[visionlist] Extended deadline: Scottish Vision Group Conference 2013, March 15-17th, 2013

[Dhanraj Vishwanath]

Scottish Vision Group Conference 2013,  March 15-17th, 2013

EXTENDED Deadline for abstracts/registration: Feb 18th, 2013

The 12th meeting of the Scottish Vision Group will be held from Friday 15th to Sunday 17th March 2013 in the Ballachulish Hotel in the dramatic Glencoe area of the Scottish Highlands. For more information on the conference venue and the surrounding area, please visit
http://www.akkeronhotels.com/Hotels/Scottish-Highlands/The-Ballachulish-Hotel

Scottish Vision Group holds a 2-day (Fri afternoon - Sun lunchtime) conference that attracts vision scientists from Scotland, the UK, the continent and beyond. Our aim is to provide an intimate setting for a small group to share scientific ideas and results. The invited speaker for this year’s conference will be Dr Karl Gegenfurtner (Giessen University). Friday will be devoted to the invited talk, preceded by a round table discussion on the theme of eye movements and perception. Amelia Hunt (Aberdeen University) and David Melcher(University of Trento) will lead the discussion session. The following days will contain a series of talk sessions on various research topics in vision science. The abstracts from the meeting will be published in iPerception.

The cost of the conference will depend on whether you are staying in a single room or sharing.  Based on bed, breakfast, lunch and dinner, for 2 days, we expect the cost to be around 200 pounds per person (single room) and 170 pounds per person (twin room).

This year’s meeting is kindly supported by SR Research<http://www.sr-research.com/>.

If you would like to participate, please email your abstract (250-500 words) to Dhanraj Vishwanath and Paul Hibbard, this year’s conference organizers, at SVGconference2013 at gmail.com<mailto:SVGconference2013 at gmail.com> by 15.2.2013.

Please include the following details in your email:
(1) list of authors
(2) presentation title (or indicate 'non' if you do not want to present)
(3) student or not (we will try to offer a small student discount)
(4) shared or single room
(5) if you’re asking for a shared room, please say who you would like to share with

Space is limited so please indicate your interest to attend and indicate the type of room you would like as soon as possible!

Those coming from overseas can fly to either Glasgow or Edinburgh airport.  The drive to Glencoe ranges from 2.0–2.5 hrs through some very picturesque highland and loch-side scenery. Bus services are also available. This year we plan to have a rideshare signup so that out-of-Scotland attendees can drive to Glencoe with their Scottish colleagues from the main Airport locations.   Additionally, the Caledonian overnight sleeper provides the option to travel directly from London Euston Station to Fort William. http://www.scotrail.co.uk/caledoniansleeper/index.html

look forward to seeing you in Glencoe!