[visionlist] York 2011 Conference on Plastic Vision

[steeves at yorku.ca]

Plastic Vision - June 15-18, 2011  Toronto Canada
The Centre for Vision Research at York University Toronto, in partnership with
MITACS, is pleased to announce our 2011 biannual international conference. The
topic this year is visual and cross-modal plasticity.

We invite poster submissions from faculty and students - The abstract deadline
has been extended to May 31, 2011.

MITACS-CVR student travel awards are available.  For conference registration,
poster submission, student travel award applications  and accommodation
information, please see:
http://www.cvr.yorku.ca/conferences

Conference organizers:   Fran Wilkinson (franw at yorku.ca)  & Jennifer Steeves
(steeves at yorku.ca)
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Conference Session Topics and Speakers:

Wednesday June 15

Binocular visual plasticity
Robert Hess (McGill University)
Sue Barry (Mount Holyoke)
Agnes Wong (U. of Toronto)
Jennifer Steeves (York University)

Cross Modal Plasticity
Franco Lepore (Université de Montréal)
Josef Rauschecker (Georgetown University)
Krish Sathian  (Emory University)
Karen Dobkins (UC San Diego)

Thursday June 16

Applied Plasticity
Michael Merzenich (UC San Francisco)
Bernhard Sabel  (University of Magdeburg)
Amir Amedi  (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Visual-Motor Plasticity
Denise Henriques (York University)
John Krakauer (Columbia University)
Robert Sainburg (Penn State University)

Poster Sessions

Friday June 17

Plasticity in Early Visual Development
Michael Stryker (UC San Francisco)
Glen Prusky (Cornell)
Daphne Maurer (McMaster)

Changes in Visual Coding with Experience
Elizabeth Buffalo (Emory University)
Hans Op De Beeck  (K.U.Leuven, Belgium)
Valentin Dragoi (U Texas-Houston)

Saturday June 18

Computation and Robotics
Yann LeCun (NYU)
Bruno Olshausen (UC Berkeley)
Christoph von der Malsberg (Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies)
Hong Zhang (Alberta)