[visionlist] 2019 OSA Fall Vision Meeting

[Ravi Jonnal]

The 19th Annual Optical Society Vision Meeting is scheduled to take place
at the Headquarters of the Optical Society of America in Washington, DC,
from the 19th to the 22nd of September, 2019.

Links to registration, abstract submission and other details about the
meeting will follow shortly.

Finally, as in previous years, attendees of the Fall Vision Meeting will
receive one day of complimentary attendance at OSA’s  Frontier in Optics
(FiO) meeting (Sept 16-19 in DC) and vice versa

This year’s Fall Vision Meeting includes two special events,  five invited
sessions, 3 contributed talk sessions, and contributed poster presentations.

For the first of the special events, Professor Pablo Artal
<https://lo.um.es/member/pablo-artal/> from the University of Murcia, Spain
will be presented with the 2019 Tillyer Award for distinguished work in the
field of vision and his Tillyer lecture will kick off the Fall Vision
Meeting at 4 pm, Thursday September 19th. The second special event of the
Fall Vision Meeting will be the Boynton Lecture, the presenter to be
announced.

The invited talk sessions include: (1) Aberrations and vision: the limits
of visual performance studied with adaptive optics; (2) Biological
development of the visual system; (3) Understanding color; (4) Non-visual
effects of light in development and disease; and (5) Perceptual learning
and video games: new ways to learn. Confirmed invited speakers for these
talk sessions include:

Ben Backus
<https://www.sunyopt.edu/education/academics/faculty/emeritus-faculty/benjamin-backus>,
Vivid Vision

Daphne Bavelier <https://www.unige.ch/fapse/brainlearning/>, University of
Geneva

Bevil Conway <https://irp.nih.gov/pi/bevil-conway>, NIH

Timothy Gawne
<https://www.uab.edu/optometry/home/people/faculty/timothy-gawne>,
University of Alabama, Birmingham

Jesse Gomez <https://cnl.berkeley.edu/people/jesse-gomez/>, University of
California, Berkeley

Robert Johnston
<https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/projects/pew-biomedical-scholars/directory-of-pew-scholars/2014/robert-j-johnston>,
Johns Hopkins University

Del Lindsey <https://psychology.osu.edu/people/lindsey.43>, Ohio State
University

Susana Marcos
<http://www.vision.csic.es/People/Personal%20Web%20Pages/Susana%20Marcos.aspx>,
Spanish National Research Council, Instituto de Optica, CSIC

Ania Majewska <https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/people/26772783-anna-majewska>,
University of Rochester

Anna Matynia, University of California, Los Angeles

Maria Olkkonen <https://www.dur.ac.uk/psychology/staff/profile/?id=14131>,
Durham University

Shadab A. Rahman
<https://sleep.med.harvard.edu/people/faculty/1627/Shadab+A+Rahman+PhD+MPH>,
Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Jordan Renna
<https://www.uakron.edu/biology/faculty-staff/detail.dot?identity=1114699>,
University of Akron

Aaron Seitz <http://faculty.ucr.edu/~aseitz/>, University of California,
Riverside

Hannah Smithson <https://www.psy.ox.ac.uk/team/hannah-smithson>, Oxford
University

Michael Terman
<https://www.columbiapsychiatry.org/profile/michael-terman-phd>, Columbia
University

William S. Tuten <https://optometry.berkeley.edu/people/william-tuten-phd/>,
University of California, Berkeley

Geunyoung Yoon
<https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/people/22230140-geunyoung-yoon>, University
of Rochester


We look forward to welcoming you in Washington, DC.

Sincerely,

Local Organizer Representative, Laura Spencer, The Optical Society (OSA)

Stacey Choi, Chair of OSA FVM Planning Committee

Ravi Jonnal, Co-chair of OSA FVM Planning Committee

Vicki Volbrecht, OSA Division Chair (Vision and Color)
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