[visionlist] 9th Aegean Summer School in Visual Optics

[Sotiris Plainis]

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 9th Aegean Summer School in Visual Optics

Hersonissos-Crete, 05 - 08 July, 2010
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The Aegean Summer School in Visual Optics is an international course organised annually by the Institute of Vision and Optics (IVO), University of Crete. The program covers many aspects of basic and advanced research on Physiological and Visual Optics.

This year, with the opportunity of the 20th anniversary of LASIK celebration, the Summer School will dedicate one whole day (Thursday, 8 July 2010) in a special session on“Quality of Vision in refractive surgery”.

Abstracts could cover the following topics regarding refractive surgery:
 
·           Refraction and ocular aberrations,
·           Retinal image quality
·           Ocular scatter
·           Visual psychophysics
·           New Techniques
 
Abstracts will be subject to review by the International Scientific Committee.
 
The authors presenting abstracts with new material in this session will have the opportunity to submit relevant work for peer-review publication in an anniversary issue in Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery. Target Submission date for the anniversary issue is September 2010 and target publication date is May 2011. 
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Program director: 
Ioannis G Pallikaris, Professor of Ophthalmology

Organising Committee:
Harilaos Ginis
Sotiris Plainis
Aristophanis Pallikaris


Invited Speakers:

Pablo Artal, Laboratorio de Optica, Universidad De Murcia, Spain.

David Atchison, Department of Optometry, Queensland University of Technology, Australia.

Neil Charman, Gaculty of Life Sciences, The University of Manchester, United Kingdom.

Susana Marcos, F Instituto de Optica, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Madrid, Spain

Vasyl Molebny, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Kiev, Ukraine.

Ian J. Murray, Faculty of Life Sciences, The University of Manchester, United Kingdom.

Dimitris Papazoglou, Institute of Electronic Structure and Lasers, FORTH, Crete,

Jos Rozema, Department of Ophthalmology, University Hospital Antwerp, Belgium

Frank Schaeffel, Institute for Ophthalmic Research, Tübingen University , Germany

Teo Seiler, Dept. of Ophthalmology, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Tom Van den Berg, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Netherlands


Further information on the Summer School and the city of Heraklion can be found at the school's website: http://www.ivo.gr/summerschool/

On behalf of the organising committee,

Sotiris Plainis


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Sotiris Plainis, MSc, PhD

Honourary Lecturer,
The University of Manchester

Research Fellow,
Institute of Vision and Optics (IVO)
School of Health Sciences
University of Crete
71003, Heraklion

tel: 2810-394807
fax: 2810-394653
web: http://www.ivo.gr
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