[visionlist] VSS 2012 Annual Meeting Information

[Vision Sciences Society]

Greetings, 

Plans for the VSS 2012 Annual Meeting are well underway. The meeting will be
held at the Waldorf Astoria Naples, formerly known as the Naples Grande
Beach Resort, Florida May 11 - 16, 2012. The deadline for early (discounted)
registration is Monday, February 27th. To register for the meeting, go to
<http://www.visionsciences.org/registration.html>
http://www.visionsciences.org/registration.html.

 

Membership

If you haven't done so already, now is the time to renew your VSS 2012
Membership, go to  <http://www.visionsciences1.org/vss_public/>
http://www.visionsciences1.org/vss_public/  

Keynote
This year's Keynote Speaker is Ranulfo Romo, M.D., D.Sc., Professor of
Neuroscience at the Institute of Cellular Physiology National Autonomous
University of Mexico.  Details can be found at
<http://www.visionsciences.org/keynote.html>
http://www.visionsciences.org/keynote.html. Time and date TBA.

Symposia
The meeting begins Friday afternoon at 1:00 pm with member-initiated
symposia.  This year's symposia are:

 

Distinguishing perceptual shifts from response biases

Organizer: Joshua Solomon, City University London

 

Human visual cortex: from receptive fields to maps to clusters to perception

Organizer: Serge O. Dumoulin, Experimental Psychology, Helmholtz Institute,
Utrecht University, Netherlands

 

Neuromodulation of Visual Perception

Organizers: Jutta Billino & Ulrich Ettinger, Justus-Liebig-University
Giessen & Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich

 

Part-whole relationships in visual cortex

Organizer: Johan Wagemans, Laboratory of Experimental Psychology, University
of Leuven

 

Pulvinar and Vision: New insights into circuitry and function

Organizer: Vivien A. Casagrande, Department of Cell & Developmental Biology,
Vanderbilt Medical School Nashville, TN 

 

What does fMRI tell us about brain homologies?

Organizer: Reza Rajimehr, McGovern Institute for Brain Research,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

 

For complete symposium details, go to:
<http://www.visionsciences.org/symposia.html>
http://www.visionsciences.org/symposia.html

 

Satellite Events at VSS 2012

 

VSS welcomes applications for Satellite Events to be held at the 2012
meeting in Naples. Satellite Events can be workshops, business meetings,
social events or ancillary events of interest to VSS attendees, but which
are not planned or sponsored directly by VSS. Admission to Satellite Events
can either be by invitation to a subset of meeting attendees or open to all.

 

To request space for a Satellite Event at VSS 2012, complete the online VSS
2012 Satellite Events Request Form. Requests will be considered on a
first-come, first-served basis as long as space is available.

 

For complete satellite event information or to complete the online request
form, go to  <http://www.visionsciences.org/satellite_guidelines.htm>
http://www.visionsciences.org/satellite_guidelines.htm

 

 

Hotel
Rooms at the Waldorf Astoria Naples are filling up. If you haven't reserved
your room, go to  <http://www.visionsciences.org/hotel.html>
http://www.visionsciences.org/hotel.html and follow the links for online
reservations.

 

Benefits of staying at the meeting hotel include:

. Complimentary Internet  Reservations for VSS attendees now include FREE
Internet in guest rooms
. Networking  Make the most of your conference by meeting with your
colleagues from around the world
. Convenience  Just an elevator ride away from the sessions and events
. Support VSS  Help us help you! We earn discounted meeting space, which
keeps your registration fees down
. Complimentary Nightly Shuttle Service Shuttles will run nightly from the
Waldorf Astoria Naples to downtown

 

Beachfront Hotel Rooms Available in Naples for VSS 2012

 

VSS has secured a small number of rooms at the Edgewater Beach Hotel, an
all-suites hotel located directly on the beach in Naples, a few miles south
of the Waldorf Astoria Naples. To reserve a room go to
http://www.visionsciences.org/hotel-overflows.html 


Upcoming Dates 
2012 Membership Renewal: Due Now

Call for Nominations to the VSS Board: 2/1/2012
Call for Demos: 2/7/2012
Notices of Accepted Abstracts Sent: 2/8/2012
Early Registration Deadline: 2/27/2012

 

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