-ID: <C1754AFC.11A5A%J.A.Solomon@city.ac.uk>

TWO POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH POSITIONS AVAILABLE IN CENTRAL LONDON.

A PSYCHOPHYSICIST is needed at CITY UNIVERSITY to measure how the appearance
of objects can change when viewed in different contexts.

A COMPUTATIONAL MODELLER or a PSYCHOPHYSICIST interested in MODELLING is
sought at UNIVERSITY COLLEGE to model these contextual effects.

Salaries will be commensurate with qualifications and experience.

Starting dates are negotiable (01 December 2006 ? 01 Jun 2007).

Candidates should send a C.V. and the names of three referees to
Joshua A. Solomon ( J.A.Solomon@city.ac.uk ),
Michael J. Morgan ( M.J.Morgan@city.ac.uk ),
Peter Dayan ( dayan@gatsby.ucl.ac.uk ) or
Zhaoping Li ( z.li@ucl.ac.uk ).

Closing date for application is 01 January.


From jsheedy at pacificu.edu  Tue Nov  7 15:50:55 2006
From: jsheedy at pacificu.edu (Sheedy, James E.)
Date: Tue Nov  7 15:58:18 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Pacific University Associate Dean Position
Message-ID: <CD6F37BEBCCE474FBC8EAB93CCAA0BB805FA1F02@fuji.ad.pacificu.edu>

Pacific University College of Optometry is seeking applications for
Associate Dean for Academic Programs.  The Associate Dean is the chief
academic officer of the College and is responsible for faculty
development and faculty advocacy, academic standards, curriculum,
instructional budget, and faculty development. This person will lead the
academic development of the faculty. This is a full-time, exempt
administrative position with academic rank.  Opportunity to also
teaching and/or continue independent research.

 

Applicants should have an OD degree and advanced training, preferably a
PhD.  The successful candidate will have a previous record of academic
accomplishment in optometry and be familiar with contemporary pedagogy
and teaching methodologies. S/he will also be experienced in clinical
optometry and have excellent communication and team building skills.
Applicants must have a record of leadership and previous administrative
experience.

 

Candidates should submit a letter of application, current comprehensive
curriculum vitae, and three references. Applications will be accepted
until the positions are filled.

 

Submit application materials to:

Jennifer Smythe, OD, MS

Pacific University

College of Optometry

2043 College Way

Forest Grove, OR 97116

E-mail: citekk1@pacificu.edu

Fax: 503-352-2929

Phone: 503-352-2126

www.pacificu.edu

 

All employment offers are contingent upon the candidate's satisfactory
completion of a pre-employment background check. Pacific University is
an equal opportunity employer.

 

A competitive recruitment and selection process is being conducted for
this job opportunity: if a U.S. worker is not selected pursuant to this
process, an application for alien employment certification may be filled
on behalf of an alien to fill the job opportunity.

 

 

 

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From jsheedy at pacificu.edu  Tue Nov  7 15:51:46 2006
From: jsheedy at pacificu.edu (Sheedy, James E.)
Date: Tue Nov  7 15:58:50 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Pacific University Research Faculty Positions
Message-ID: <CD6F37BEBCCE474FBC8EAB93CCAA0BB805FA1F05@fuji.ad.pacificu.edu>

Research Faculty Positions Available

 

Pacific University College of Optometry is seeking applications for a 2
tenure-track faculty positions with didactic and/or research emphases
within the basic and/or visual sciences.  Potential areas of expertise
can include pharmacology, ocular biochemistry, neurophysiology, research
methodology, biostatistics, genomics optics, corneal physiology, or
other area in vision science. Didactic and clinical assignments will
reflect programmatic needs, as well as each successful candidate's
expertise and interests.  Successful candidates will demonstrate ability
to carry out independent research.

 

An advanced degree or relevant experience is preferable. Successful
candidates will have a Ph.D. degree and, preferably an O.D. degree.  A
commitment to excellence in optometric education, lifelong learning, and
the expansion of knowledge through optometric research is essential.

 

Candidates should submit a letter of application, current comprehensive
curriculum vitae, and three references. Applications will be accepted
until the positions are filled.

 

Submit application materials to:

Karl Citek, O.D., Ph.D.

Faculty Development Committee

Pacific University

College of Optometry

2043 College Way

Forest Grove, OR 97116

E-mail: citekk1@pacificu.edu

Fax: 503-352-2929

Phone: 503-352-2126

www.pacificu.edu

 

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From jsheedy at pacificu.edu  Tue Nov  7 15:52:35 2006
From: jsheedy at pacificu.edu (Sheedy, James E.)
Date: Tue Nov  7 15:58:56 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Pacific University Clinical Faculty Positions
Message-ID: <CD6F37BEBCCE474FBC8EAB93CCAA0BB805FA1F06@fuji.ad.pacificu.edu>

Tenure-Track Faculty Positions 

 

Pacific University College of Optometry is seeking applications for 2
tenure-track faculty positions with emphasis in cornea and contact lens,
ocular disease, pubic health, or primary care optometry. Didactic,
laboratory, and clinical assignments will reflect programmatic needs, as
well as each successful candidate's expertise and interests.

 

Successful candidates will have the O.D. degree and licensure to
practice optometry. Preference will be given to applicants with
residency/fellowship training, an advanced degree, and/or advanced
professional development. A commitment to excellence in optometric
education, lifelong learning, and the expansion of knowledge through
optometric research is essential.

 

Candidates should submit a letter of application, current comprehensive
curriculum vitae, and three references. Applications will be accepted
until the positions are filled.

 

Submit application materials to:

Denise Godwin, OD

Pacific University

College of Optometry

2043 College Way

Forest Grove, OR 97116

E-mail: goodwin@pacificu.edu

Fax: 503-352-2929

Phone: 503-352-3070

www.pacificu.edu

 

All employment offers are contingent upon the candidate's satisfactory
completion of a pre-employment background check. Pacific University is
an equal opportunity employer.

 

A competitive recruitment and selection process is being conducted for
this job opportunity: if a U.S. worker is not selected pursuant to this
process, an application for alien employment certification may be filled
on behalf of an alien to fill the job opportunity.

 

 

 

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From jsheedy at pacificu.edu  Tue Nov  7 15:53:26 2006
From: jsheedy at pacificu.edu (Sheedy, James E.)
Date: Tue Nov  7 15:59:03 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Pacific University Clinic Director Position
Message-ID: <CD6F37BEBCCE474FBC8EAB93CCAA0BB805FA1F07@fuji.ad.pacificu.edu>

ACADEMIC CLINIC DIRECTOR POSITION 

            

Pacific University College of Optometry is seeking application for a
Clinical Director with educational, patient care, and administrative
responsibilities.

 

This individual will be expected to build upon the traditions of
excellence at our community-based clinical facilities in the greater
Portland metropolitan area.

 

The qualified candidate will have the OD degree and be eligible for
licensure with diagnostic, therapeutic topical, and non-topical
pharmaceutical agents as permissible under Oregon law. Residency or
other post-graduate education is desirable. Experience in broad scope
optometric care, and a commitment to excellence in optometric education
and life-long learning are essential. Health care management experience
is desirable.

 

Candidates should submit a letter of application, current comprehensive
curriculum vitae, and three references.  Applications will be accepted
until the position is filled.  Submit application materials to:

 

Graham Erickson, O.D., FAAO

Chair, Faculty Development Committee

Pacific University College of Optometry

2043 College Way

Forest Grove OR 97116

ericksog@pacificu.edu

vox: (503) 352-2126

fax: (503) 352-2929

 

 

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From liam at stat.columbia.edu  Tue Nov  7 21:41:49 2006
From: liam at stat.columbia.edu (liam@stat.columbia.edu)
Date: Tue Nov  7 23:09:05 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Postdoctoral positions in retinal population coding
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0611071639460.6306@gauss.stat.columbia.edu>

Apologies for the cross-posting.

Full-time postdoctoral positions are available for collaborative research in 
computational modeling of the neural coding properties of populations of cells 
in primate retina. This is a three-way collaboration between the laboratories 
of Liam Paninski (http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~liam/), Eero Simoncelli 
(http://www.cns.nyu.edu/~lcv/), and E.J. Chichilnisky 
(http://www.snl-e.salk.edu/).

Examples of previous related publications include:

- Prediction and decoding of retinal responses with a probabilistic spiking model
J W Pillow, L Paninski, V J Uzell, E P Simoncelli, and EJ Chichilnisky.
Journal of Neuroscience, 25(47):11003-11013, 23 Nov 2005.
http://www.cns.nyu.edu/~lcv/ABSTRACTS/pillow05-abstract.html

- Statistical models for neural encoding, decoding, and optimal stimulus design
L Paninski, J W Pillow, and J Lewi.
To appear in Computational Neuroscience: Progress in Brain Research, eds. P 
Cisek, T Drew and J Kalaska.
http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~liam/research/abstracts/pbr-abs.html

Requirements: The work is highly interdisciplinary, and applicants must have 
strong mathematical and computational skills. Preferred educational background 
is a PhD in Electrical Engineering, Statistics, Physics, or Applied 
Mathematics. Previous experience with signal/image processing, statistical 
modeling, machine learning, and/or computational neuroscience is highly 
desirable.

Environment: The computational aspects of the work will be carried out in two 
locations:

- the Paninski group at Columbia University, based in the Statistics department 
(http://www.stat.columbia.edu/) and the Center for Theoretical Neuroscience 
(http://www.neurotheory.columbia.edu/)

- the Simoncelli group at New York University, based in the Center for Neural 
Science (http://www.cns.nyu.edu/), with connections to the Courant Institute of 
Mathematical Sciences (http://www.cims.nyu.edu/).

Appointments: Initial appointments are for one year, and are renewable. 
Salaries will be covered by an NIH grant for Collaborative Research in 
Computational Neuroscience, and will be set based on experience and skills.

Applicants should send email to Eero Simoncelli and/or Liam Paninski (email 
addresses on web pages given above) providing:

- a one-page description of research interests and goals
- a resume of educational and research experience, including publications
- names of at least two people that could provide letters of reference

All materials should be in Acrobat (pdf) or plain text (no MS Word documents, 
please), and may be included as a URL, or as an email attachment.
From opam.info at gmail.com  Wed Nov  8 23:04:00 2006
From: opam.info at gmail.com (OPAM Information)
Date: Wed Nov  8 23:45:22 2006
Subject: [visionlist] OPAM 2006
Message-ID: <67058f600611081504w62225ef4x490fa501530fb29b@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Colleagues,

Object Perception, Attention and Memory (OPAM) is a conference dedicated to
issues in object perception, attention, memory and other areas of visual
cognition. It takes place, each year, on the first day of the meeting of the
Psychonomic Society.

This year's OPAM will be held in Houston, Texas on *Thursday, November 16th*.
Registration will begin at *7:45am* and donations will be accepted at the
door.

We have an excellent program set up this year.  For a listing of the talks
and posters that will be presented, please go to:
http://www.opam.net/opam2006/program.php

 **********************************************************************
*REGISTER FOR OPAM:*

Registration is free, easy, and fun!  Once again this year due to generous
contributions of our sponsors registering for OPAM won't cost a thing!  Please
go to: http://www.opam.net/opam2006/register.php right now and sign up!

In order to have your nametag printed, please register by *Friday Nov 10th!*


Nametags will be provided for those registering on the day of the meeting.

**********************************************************************
FESTIVITIES!

If people would like to coordinate an after workshop get-together for drinks
and/or dinner, you may use our Google group message board:

http://groups.google.com/group/OPAM

You will need to sign up for the group (so that we can avoid spam),
but it shouldn't take more than a minute or two.

**********************************************************************

We look forward to seeing you in Houston, TX!

Best Regards,

Kate Arrington, Monica Castelhano, Steve Franconeri, and Andrew Leber



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contact:  opam.info@gmail.com

website: http://www.opam.net/opam2006/index.php

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From triesch at fias.uni-frankfurt.de  Thu Nov  9 21:04:23 2006
From: triesch at fias.uni-frankfurt.de (Jochen Triesch)
Date: Thu Nov  9 21:28:42 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Several Post-doc and PhD positions at FIAS
Message-ID: <10246.84.58.71.129.1163106263.squirrel@fias.uni-frankfurt.de>

* Apologies for multiple postings! *

There are openings for 2 Post-docs and 3 PhD students in Jochen
Triesch's new group at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies
(FIAS, http://fias.uni-frankfurt.de/).  FIAS is a new and quickly
expanding center for theoretical research in the natural sciences. Its
focus lies on the study of complex, self-organizing systems. FIAS
is located in the new "Science City" Frankfurt-Riedberg in Frankfurt
am Main, Germany.

Our group's research areas include:
-  Neural Computation / Computational Neuroscience
-  Vision (Computer, Robot, and Human Vision)
-  Computational Models of Cognitive Development.
For recent publications see: http://fias.uni-frankfurt.de/~triesch/

Some of the positions are in the context of a recently awarded project
entitled "PLICON - plasticity and learning in cortical networks"
funded by the European Union. We will develop models of the
interaction of different forms of neural plasticity at the neuron,
network, and system levels. In particular, the project aims to study
sensory coding, perceptual learning and inference, and sensori-motor
learning.

Frankfurt has a vibrant neuroscience community and close ties exist
with other groups in Frankfurt including the Max Planck Institute for
Brain Research: http://www.mpih-frankfurt.mpg.de. Our group has
several collaborations with labs in the US and Europe.

Candidates for the PhD positions should have an excellent Masters
degree (or equivalent) in a quantitative discipline (physics,
mathematics, computer science, electrical engineering, or related
fields) and a keen interest in several of the lab's research areas.
Proficiency in spoken and written English is required.

The post-doctoral positions will be initially for two years with the
possibility of extension. A competitive stipend will be offered.

Application materials should include:

 - resume (including date of birth, degrees, awards, publications, ...),
 - statement of research interests (1-2 pages),
 - 2-3 reference letters,

The positions are available immediately and will remain open until
filled. Reviewing of applications starts immediately. If possible,
please send materials electronically to:
  triesch@fias.uni-frankfurt.de and
  stephanie.mueller@fias.uni-frankfurt.de

--
Jochen Triesch, Fellow
Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies
http://fias.uni-frankfurt.de/~triesch/
triesch@fias.uni-frankfurt.de




From macknik at neuralcorrelate.com  Sat Nov 11 01:44:54 2006
From: macknik at neuralcorrelate.com (macknik@neuralcorrelate.com)
Date: Sat Nov 11 04:36:10 2006
Subject: [visionlist] FINAL CALL FOR SYMPOSIA PROPOSALS -- ASSOCIATION FOR
	THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF CONSCIOUSNESS 11TH ANNUAL MEETING
Message-ID: <20061110194454.94f0cm9vu8sskkkc@www.neuralcorrelate.com>

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FINAL CALL FOR SYMPOSIA PROPOSALS

ASSOCIATION FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF CONSCIOUSNESS 11TH ANNUAL MEETING.
Imperial Palace Hotel, Las Vegas June 22 - June 25, 2007
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The 11th annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of  
Consciousness will be held from June 22nd to June 25th, 2007 in Las  
Vegas, Nevada (Imperial Palace Hotel). This is the final call for  
symposia proposals. The calls for tutorial proposals, abstract  
submissions and registration will be circulated at a later date.

ASSC11 is intended to promote interdisciplinary dialogue in the  
scientific study of consciousness. The overall goal of the conference  
is to promote the scientific study of consciousness in all of its  
forms. Following last year's successful symposia, ASSC members (or  
non-members who are planning to join ASSC) are again invited to submit  
proposals for symposia relevant to the overall goal of the conference.  
Non-members can also submit proposals for tutorials.

Symposia will address current empirical and theoretical issues in the  
study of consciousness, from the perspectives of philosophy,  
neuroscience, clinical medicine, psychology, and computer science.

For latest updates, please check the conference website:

http://assc2007.neuralcorrelate.com

The web site will be continually evolving, so please visit often for  
updated information.
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FINAL CALL FOR SYMPOSIA PROPOSALS

SYMPOSIA PROPOSALS MUST BE RECEIVED BY 15TH NOVEMBER 2006
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The Program committee invites proposals from ASSC members for symposia  
on any topic relevant to the scientific study of consciousness.  
Non-members are also encouraged to propose symposia but the proposer  
will be required to join ASSC if the proposal is accepted (see  
http://www.assc.caltech.edu for membership details; USD30 per annum  
for full members).

Symposia will typically have three speakers (plus Chair if not speaking).
Only the proposer need be an ASSC member. Each symposium is 2 hours  
long, and the Chair is limited to 15 minutes at the beginning to  
introduce the topic. The Chair will be expected to coordinate any  
questions and lead discussion after each talk.

Symposium/talks should be spread over topics in consciousness studies,  
paying close attention to areas that may have been overlooked last  
year or in previous years (see  
http://assc.caltech.edu/conferences.html for previous programs). ASSC  
has a strong preference for symposia proposals to focus on specific  
questions rather than a set of loosely related talks. Accepted  
symposia will be subject to limited compensation for travel expenses  
(in discussion with the organizers) and registration fees will be  
waived. Participants will be expected to cover their own accommodation  
costs.

Since ASSC aims to cover general issues of interest to consciousness  
research in both breadth and depth, proposals may include multiple  
theoretical perspectives and/or multiple methodologies. The Program  
Committee may recommend changes in speakers to achieve program balance.

Send the proposal along with the following to Stephen Macknik  
(macknik@neuralcorrelate.com) as soon as possible but no later than  
15th November 2006.

The submission should include:

1. Chair's address with affiliation, email and phone number.
2. Draft of the proposed symposium program with title.
3. Summary of symposium (150 words) for use in printed material.
4. List of speakers, affiliations, email and mailing addresses (Chairs  
should have prior agreement from speakers).
5. Time allotted for each talk. Include time for discussion and questions.
6. Summary or abstract of each individual talk (150 words).
7. Audio/Visual requirements for each talk.
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ASSC11 Scientific Program Committee: Susana Martinez-Conde (co-chair),  
Stephen Macknik (co-chair), Marisa Carrasco, Zoltan Dienes, Allen  
Houng, Steven Laureys, Alva Noe, and Elisabeth Pacherie

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Stephen L. Macknik, Ph.D.
Director, Laboratory of Behavioral Neurophysiology
Divisions of Neurosurgery and Neurobiology
Barrow Neurological Institute
350 W Thomas Rd
Phoenix, AZ  85013
USA
+1 (602) 406-8091
macknik@neuralcorrelate.com
http://neuralcorrelate.com




From sperling at uci.edu  Mon Nov 13 07:12:29 2006
From: sperling at uci.edu (George Sperling)
Date: Mon Nov 13 15:33:07 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Conference: AIC-32 Jackson WY 4-9Feb2007
Message-ID: <45581ADD.7030905@uci.edu>

  ===========================================================================

             THIRTY-SECOND ANNUAL INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE

                   Teton Village, Jackson Hole, Wyoming
                           February 4 -- 9, 2007
       Organizer:  George Sperling, University of California, Irvine
                     http://www.socsci.uci.edu/HIPLab/AIC

                 CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT - CALL FOR PAPERS

   The THIRTY-SECOND ANNUAL INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE will meet in
Teton Village, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, February 4 - 9, 2007.
The conference covers a wide range of subjects in what has come to be
called cognitive science, ranging from visual and auditory physiology
and psychophysics to human information processing, cognition, learning
and memory, to computational approaches to these problems including
neural networks, artificial intelligence, and most recently, brain
imaging.  The aim is to provide overview talks that are comprehensible
and interesting to a wide scientific audience --such as one might
fantasize would occur at a National or Royal Academy of Science.

The Conference begins with a reception on Sunday evening, February 4,
at 5:00p followed by a half-session.  Regular sessions meet from Monday
through Friday at 4:00p to 8:00p; the rest of the day is free.  After the
last session on Friday, there is a banquet for participants and guests.

There are still several openings for speakers, and submissions are hereby
invited for AIC-32.  The deadline for submissions is November 17, 2006.
In 2007, AIC-32 will feature two special sessions on cortical mechanisms:
neuronal and  computational.  To participate in these sessions, send a
title and abstract to Tania Pasternak
       tania@cvs.rochester.edu    and a copy to   sperling@uci.edu
All other submissions need go only to  sperling@uci.edu    To register,
complete the registration form at the AIC website
       http://www.socsci.uci.edu/HIPLab/AIC/registration.html
and email it or equivalent information directly to  sperling@uci.edu
Send hardcopy and checks to:

    Annual Interdisciplinary Conference
    c/o  Prof. George Sperling
    Department of Cognitive Sciences, SSPA-3
    University  of California
    Irvine, CA 92697-5100

Submissions are not finally accepted until registration is complete
and the registration fee of $140 ($160 after January 1, 2007; $70 for
students) is paid.  Conference registration is payable by check made
out to "Annual Interdisciplinary Conference" (no credit cards)
mailed to the address above.  Registration includes daily snacks and
refreshments plus the closing banquet.

Applicants will be notified on about Nov. 21, 2006 of the acceptance
of proposed presentations.  Registration fees for accepted speakers
are nonrefundable; registration for non-speaking participants is
refundable at any time.

The 31 previous programs, photos, and hotel information are published on
the AIC website; the 2007 program will be posted as it becomes available.
To receive conference email write your email address on the registration
form or send it by letter or email.

The conference hotel, the Best Western Inn at Jackson Hole, is directly
at the base of the ski slopes, a short walk from the tram and other ski
lifts.  The Conference has arranged special room rates for registered
participants.  To reserve lodging, telephone The Inn 800-842-7666 or
307-733-2311 and ask the desk to verify that you are on their list of
registered participants in the Annual Interdisciplinary Conference (AIC).
Other hotels, restaurants, ski rental facilities, shops, and cross
country ski trails, are all within walking distance.  There are flights
directly to Jackson Hole AP from Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Denver,
Minneapolis, and Salt Lake City.  From the airport, take a taxi or bus
to the hotel.  Alternatively, Jackson is a five-hour drive from Salt
Lake City.

For additional information about the conference and about travel and skiing
opportunities see     http://www.socsci.uci.edu/HIPLab/AIC

UCI UPDATE
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   THREE FACULTY POSITIONS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES - Univ. of California, Irvine
   POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP w/George Sperling, UCI
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     UCI is continuing with its plan to approximately double its size
(although California's well-publicized budget problems are slowing the
growth rate).   In line with a University-wide initiative in Cognitive
Brain Imaging, a 4T and a new 3T magnet are now available for fMRI research
studies.  For 2006-2007, the Department of Cognitive Sciences is advertising
two junior and one senior faculty position in broadly defined areas of
Cognitive Sciences/Neuroscience.  For information see
                  http://www.socsci.uci.edu/faculty_openings.php

UCI's expanding graduate program in Cognitive Sciences invites
applications:  See    http://www.cogsci.uci.edu
================================================================================

From z.kourtzi at bham.ac.uk  Mon Nov 13 19:07:37 2006
From: z.kourtzi at bham.ac.uk (zoe kourtzi)
Date: Mon Nov 13 19:35:10 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Research Fellow in Brain Imaging of Cognitive Ageing
Message-ID: <004601c70756$fb88b1d0$f416bc93@adf.bham.ac.uk>

Research Fellow in Brain Imaging of Cognitive Ageing

A Research Fellow position is available at the Cognitive NeuroImaging Lab,
School of Psychology, University of Birmingham.  The work focuses on
behavioural and imaging studies of cognitive ageing. Our research uses
behavioural and imaging methods (MRI, EEG, MEG) in combination with advanced
mathematical approaches to examine the computations that mediate the
recognition of complex objects and natural scenes in the human brain, the
development of these processes throughout the lifespan, and the neural
plasticity mechanisms that shape these functions through visual experience.
For more information please contact Zoe Kourtzi (z.kourtzi@bham.ac.uk,
http://psg275.bham.ac.uk/cnil/)

The School of Psychology at the University of Birmingham is a top class 5*
department that has a strong group in Cognitive Neuroscience and a
state-of-the-art Imaging Centre (3T scanner), access to a large group of
screened neuropsychological patients, EEG/ERP systems, TMS delivery systems,
robot systems for haptic  research, and several systems for eye movement
tracking and kinematic analysis,

Candidates should have background and hold a Ph.D. in Neuroscience,
Cognitive Psychology, Computer Science, Engineering or a related field.
Programming skills (e.g. Matlab, C, OpenGL) and experience with behavioural,
imaging and signal processing methods are desirable.

Please, send curriculum vitae, a research statement, and names of three
referees to:

Zoe Kourtzi, PhD
e-mail: z.kourtzi@bham.ac.uk

Zoe Kourtzi, PhD
Chair of Brain Imaging
Behavioural and Brain Sciences
School of Psychology
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston, Birmingham
B15 2TT UK 

tel: 121 414 8509
fax: 121 414 4897
e-mail: z.kourtzi@bham.ac.uk
web: http://psg275.bham.ac.uk/cnil/
 


From dayan at gatsby.ucl.ac.uk  Thu Nov 16 07:20:59 2006
From: dayan at gatsby.ucl.ac.uk (Peter Dayan)
Date: Thu Nov 16 15:50:16 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Gatsby faculty recruitment
Message-ID: <20061116072059.GA13915@crick.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk>

The Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit at UCL is looking to
recruit a junior or senior level faculty in machine learning or
statistics. We are especially interested in candidates whose work in
these fields integrates well with the Unit's focus on probabilistic
inference and learning, or its wider interests in the brain.

Along with the statistical machine learning focus at Gatsby, led by
Yee Whye Teh, UCL offers a rich environment across the breadth of the
field.  Activities in these areas are anchored by the new Centre for
Computational Statistics and Machine Learning which is directed by
John Shawe-Taylor, involving the departments of Computer Science (Mark
Herbster; Massimiliano Pontil), Statistics (Phil Dawid; Trevor
Sweeting) and Gatsby itself.

The Gatsby Unit was set up at UCL in 1998 as a research institute
devoted to computational neuroscience and machine learning. We have
core funding for five faculty, eight postdocs and around twelve PhD
students. PIs can raise additional funds through grants. We have no
undergraduate programme, so only teaching and supervision of
graduate-level Gatsby students is required. We have close ties with
the Departments of Anatomy, Computer Science, Psychology, Physiology
and Statistics at UCL and with groups in Engineering and Physics
(Zoubin Ghahramani, David MacKay) at Cambridge and beyond. We are
located in a leafy haven in Queen Square, London.

Applications, consisting of a CV, a statement of research interests
and accomplishments and full contact details for three academic
referees should be sent to Alexandra Boss by email: alexandra 'at'
gatsby.ucl.ac.uk, or post: Gatsby Unit, UCL, Alexandra House, 17 Queen
Square, London WC1N 3AR, UK. Applicants are asked to provide
standardised monitoring information by completing and returning the
forms available at:
www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/vacancies/Applications_by_CV.pdf

Applications must arrive no later than 5th January 2007.

For further information, please see www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk; for informal
enquiries, please contact Yee Whye Teh at ywteh 'at' gatsby.ucl.ac.uk

We particularly welcome applications from women and ethnic minorities.


From stefano at ecvp2007.org  Thu Nov 16 08:06:27 2006
From: stefano at ecvp2007.org (Stefano Baldassi)
Date: Thu Nov 16 15:50:29 2006
Subject: [visionlist] ECVP 2007 Arezzo, 2nd Call for Symposia
Message-ID: <03D8E833-742B-4E82-962C-5C17DF365B10@ecvp2007.org>

The 30th edition of the European Conference on Visual Perception  
(ECVP) will take place in Arezzo, Tuscany, Italy, from August 27th to  
August 31st 2007.

The conference has a very wide scope, spanning all the sub-fields of  
Vision Science and its related disciplines. Traditionally, within the  
regular program ECVP features a number of symposia where specific  
topics of particular relevance are discussed by leading experts  
invited by the symposium organizer.  Additional information can be  
found in www.ecvp2007.org.

For ECVP 2007, we decided to limit the number of symposia relative to  
the latest editions, and to select among proposals based on  
scientific and organizative criteria. We prefer topics that would not  
overlap with regular sessions of the meeting, although any idea is  
wellcome.
Symposia will tipically last for two hours, ideally fragmented in 10  
minutes of introduction by the organizer, one 30' talk by a keynote  
speaker,  four 15? talks and 20 minutes for final discussion.

Cambridge Research System, sponsor of the Conference, will provide  
partial financial support to one selected keynote speaker according  
to a number of criteria including the overall scientific assessment  
of the symposium, based on the review of the Scientific Committee.


The 1st stage submission should include:

1. The organizer's address with affiliation, email and phone number.

2. A draft of the proposed symposium program with a title. It should  
clearly state the motivation of the proposed symposium (max 250 words).

3. A list of speakers with mention of whether they were contacted,  
accepted, etc.


DEADLINE FOR 1st STAGE SUBMISSION:  November 30th 2006

The Scientific Committee will assess each proposal and will rank them  
in three categories, Accepted, Queue, Rejected. In order for an  
Accepted symposium to be actually taken at ECVP 2007,  within 3 weeks  
from the comunication of acceptance we need to obtain the following  
information for the 2nd stage submission:

- Summary of symposium (160 words) for use in printed material.
- List of agreed speakers, affiliations, email and mailing addresses

- Temporal structure of the symposium with exact sequence of talks.  
Include time for discussion and questions.

- Abstract of each individual talk (160 words).

- Special requests (audio-video, etc.)


All the accepted symposia missing this deadline will be replaced by  
proposals in the Queue status.

  1st stage proposals should be submitted by email to  
stefano@ecvp2007.org.

  Thanks for your attention,

                                     ci vediamo ad Arezzo!



Stefano Baldassi, PhD
Executive Chair of ECVP 2007 Arezzo

c/o University of Florence, Department of Psychology
Via di San Niccol?, 93
50125 Florence, Italy

www.ecvp2007.org






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From dc at cmp.uea.ac.uk  Thu Nov 16 17:26:31 2006
From: dc at cmp.uea.ac.uk (David Connah)
Date: Thu Nov 16 18:38:49 2006
Subject: [visionlist] EPSRC studentship at UEA
Message-ID: <455C9F47.30600@cmp.uea.ac.uk>

PhD Position in Vision

The Colour Group at the University of East Anglia has an open, EPSRC 
funded, PhD position in the area of colour vision. The group seeks a 
talented individual who has both an interest and experience in either 
psychophysics or computer vision. Interested candidates should hold a 
bachelor degree (at least 2:1) in a scientific discipline. The post 
would be especially suitable for candidates with good mathematical 
skills, and experience in computer programming (with languages such as 
MATLAB or C).

The selected student will follow an individual programme of research as 
part of the EPSRC "Colour to Greyscale and Related Transforms" (or 
C2G-ART) research project. Both in terms of human vision and in machine 
vision it is often assumed that greyscale is simply the average colour 
response. Thinking of greyscale (or luminance) in this way causes many 
practical problems: often details in pictures or graphics are lost in 
greyscale reproductions if two different colours share the same average 
response. In the C2G-ART project we are interested in designing grey 
scale transforms which mitigate this problem (through spatial image 
analysis) as well as revisiting the question of how a human observer 
codes greyscale. Indeed, we have some preliminary evidence which 
suggests that people are easily able to translate image colours into 
greyscale even when the average (conventional greyscale) at every pixel 
is the same. Any insights we can make into how humans code greyscale 
will be used to drive algorithm development.

This project is a collaboration between the Universities of East Anglia 
(Professor Graham Finlayson and Dr David Connah) and Bradford (Dr Marina 
Bloj) and Xerox corporation in the USA. The successful applicant will be 
based at the University of East Anglia but will also have the 
opportunity to work in Bradford. There may also be an opportunity to be 
placed for a short time at Xerox.

Interested applicants can make informal enquires by either contacting 
Prof. Finlayson at graham@uea.ac.uk, or by contacting Dr. Bloj at 
M.Bloj@Bradford.ac.uk . All applicants should either be citizens of the 
UK or a member country of the European Union.

The deadline for receiving applications is Friday 15th December, with 
the post commencing at the beginning of January 2007.
From Wenyi.Zhao at intusurg.com  Thu Nov 16 17:30:08 2006
From: Wenyi.Zhao at intusurg.com (Wenyi Zhao)
Date: Thu Nov 16 18:39:36 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Senior R&D Engineer -- Vision Software,
	Intuitive Surgical Inc.
Message-ID: <5EF0C574BA12B14F805532F0BB585962AF8775@MAIL1.corp.intusurg.com>

Job Location: Sunnyvale, CA, US 
Position Type: Full-Time/Regular 

Job Description 

Are you prepared to develop innovative, practical solutions to challenging computer vision problems for a million-dollar surgical robot? Intuitive Surgical has a rapidly growing installed base of over 400 da Vinci surgical systems, benefiting tens of thousands of patients per year. da Vinci is equipped with a stereo endoscope and 3D display, and represents an outstanding platform for the development and application of computer vision algorithms and image-guided surgery. This position offers a candidate with solid theoretical and exceptional software development skills an opportunity to bridge the gap between academia and industry. A successful candidate will be equally comfortable developing new algorithms, identifying promising state-of-the art algorithms from academia and producing high-quality implementations that lend themselves to re-use, testing, and productization through collaborations with Intuitive's product development engineers. He or she must excel in a high-energy team, must have excellent communication skills and must be able to balance independent production results with the need to collaborate during planning, system integration, and testing of larger projects. 

Required Skills

*	Masters or Doctorate in EE, MS, CS, or similarly, or commensurate experience. 
*	Additional 4 years' experience in industry, with code in released product 
*	Comfortable with all phases of the product development lifecycle including design, implementation, debug, verification, validations, and transfer 
*	Expertise with image processing and 3D vision, including feature extraction and matching, camera calibration 
*	Familiarity with teleoperations principles and robot mechanisms is a strong plus 
*	A strong interest in the medical applications of machine vision and robotics, 3D vision, including feature extraction and matching, camera calibration 
*	Familiarity with teleoperations principles and robotic mechanisms is a strong plus 
*	A strong interest in the medical applications of machine vision and robotics

For more details and on-line application, please go to http://www.intuitivesurgical.com/corporate/careers/index.aspx
and click on current opportunities. This position is under the Engineering category and has a tracking code 2006-126.



From macknik at neuralcorrelate.com  Fri Nov 17 02:54:25 2006
From: macknik at neuralcorrelate.com (Stephen Macknik)
Date: Fri Nov 17 05:21:38 2006
Subject: [visionlist] symposia submission EXTENSION -- Association for the
	Scientific Study of Consciousness 11th annual meeting
Message-ID: <014701c709f3$b28a4ee0$0200a8c0@bsr.chw.edu>

***DUE TO POPULAR DEMAND*** -- The deadline for submission of symposia
proposals to ASSC11 has been extended. FINAL (no exceptions) submission date
is now ***Wednesday, November 29th***!

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ASSOCIATION FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF CONSCIOUSNESS 11TH ANNUAL MEETING.
Imperial Palace Hotel, Las Vegas June 22 - June 25, 2007
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The 11th annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of  
Consciousness will be held from June 22nd to June 25th, 2007 in Las  
Vegas, Nevada (Imperial Palace Hotel). This is the final call for  
symposia proposals. The calls for tutorial proposals, abstract  
submissions and registration will be circulated at a later date.

ASSC11 is intended to promote interdisciplinary dialogue in the  
scientific study of consciousness. The overall goal of the conference  
is to promote the scientific study of consciousness in all of its  
forms. Following last year's successful symposia, ASSC members (or  
non-members who are planning to join ASSC) are again invited to submit  
proposals for symposia relevant to the overall goal of the conference.  
Non-members can also submit proposals for tutorials.

Symposia will address current empirical and theoretical issues in the  
study of consciousness, from the perspectives of philosophy,  
neuroscience, clinical medicine, psychology, and computer science.

For latest updates, please check the conference website:

http://assc2007.neuralcorrelate.com

The web site will be continually evolving, so please visit often for  
updated information.
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FINAL CALL FOR SYMPOSIA PROPOSALS

SYMPOSIA PROPOSALS MUST BE RECEIVED BY 29TH NOVEMBER 2006
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The Program committee invites proposals from ASSC members for symposia  
on any topic relevant to the scientific study of consciousness.
Non-members are also encouraged to propose symposia but the proposer  
will be required to join ASSC if the proposal is accepted (see  
http://www.assc.caltech.edu for membership details; USD30 per annum  
for full members).

Symposia will typically have three speakers (plus Chair if not speaking).
Only the proposer need be an ASSC member. Each symposium is 2 hours  
long, and the Chair is limited to 15 minutes at the beginning to  
introduce the topic. The Chair will be expected to coordinate any  
questions and lead discussion after each talk.

Symposium/talks should be spread over topics in consciousness studies,  
paying close attention to areas that may have been overlooked last  
year or in previous years (see  
http://assc.caltech.edu/conferences.html for previous programs). ASSC  
has a strong preference for symposia proposals to focus on specific  
questions rather than a set of loosely related talks. Accepted  
symposia will be subject to limited compensation for travel expenses  
(in discussion with the organizers) and registration fees will be  
waived. Participants will be expected to cover their own accommodation  
costs.

Since ASSC aims to cover general issues of interest to consciousness  
research in both breadth and depth, proposals may include multiple  
theoretical perspectives and/or multiple methodologies. The Program  
Committee may recommend changes in speakers to achieve program balance.

Send the proposal along with the following to Stephen Macknik  
(macknik@neuralcorrelate.com) as soon as possible but no later than  
29th November 2006.

The submission should include:

1. Chair's address with affiliation, email and phone number.
2. Draft of the proposed symposium program with title.
3. Summary of symposium (150 words) for use in printed material.
4. List of speakers, affiliations, email and mailing addresses (Chairs  
should have prior agreement from speakers).
5. Time allotted for each talk. Include time for discussion and questions.
6. Summary or abstract of each individual talk (150 words).
7. Audio/Visual requirements for each talk.
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ASSC11 Scientific Program Committee: Susana Martinez-Conde (co-chair),  
Stephen Macknik (co-chair), Marisa Carrasco, Zoltan Dienes, Allen  
Houng, Steven Laureys, Alva Noe, and Elisabeth Pacherie

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Stephen L. Macknik, Ph.D.
Director, Laboratory of Behavioral Neurophysiology
Divisions of Neurosurgery and Neurobiology
Barrow Neurological Institute
350 W Thomas Rd
Phoenix, AZ  85013
USA
+1 (602) 406-8091
macknik@neuralcorrelate.com
http://neuralcorrelate.com


From pmerikle at uwaterloo.ca  Fri Nov 17 14:29:47 2006
From: pmerikle at uwaterloo.ca (Phil Merikle)
Date: Fri Nov 17 15:12:11 2006
Subject: [visionlist] 2007 ASSC William James Prize - Second Announcement
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0610031121230.25556@watarts.uwaterloo.ca>
References: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0610031121230.25556@watarts.uwaterloo.ca>
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0611170929140.15647@watarts.uwaterloo.ca>

Second Announcement

ASSOCIATION FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF CONSCIOUSNESS (ASSC)

The ASSC William James Prize for Contributions to the Study of 
Consciousness

Each year one prize is awarded for an outstanding published contribution 
to the empirical or philosophical study of consciousness by a graduate 
student or postdoctoral scholar/researcher who is within 5 years of 
receiving a PhD or other advanced degree.

The prize for 2007 consists of:  a) An award of $1000 (USD), b) An 
invitation to present a plenary address at ASSC11 which will be held 
Friday June 22nd through Monday June 25th 2007 at the Imperial Palace 
Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada (Travel, accommodation, and registration paid 
by ASSC), c) A lifetime membership in ASSC.

Nominations, including self nominations, should be sent to Phil Merikle, 
Chair, ASSC Prize Committee (pmerikle@uwaterloo.ca).  The nomination 
letter should include a brief statement as to why the contribution is 
outstanding, and for co-authored publications, there should be a statement 
describing the nominee's role.  To be considered, the contribution must be 
published or accepted for publication and be written in English. 
Electronic copies in PDF format of the contribution and the nominee's CV 
should be attached to the nomination letter.

Prize Committee:

Ned Block, New York University
Chris Frith, University College London
Christof Koch, California Institute of Technology
Phil Merikle, University of Waterloo

Deadline for submission of nominations is December 15, 2006

http://assc.caltech.edu/prize.htm

From paulgr at sussex.ac.uk  Fri Nov 17 16:01:34 2006
From: paulgr at sussex.ac.uk (Paul Graham)
Date: Fri Nov 17 16:20:03 2006
Subject: [visionlist] EPSRC PhD Studentship - Visually guided navigation in
	insects and robots
Message-ID: <9b7802a90611170801g6f1b85a4x97bec348ee3ecc21@mail.gmail.com>

Please forward to anybody who might be interested

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
EPSRC PhD Studentship - Visually guided navigation in insects and robots

Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics
School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex

Applications are sought from UK candidates for a 3.5 year DPhil
studentship available from January 2007. (Due to funding restrictions,
EU candidates can only be considered if they have been resident in the
UK for the last three years). Initial inquires should be made to Dr
Paul Graham (P.R.Graham@sussex.ac.uk) in the Centre for Computational
Neuroscience and Robotics.

We are studying insect navigation using both behavioural
experiments and robotic modelling. There is a DPhil studentship
available for a student to study the sensori-motor basis of
visually-guided navigation in ants. Students will be expected to be
involved in both behavioural experiments and computational modelling.
Ideally, applicants should have a biological background as well as
some programming skills and candidates with computational modelling
experience (e.g. image processing, agent based modelling, neural
networks) are especially encouraged.



-- 
Dr Paul Graham
Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics
School of Life Sciences
University of Sussex
Brighton, BN1 9QG
From s.c.pont at phys.uu.nl  Mon Nov 20 14:33:13 2006
From: s.c.pont at phys.uu.nl (Sylvia Pont)
Date: Mon Nov 20 15:54:18 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Post-doctoral fellowship at Utrecht University
Message-ID: <C1877B39.79F0%s.c.pont@phys.uu.nl>

The Physics of Man group of the Helmholtz Institute invites applications for
a postdoctoral research position in computer and/or human vision, within the
EU-Marie Curie VISIONTRAIN project.

Opportunities exist to contribute to research into illumination- and
shape-from-shading+3Dtexture. Concrete aims are to compare results of
psychophysics studies with algorithmical analyses (computer vision).

Candidates should have a recent PhD in physics, experimental psychology,
computer science, electrical engineering, or a related field, with
demonstrated research ability relevant to the topics above. The postdoctoral
position is awarded for a one-year period, starting as soon as possible.

The post-doctoral fellow will work within the ecological optics group (prof.
Koenderink, Dr. Pont, Dr. van Doorn and three PhD students) and in
conjunction and in association with the VISIONTRAIN PhD student, Stefan
Karlsson.

For conditions and application procedures see
http://visiontrain.inrialpes.fr/?page=post_proposals

For further information about the VISIONTRAIN project see
http://visiontrain.inrialpes.fr/

Please respond with a letter describing your research interests, a
curriculum vitae, and a list of three references (with telephone numbers and
postal and e-mail addresses) no later than December 15 to:
Dr. Sylvia Pont
Helmholtz Institute, Physics of Man
Princetonplein 5
3584 CC Utrecht
The Netherlands
Tel: +31 30 2532809
E-Mail: s.c.pont@phys.uu.nl

From l.diazsantana at gmail.com  Mon Nov 20 17:07:25 2006
From: l.diazsantana at gmail.com (Luis Diaz-Santana)
Date: Mon Nov 20 18:01:08 2006
Subject: [visionlist] JMO Special Issue
Message-ID: <9406F9AA-452B-46B0-9152-4AD8CC23544D@gmail.com>

Dear Colleague,

I would like to remind you about the forthcoming Special Issue in  
Physiological Optics in the Journal of Modern Optics, with deadline  
for the 15th of December.

Please note that all submissions will be handled by Vasudevan  
Lakshminarayanan (Vengu) <Vengu@uwaterloo.ca>. Please send your  
submission directly to him before the 15th of December.

Best regards
Luis Diaz-Santana

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

The 3rd European Meeting in Physiological Optics hosted by the  
Applied Vision Research Centre at City University this summer, was a  
great success. The quality of presentations was of very high standard  
and in a large variety of topics in this very active research area.  
In order to consolidate the impact of this meeting in the field, a  
special issue on Physiological Optics is being prepared by the  
Journal of Modern Optics. The issue is open to all members of the  
scientific community, and it is not limited to those who attended the  
meeting.

This special issue will accept papers in all aspects of physiological  
optics, including, but not limited to:

Limits of visual performance
Models of the human eye
Quality of Ocular Optics
Dynamics of Ocular aberrations
Developments in Adaptive Optics for Ophthalmology and Visual Science
Wavefront sensing in the eye
Ophthalmic Instrumentation
Polarising properties of the human eye
Animal models

Submissions are open until the 15th of December. Papers published in  
this issue will be completely free of cost, including a limited  
number of colour prints. When submitting a paper, please ensure the  
words "Special Issue in Physiological Optics" are included next to  
the title. Guidelines for submission to the Journal of Modern Optics  
can be found in this link:

http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/authors/tmopauth.asp

Sincerely yours
Dr Luis Diaz-Santana
Chairman of the 3rd EMPO

Luis Diaz-Santana
Department of Optometry and Visual Science
City University, Northampton Square
London, EC1V 0HB, UK.
http://www.city.ac.uk/optometry/Luis/myresearch/
http://www.sharpeye.org/

Tel: +44 (0)20 7040 8335
Fax: +44(0)20 7040 8355
e-mail: luisd@city.ac.uk



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From steve at cns.bu.edu  Tue Nov 21 02:51:09 2006
From: steve at cns.bu.edu (Stephen Grossberg)
Date: Tue Nov 21 06:00:38 2006
Subject: [visionlist] postdoctoral fellowship in fMRI and neural modeling of
 learning at Boston University
Message-ID: <p062309c2c18818362d13@[192.168.1.101]>

A postdoctoral fellow is sought to study learning in both healthy 
subjects and individuals with autism. The fellow is expected to 
design and run cognitive neuroimaging experiments, and to collaborate 
on further development of neural models of autism. The ideal 
candidate should thus have some training in experimental and 
computational cognitive neuroscience. The fellow will work with 
colleagues in the Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems 
(http://www.cns.bu.edu) and the Center of Excellence for Learning in 
Education, Science, and Technology (CELEST: http://cns.bu.edu/celest) 
at Boston University (BU), together with the Autism Research Center 
of Excellence (http://www.bu.edu/anatneuro/dcn/autism/staart.htm) and 
the Center for Biomedical Imaging 
(http://www.bu.edu/dbin/anatneuro/research/brain_imaging/overview.php) 
at the BU School of Medicine. This new research project offers a 
major training opportunity in an exciting interdisciplinary 
environment, with access to cutting edge computational and MR imaging 
facilities. Boston University is an Equal Opportunity Affirmative 
Action Employer. Interested candidates should send their CV, letter 
of intent, and 3 recommendation letters to Prof. Stephen Grossberg at:

NSF-NIH CELEST postdoctoral search
Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems
677 Beacon Street
Room 203
Boston University
Boston MA 02215

From eisnera at ohsu.edu  Tue Nov 21 18:55:32 2006
From: eisnera at ohsu.edu (Al Eisner)
Date: Tue Nov 21 18:59:22 2006
Subject: [visionlist] symposium honoring Smith & Pokorny
Message-ID: <s562db32.002@ohsu.edu>

A special 2-day symposium celebrating the careers of Vivianne Smith and 
Joel Pokorny will take place in Chicago on September 6-7 (Thursday and 
Friday), 2007.   Please hold the date.

Thirty talks by scientific experts will focus on topics central to 
Vivianne and Joel's research.  A list of confirmed speakers is below.  
The symposium will be hosted by the University of Chicago's Department 
of Ophthalmology & Visual Science, and will end with a banquet on 
Friday evening.  A list of conveniently located hotels with discounted 
rates will be available several months before the meeting.  Information 
about registration, which is free but required, will be circulated in 
the spring.  Any questions may be addressed to a member of the 
organizing committee (Steve Burns, Al Eisner, Randy Kardon, Steve 
Shevell, and Hannah Smithson).

We hope you will be able to join us in Chicago next September.

Al Eisner (for the organizing committee)

Confirmed speakers:
Abramoff, Michael
Alexander, Ken
Burns, Steve
Cao, Ding Cai
Dacey, Dennis
DeMarco, Paul
Eisner, Al
Elsner, Ann
Gamlin, Paul
Kardon, Randy
Keunen, Jan
Kremers, Jan
Lee, Barry
Leonova, Anna
Lindsey, Del
Martin, Paul
Miyahara, Eriko
Mollon, John
Rizzo, Matthew
Schuchard, Ron
Shapiro, Artie
Shevell, Steve
Smithson, Hannah
Sun, Hao
Swanson, Bill
van Norren, Dirk
Wilson, Hugh
Zaidi, Qasim
Zele, Andrew

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From richard_born at hms.harvard.edu  Tue Nov 21 21:37:33 2006
From: richard_born at hms.harvard.edu (Richard Born)
Date: Tue Nov 21 21:41:16 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Research Assistant Position, Harvard Medical School
Message-ID: <7.0.1.0.2.20061121163545.02ad9958@hms.harvard.edu>

RESEARCH ASSISTANT
Visual Neurophysiology and Eye Movements in Alert, Non-human Primates

The Born Lab in the Dept. of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School 
is seeking applications for a Research Assistant position.  The 
primary responsibility will be managing a group of non-human 
primates.  Other responsibilities include general laboratory 
supervision, maintenance and inventory of supplies and reagents, and 
preparation for and assistance with surgical procedures.  The person 
in this position interacts intensively with other laboratory 
personnel working on projects involving behavior, physiology and 
reversible inactivation of brain regions in alert, non-human 
primates, as well as with veterinary and animal care staff on issues 
relating to animal health and well-being.  For highly motivated and 
capable candidates, there is a possibility of developing independent 
research projects in collaboration with other members of the 
laboratory.  Please send a resume and two letters of recommendation to:

Dr. Richard Born
Prof. of Neurobiology
Harvard Medical School
220 Longwood Ave.
Boston, MA 02115-5701

telephone: 617-432-1307
rborn@hms.harvard.edu

Harvard Medical School is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity 
Employer.  Applications from minorities and women are encouraged. 
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From announcements at journalofvision.org  Wed Nov 22 01:28:09 2006
From: announcements at journalofvision.org (Journal of Vision)
Date: Wed Nov 22 01:10:34 2006
Subject: [visionlist] News from the Journal of Vision
Message-ID: <358701c70dd5$77f5efb0$020100c0@journalofvision.org>

1. I am delighted to announce the appointment of seven new Editors to
the Editorial Board of the Journal of Vision:

Geoffrey Boynton  	 Salk Institute
http://www.salk.edu/faculty/faculty/details.php?id=6
	
Marisa Carrasco  	 New York University
http://www.psych.nyu.edu/carrasco/
	
Matteo Carandini  	 Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute
http://www.ski.org/Carandini/
	
Karen Dobkins  	 UC San Diego  	 http://psy.ucsd.edu/~kdobkins/
	
Julie Harris  	 University of St. Andrews, UK
http://psy.st-andrews.ac.uk/people/lect/jharris.shtml
	
Michael Paradiso  	 Brown University
http://neuroscience.brown.edu/paradiso.html
	
Allison Sekuler  	 McMaster University
http://www.psychology.mcmaster.ca/sekuler
	

These exceptional individuals add strength to an already remarkable
Editorial Board.

2. Since the Journal of Vision received an impact factor of 3.469 in
June of this year, our submission rate has doubled. The graph below
tells the story. It shows submission per day over the life of the
journal; the vertical red line marks the date of the impact factor
announcement. This increase in the submission rate is a vote of
confidence in the future success of the journal, and we thank those who
have made it possible.

Andrew B. Watson, Editor-in-Chief
Journal of Vision http://journalofvision.org/

 
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From thomashofm at bluewin.ch  Tue Nov 21 12:25:44 2006
From: thomashofm at bluewin.ch (Thomas Hofmann)
Date: Sat Nov 25 16:05:48 2006
Subject: [visionlist] VF-14 Test
Message-ID: <003201c70d68$2aac18f0$0202fea9@D3X7PY1J>

 

Dear all

 

Is there anyone being familiar with a test VF-14? What does this test do?
Can I see photographs or something? Many thanks for your wonderful help and
warm regards

 

Thomas

 

 

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Thomas Hofmann, MSc. 

Paradimage

Arlesheimerstrasse 5

CH-4053 BASEL, Switzerland

+4178 707 1442

 

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From gdagnelie at jhmi.edu  Sat Nov 25 21:54:17 2006
From: gdagnelie at jhmi.edu (Gislin Dagnelie)
Date: Sat Nov 25 22:10:31 2006
Subject: [visionlist] VF-14 Test
In-Reply-To: <003201c70d68$2aac18f0$0202fea9@D3X7PY1J>
References: <003201c70d68$2aac18f0$0202fea9@D3X7PY1J>
Message-ID: <456875390200004D00018966@cis27.hosts.jhmi.edu>

The VF-14 is a self-report questionnaire developed originally for a
cataract surgery clinical trial, and later applied more widely to ask
subjects with (potential) vision problems to rate their difficulty
inperforming certain activities of daily living.

It was later modified and expanded to create the NEI-VFQ, and has
become the model for many other such questionnaires.

It is considered less than adequate, especially if used for broader low
vision populations.  And it definitely is not a test in the normal
psychometric sense, nor probably in the sense you were expecting.

If you do a Medline or Google search you'll find the questionnaire
itself as well as a series of papers reporting VF-14 outcomes.

Hope this helps,

Gislin Dagnelie, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Ophthalmology
JHU Lions Vision Center
550 N. Broadway, 6th floor
Baltimore, MD 21205-2020 USA

>>> Thomas Hofmann <thomashofm@bluewin.ch> 11/21/06 7:25 AM >>>

Dear all

Is there anyone being familiar with a test VF-14? What does this test
do?
Can I see photographs or something? Many thanks for your wonderful help
and
warm regards

Thomas
  _____  

Thomas Hofmann, MSc. 
Paradimage
Arlesheimerstrasse 5
CH-4053 BASEL, Switzerland
+4178 707 1442
From alexh at psych.usyd.edu.au  Mon Nov 27 22:48:14 2006
From: alexh at psych.usyd.edu.au (Alex Holcombe)
Date: Mon Nov 27 22:54:43 2006
Subject: [visionlist] postdoc at University of Sydney
Message-ID: <613B4C40-273B-496C-978D-A99C9F485EC3@psych.usyd.edu.au>

Postdoctoral Fellow in Visual Psychophysics
School of Psychology, University of Sydney

The University of Sydney is Australia?s premier University with an  
outstanding reputation for academic and research excellence, and  
employs over 6,000 permanent staff supporting over 43,000 enrolled  
students. It attracts more grant funding than any other Australian  
university.

The School of Psychology is Australia?s first established psychology  
department and boasts a proud history of excellence that  
characterises the entirety of its research and educational  
activities. Located within the Faculty of Science, it provides world- 
class teaching and research programs.

Applications are currently invited for a postdoctoral fellowship  
working with Dr. Alex Holcombe in the School of Psychology. The  
research area is visual psychophysics, and more specifically, the  
supporting grant is for the investigation of high-level, non- 
retinotopic stages of visual perception. More information regarding  
the research can be found by visiting http://www.psych.usyd.edu.au/ 
staff/alexh

Essential requirements for the position are a PhD in psychology,  
vision science, or similar field, and a demonstrated ability to  
conduct psychophysical research. Performing the experiments will  
require skill in programming psychophysical displays and the  
appointee will be working with a dynamic community of local vision  
researchers and attend seminars and colloquia in vision and related  
fields.

The position is full-time for a fixed term of 18 months, with  
possibility of renewal for a further year depending on funding.   
Specific enquiries about the role can be emailed to Dr. Alex Holcombe  
alexh@psych.usyd.edu.au and for general enquiries to Fabrice No?l on  
+61 2 9036 7295.

For application forms, please visit http://positions.usyd.edu.au/   
and find position reference: USYD/A47/90905
and also email Alex Holcombe (alexh@psych.usyd.edu.au), including  
your CV.

Remuneration package:  Australian $57,210 - $77,638 p.a. (which  
includes a base salary Associate Lecturer Level A $48,343 - $65,605  
p.a., leave loading and up to 17% employer?s contribution to  
superannuation)

The University is a non-smoking workplace and is committed to the  
policies and principles of equal employment opportunity and cultural  
diversity. The University reserves the right not to proceed with any  
appointment for financial or other reasons.

Closing: 15 January 2007

This is one of two postdoc positions currently available, the other  
is in Associate Professor Colin Clifford's laboratory (which will be  
formally advertised soon).  When one position becomes filled, the  
applicant may be considered for the other, unless the applicant  
states that she prefers otherwise.


From macknik at neuralcorrelate.com  Tue Nov 28 02:13:49 2006
From: macknik at neuralcorrelate.com (Stephen Macknik)
Date: Tue Nov 28 02:26:19 2006
Subject: [visionlist] FINAL DEADLINE for symposia submissions -- Association
	for the Scientific Study of Consciousness 11th annual meeting
Message-ID: <018a01c71292$d92982d0$0200a8c0@bsr.chw.edu>

The final deadline for submission of symposia proposals to ASSC11 is
***Wednesday, November 29th***!

***No further extensions will be granted***

Submit your symposia proposals to ASSC11 today!!
http://assc2007.neuralcorrelate.com 

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ASSOCIATION FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF CONSCIOUSNESS 11TH ANNUAL MEETING.
Imperial Palace Hotel, Las Vegas June 22 - June 25, 2007
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The 11th annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of  
Consciousness will be held from June 22nd to June 25th, 2007 in Las  
Vegas, Nevada (Imperial Palace Hotel). This is the final call for  
symposia proposals. The calls for tutorial proposals, abstract submissions
for concurrent talks and posters, and registration will be circulated at a
later date.

ASSC11 is intended to promote interdisciplinary dialogue in the  
scientific study of consciousness. The overall goal of the conference  
is to promote the scientific study of consciousness in all of its  
forms. Following last year's successful symposia, ASSC members (or  
non-members who are planning to join ASSC) are again invited to submit  
proposals for symposia relevant to the overall goal of the conference.  
Non-members can also submit proposals for tutorials.

Symposia will address current empirical and theoretical issues in the  
study of consciousness, from the perspectives of philosophy,  
neuroscience, clinical medicine, psychology, and computer science.

For latest updates, please check the conference website:

http://assc2007.neuralcorrelate.com

The web site will be continually evolving, so please visit often for  
updated information.
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FINAL CALL FOR SYMPOSIA PROPOSALS

SYMPOSIA PROPOSALS MUST BE RECEIVED BY 29TH NOVEMBER 2006
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The Program committee invites proposals from ASSC members for symposia  
on any topic relevant to the scientific study of consciousness.
Non-members are also encouraged to propose symposia but the proposer  
will be required to join ASSC if the proposal is accepted (see  
http://www.assc.caltech.edu for membership details; USD30 per annum  
for full members).

Symposia will typically have three speakers (plus Chair if not speaking).
Only the proposer need be an ASSC member. Each symposium is 2 hours  
long, and the Chair is limited to 15 minutes at the beginning to  
introduce the topic. The Chair will be expected to coordinate any  
questions and lead discussion after each talk.

Symposium/talks should be spread over topics in consciousness studies,  
paying close attention to areas that may have been overlooked last  
year or in previous years (see  
http://assc.caltech.edu/conferences.html for previous programs). ASSC  
has a strong preference for symposia proposals to focus on specific  
questions rather than a set of loosely related talks. Accepted  
symposia will be subject to limited compensation for travel expenses  
(in discussion with the organizers) and registration fees will be  
waived. Participants will be expected to cover their own accommodation  
costs.

Since ASSC aims to cover general issues of interest to consciousness  
research in both breadth and depth, proposals may include multiple  
theoretical perspectives and/or multiple methodologies. The Program  
Committee may recommend changes in speakers to achieve program balance.

Send the proposal along with the following to Stephen Macknik  
(macknik@neuralcorrelate.com) as soon as possible but no later than  
29th November 2006.

The submission should include:

1. Chair's address with affiliation, email and phone number.
2. Draft of the proposed symposium program with title.
3. Summary of symposium (150 words) for use in printed material.
4. List of speakers, affiliations, email and mailing addresses (Chairs  
should have prior agreement from speakers).
5. Time allotted for each talk. Include time for discussion and questions.
6. Summary or abstract of each individual talk (150 words).
7. Audio/Visual requirements for each talk.
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ASSC11 Scientific Program Committee: Susana Martinez-Conde (co-chair),  
Stephen Macknik (co-chair), Marisa Carrasco, Zoltan Dienes, Allen  
Houng, Steven Laureys, Alva Noe, and Elisabeth Pacherie

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From woldorff at duke.edu  Tue Nov 28 05:14:10 2006
From: woldorff at duke.edu (Marty Woldorff)
Date: Tue Nov 28 06:05:18 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Graduate Program in Cognitive Neuroscience
Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20061128000807.028592d0@imap.duke.edu>

DUKE'S INTERDISCIPLINARY TRAINING PROGRAM IN COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE
The Duke University Interdisciplinary Training Program for Graduate Study 
in Cognitive Neuroscience is accepting applications for the 2007-2008 
academic year. Through an intensive two-year sequence of courses, lab 
rotations, and seminars, students will learn innovative approaches to 
research on higher human brain functions, including, but not limited to, 
perception, attention, memory, language, emotion, motor control, executive 
functions, consciousness, and the evolution of mental processes. The 
training program cuts across departmental boundaries, with faculty from 
Psychology and Neuroscience, Neurobiology, Psychiatry, Radiology, 
Biomedical Engineering, Neurology, Computer Science, Biology, and 
Philosophy. In addition to the breadth and depth of the faculty, the 
combined resources of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, the Brain 
Imaging and Analysis Center, and the Program offer an unusually rich 
technical environment for training in the cognitive neuroscience 
methodologies of brain imaging, electrical brain recording, behavioral 
analysis and psychophysics, and computational modeling. The Program offers 
this interdisciplinary training in collaboration with the participating 
degree-granting departments, in a structure in which the student obtains a 
Ph.D. from one of these departments in a specialized curriculum focused on 
Cognitive Neuroscience.

Application deadline: December 31, 2006.

For more information, go to the Duke Center for Cognitive Neuroscience 
website at www.mind.duke.edu and click on Training, then Graduate.



------------------------------------
Marty G. Woldorff, Ph.D.
Associate Director, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience
Director of Graduate Studies, Interdisciplinary Program In Cognitive 
Neuroscience
Duke University, Box 90999
Durham, NC 27708-0999

Center: 919-668-2512    Fax: 919-681-0815
Office:  919-681-0604    Lab: 919-668-1334
email:   woldorff@duke.edu

Lab website:       www.mind.duke.edu/woldorfflab
Center website:  www.mind.duke.edu
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From r.j.a.vanwezel at bio.uu.nl  Tue Nov 28 14:08:38 2006
From: r.j.a.vanwezel at bio.uu.nl (Richard van Wezel)
Date: Tue Nov 28 15:05:45 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Scientific Programmer (Utrecht University,
	The Netherlands)
Message-ID: <D9D4518D-3602-489F-8686-0A13BBBDA4EF@bio.uu.nl>

Scientific Programmer (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)

We seek an experienced computer programmer to assist faculty in the  
Functional Neurobiology group of the Helmholtz Institute (The  
Netherlands) to develop real-time data aquisition and stimulus  
control software to conduct behavioral and electrophysiological  
experiments using human and animal subjects. The appointment is for  
one year. The Functional Neurobiology group is located on the campus  
of Utrecht University, The Netherlands (website: www.bio.uu.nl/ 
functionalneurobiology ).

Required qualifications:
- A Bachelors degree in Psychology, Computer Science, Engineering,  
Mathematics or other discipline
- Excellent computer skills

Preferred qualifications:
- Experience with writing real-time data acquisition and stimulus  
control software
- Experience with Apple OS-X operating systems, Matlab, C/C++

Salary 26.000 - 35.000 Euro, plus benefits.

Additional information can be obtained with:
Richard van Wezel: r.j.a.vanwezel@bio.uu.nl
Bert van den Berg: a.v.vandenberg@bio.uu.nl

Send applications to:
Secretary Functional Neurobiology, Miriam van Hattum:  
M.H.vanHattum@bio.uu.nl
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From antje.kraft at charite.de  Tue Nov 28 15:33:31 2006
From: antje.kraft at charite.de (antje kraft)
Date: Tue Nov 28 16:06:02 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Open Position for a PhD-Student in the Berlin
	NeuroImagingCenter
Message-ID: <456C56CB.40402@charite.de>

Please forward this job advertisement to students who might be 
interested. Thanks, Stephan Brandt.
______________________________________________________________________

Open Position for a PhD-Student in the Berlin NeuroImagingCenter

http://www.berlin-neuroimaging-center.de/open_positions
______________________________________________________________________

Institute:

Department of Neurology, Charit?
Charit?platz 1
D-10117 Berlin, Germany

The Berlin NeuroImaging Center (BNIC) is a young and dynamic lab that 
implements interdisciplinary innovative research pertinent to various 
themes of neuroscience.

Research group: The position is directly related to the project 
"adaptive attention mechanisms in conflict processing". The position is 
available in the Vision and Motor Systems Research Group led by PD Dr. 
Stephan A. Brandt and is funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft 
(DFG) in collaboration with the Institute of Psychology of the Humboldt 
University, the Freie University of Berlin and the Max Planck Institute 
for Human Development in the DFG funded Forschergruppe "conflicts as 
signals in cognitive systems".

http://www.berlin-neuroimagingenter.de/groups/vision

Research topics: The goal of this project is to implement and 
investigate dynamic causal models (DCM) of brain areas involved in 
attentional mechanisms during conflict processing. The model will be 
developed in collaboration with the Institute for Theoretical Biology 
and Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin (Dr. Laurenz 
Wiskott & Prof. Dr. John-Dylan Haynes).

http://www.bccn-berlin.de/

Teaching: None

Time:  The position will be available as of December 2006. The starting 
date is negotiable. The appointment will be for 1 + 2 years.

Requirements: Candidates should provide proof of education in physics, 
mathematics, computer science, electrical engineering or other related 
field. Strong mathematical and programming skills as well as the ability 
to communicate and work well in a team are considered mandatory. 
Candidates with the above named prerequisites who have familiar with 
dynamic causal modelling are also encouraged to apply.

Salary: Salary will be ? or ? BAT IIa depending on qualifications, 
experience, age and family status. BAT is the regular salary scale for 
public employees in Germany.

Inquiries: Informal inquiries can be addressed to PD Dr. Stephan A. 
Brandt stephan.brandt@charite.de 
<file:///C:%5CDokumente%20und%20Einstellungen%5Csein%5CLokale%20Einstellungen%5CTemporary%20Internet%20Files%5COLK156%5Cstephan.brandt@charite.de>

Application: Formal applications, CV and two letters of recommendation 
should be sent to PD Dr. Stephan A. Brandt at the address given above. 
Please send only copies and not original documents, since the 
applications will not be returned. You can also send applications via 
email, but please ensure that they are complete and in a convenient format.

Handicapped applicants with corresponding qualifications will be 
considered preferentially. To increase the proportion of female 
scientists, applications of qualified females are especially welcome.

Deadline: None. Application will be accepted until the position is 
filled, as will be indicated on the web-page 
http://www.berlin-neuroimaging-center.de/open_positions.

==========================================================================

-- 
Antje Kraft
Dept. of Neurology
Charit?, Humboldt-University
Charit?platz 1
10117 Berlin, Germany

Phone:  ++49-30-450 560 045
Fax:    ++49-30-450 560 952
http://www.berlin-neuroimaging-center.de/groups/vision/index_html

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From thomashofm at bluewin.ch  Tue Nov 28 16:56:34 2006
From: thomashofm at bluewin.ch (Thomas Hofmann)
Date: Tue Nov 28 19:32:18 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Glare reduction and LCS
Message-ID: <003d01c7130e$29433a10$0202fea9@D3X7PY1J>

Hello

 

I wanted to find out, whether someone knows any work being done about neural
compensation for glare and reduced contrast sensitivity over time. Does the
sensitivity of the visual system and pathway with time refine for visual
impairment, i.e. due to multifractive IOL's, or does it remain the same over
months and years?

 

Thanks for your help

 

Thomas

 

 

  _____  

Thomas Hofmann, MSc. 

Paradimage

Arlesheimerstrasse 5

CH-4053 BASEL, Switzerland

+4178 707 1442

 

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From werblin at berkeley.edu  Tue Nov 28 17:12:49 2006
From: werblin at berkeley.edu (werblin)
Date: Tue Nov 28 19:32:32 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Retina Postdoc at Berkeley
Message-ID: <00a901c71310$6e86f010$8000a8c0@mcb.berkeley.edu>

Postdoctoral Position available at Vision Research Lab at UC Berkeley. We study the neural circuitry that underlies a variety of visual functions including motion detection, feature detection, contrast gain control, saccadic suppression and other intriguing visual phenomena. Techniques involve patch recording in retinal whole mount and slices, confocal reconstructions, pharmacological dissections of functional circuits. See our website at mcb.berkeley.edu/labs/werblin, or contact werblin@berkeley.edu.
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From J.Zanker at rhul.ac.uk  Tue Nov 28 21:01:47 2006
From: J.Zanker at rhul.ac.uk (Zanker J)
Date: Wed Nov 29 03:07:08 2006
Subject: [visionlist] RA job at Royal Holloway
Message-ID: <85FE1BF3C2DEA24FBB93FCEC7B67FC7EE353D7@exch16.rhul.ac.uk>


Royal Holloway University of London, Department of Psychology 


Postdoctoral Research Assistant


Salary in the range of ?22,779 to ?27,217 per annum inclusive of London Allowance depending on experience

A Postdoctoral Research Assistant (funded by The Leverhulme Trust) is available in the Department of Psychology at Royal Holloway, University of London (http://www.pc.rhul.ac.uk/index.html ). 

The project will investigate explanations behind illusory motion experienced when viewing certain Op Art paintings, such as those of Bridget Riley. Our previous work (Zanker & Walker, 2004) has shown that small involuntary eye movements are sufficient to account for this phenomenon. It is not clear, however, if there are other (necessary) explanations. This 12 month project will examine the contribution of other types of eye movements, such as slow gaze drifts, to these motion illusions.  It is led by Prof. Johannes M. Zanker (expert in psychophysics and computational modelling) in collaboration with Prof. Robin Walker (expert in eye movement research).

We are looking for a creative and enthusiastic person with good analytical and programming skills, and preferably some experience in some area of psychology, visual neurosciences, machine vision, or computer sciences, but applications will be invited from individuals with a PhD in a range of scientific disciplines. 

The position is initially funded for one year, with the intention to seek further funding to continue this line of research. The successful candidate will be part of a team of researchers firmly embedded into the Brain and Behaviour Research Group www.pc.rhul.ac.uk/website/Research/bab_home.htm , and has the opportunity to get actively involved in a cutting edge project at the boundary of neuroscience and visual arts. 

Royal Holloway is a constituent college of the University of London, located about 20 miles to the west of Central London, close to Windsor and to Heathrow. The campus is dominated by the Victorian Founder's Building and offers modern academic, residential and recreational facilities in a parkland setting. Royal Holloway welcomes a truly diverse community - approximately 7,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students coming from over 80 countries. 

The College has been confirmed as one of the leading universities in the UK in the last Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), ranking in the top ten in the major league tables. Within Royal Holloway, the Department of Psychology is one of the larger academic departments, which has been consistently ranked as one of the best Psychology Departments in the country. It has a very strong research record, to which the Brain and Behaviour Group makes a substantial contribution, as demonstrated by its lead in a regional university consortium to host a 3T fMRI brain scanner on the Royal Holloway campus. In the framework of a dense network of national and international collaborations, and supported by recent appointments in this area, the Vision Group at Royal Holloway is developing the reputation of a focal point of expertise for the functioning of the human visual system. In this context, the department is strategically developing its expertise in various aspects of the control of eye movement. 

Informal enquiries can be made by e-mail to Johannes M. Zanker (j.zanker@rhul.ac.uk ).

Further details and an application form <http://www.rhul.ac.uk/Personnel/application.pdf>  are available below or from the Personnel Department, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX; tel: 01784 414241; Fax: 01784 473527. Email: recruitment@rhul.ac.uk . Please quote the ref AC/4703

 

--------------------------------

johannes m. zanker

department of psychology, royal holloway university of london

egham, surrey TW20 0EX, england

phone +44 - 1784 - 44 3521 fax +44 - 1784 - 43 4347

e-mail J.Zanker@rhul.ac.uk

http://www.pc.rhul.ac.uk/staff/J.Zanker/johannes.html

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From stephenp at uow.edu.au  Wed Nov 29 00:35:46 2006
From: stephenp at uow.edu.au (Stephen Palmisano)
Date: Wed Nov 29 03:07:32 2006
Subject: [visionlist] PhD Scholarship in applied visual psychophysics
Message-ID: <27D2D3F9-A45A-4506-99DA-1C50337CD280@uow.edu.au>

PhD Scholarship in applied visual perception (aircraft glideslope  
control)



A 3-year PhD scholarship in the field of applied visual psychophysics  
is available under the supervision of Dr Stephen Palmisano at the  
School of Psychology, University of Wollongong, Australia (60 mins  
south of Sydney by car/train).  The successful applicant will be  
working on a 2007-2009 Australian Research Council funded project  
examining the visual perception and control of aircraft glideslope  
control (please see the abstract below).  Applicants must have  
experience in visual psychophysics, experimental psychology, and  
statistics. In addition, applicants should also be interested in and  
if possible have experience in one or more of the following: (i)  
aviation; (ii) eye-movements; or (iii) graphics programming (e.g.  
OpenGL).



Conditions of Employment

The stipend for the scholarship is $25,118 (AUD) per annum - non  
taxable.  Open to both Australian citizens and applicants from other  
countries.


Formal applications should include a statement of research experience  
and interests, as well as a detailed CV (including degrees, awards,  
publications and 2 or more references).  Please send applications  
before March 1st 2007, to:



Dr Stephen Palmisano

School of Psychology

University of Wollongong

Wollongong, NSW, Australia

2522

PH:   (612) 4221 3640

FAX: (612) 4221 4163

Email: stephenp@uow.edu.au

Homepage: http://uow.edu.au/health/psyc/research/pcl/staff/ 
s_palmisano.html



Project Title: Identification and examination of visual cues for  
aircraft glideslope control (DP0772398)
While aviation safety has improved dramatically over the last 50  
years, accidents are still more common during landing than any other  
stage of flight. This project aims to improve our understanding of  
the way pilots use visual information to land an aircraft. Once our  
findings have been incorporated into existing training programs, this  
much-needed information should result in: (i) reduced pilot training  
time and cost; (ii) increased trainee pilot safety and confidence;  
and (iii) reduced aircraft maintenance costs. A PhD student, who will  
be trained in visual perception and aviation, should contribute  
significantly to future aviation research in this country.

Contact: Dr Stephen Palmisano T. 02 4221 3640 E. stephenp@uow.edu.au
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From Zhang_Kai-Ming at allergan.com  Tue Nov 28 22:51:10 2006
From: Zhang_Kai-Ming at allergan.com (Zhang_Kai-Ming)
Date: Wed Nov 29 03:07:57 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Does anyone use PhNR in clinical diagnosis?
Message-ID: <667B5E7743346A44BF1A5519E27241E6B4CB72@irmail121.irvine.allergan.com>

Hi All,

 

I want know if there are anyone actually use PhNR responses in the
clinical diagnosis for glaucoma. Is it a useful in early diagnosis? How
does it correlated with other methods?

 

Kai Ming Zhang

Department of Biological Sciences 

Allergan Inc.

2525 Dupont

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To: Vision Science List
Subject: [visionlist] Glare reduction and LCS

 

Hello

 

I wanted to find out, whether someone knows any work being done about
neural compensation for glare and reduced contrast sensitivity over
time. Does the sensitivity of the visual system and pathway with time
refine for visual impairment, i.e. due to multifractive IOL's, or does
it remain the same over months and years?

 

Thanks for your help

 

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From paulgr at sussex.ac.uk  Wed Nov 29 16:31:01 2006
From: paulgr at sussex.ac.uk (Paul Graham)
Date: Wed Nov 29 19:43:14 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Post-doctoral position studying visually guided
	navigation in insects
Message-ID: <9b7802a90611290831u43ecd612obda442c5e2d22ed7@mail.gmail.com>

Please forward to anyone who may be interested

------------------------------------
Post-doctoral position available in the School of Life Sciences, University
of Sussex from January 2007 to join a group investigating visual landmark
navigation in wood ants using landmark perturbation techniques. The post
funded by the BBSRC is for 3 years with a starting salary of approx ?30,000.
We are looking for applicants with good computational skills and experience
in behavioural experiments. Informal inquiries and applications (including
CV and email addresses of 3 referees) to Tom Collett (
t.s.collett@sussex.ac.uk).
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From R.vanlier at nici.kun.nl  Thu Nov 30 12:55:39 2006
From: R.vanlier at nici.kun.nl (Rob van Lier)
Date: Thu Nov 30 13:02:18 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Mini-symposium in honor of Charles de Weert
Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.0.20061130091701.0258e860@pop.socsci.ru.nl>


Announcement:

There will be a mini-symposium entitled " COLOR & FORM ", in honor of 
Charles de Weert (who is about to retire) on April 20, 2007 - Nijmegen, the 
Netherlands.

Speakers: Johan Wagemans, Lothar Spillmann, Walter Gerbino, Nicholas Wade.

--> Participation is FREE, after registration.

See for details and 
registration: 
<http://www.nici.kun.nl/~robvl/Color-and-form-symposium.html>http://www.nici.ru.nl/~robvl/Color-and-form-symposium.html

The mini-symposium is organized by the Nijmegen Institute for Cognition and 
Information (NICI), Radboud University Nijmegen.


Dr. Rob van Lier
Nijmegen Institute for
Cognition and Information (NICI)
Radboud University Nijmegen
PO Box 9104
6500 HE Nijmegen
The Netherlands

Tel: ++31 24 3615698
E-mail: R.vanlier@nici.ru.nl
http://www.nici.ru.nl/~robvl/

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From a.e.welchman at bham.ac.uk  Mon Dec  4 10:58:57 2006
From: a.e.welchman at bham.ac.uk (Andrew Welchman)
Date: Mon Dec  4 14:06:26 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Post-doctoral fellowship, University of Birmingham, UK
Message-ID: <001301c71793$329a8fd0$4616bc93@adf.bham.ac.uk>

UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM, UK

SCHOOL OF PSYCHOLOGY

Research Fellow in the Multimodal Control of Action

A Research Fellow position is available in the Behavioural Brain Sciences
centre, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham. The work focuses on
the brain?s use of multimodal sensory signals for the rhythmic control of
action. The project involves working with labs working on vision
(www.vision.bham.ac.uk) and touch (www.symon.bham.ac.uk) and will employ
psychophysical and computational methods combined with measurements of human
movement. The work focuses on studies of short-term plasticity in the use of
sensory information as well as longer-term changes in processing dynamics
due to ageing. The research will be conducted in specialised labs with
state-of-the-art equipment for measuring movement dynamics and active touch
involving the use of virtual-reality force feedback devices. There is
potential to extend the work using brain imaging methods (MRI, EEG). 

The School of Psychology at the University of Birmingham is a top-class, 5*
department that has strong groups in Behavioural Neuroscience, Cognitive
Neuroscience and Vision Science, and a state-of-the-art Imaging Centre (3T
scanner), access to a large group of screened neuropsychological patients,
EEG/ERP systems, TMS delivery systems, robot systems for haptic research,
and several systems for eye movement tracking and kinematic analysis.

Candidates should hold a Ph.D. in Neuroscience, Cognitive Psychology,
Computer Science, Engineering, Physics or a related field. Programming
skills (e.g. Matlab, C) and experience with behavioural, movement recording
and signal processing methods are desirable.

Informal enquiries cab be addressed to Dr Andrew Welchman
(eyesee@contacts.bham.ac.uk) or Prof Alan Wing (a.m.wing@bham.ac.uk).

Starting salary ?24,161, in the range of ?24,161 to ?31,525 a year
(potential progression on performance once in post to ?33,465 a year). The
position is available for a period of 36 months (subject to satisfactory
progress).

Closing date: 5th January 2007				
Reference: H39849


From t.s.meese at aston.ac.uk  Mon Dec  4 13:21:54 2006
From: t.s.meese at aston.ac.uk (Tim Meese)
Date: Mon Dec  4 14:06:53 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Provisional Programme: AVA Xmas Meeting UK
Message-ID: <a06110419c199d0abf887@[134.151.100.63]>

Dear all - Apologies for multiple postings.

Here is the provisional programme for this year's AVA Christmas Meeting.

Its not too late to register, which you can do by 
sending an e-mail to either: 
t.s.meese@aston.ac.uk, or wallissa@aston.ac.uk.

We look forward to seeing you on the 18th Dec
(Please note we cannot accept payment by credit card on the day)

For further information go to: http://www.theava.net/

The Eleventh AVA Christmas Meeting
18th Dec 2006

Aston University
Birmingham
UK

6th Floor, Main Building
PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME

10.00
Registration & Morning Coffee (Caf? Lago)

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10.50 (Warwick Lecture Theatre)
Welcome and Business Meeting
Tim Meese

11.00
SESSION 1 (Chair: Stephen Anderson)

SR Research Ltd Guest Lecture
Frans A. J. Verstraten (University of Utrecht)
Is there a need to redefine the motion aftereffect

11.30
Ben T. Vincent, Tom Troscianko & Iain D. Gilchrist
Evaluating the weighted salience account of eye movements

11.45
Szonya Durant & Johannes M. Zanker
Determining effective motion-defined contours for the human visual system

12.00
Ian M. Thornton & J. D. I Storey
Navon in motion: Hierarchical processing of dynamic stimuli

12.15
Steve C. Dakin, Peter J. Bex, John Cass & Roger J. Watt
No role for attention in orientation crowding

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12.30 (Caf? Lago)
Lunch & Posters

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1.30 (Warwick Lecture Theatre)
SESSION 2 (Chair: Mark Georgeson)

CRS Guest Lecture
David J. Tolhurst (University of Cambridge)
Trying to model contrast discrimination dippers

2.00
Tim S. Meese
Human vision sums luminance contrast over area at detection threshold and above

2.15
William McIlhagga
Sampling, area summation, and contrast discrimination

2.30
Velitchko Manahilov, Gael Gordon, Julie Calvert & William A. Simpson
Subtractive suppression underlies contrast processing of visual stimuli

2.45
John B. Troy & J. Chen
Retinal ganglion cell properties at low scotopic light levels

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3.00 (Caf? Lago)
Afternoon tea and Posters

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3.30 (Warwick Lecture Theatre)
SESSION 3 (Chair: Johannes Zanker)

TrackSys Guest Lecture
Christopher W. Tyler (Smith-Kettlewell, San Fancisco)
A post-Bayesian analysis of perceptual estimation

4.00
Kevin R. Brooks & Richard I. Kemp
Detection of feature displacements in familiar and unfamiliar faces

4.15
Brian J. Rogers
The "uncurved lines" on Helmholtz's celestial sphere

4.30
M. S. Crosier & Lewis D. Griffin
Zipf's Law distribution of local structure in natural images

4.45
Tom Troscianko, Devin Martin & Innes Cuthill
No role for colour in symmetry perception?

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5.00 - late (Caf? Lago)
Wine reception & Posters

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Posters, in alphabetical order (Numbers on poster boards)
Poster board size: 117cm wide x 150cm high

1. Daniel H. Baker, Tim S. Meese, Behzad Mansouri & Robert F. Hess.
Monoptic, dichoptic & binocular masking in strabismic amblyopia

2. David Connah, Graham Finlayson & Marina Bloj
Coding contrast as brightness to convert colour images to greyscale

3. N. Daury & S. Bredart
Visual memory for people's body shape

4. Mark A. Georgeson, Tim A. Yates & Andrew J. Schofield
Depth propagation and surface construction in 3-D vision

5. Patrick R. Green, O. Drbohlav & M. Chantler
Perceived roughness of textured surfaces

6. John Harris, Lucy Campbell, Laura Dale & Deborah Parker
'Reading the game': judgements of pass trajectory 
in football are made in both egocentric and 
allocentric frames of reference

7. Claire V. Hutchinson, Curtis L. Baker & Tim Ledgeway
Response to combined first-order and second-order 
motion in visual cortex neurons

8. Jasna Martinovic, Marco Bertamini, Sophie Wuerger & Christopher Nolan
Integration of ordinal and metric cues in depth 
processing as a function of contour saliency

9. Joni. Karanaka, Simon K. Rushton & Tom C. A. Freeman
Effects of feedback on the timing of interceptive actions

10. J. S. Kennedy, M. J. Buehner & S. K. Rushton
Sensory-motor adaptation to temporal misalignment

11. Keith Langley, Stephen. J. Anderson & Peter J. Bex
The generalized Bayesian homunculus: An 
illustration using a model of direct and indirect 
tile after-effects.

12. S. J. Leat, M,. Mei & E. Jernigan
Can images be categorised by spatial frequency content?

13. Tim Ledgeway & Claire V. Hutchinson
Asymmetric spatial frequency tuning in the human visual motion system

14. Jennifer McBride, Ute Leonards & Iain D. Gilchrist
Flexible target representations underlie priming in visual search

15. Gerrit W. Maus & Romi Nijhawan
Sudden disappearance of moving objects overrides motion extrapolation

16. Andrew I Meso & Johannes M. Zanker
Perceived motion transparency from integrating of 
motion and non-motion transparency cues

17. Gillian Porter, Tom Troscianko & Chris Benton
Pupil size, light and cognitive load

18. Alexa I Rupertsberg, Alan Chambers & Marina Bloj
Characterisation of a high dynamic range display

19. Robert J Summers & Tim S. Meese
Estimating the 2AFC psychometric function: 
Effects of lapsing, psychophysical procedure and 
method of curve-fitting

20. Masahiro Suzuki & Kazutake Uehira
Depth perception when virtual objects behind 
opaque real objects are not occluded in mixed 
reality

21. M. To, P. G. Lovell, T. Troscianko & D. J. Tolhurst
Probability summation in complex visual 
discriminations using natural scene stimuli

22. Kazutake Uehira, Marie Shimizu & Masahiro Suzuki
Accommodation depth for overlapping 3-D images 
presented by two stereoscopic displays at 
different depths

23. Q. C. Vuong, I. M. Thornton
The role of high-level motion in natural scene perception

24. Stuart A. Wallis & Mark A. Georgeson
Mach edges: A key role for 3rd derivative filters in spatial vision

25. Debbie Wiggins, J. Margret Woodhouse, Tom. H. 
Margrain, Christopher M. Harris & Jonathan T. 
Erichsen
Infantile nystagmus adapts to visual demands

26. Yu Xie & Lewis D. Griffin
A 'portholes' experiment for probing perception 
of small patches of natural images

27. Johannes M. Zanker & Andrew Meso
Assessing motion transparency in space time

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From stefano at ecvp2007.org  Tue Dec  5 09:19:03 2006
From: stefano at ecvp2007.org (Stefano Baldassi)
Date: Tue Dec  5 14:53:47 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Announcement of the first Rank Lecture at ECVP 2007
Message-ID: <33D967A9-9B14-4B29-833D-58D9A0F49FA3@ecvp2007.org>

European Conference on Visual Perception

www.ecvp2007.org

Announcement of the first Rank Lecture


The Rank Prize Funds, a British foundation, have agreed to support an  
annual plenary lecture to be held during the European Conference on  
Visual Perception (ECVP).  The lecture is to be called The Rank  
Lecture. Detailed information can be found at http://www.ecvp2007.org/ 
Page.cfm?id=81.

The Scientific Organising Committee for ECVP 2007 are very pleased to  
announce that they have chosen Dr. Anthony Movshon of New York  
University to deliver the first Rank Lecture at the meeting in  
Arezzo, Italy, 27-31 August, 2007.

The Rank Prize Funds is a charity established by the late Lord J.  
Arthur Rank.  It supports scientific activity in the fields of  
Nutrition and of Optoelectronics, including vision.  Details of the  
work of The Rank Prize Funds can be found at http://www.rankprize.org/.

The Rank Lecture is the second named lecture to be associated with  
ECVP.  The opening plenary lecture of ECVP will continue to be the  
?Perception? lecture, founded by the publishers Pion.

Stefano Baldassi
John Mollon

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From denis at limsi.fr  Wed Dec  6 19:34:01 2006
From: denis at limsi.fr (Michel Denis)
Date: Wed Dec  6 20:11:37 2006
Subject: [visionlist] info to circulate
Message-ID: <a06230908c19ccb43ae87@[129.175.157.226]>

Our lab would greatly appreciate if you could 
circulate this information through your mailing 
list.

We are grateful to you for your support.

Michel Denis.

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Research scientist: Invitation for applications from researchers
in the field of "Virtual Reality and Cognition"

LIMSI, a multidisciplinary research unit within 
the French National Center for Scientific 
Research (CNRS) located on the Orsay campus of 
the University of Paris-Sud (France), is 
currently developing research on "Virtual Reality 
and Cognition". The development of an immersive 
Virtual Reality (VR) system, with funding from 
the CNRS and the Ile-de-France Region, is part of 
a broader project in which the cognitive sciences 
will play a major role.

LIMSI has embarked on a virtual and augmented 
reality project that will involve both designing 
multimodal immersive interaction methods and 
using these technologies in various fields of 
application. LIMSI also intends to develop the 
potential applications of VR in setting up 
scientific interactions between engineering and 
the cognitive sciences. This project has two main 
purposes: (a) to ensure that the development of 
the VR interfaces at LIMSI benefits from 
expertise in cognitive ergonomics; (b) to ensure 
that in the specific areas studied at LIMSI, VR 
can be used to investigate cognitive functions in 
people interacting with these systems.

LIMSI already includes specialists in cognitive 
psychology, and this will facilitate this further 
line of development. The objective of LIMSI is to 
invest new types of competence in this project so 
that it can successfully carry out the mission 
with which it has been entrusted by the CNRS. The 
suitable candidate for this development project 
will be a specialist in psychology and/or 
cognitive ergonomics, or possibly the cognitive 
neurosciences, and who intends to submit an 
application during the next round of CNRS 
recruitments (December 2006/January 2007). 
Applications will be welcome from scientists 
embarking on a career in research, as well as 
experienced researchers.

LIMSI will welcome preliminary informal enquiries 
from potential candidates. If you are interested 
please contact LIMSI as soon as possible.

Enquiries and preliminary applications should be 
addressed to one of the following:
- Patrick Le Qu?r?, Director of LIMSI (plq@limsi.fr). Tel.: +33 1 69 85 80 85.
- Philippe Tarroux, Deputy Director 
(tarroux@limsi.fr). Tel.: +33 1 69 85 80 86.
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Announcing the XXIX International Congress of Psychology!
Berlin, Germany, 20-25 July 2008
www.icp2008.org
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Michel Denis
"R?alit? Virtuelle et Cognition"
LIMSI-CNRS
Universit? de Paris-Sud
BP 133
91403 Orsay Cedex
France

T?l.: +33 (1) 69 85 80 08
Fax: +33 (1) 69 85 80 88
E-mail: denis@limsi.fr

Home page:
http://www.limsi.fr/Individu/denis/index.html
CNRS:
http://www.cnrs.fr/comitenational/commiss/cid45.htm
"Psychological Research":
http://www.springeronline.com/east/journal/00426
IUPsyS:
http://www.iupsys.org
ICSU:
http://www.icsu.org
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From denis at limsi.fr  Wed Dec  6 21:40:33 2006
From: denis at limsi.fr (Michel Denis)
Date: Wed Dec  6 21:44:12 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Virtual Reality and Cognition
Message-ID: <a06230909c19ce7fee8dd@[129.175.157.226]>

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Research scientist: Invitation for applications from researchers
in the field of "Virtual Reality and Cognition"

LIMSI, a multidisciplinary research unit within 
the French National Center for Scientific 
Research (CNRS) located on the Orsay campus of 
the University of Paris-Sud (France), is 
currently developing research on "Virtual Reality 
and Cognition". The development of an immersive 
Virtual Reality (VR) system, with funding from 
the CNRS and the Ile-de-France Region, is part of 
a broader project in which the cognitive sciences 
will play a major role.

LIMSI has embarked on a virtual and augmented 
reality project that will involve both designing 
multimodal immersive interaction methods and 
using these technologies in various fields of 
application. LIMSI also intends to develop the 
potential applications of VR in setting up 
scientific interactions between engineering and 
the cognitive sciences. This project has two main 
purposes: (a) to ensure that the development of 
the VR interfaces at LIMSI benefits from 
expertise in cognitive ergonomics; (b) to ensure 
that in the specific areas studied at LIMSI, VR 
can be used to investigate cognitive functions in 
people interacting with these systems.

LIMSI already includes specialists in cognitive 
psychology, and this will facilitate this further 
line of development. The objective of LIMSI is to 
invest new types of competence in this project so 
that it can successfully carry out the mission 
with which it has been entrusted by the CNRS. The 
suitable candidate for this development project 
will be a specialist in psychology and/or 
cognitive ergonomics, or possibly the cognitive 
neurosciences, and who intends to submit an 
application during the next round of CNRS 
recruitments (December 2006/January 2007). 
Applications will be welcome from scientists 
embarking on a career in research, as well as 
experienced researchers.

LIMSI will welcome preliminary informal enquiries 
from potential candidates. If you are interested 
please contact LIMSI as soon as possible.

Enquiries and preliminary applications should be 
addressed to one of the following:
- Patrick Le Qu?r?, Director of LIMSI (plq@limsi.fr). Tel.: +33 1 69 85 80 85.
- Philippe Tarroux, Deputy Director 
(tarroux@limsi.fr). Tel.: +33 1 69 85 80 86.
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From schirija at wfu.edu  Wed Dec  6 21:28:00 2006
From: schirija at wfu.edu (Jim Schirillo)
Date: Wed Dec  6 21:44:23 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Wake Forest University  Master's Degree Program
Message-ID: <457735E0.6050008@wfu.edu>

Applications are currently being accepted for Wake Forest University 
Master's Degree Program in Psychology. 

Wake Forest's two-year research oriented program is top-ranked in the 
country, and is ideal for promising students who want to explore their 
suitability for an experimental Ph.D. program in Psychology or Neuroscience.

Candidate would work with Dr. Jim Schirillo in either the psychology 
department doing visual psychophysics (e.g., lightness and brightness 
perception in two- and three-dimensional scenes, multisensory 
integration, eye movements and aesthetics, and gestalt grouping 
phenomenon).  It is possible to do research in conjunction with the 
Neuroscience Program at the Wake Forest School of Medicine. 

Please send inquiries for an application to:

Dr. Jim Schirillo
Wake Forest University
Department of Psychology
P.O. Box 7778 Reynolda Station
Winston-Salem, NC  27109 

http://www.wfu.edu/psychology/faculty/schirillo.html

-- 
Jim Schirillo
Associate Professor

Dept. of Psychology
Wake Forest University
Winston-Salem, NC 27109

schirija@wfu.edu
336.758.4233

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From bijoynair3 at gmail.com  Thu Dec  7 06:59:17 2006
From: bijoynair3 at gmail.com (bijoy nair)
Date: Thu Dec  7 15:39:04 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Visual field stimuli shape
Message-ID: <d7c790fb0612062259l6610e4dbo16025782b0a7f1d8@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

My question is whether the stimuli shape for Visual field test has to
be round only or other shapes like square,hexagon could be used.


Regards

Bijoy k nair
From jutta.kretzberg at uni-oldenburg.de  Thu Dec  7 09:36:53 2006
From: jutta.kretzberg at uni-oldenburg.de (Jutta Kretzberg)
Date: Thu Dec  7 15:39:16 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Ph.D. position: electrophysiology in the bird retina
Message-ID: <4577E0B5.3050000@uni-oldenburg.de>

Sent on behalf of Prof. Henrik Mouritsen:

Ph.D. position: Animal navigation: electrophysiology in the bird retina
University of Oldenburg, Germany


We offer 1 doctoral student position (BAT IIa/2) in electrophysiology. 
The position is part of the newly granted "Research unit: Dynamics and 
stability in retinal processing?. The aim is to study retinal processing 
of visual and magnetic input in birds. Night-migratory birds have a part 
of their brain that is highly active processing visual input at night. 
We suspect that this specialized night vision processing could be 
involved in magnetic compass detection and/or improved night-vision for 
night-time flying. In this project, we are going to test these two 
hypotheses.

The project will primarily involve electrophysiological recordings from 
bird retinae using multi-electrode arrays. This project is very 
intimately connected with other projects in my group and two other 
projects in the research unit. One focuses on visual processing in the 
retina of mice and turtles using the same standardized stimuli. The 
other project will develop algorithms and methods for effectively 
analysing electrophysiological data and to test which neuronal coding 
principles best explains the electrophysiological responses. These 
collaborations will also give us new, exciting possibilities, as a 
group, to investigate whether there are fundamental coding principles 
for coding of visual information across species.

We are looking for an excellent student being interested in the area of 
vertebrate vision and/or bird navigation mechanisms, and who has 
experience or would be willing to learn electrophysiological techniques. 
Reasonable English language skills are required. A masters or diploma 
level education in natural sciences is mandatory. Please send your 
application including CV, university certificates, and names and contact 
details for at least three references asap. to PD Dr. Henrik Mouritsen, 
IBU, Carl von Ossietzky Universit?t Oldenburg, D-26111 Oldenburg or to 
email address: henrik.mouritsen@uni-oldenburg.de 
<mailto:henrik.mouritsen@uni-oldenburg.de>

For more information on the research unit and the animal navigation 
group please see
http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/fg-retina/en/
http://www.member.uni-oldenburg.de/henrik.mouritsen/

Selected recent publications from the animal navigation lab:

Mouritsen, H. & Frost, B.J. (2002) Virtual migration in tethered flying 
monarch butterflies reveals orientation mechanisms. PNAS 99, 10162-10166.

Cochran, B., Mouritsen, H. & Wikelski, M. (2004) Free-flying migrating 
songbirds recalibrate their magnetic compass daily from sunset cues. 
Science 304, 405-408.

Mouritsen, H., Feenders, G., Liedvogel, M. & Kropp, W. (2004) Migratory 
birds use head scans to detect the direction of the Earth's magnetic 
field. Current Biology 14, 1946-1949.

Mouritsen, H., Janssen-Bienhold,^ U., Stalleicken, J., Feenders, G., 
Liedvogel, M., Dirks, P. & Weiler, R. (2004) Cryptochromes and activity 
markers co-localize in bird retina during magnetic orientation. PNAS 
101, 14294-14299.

[See also Science 306, 432-434 and Nature Review Neuroscience 5, 827]

Mouritsen, H., Feenders, G., Liedvogel, M., Wada, K. & Jarvis, E. D. 
(2005) A Night Vision Brain Area in Migratory Songbirds. PNAS 102, 
8339-8344.

Mouritsen, H. & Ritz, T. (2005) Magnetoreception and it use in bird 
navigation. Current Opinion in Neurobiology 15, 406-414.



From learnforever at gmail.com  Thu Dec  7 22:50:09 2006
From: learnforever at gmail.com (Feng Li)
Date: Fri Dec  8 06:36:10 2006
Subject: [visionlist] radius of the cornea
Message-ID: <9c518cd40612071450h38cd1688jabcef79d42ba34d2@mail.gmail.com>

Hello,

I am a graduate student working on an eye tracking study. I am curious whether
the radius of the human cornea has a difference between the sagittal and
tangential direction for an average adult. Could someone point to me any
paper if you happen to have any?

Feng Li

Ph.D. Candidate
Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science
54 Lomb Memorial Drive, Bldg 76
Rochester, NY 14623
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From s.a.hojjatoleslami at kent.ac.uk  Fri Dec  8 10:34:41 2006
From: s.a.hojjatoleslami at kent.ac.uk (ali Hojjat)
Date: Fri Dec  8 16:01:27 2006
Subject: [visionlist] PhD position in Medical Image Processing
In-Reply-To: <9c518cd40612071450h38cd1688jabcef79d42ba34d2@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <01a901c71ab4$782a44e0$551f0c81@ad.kent.ac.uk>

There is a Medical Research Council (MRC) funded PhD studentship available
in the area of medical image computing applications in dementia research.
The project, a collaboration between KIMHS and the Institute of Mathematics,
Statistics and Actuarial Sciences will focus on the development of a new
object-based approach for co-registration of pathology images with MRI of
the same patient. The work will involve development and evaluation of
software for segmentation and co-registration, and regular liaison with
collaborating imaging and pathology departments. 

Application Criteria 

Candidates should hold an honours degree or MSc in computer science,
engineering, physics, statistics, mathematics, or related topics and have
experience of programming. Familiarity with MATLAB, C/C++, Java and/or
experiences with image processing and/or machine learning techniques would
be advantageous. 

Applying for the Studentship 

To apply for the studentship, candidates should send a detailed CV and the
names and addresses of two academic references to: 

Professor Alan Colchester
Kent Institute of Medicine and Health Sciences
Room R&D 103
Research and Development Centre
University of Kent
Canterbury
Kent CT2 7PD, UK
Email: a.colchester@kent.ac.uk
<http://naturejobs.nature.com/texis/apply?id=456c5f414a0460&lookid=nature&to
=a.colchester@kent.ac.uk>  

Full funding is available for qualified UK students and EU students who have
been resident in the UK for three years immediately prior to the start of
the programme. This covers tuition fees and maintenance payments (standard
stipend is currently ?12,300 pa). 

The closing date for receipt of applications is Monday 15th January 2006. 

For further information, please contact: 

Dr Ali Hojjat
Kent Institute of Medicine and Health Sciences
University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, CT2 7PD
United Kingdom,
Email: S.A.Hojjatoleslami@kent.ac.uk
<mailto:S.A.Hojjatoleslami@kent.ac.uk?subject=From%20Naturejobs&Body=From%20
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From toddh at search.bwh.harvard.edu  Fri Dec  8 18:50:07 2006
From: toddh at search.bwh.harvard.edu (Todd S. Horowitz)
Date: Fri Dec  8 18:55:36 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Visual attention postdoctoral opportunity in Boston
Message-ID: <p0624080ec19f6436be49@[132.183.8.161]>

Visual attention postdoctoral opportunity in Boston

The Visual Attention Laboratory at Brigham & Women's Hospital is 
planning to hire one or more post-doctoral fellows starting 
summer/fall 2007, pending funding approval. The laboratory is located 
in Cambridge, MA, near the MIT campus. We are affiliated with the 
Harvard Medical School Department of Ophthalmology.

Our research interests are lie in the study of visual attention, 
including visual search and multiple object tracking. We combine 
basic research using behavioral methods with applications to problems 
in areas such as airport security and medical screening. The rich 
concentration of researchers in the Cambridge/Boston area means that 
there are opportunities for collaboration with a wide variety of 
other laboratories using many methodologies at Harvard, MIT, Boston 
University, and so forth.

Interested candidates should send a CV and a list of two or three 
qualified referees. In addition, we expect that the successful 
candidate will also apply for an individual post-doctoral fellowship. 
Therefore, a useful cover letter would not only explain why you want 
to come work in our lab but would also outline a potential project 
you would like to carry out with us, which could serve as the basis 
for a post-doctoral fellowship application

Further information about the laboratory and the Principal 
Investigators is available on our website:
http://search.bwh.harvard.edu/.

A list of our recent publications can be found at 
http://search.bwh.harvard.edu/new/publications.html.

Inquiries should be sent to one or both of the PIs:
Todd Horowitz (toddh@search.bwh.harvard.edu)
Jeremy Wolfe (wolfe@search.bwh.harvard.edu).


-- 
Todd S. Horowitz, PhD
Instructor in Ophthalmology
Harvard Medical School
Visual Attention Lab
64 Sidney Street, Suite 170
Cambridge, MA 02139
phone:	(617) 768-8813
fax:	(617) 768-8816, (617)
http://search.bwh.harvard.edu/
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From yuhong at wjh.harvard.edu  Fri Dec  8 21:46:27 2006
From: yuhong at wjh.harvard.edu (Yuhong Jiang)
Date: Fri Dec  8 22:11:04 2006
Subject: [visionlist] postdoc position in JiangLab at the University of
	Minnesota
Message-ID: <39010c9a0612081346x3e745694w1415ca5cea2f4adb@mail.gmail.com>

Postdoctoral position in Jiang Lab at the University of Minnesota

Applications are invited for a postdoc position in Dr. Yuhong Jiang's lab at
the Department of Psychology, the University of Minnesota. The position is
funded by an NIH grant on visual cognition. Research involves
visual attention, working memory, and learning in humans using psychophysics
and fMRI. Strong background in cognitive psychology and/or cognitive
neuroscience is required. Candidates must have completed PhD at the time of
the appointment. Salary commensurate with experience. The position starts
from July 2007, initially
for 1 year, with the possibility of renewal for another year. For more
information about Dr. Jiang's lab, visit
http://wjh.harvard.edu/~jianglab. Interested applicants should email Dr.
Jiang with the following materials: (1) a resume, (2) a one-page summary of
previous research experience, (3) a one-page description of current/future
research interest, and (4) arrange two letters of recommendation to Yuhong
Jiang via email (yuhong@wjh.harvard.edu).

-- Yuhong Jiang
----------------------------------------------------------
Yuhong Jiang, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
Harvard University
yuhong@wjh.harvard.edu
617-496-4486 (W)
http://wjh.harvard.edu/~jianglab
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From oliensis at cs.stevens.edu  Sat Dec  9 00:01:15 2006
From: oliensis at cs.stevens.edu (John Oliensis)
Date: Sat Dec  9 17:04:43 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Faculty Position in Computer Vision
Message-ID: <20061209000115.ECECCED9CF@murky.cs.stevens.edu>


We may have two positions, in which case one will certainly be vision
related.

John Oliensis

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The Computer Science Department at Stevens Institute of Technology
invites applications for faculty positions in the areas of Secure
Systems, Machine Learning and Vision-based Medical Imaging, to
complement and reinforce its existing research activities in
Cybersecurity and Computer Graphics / Vision /
Visualization. Outstanding applicants in other areas may also be
considered. Hiring is primarily at the assistant professor level,
although outstanding candidates at other levels may be
considered. Applicants are expected to have a Ph.D. in Computer
Science, or in a closely related field, by August 27, 2007.

Stevens Institute of Technology is a private university, located in
the city of Hoboken, New Jersey. The 55-acre campus is across the
Hudson river from midtown Manhattan, and is easily reachable from NYC
via public transportation. Hoboken, once the site of filming for On
The Waterfront, has now become the residence of choice for many
professionals working in NYC. Faculty live in Hoboken itself, in NYC,
and in bucolic Rockwellesque communities in Northern New Jersey that
are on commuter train lines to Hoboken and NYC. Stevens' location
offers excellent opportunites for collaborations with other
universities and research laboratories in the greater NYC area, as
well as easy train connections to Boston, Philadelphia and Washington
DC. Over 40% of the tenured or tenure-track faculty of the Computer
Science department are female. More information about the department
is available at its web site: http://www.cs.stevens.edu.

Applications should include a curriculum vitae, teaching and research
statements, and contact information for three
references. Representative publications should be available on the
Web. Applications should be submitted via the web site:

    http://www.cs.stevens.edu/Search/ 

Candidates should ask their references to send letters directly to the
search committee. Further information is provided at the web
site. Questions about the positions should also be addressed to the
web site. Text or PDF are strongly preferred for all application
materials and reference letters.

Review of applications will begin January 15, 2007 and continue until
the positions are filled. Stevens is an Affirmative Action/Equal
Opportunity employer.
From stefano at ecvp2007.org  Mon Dec 11 15:01:36 2006
From: stefano at ecvp2007.org (Stefano Baldassi)
Date: Mon Dec 11 15:05:14 2006
Subject: [visionlist] ECVP 2007 Arezzo - 1st Call for Papers
Message-ID: <01E146D1-661E-4F52-8DB7-24F2A0ED70B6@ecvp2007.org>

European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP)

27-31 August 2007, Arezzo, Tuscany, Italy

www.ecvp2007.org

1st Call for Papers



The 30th European Conference on Visual Perception, ECVP 2007, will  
take place from Monday August 27th through to Friday August 31st 2007  
in Arezzo, Tuscany, Italy.

ECVP welcomes contributions on all topics of visual and perceptual  
sciences, including:



?      Visual Psychophysics

?      Visual Cognition

?      Visual Physiology & Anatomy

?      Computational Vision

?      Artificial Vision

?      Brain Imaging

?      Eye movements

?      Multisensory integration

Abstract (max length 170 words) will be published in a special issue  
of Perception. In order to submit an abstract, participants should  
complete the Conference Registration from the website and proceed to  
payment, via a secure Credit Card system (accepting Visa and  
Mastercard) provided and guaranteed by the official bank of the  
conference.

The deadline for submitting an abstract is March 31st, 2007. No  
further extension will be granted.

Free communications will be either 15 minute oral presentations in  
parallel sessions, or posters. Several symposia with invited speakers  
have also been organized, as well as various satellite events before,  
during and possibly after the core conference.

Travel fellowships will be granted with priority to research groups  
from Africa, South America and some parts of Asia.

The conference will begin in the afternoon of August 27th with the  
Perception lecture, the traditional plenary lecture. This year's  
Perception lecture will be delivered by Christopher Tyler (Smith- 
Kettlewell, San Francisco, USA) in St. Francis's church, home of the  
famous Renaissance frescoes ?The Legend of the True Cross? by Piero  
della Francesca. An opening Ceremony and Banquet will follow in the  
wonderful Piazza Grande, the core of the historic old town.

The remainder of the conference will be held at the Centro Affari e  
Convegni of Arezzo. On Wednesday August 29th, a series of scientific  
and social events will celebrate the 30th anniversary of the ECVP,  
including the 1st Rank Lecture to be held by Anthony Movshon (New  
York University, New York, USA). On that evening a traditional,  
medieval dinner will be organized in one of the historic squares of  
the city. Reservations for the dinner are available online.

The area features many tourist attractions, from art to nature, from  
fine wines and traditional Tuscan tourism, to fashion and gold  
shopping outlets (Arezzo is one of the world capitals for gold  
jewelry and for fashion brands). Half- and full-day trips, kitchen  
classes and wine tastings will be available from the desk of our  
official tour operator, Colori Toscani.

We hope you will join us in an ECVP edition featuring a great mixture  
of science, art, nature, tradition, wine and Tuscan food!!!

For additional information, visit our website (www.ecvp2007.org) or  
email info@ecvp2007.org.

Thanks for your attention,

                                     ci vediamo ad Arezzo!


Stefano Baldassi, PhD
Executive Chair of ECVP 2007 Arezzo

c/o University of Florence, Department of Psychology
Via di San Niccol?, 93
50125 Florence, Italy

www.ecvp2007.org






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From persci at rci.rutgers.edu  Mon Dec 11 20:08:30 2006
From: persci at rci.rutgers.edu (persci@rci.rutgers.edu)
Date: Mon Dec 11 20:21:45 2006
Subject: [visionlist] NSF-IGERT Traineeships at Rutgers in Perceptual Science
Message-ID: <1479.128.6.58.13.1165867710.squirrel@webmail.rci.rutgers.edu>

Rutgers University announces a new NSF funded IGERT doctoral training
program in Interdisciplinary Perceptual Science. This program integrates
graduate training and research in computer modeling and human perception.
The program includes a Core Curriculum in Perceptual Science that offers
fundamental and bootstrapping course work so that it is accessible to
students from a variety of undergraduate backgrounds. Key research
areas include: motion; multisensory integration; perception of shape and
objects; eye movements; attention; search; visual communication;
computational depiction; human and machine learning; human-computer
interaction.

We offer 6 new IGERT traineeships/year.  Students apply for admission to
one of the participating academic departments: Psychology (New Brunswick
or Newark), Computer Science, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and
Computing Engineering or Anthropology, and should indicate their interest
in the Perceptual Science program in their personal statement. IGERT
traineeships are limited to students who are either U.S. citizens or
permanent residents.  For non-permanent residents, Rutgers University
offers support in the form of university fellowships, graduate
assistantships or teaching assistantships to qualified students.  All
aspects of the program are open to interested students, regardless of
source of support.
Rutgers University and the NSF-IGERT program are committed to the goal of
broadening participation of under-represented groups in the sciences and
in academics.
For further details and contact information see:
http://perceptualscience.rutgers.edu

From abarrett at kmrrec.org  Tue Dec 12 19:13:24 2006
From: abarrett at kmrrec.org (Anna Barrett)
Date: Tue Dec 12 19:49:07 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Postdoctoral fellowship position for 2007
Message-ID: <457EB908.9359.00F5.0@kmrrec.org>

PhD's seeking a 2007 postdoctoral research position are encouraged to
apply to an unexpected opening to work with Anna M. Barrett, MD and John
DeLuca, PhD on Outcomes Research in cognitive
neuroscience/neuropsychology. Past fellows have worked on fMRI of
neuropsychological function, movement analysis, and all kinds of
traditional cognitive neuropsychology. The fellowship is full-time, for
one year, with extension to a second year highly encouraged. The Stroke
Rehabilitation Research Laboratory at KMRREC (www.kmrrec.org) and the
Neuroscience and Neuropsychology Laboratory work on questions relevant
to the rehabilitation of post-stroke visual spatial dysfunction,
including scientific treatment of the spatial neglect syndrome,
cognitive rehabilitation of frontal and executive disorders, and
functional correlates of neuropsychological impairment. 
 
Please contact Dr. Anna M. Barrett at abarrett@kmrrec.org with a
curriculum vitae, and the names of three references, if interested in
applying. 
 
Anna
From l.diazsantana at gmail.com  Thu Dec 14 14:53:47 2006
From: l.diazsantana at gmail.com (Luis Diaz-Santana)
Date: Thu Dec 14 15:39:50 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Special Issue, Physiological Optics,
	Journal of Modern Optics
Message-ID: <A886993F-21F1-4B9F-9029-0086C25FF7AC@gmail.com>


Dear Colleague,

Due to general acclaim and to the busy agendas we all have in the run- 
up for Christmas, it has been decided to extend the deadline for  
submission for the Special Issue in Physiological Optics in the  
Journal of Modern Optics.

We will be accepting submissions until the 15th of January, 2007.

We take this oportunity to wish you all happiness in this season and  
prosperity for the New Year.

Best regards
Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan (Vengu) and Luis Diaz-Santana
Co-Editors

PS. Please note that all submissions will be handled by Vasudevan  
Lakshminarayanan (Vengu) <Vengu@uwaterloo.ca>. Please send your  
submission directly to him before the 15th of January.

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

The 3rd European Meeting in Physiological Optics hosted by the  
Applied Vision Research Centre at City University this summer, was a  
great success. The quality of presentations was of very high standard  
and in a large variety of topics in this very active research area.  
In order to consolidate the impact of this meeting in the field, a  
special issue on Physiological Optics is being prepared by the  
Journal of Modern Optics. The issue is open to all members of the  
scientific community, and it is not limited to those who attended the  
meeting.

This special issue will accept papers in all aspects of physiological  
optics, including, but not limited to:

Limits of visual performance
Models of the human eye
Quality of Ocular Optics
Dynamics of Ocular aberrations
Developments in Adaptive Optics for Ophthalmology and Visual Science
Wavefront sensing in the eye
Ophthalmic Instrumentation
Polarising properties of the human eye
Animal models

Submissions are open until the 15th of December. Papers published in  
this issue will be completely free of cost, including a limited  
number of colour prints. When submitting a paper, please ensure the  
words "Special Issue in Physiological Optics" are included next to  
the title. Guidelines for submission to the Journal of Modern Optics  
can be found in this link:

http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/authors/tmopauth.asp

Sincerely yours
Dr Luis Diaz-Santana
Chairman of the 3rd EMPO

Luis Diaz-Santana
Department of Optometry and Visual Science
City University, Northampton Square
London, EC1V 0HB, UK.



Tel: +44 (0)20 7040 8335
Fax: +44(0)20 7040 8355
e-mail: luisd@city.ac.uk



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From shauneywilson at visionsciences.org  Thu Dec 14 17:28:59 2006
From: shauneywilson at visionsciences.org (Shauney Wilson)
Date: Thu Dec 14 18:02:17 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Vision Sciences Society domain address change
Message-ID: <003e01c71fa5$58845180$0d00a8c0@shauneyslaptop>

Due to the circumstances beyond our control, VSS has had to change its
website address (domain name). The new domain is www.visionsciences.org
(without the dash). Please change any favorites or shortcuts to point to the
new URL: www.visionsciences.org <http://www.visionsciences.org/> .

Also affected are all VSS email addresses. VSS email addresses will now end
in @visionsciences.org (without the dash). Please update all VSS email
addresses you have in your address book.

We apologize for this inconvenience. If you have any questions, please
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From ASUTTER at luc.edu  Thu Dec 14 20:03:18 2006
From: ASUTTER at luc.edu (Anne Sutter)
Date: Thu Dec 14 22:36:37 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Position: Director, Parmly Sensory Sciences Institute,
	Loyola University Chicago
Message-ID: <458159A6020000CD0004BBF9@gwiaweb.it.luc.edu>

Director: Parmly Sensory Sciences Institute
 
Loyola University Chicago (LUC) seeks a sensory neuroscientist with interdisciplinary research interests to direct the Parmly Sensory Sciences Institute (PSSI), an expansion of LUC?s Parmly Hearing Institute. Parmly is an internationally renowned research institute that focuses on sensory systems. Parmly has state-of-the-art facilities used in research and in LUC?s interdisciplinary undergraduate neuroscience minor. The applicant selected for this position will have the opportunity to play a leadership role in the development of a new undergraduate major in neuroscience.
 
Applicants at the associate or full professor level are preferred but the position is open to applicants at all ranks. This tenured or tenure-track appointment will be split between an academic department at LUC and the Institute. Candidates should have a strong history of grant-supported research and some administrative experience in directing research or academic programs. Additional information is at www.parmly.luc.edu/Director. 
 
Applicants should submit a letter of interest expressing their vision for developing the PSSI, a current Curriculum Vita (CV), and contact information for three references to: William A. Yost, Chairperson, Neuroscience Search, Parmly Sensory Sciences Institute, Loyola University Chicago, 6525 N. Sheridan Rd., Chicago, IL 60626, wyost@luc.edu. Candidates must also register their application, and submit an electronic CV and cover letter at www.careers.luc.edu. Review of applications will begin February 12, 2007. LUC, Chicago's Jesuit Catholic university, is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer with a strong commitment to diversifying its faculty.    



From fhamker at uni-muenster.de  Mon Dec 18 15:24:13 2006
From: fhamker at uni-muenster.de (Fred Hamker)
Date: Mon Dec 18 15:43:25 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Workshop "From Computational Cognitive Neuroscience to
	Computer Vision" at ICVS2007
Message-ID: <E15A8ED6-E88A-4DE8-A27E-8330A124AEE6@uni-muenster.de>

As part of the 5th International Conference on Computer Vision  
Systems (ICVS2007) we ask for contributions for the workshop

 From Computational Cognitive Neuroscience to Computer Vision - CCNCV  
2007

Web-Page
http://www.icvs2007.org/ccncv.php

Description of the workshop
This workshop aims to foster the transfer of knowledge from the area  
of Computational Cognitive Neuroscience to Computer Vision. The  
seemingly simplicity of visual perception has periodically attracted  
machine vision scientists to build biologically inspired algorithms.  
Although such biologically motivated algorithms have not  
revolutionized Computer Vision, we believe that several reasons exist  
that motivate an ongoing exchange. In the recent years there has been  
much progress in the understanding of brain processes such as visual  
attention, object recognition, learning of complex feature detectors,  
decision making and high level cognitive control, to name a few. This  
work is yet often not suitable for real world applications, but it  
might lead to new developments, and in the long run, to better  
algorithms in machine vision.

General topics
We invite contributions from the area of Computational Cognitive  
Neuroscience that relate to Computer Vision. The contribution should  
emphasize those properties of neural models that potentially lead to  
applications in Computer Vision. We do not expect that these  
applications already exist.

Submissions (format, styles, etc.)
Abstracts of max 1 page (preferably PDF) should be submitted to ? 
fhamker@uni-muenster.de. The work should be novel but it can be  
already published. The primary criterion of acceptance is the  
relevance for the workshop.

Important Dates
Submission of abstracts:

15th January 2007
Notification of acceptance:

2nd February 2007
Camera ready paper:

tbd.
Workshop on CCNCV:

Is planned to take place on Wednesday, March, 21st (a detailed  
schedule will be available here soon).

Workshop organizers, contact and e-mail for paper submission
Fred Hamker
Psychological Institute II
Otto Creutzfeldt Center for Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience
Westf. Wilhelms-Universit?t M?nster
E-mail:?fhamker@uni-muenster.de
Web: http://wwwpsy.uni-muenster.de/Psychologie.inst2/AELappe/personen/ 
hamker.html

Julien Vitay
Psychological Institute II
Westf. Wilhelms-Universit?t M?nster
Web: http://julien.vitay.free.fr/
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From: pannasch at psy2.psych.tu-dresden.de (Sebastian Pannasch)
Date: Mon Dec 18 18:40:25 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Symposium at ECEM 14
Message-ID: <4586E7D4.18072.385C03@pannasch.psychomail.tu-dresden.de>

Dear colleague,

the 14th European Conference on Eye Movements (ECEM) will take place in August 19-23, 
2007 in Potsdam, Germany. 

We are planning to organise a symposium entitled "Eye tracking as a scientific key to the 
future of usability research" within this conference. The symposium is intended to discuss 
and to promote the progress in technological and psychological applications of eye tracking. 
We wish to bring together researchers and practitioners in areas such as eye movements, 
active vision, attention and action, neurocognitive and neuroaffective mechanisms of eye 
movements, oculomotor activity in cognitive and communicative tasks, innovative 
applications of eye-tracking in all domains, such as teleconferencing, adaptive assistance 
systems and other security relevant tasks.

The symposium will be in part sponsored by the EU Network-of-Excellence COGAIN 
(Communication by Gaze Interaction, www.cogain.org) and the EU-NEST- Pathfinder Project 
PERCEPT (Perceptual Consciousness - Explication and Testing, www.nest-percept.eu).

Please inform one of us by e-mail until January 19th, 2007, whether you intend to present 
your research at the symposium, alongside with information about (i) the title of your 
presentation, (ii) the author(s), and (iii) the name and the e-mail address of the speaker of 
the talk.


Our e-mail addresses are:

pannasch@applied-cognition.org (Sebastian Pannasch), 
helmert@applied-cognition.org (Jens R. Helmert) and
velich@applied-cognition.org (Boris M. Velichkovsky).

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From cellard at watarts.uwaterloo.ca  Mon Dec 18 19:18:52 2006
From: cellard at watarts.uwaterloo.ca (Colin Ellard)
Date: Mon Dec 18 19:42:44 2006
Subject: [visionlist] graduate studies at the University of Waterloo
Message-ID: <003c01c722d9$5dba0c30$26176181@NEXUS.UWATERLOO.CA>

The Department of Psychology at the University of Waterloo is currently
building a new laboratory for the study of human behaviour in virtual
environments.  The new lab will include state of the art equipment for head
and eye tracking of observers using high resolution HMDs in large physical
settings.  Multiple settings will allow us to study collaborative behaviour
in virtual spaces.  This new laboratory is the beginning of a larger
initiative whose main purpose is both to advance our understanding of human
perception, cognition, and social behaviour using virtual reality
technologies and to explore the impact of such technologies on modern life.
The first phase of the laboratory will be completed in 2007 and we have
positions (and funding) for several graduate students.  Interested students
can contact Colin Ellard (cellard@watarts.uwaterloo.ca) for further details.
The application deadline for graduate studies in psychology in our
department is January 15, 2007, and application materials may be found at
http://www.psychology.uwaterloo.ca/gradprog/index.html.

 

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From jbednar at inf.ed.ac.uk  Tue Dec 19 14:22:11 2006
From: jbednar at inf.ed.ac.uk (James A. Bednar)
Date: Tue Dec 19 15:09:25 2006
Subject: [visionlist] PhDs in Neuroinformatics/Computational Neuroscience in
	Edinburgh
Message-ID: <200612191422.kBJEMB4o032433@lodestar.inf.ed.ac.uk>

4 YEAR PhD IN NEUROINFORMATICS AND COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE
AT THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH

We invite applications for the EPSRC/MRC funded PhD programme in
Neuroinformatics/Computational Neuroscience at the University of
Edinburgh, UK.

This is a 4 year programme with a strongly interdisciplinary character
and is ideal for students who want to apply their computational and
analytical skills to problems in neuroscience and related fields. The
first year consists of courses in neuroscience and informatics, as
well as projects based in experimental labs. The first year is
followed by a 3 year PhD project. The PhD project is commonly done in
collaboration with one of the many departments and institutes
affiliated with the DTC.

The DTC programme is made up of 3 themes:

1) Computational and Cognitive Neuroscience.
Computational, mathematical, and experimental studies of information
processing in the nervous system.

2) Neuromorphic Engineering and Robotics.
Artificial sensor perception, neuromorphic modelling, spiking
computation, and neurorobotics.

3) Data Analysis and Systems.
Imaging data analysis and machine learning, Bayesian methods, and
building neurally inspired software.

Edinburgh has a strong research community in these areas and leads the
UK in creating a coherent programme in neuroinformatics. Edinburgh has
been voted as 'best place to live in Britain', and has many exciting
cultural and student activities.

Students with a strong background in computer science, mathematics,
physics, or engineering are particularly welcome to apply.  Motivated
students with other backgrounds will also be considered.

About 8 full studentships are available to UK students and a small
number of EU students. The stipend is about 12,000 GB pounds per annum.
Applicants from outside the EU will need to provide their own funding
and evidence thereof.

Full info and application forms can be obtained from:
http://www.anc.ed.ac.uk/neuroinformatics/.

Applications received by March 30th, 2007 will receive priority treatment.
From bhanupvsr at gmail.com  Tue Dec 19 21:23:39 2006
From: bhanupvsr at gmail.com (Bhanu Prasad)
Date: Tue Dec 19 21:28:25 2006
Subject: [visionlist] IICAI-07 Call for papers
Message-ID: <000301c723b3$f7fb53f0$6501a8c0@newcis.cis.famu.edu>

 

 The 3rd Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence
(IICAI-07) (website: http://www.iiconference.org
<http://www.iiconference.org/>  ) will be held in Pune, INDIA during
December 17-19 2007. IICAI-07 is one of the major AI events in the world.
This conference focuses on all areas of AI and related fields.  We invite
paper submissions. Please visit on the conference website for more details.


 


Bhanu Prasad
IICAI-07 Chair  

Department of Computer and Information Sciences
Florida A&M University

Tallahassee, FL 32307

USA  

Email: bhanupvsr@gmail.com 

Phone: 850-412-7350

 

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From: shauneywilson at visionsciences.org (Shauney Wilson)
Date: Tue Dec 19 22:11:31 2006
Subject: [visionlist] VSS 2007 Young Investigator Award Nomimations due:
	January 8
Message-ID: <01ce01c723b7$c9985720$0d00a8c0@shauneyslaptop>

VSS is pleased to announce establishment of a VSS Young Investigator Award.
The prize will awarded each year to an outstanding visual scientist who has
received an advanced degree within the past 10 years. 

Nominations must be made by a VSS member and will be reviewed by the Young
Investigator Award Committee, consisting of five established visual
scientists selected from VSS membership. Members of the Award Committee
cannot serve as nominators. 

The Award Committee will select the winner by March 15, and the prize, which
includes an honorarium, will be presented at the 2007 VSS meeting in
Sarasota. 

The nominations should include: 

* A letter of recommendation with a detailed description of the scientific
contributions of the nominee. 
* A curriculum vitae of the nominee 

Nominations for the 2007 Young Investigator Award should be submitted by
email to Shauney Wilson: shauneywilson@visionsciences.org. 

Deadline for receipt of nominations: Monday, January 8, 2007.

 

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Vision Sciences Society

415.883.3301

 

Please make note of our new web address:

 <http://www.visionsciences.org/> www.visionsciences.org

 

VSS 2007 Annual Meeting - May 11-16, 2007 - Sarasota, Florida

 

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From aureli.soria at upf.edu  Fri Dec 22 14:58:16 2006
From: aureli.soria at upf.edu (Aureli Soria Frisch)
Date: Fri Dec 22 15:42:37 2006
Subject: [visionlist] PhD scholarship: Object recognition in video sequences
Message-ID: <a0621020ec1b1a28cba8b@[192.168.1.125]>

PhD scholarship: Object recognition in video sequences
Image Processing Grup, Pompeu Fabra University,
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

The Image Processing Group 
(http://www.iua.upf.es/recerca/image_processing/im_proc_c.htm) 
at the Pompeu Fabra University, lead by Prof. 
Vicent Caselles 
(http://www.iua.upf.es/~vcaselles/) is offering a 
PhD position within the RACINE project 
(http://www.ipracine.org/objectives/objectives.html), 
which constitutes an excellent opportunity for 
original research both on applied and scientific 
computing.

The position is initially granted for one and a 
half year, with the possibility of extending up 
to three or four years. This extension will 
depend on the admission at the PhD program of the 
Pompeu Fabra University (see 
http://www.upf.edu/dtecn/english/phd/index.htm 
for more information). Salary will be 
approximately 13.300 ? for 2007.

The PhD work will be related to the 
implementation of object recognition algorithms 
on video sequences within the application field 
of multimedia post-production systems, which the 
Image Processing Group is actively empowering. 
Algorithms will be based on the development of 
hybrid systems that take into consideration 
geometry based image processing together with 
computational intelligence methodologies, i.e. 
neural networks, fuzzy computing and evolutionary 
computation. This work will be supervised by 
Prof. V. Caselles and Dr. A. Soria-Frisch.

Applicants are expected to have a good degree in 
Computer Science, Mathematics, Electrical 
Engineering, Physics or any relevant discipline, 
and proficient programming experience 
(C/C++/Matlab or Python).

Candidates are strongly encouraged to contact Dr. 
Aureli Soria-Frisch (mailto:aureli.soria (at) 
upf.edu) by sending a motivation letter and a CV.

Closing Date: January 31st, 2007 (although this 
position will remain open till a suitable 
candidate is found).

-- 
############################################
Aureli Soria-Frisch
Technology Dept., Pompeu Fabra University

post: Pg. Circumvalaci? 8, 08003 Barcelona, Spain
e-mail: aureli.soria-frisch@ieee.org
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From dts at inf.ed.ac.uk  Fri Dec 22 16:49:15 2006
From: dts at inf.ed.ac.uk (Don Sannella)
Date: Fri Dec 22 19:13:59 2006
Subject: [visionlist] Studentships for PhD study in Informatics@Edinburgh
Message-ID: <17804.3211.854268.485412@gallowridge.inf.ed.ac.uk>

Studentships for PhD study in
the School of Informatics at
the University of Edinburgh
---------------------------

FIFTY research studentships are available for:

    * UK students
    * EU students
    * students worldwide 

Many of these are full studentships, paying your tuition fees and a
stipend of 12600 pounds to cover living expenses in your first year,
rising in second and third years.  The rest pay your fees and/or a
contribution towards living expenses.  Payment of fees for non-EU
students is subject to successful competition for an Overseas Research
Student award.  PhD students are encouraged to make contributions to
teaching, for example by leading tutorial groups, and for this you can
expect to earn an additional 500-1000 pounds per year.

Informatics
-----------
Informatics is the study of information and computation, in both
natural and engineered systems.  It comprises a vast range of
scientific and engineering endeavour and has enormous economic and
social impact.

Edinburgh University's School of Informatics brings together the
former Departments of Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science and
Computer Science, together with the Artificial Intelligence
Applications Institute.  The School possesses a combination of breadth
and strength unparallelled elsewhere in the UK and competitive
world-wide; as an intellectual endeavour it is strikingly original.

The School is the only university grouping in the UK to have achieved
the top 5*A rating in Computer Science in the UK government's 2001
Research Assessment Exercise round, and it is the UK's biggest
research group in this area.  We currently have around 250 students
studying for PhD, and around 130 for MSc.

PhD study
---------
PhD study is carried out within one of our six research Institutes:

   ANC: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation
   CISA: Centre for Intelligent Systems and their Applications
   ICCS: Institute for Communicating and Collaborative Systems
   ICSA: Institute for Computing Systems Architecture
   IPAB: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour
   LFCS: Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science 

ANC fosters the study of adaptive processes in both artificial and
biological systems; two themes are the study of artificial learning
systems and the analysis and modelling of brain processes.  CISA
undertakes basic and applied research and development in knowledge
representation and reasoning.  Through its applications institute
AIAI, it works with others to deploy the technologies associated with
this research.  ICCS pursues basic research into the nature of
communication among humans and between humans and machines, using
text, speech and graphics, and the design of interactive dialogue
systems, using computational and algorithmic approaches.

ICSA seeks development of a better understanding of systems
components, both hardware and software, and their integration and
interaction; this involves not only improving their raw performance
and cost-effectiveness, but also making them more connectable and
interoperable, more reliable, more usable and more applicable.  The
interests of IPAB are how to link computational perception,
representation, transformation and generation processes to external
worlds---whether real or virtual.  The mission of LFCS is to achieve a
foundational understanding of problems and issues arising in
computation and communication through the development of appropriate
and applicable formal models and mathematical theories.

Projects
--------
A very wide range of research topics is available for PhD study.  Here
is an (incomplete!) list of project areas; see

   http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/postgraduate/phdprojects.html

for some information on each of these.

   ANC: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation
   --------------------------------------------------
   Bioinformatics
   Machine Learning
   Neuroinformatics 

   CISA: Centre for Intelligent Systems and their Applications
   -----------------------------------------------------------
   A Proof Management Tool
   Automating Diagrammatic Reasoning
   Improving Support for Mathematics in Mechanical Theorem Provers
   Multi-Agent Coordination in Open Environments
   Game-Theoretic Analysis of Multiagent Communication
   Argumentation-Based Ontology Conflict Resolution
   Social Algorithms
   Political Coordination Mechanisms
   A Simple Agent Programming Language
   Intelligent Agents in Service-Oriented Architectures
   Human/Robotic Task Achieving Team 

   ICCS: Institute for Communicating and Collaborative Systems
   -----------------------------------------------------------
   Concurrency in (Computational) Linguistics
   Lexicalized Reasoning
   Building Models of the Past
   Statistical Methods in Dialogue System Design and Adaptation
   Machine Learning for Complex Structures
   Eyetracking Corpora as Experimental Data
   Probabilistic Models of Human Parsing
   Integrating Linguistic and Visual Processing
   Dynamic Bayesian Networks for Speech Recognition
   Probabilistic Approaches to Natural Language Generation
   Probabilistic Models of Text-to-text Generation
   Robust Construction of Semantics
   Projecting Logical Forms in Parallel Corpora
   Deep and Robust Semantic Interpretation
   A Grammar of Situated Language
   Statistical Machine Translation for Biomedical Domains
   Microphone-Array Based Speech Recognition
   Language Models for Multiparty Conversations
   Hidden Speech Production Models
   Multimodal Information Access
   Head Motion Synthesis for Lifelike Conversational Agents
   Multi-Unit Acoustic Models for Speech Recognition
   Induction of Wide-Coverage Categorial Lexicon from Large Amounts of Unlabeled Text
   Use of Intonation in Spoken Language Generation for Human-Machine Dialogue
   Temporal Semantics
   Grammar-Driven Language Models
   Automated Musical Analysis
   The Statistical Semantic Web
   Extracting and Using Alternatives in Question Answering
   Projecting Discourse Annotation from Parallel Corpora 

   ICSA: Institute for Computing Systems Architecture
   --------------------------------------------------
   Speculative Parallelisation for Multiprocessors
   Cellular Multiprocessors
   Skeletal Parallel Programming
   Noise-Tolerant Asynchronous Circuits
   Data-Dependent Processing for Energy-Aware Systems
   Top-down Testability for Self-Timed Circuits
   Micro-architectural Solutions for Fault-Tolerance
   Delay Fault Testing of Self-Timed Circuits
   Dynamic Spectrum Access in Heterogeneous Wireless Network Environments
   Cross-layer and Coding Techniques for Reliable and Efficient Wireless Networking
   Low-cost, Robust Networking and Applications for Developing Regions
   Auto-Parallelisation
   Compilers that Learn to Optimise
   Processor Design
   Reconfigurable Caches
   Searching the Embedded Program Optimisation Space
   Automated Synthesis of Architectures and Compilers
   Energy and Area Modelling for Architecture Synthesis
   Microarchitecture Synthesis for Embedded Architectures
   Low-Power Multi-Threaded Architectures
   Reconfigurable Data-Parallel Structures for Embedded Computation 

   IPAB: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour
   ---------------------------------------------------
   Behaviour Composition in Video Sequence Analysis
   Temporal 3D Model Recovery and Representation
   Insect Robotics 

   LFCS: Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science
   ----------------------------------------------------
   Engineering Electronic Proof
   Independence-Friendly Temporal Logic
   Questions on Modal mu-Calculi
   Archiving of Scientific Data
   Integrity Constraints for XML and Beyond
   Keys for XML
   Provenance in Databases
   Information Preserving Schema Mapping
   Vectorizing XML
   Randomized Algorithms for Transportation Polytopes
   Complexity of Approximate Counting
   Algorithmic Verification of Recursive Probabilistic Systems
   Schema-Directed XML Publishing
   A Security Model for XML
   XML Query Languages
   Data Cleaning
   Schema Matching, Mapping and Embedding
   Partial Evaluation and Distributed Query Processing
   PEPA Nets: Modelling Mobile Systems
   Performance Modelling with Process Algebras
   Computational Models for Systems Biology
   Combining Model Checking and Theorem Proving
   Data Exchange
   Databases and Verification
   A Logic of Computational Effects
   Algebraic and Logical Foundations of Formal Software Development
   Proof Carrying Code for the Grid
   Security for Mobile Devices
   Topological Models of Computation
   Constructive Set Theories and their Applications
   Proof Theory for Programs and Processes
   Type Systems for Computational Effects
   Mathematical Models for Concurrent and Mobile Computation
   Modalities for Name Generation: Logic, Proof and the Meaning of New
   "Bad Smells" in Code
   Combinations and Abstractions of Formal Games
   Decision Procedures for Higher-Order Grammars
   Links: Web Programming, Faster, Better, Cheaper 

Further information
-------------------
Information about graduate study, the School of Informatics, the
University as a whole and the city of Edinburgh is available from:

   http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/postgraduate/
   http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/
   http://www.ed.ac.uk

You can email queries to our Graduate Secretary at:

   phd-admissions@inf.ed.ac.uk

and queries about the research topics above to individual members of
teaching staff.  Application forms are available from:

   http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/postgraduate/appform.html

Your application form should be returned by mid-March.  Earlier
applications have access to a wider range of sources of financial aid.
Applications for an Overseas Research Student award must be completed
by mid-February at the latest.  Chinese applicants who are interested
in funding from the China Scholarship Council should apply by 19th
January at the latest.
From mislav.grgic at fer.hr  Tue Dec 26 22:18:06 2006
From: mislav.grgic at fer.hr (Mislav Grgic)
Date: Wed Dec 27 00:50:36 2006
Subject: [visionlist] IJPRAI Special Issue on Facial Image Processing and
	Analysis
Message-ID: <6DEE7D97D631C947A753C10193032666012F5F45@sluga.fer.hr>


International Journal of Pattern Recognition
and Artificial Intelligence

Special Issue on

Facial Image Processing and Analysis

CALL FOR PAPERS

http://www.face-rec.org/ijprai/


International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial 
Intelligence (IJPRAI) is seeking original and unpublished 
manuscripts for a Special Issue on Facial Image Processing 
and Analysis, scheduled for publication in 1st Quarter 2009.

Face recognition systems are progressively becoming popular 
as means of extracting biometric information. Face recognition 
has a critical role in biometric systems and is attractive 
for numerous applications including visual surveillance and 
security. Because of the general public acceptance of face 
images on various documents, face recognition has a great 
potential to become the next generation biometric technology 
of choice. Face images are also the only biometric information 
available in some legacy databases and international terrorist 
watch-lists and can be acquired even without subjects' 
cooperation.

Though there has been a great deal of progress in face 
detection and recognition in the last few years, many problems 
remain unsolved. Research on face detection must confront with 
many challenging problems, especially when dealing with outdoor 
illumination, pose variation with large rotation angles, low 
image quality, low resolution, occlusion, and background 
changes in complex real-life scenes. The design of face 
recognition algorithms that are effective over a wide range 
of viewpoints, complex outdoor lighting, occlusions, facial 
expressions, and aging of subjects, is still a major area of 
research. Before one claims that the facial image processing / 
analysis system is reliable, rigorous testing and verification 
on real-world datasets must be performed, including databases 
for face analysis and tracking in digital video. 3D head model 
assisted recognition is another research area where new 
solutions are urgently needed to enhance robustness of today's 
recognition systems and enable real-time, face-oriented 
processing and analysis of visual data. Thus, vigorous research 
is needed to solve such outstanding challenging problems and 
propose advanced solutions and systems for emerging 
applications of facial image processing and analysis.

This special issue is particularly interested in recent 
progress in face detection and recognition that explores 
emerging themes such as digital video, 3D, near infrared, 
occlusion and disguise, long-term aging, and/or the lack of 
sufficient training data. Submitted articles must not have 
been previously published and must not be currently submitted 
for publication elsewhere. Topics of interest include, but are 
not limited to, the following:

New sensors or data sources:
o 3D-based face recognition
o Near infrared imaging for face recognition
o Video-based face recognition

Preprocessing:
o Image preprocessing for face detection / recognition
o Color-based facial image processing and analysis
o De-blurring and super-resolution for robust face 
  detection / recognition

Face and feature detection:
o Face detection for best-shot selection
o Facial feature detection and extraction
o 3D head modeling and face tracking

Methods:
o Subspace / kernel methods for face recognition
o Non-linear methods for face modeling
o Bionic face representation
o Ensemble learning for face classification

Key problems:
o Outdoor illumination
o Large pose variations
o Mid-term and long-term aging
o Occlusion and disguise
o Low quality and low resolution
o Generalization problem due to lack
  of enough training examples

Dataset and evaluation:
o Challenging datasets
o Video-based datasets
o Statistical performance evaluation

Applications and other topics:
o Facial gesture recognition
o Real-time processing solutions and systems
o Face-based surveillance, biometrics, 
  and multimedia applications
o Face recognition in compressed domain


Submission procedure:

Manuscript should conform to the standard guidelines of the 
International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial 
Intelligence. Instructions for formatting papers can be found 
in the Guidelines for Contributors at 
http://www.worldscinet.com/ijprai/mkt/guidelines.shtml 
Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their 
complete manuscript via IJPRAI online submission system 
(http://www.editorialmanager.com/ijprai/) by December 1, 2007. 
"Facial Image Processing and Analysis" special issue should be 
indicated in the corresponding cover letter. All submitted 
papers will be reviewed by at least three independent 
reviewers.


Important dates:

Manuscript submission deadline: December 1, 2007
First notification: March 15, 2008
Revised manuscript submission: June 30, 2008
Notification of final decision: September 15, 2008
Final manuscript due: November 1, 2008
Publication of the special issue: 1st Quarter 2009


Guest Editors:

Mislav Grgic
University of Zagreb
Zagreb, Croatia
http://www.vcl.fer.hr/mgrgic

Shiguang Shan
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Beijing, China
http://www.jdl.ac.cn/user/sgshan/index_en.htm

Rastislav Lukac
Epson Canada Ltd.
Toronto, ON, Canada
http://www.colorimageprocessing.com

Harry Wechsler
George Mason University
Fairfax, VA, USA
http://cs.gmu.edu/~wechsler

Marian Stewart Bartlett
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA, USA
http://mplab.ucsd.edu/~marni


From announcements at journalofvision.org  Sat Dec 30 06:25:31 2006
From: announcements at journalofvision.org (Journal of Vision)
Date: Sat Dec 30 17:23:00 2006
Subject: [visionlist] New Issue: Journal of Vision, Volume 6, Issue 12
Message-ID: <2ab401c72bdb$4e625d90$020100c0@journalofvision.org>


Journal of Vision

Volume 6, Number 12, Pages 1323-1487	 doi:10.1167/6.12
http://journalofvision.org/6/12/	 ISSN 1534-7362	 

Articles

 <http://journalofvision.org/6/12/1/> 	 Does depth perception require
vertical-disparity detectors? <http://journalofvision.org/6/12/1/> 
Jenny C. A. Read
Bruce G. Cumming
http://journalofvision.org/6/12/1/
	
 <http://journalofvision.org/6/12/2/> 	 Where are kin recognition
signals in the human face? <http://journalofvision.org/6/12/2/> 
Maria F. Dal Martello
Laurence T. Maloney
http://journalofvision.org/6/12/2/
	
 <http://journalofvision.org/6/12/3/> 	 Is the ability to identify
deviations in multiple trajectories compromised by amblyopia?
<http://journalofvision.org/6/12/3/> 
Dennis M. Levi
Srimant P. Tripathy
http://journalofvision.org/6/12/3/
	
 <http://journalofvision.org/6/12/4/> 	 Discrete color filling beyond
luminance gaps along perceptual surfaces
<http://journalofvision.org/6/12/4/> 
Ryota Kanai
Daw-An Wu
Frans A. J. Verstraten
Shinsuke Shimojo
http://journalofvision.org/6/12/4/
	
 <http://journalofvision.org/6/12/5/> 	 Explaining the footsteps, belly
dancer, Wenceslas, and kickback illusions
<http://journalofvision.org/6/12/5/> 
Piers D. L. Howe
Peter G. Thompson
Stuart M. Anstis
Hersh Sagreiya
Margaret S. Livingstone
http://journalofvision.org/6/12/5/
	
 <http://journalofvision.org/6/12/6/> 	 The speed of visual attention:
What time is it? <http://journalofvision.org/6/12/6/> 
Thomas A. Carlson
Hinze Hogendoorn
Frans A. J. Verstraten
http://journalofvision.org/6/12/6/
	
 <http://journalofvision.org/6/12/7/> 	 Constant contour integration in
peripheral vision for stimuli with good Gestalt properties
<http://journalofvision.org/6/12/7/> 
Shu-Guang Kuai
Cong Yu
http://journalofvision.org/6/12/7/
	
 <http://journalofvision.org/6/12/8/> 	 Time dilation in dynamic visual
display <http://journalofvision.org/6/12/8/> 
Ryota Kanai
Chris L. E. Paffen
Hinze Hogendoorn
Frans A. J. Verstraten
http://journalofvision.org/6/12/8/
	
 <http://journalofvision.org/6/12/9/> 	 Control of attention and gaze
in complex environments <http://journalofvision.org/6/12/9/> 
Jelena Jovancevic
Brian Sullivan
Mary Hayhoe
http://journalofvision.org/6/12/9/
	
 <http://journalofvision.org/6/12/10/> 	 New binary direction
aftereffect does not add up <http://journalofvision.org/6/12/10/> 
William Curran
Colin W. G. Clifford
Christopher P. Benton
http://journalofvision.org/6/12/10/
	
 <http://journalofvision.org/6/12/11/> 	 Interference from filled delays
on visual change detection <http://journalofvision.org/6/12/11/> 
Tal Makovski
Won Mok Shim
Yuhong V. Jiang
http://journalofvision.org/6/12/11/
	
 <http://journalofvision.org/6/12/12/> 	 Stereo and motion parallax cues
in human 3D vision: Can they vanish without a trace?
<http://journalofvision.org/6/12/12/> 
Andreas M. Rauschecker
Samuel G. Solomon
Andrew Glennerster
http://journalofvision.org/6/12/12/
	

Corrections

<http://journalofvision.org/6/12/13/> 	Corrections in: Area summation
and masking <http://journalofvision.org/6/12/13/> 
Tim S. Meese
http://journalofvision.org/6/12/13/
	
<http://journalofvision.org/6/12/14/> 	Corrections in: A standard model
for foveal detection of spatial contrast
<http://journalofvision.org/6/12/14/> 
Andrew B. Watson
Albert J. Ahumada
http://journalofvision.org/6/12/14/
	


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From: announcements at journalofvision.org (Journal of Vision)
Date: Sat Dec 30 17:23:31 2006
Subject: [visionlist] New Issue: Journal of Vision, Volume 6, Issue 13
Message-ID: <2aba01c72bdb$58b8b280$020100c0@journalofvision.org>


Journal of Vision

Volume 6, Number 13, Pages 1a-68a	 doi:10.1167/6.13
http://journalofvision.org/6/13/	 ISSN 1534-7362	 

Abstracts

 <http://journalofvision.org/6/13/> 	 Fall Vision Meeting
<http://journalofvision.org/6/13/> 
http://journalofvision.org/6/13/
	


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