[visionlist] OSA Fall Vision Meeting 2017 is approaching (Oct 13-15)

[bei.xiao at gmail.com]

The 17th Annual Optical Society Vision Meeting will take place at the Katzen
Art Center <http://www.american.edu/cas/katzen/> at *American University in
Washington, DC, from the 13th to the 15th of October 2017. *
http://www.osavisionmeeting.org/2017/conf/index.php



Please register online here:

http://american.tix.com/Event.aspx?EventCode=964732



A tentative schedule  and information for presenters  (poster sizes, etc)
can be found here:

*http://www.osavisionmeeting.org/2017/conf/program.php
<http://www.osavisionmeeting.org/2017/conf/program.php>*


More local hotel information can be found here:


http://www.american.edu/ocl/orientation/Local-Hotels.cfm



This year's meeting includes five invited sessions, three contributed
talk sessions, and a variety of contributed poster presentations. We are
also pleased to announce two special events this year: *Prof. Ken Nakayama
<http://visionlab.harvard.edu/members/ken/nakayama.html>* from Harvard
University will be presented with the 2017 Tillyer Award for distinguished
work in the field of vision; and *Prof. David H. Brainard
<https://color.psych.upenn.edu/>* from University of Pennsylvania will
present the annual Boynton Lecture.



The invited talk sessions and speakesr include: (1) Applications of High
Resolution Retinal Imaging (Steve Burns, Rigmor Barass, Don Miller, David
Huang) (2) Myopia Development (Machelle Pardue, Greg Schwartz, Andrew
Pucker, David Troilo)  (3) Material Perception (Shin’ya Nishida, Bei Xiao,
Qasim Zaida, Mike Landy)  (4) From Retina to Extra-striate cortex: Forward
Models of Visual Input (Brian Wandell, Ione Fine, Noah Benson, Kendrick
Kay)  (5) Lighting, Color Rendering, and Color Vision (Lorne Whitehead,
Manual Spitschan, Anya Hurlbert, Mark Fairchild).



The three contributed speaker sessions will include:  (1) Color/Lightness,
(2) Retina to Cortex, (3) Clinical and Applied.



We look forward to welcoming you in DC in October!


Bei and Art

​Local Organizers for FVM 2017​

-- 
Bei Xiao, PhD
Assistant Professor
Computer Science & Center of Behavioral Neuroscience
American University, Washington DC
Web: https://sites.google.com/site/beixiao/
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