[visionlist] OSA Fall Vision Meeting, Berkeley, Sept 16 - 19

[Austin Roorda]

*7th annual Optical Society of America Fall Vision
Meeting<http://www.osavisionmeeting.org/2007_new/>
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Doubletree Marina in Berkeley, California
<http://doubletree.hilton.com/en/dt/hotels/index.jhtml;jsessionid=HYJMVOVHPPOZWCSGBJBMVCQ?ctyhocn=JBKCADT>
*, September 16- 19th 2007* .


Online registration, abstract submission and hotel booking can all
be completed at the following link:

* ** http://www.osavisionmeeting.org/2007_new/ *
Abstract submission deadline is July 15.

*Meeting Overview *:

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This year's topics include:

   - Mechanisms for Retinal Development,
   - Two Eyes One Brain: The Machinery of Binocular Vision,
   - Imaging the Cortex,
   - Color in the Cortex,
   - Color Illusions: Implications for Visual Processes,
   - Using Adaptive Optics as a Tool: Beyond Conventional Imaging.

Special Symposia topics:

   - Computer Graphics and Display Technology,
   - Vision Science and Computer Games,
   - Workshop on Computer Vision Applications for the Visually Impaired.

Sessions at OSA annual meeting (co-located in San Jose), Sept 20, 2007

   - Seeing the Invisible: Strategies for Imaging Transparent Cell Types
   in the Retina
   - Engineering the Eye: Advances in Retinal Prosthetics

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*Invited speakers:*

   - Edward Adelson, MIT
   - Peter Bandettini, NIMH
   - Marty Banks, UC Berkeley
   - Daphne Bavelier, University of Rochester
   - Paul Beckmann, University of  Minnesota
   - Serge Belongie, UC San Diego
   - Melanie Campbell, University of Waterloo
   - Bevil Conway, Wellesley College
   - Bruce Cumming, NEI
   - John Flannery, UC Berkeley
   - Alan Gilchrist, Rutgers University
   - Jonathan Horton, UC San Francisco
   - Greg Horwitz, University of Washington
   - Andrew Huberman, Stanford University
   - Prakash Kara, University of South Carolina
   - Dan Kersten, University of Minnesota
   - Fred Kingdom, McGill University
   - Brian Link, Medical College of Wisconsin
   - Jitendra Malik, UC Berkeley
   - Roberto Manduchi, UC Santa Cruz
   - Mike May, President, Sendero Group
   - Wilbert McClay, LLNL
   - Kathy Mullen, McGill University
   - Sri Nagarajan, UC San Francisco
   - Eli Peli, Harvard University
   - Nicholas Priebe, Northwestern University
   - Jan Provis, Australian National University
   - Ben Reese, UC Santa Barbara
   - Austin Roorda, UC Berkeley
   - Eyal Seidemann, UT Austin
   - Bob Shapley, New York University
   - Steve Shevell, University of Chicago
   - Louis Silverstein, VCD Sciences Inc.
   - Sam Solomon, University of Sidney
   - Desney Tan, Microsoft Research
   - Jack Werner, UC Davis

 Thanks to generous support from UCB School of Optometry, the UCB Helen
Wills Neuroscience Institute as well as companies Micron, Envision, Adobe
System, Pixar, Zeiss, Advanced Medical Optics we are able to keep the costs
low: $75 for students/postdocs and $225 for everyone else.  All accepted
abstracts (including invited talks) will be published in the online Journal
of Vision <http://www.journalofvision.org/>.

 Gerald H. Jacobs (Neuroscience Research Institute and Department of
Psychology, University of California) will be honored as the 2007 Boynton
Lecturer. 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.
 This year's meeting coincides with Frontiers in Optics, the Annual Meeting
of the Optical Society of America in San Jose. 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
Thursday, September 20.

This year's meeting is sponsored by the University of California-Berkeley. The
local organizing committee is chaired by Austin Roorda (University of
California, Berkeley, aroorda at berkeley.edu) and Ione Fine (University of
Washington, ionefine at u.washington.edu ) chairs the program committee.


-- 
Austin Roorda, PhD, Asst. Professor
Braff Chair in Clinical Optometric Science
University of California, Berkeley
School of Optometry, rm 485 Minor Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720-2020
tel: 510-642-2380      fax: 510-643-5109
vision.berkeley.edu/roordalab
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