[visionlist] 2009 OSA Vision Meeting - Seattle, Sept. 24-26

[VisionList Editor]

The 2009 Optical Society of America Vision Meeting will take place at  
the University of Washington, Seattle from the 24th to the 26th of  
September.

This year's meeting includes invited sessions on eye movements,  
cortical maps, glaucoma, the melanopsin pathway, and color constancy.  
In addition, thanks to generous support from OSA, Cambridge Research  
Systems and the University of Washington,  we are featuring a special  
session entitled "The Classics of Vision Science" in which four  
distinguished vision scientists will each present one of their classic  
papers. The meeting will also contain two contributed talk sessions  
and a wide range of contributed poster presentations. The full program  
of invited talks is listed below.

Last, but not least, we are pleased to announce that Professor David  
Williams from the University of Rochester has been chosen as this  
year's Boynton Lecturer. David's pioneering work is well-known within  
the Vision Science community and he will be honoring us with a talk  
entitled "Seeing Through Retinal Mosaics".

Since 2001, the OSA Fall Vision Meeting has grown as a high-quality,  
low-cost conference focused on all aspects of the visual system . This  
year, we are fortunate to be located at the University of Washington,  
Seattle with its thriving Psychology, Opthalmology and Physiology and  
Biophysics departments.

We invite you to join us in the Pacific Northwest for what we hope  
will be our most successful conference to date.


Alex Wade (Chair, OSA Color and Vision Division)
Joe Carroll (Vice-chair, OSA Color and Vision Division)
Ione Fine (Seattle 2009 Local Organizing Committee)
Steve Buck (Seattle 2009 Local Organizing Committee)

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Invited talk sessions  -  2009

Classics of Vision Science
Moderator:
Don MacLeod (UCSD)

Speakers:
Horace Barlow (University of Cambridge)
Howard Howland (Cornell)
Gerald Jacobs (UCSB)
Margaret Livingstone (Harvard Medical School)

Glaucoma
Moderator:
Phil Horner (UW Seattle)

Speakers:
Stuart McKinnon (Duke University)
Ron Harwerth (University of Houston)
Monica Vetter (Utah)
TBD

Computational Approaches to Color constancy
Moderator:
Bevil Conway (Wellesley)

Speakers:
Beau Lotto (UCL)
Larry Maloney (NYU)
David Brainard (U. Penn)
Hannah Smithson (Durham University)


Where and whether to move the eyes
Moderator:
Michael Shadlen (UW, Seattle)

Speakers:
Rich Krauzlis (Salk Institute)
Marc Sommer (University of Pittsburgh)
Laura Walker-Renninger  (Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute)
Al Fuchs (UW, Seattle)


The Melanopsin Pathway - Sensing Light Without Sight
Moderator:
Dennis Dacey (UW Seattle)

Speakers:
Satchin Panda (Salk)
Dave Berson (Brown)
Samer Hattar (Johns Hopkins)
Russ Van Gelder (UW Seattle)


Visual Cortical Maps on Multiple Scales
Moderator:
Geoff Boynton (UW Seattle)

Speakers:
Nicholas V. Swindale (University of British Columbia)
Soumya Chatterjee (Harvard University)
Alyssa Brewer (University of California, Irvine)
Eli Merriam (NYU)

Therapeutic approaches to Vision Loss
Moderator:
Jim Hurley (UW Seattle)

Speakers:
Thomas Reh (UW Seattle)
Matt McMahon (Second Sight LLC)
Stelios Smirnakis (Baylor)
William Hauswirth (University of Florida)

(forwarded from Alex Wade)
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