[visionlist] Boynton Award 2024

[Alex Wade]

RE: Optica Fall Vision Meeting 2024 Boynton Lecturer

The Optica Fall Vision Meeting Planning Committee is pleased to
announce that Michael Webster has been selected as the 2024 Boynton
Lecturer.

Since the early 1980s, Mike’s research has advanced our understanding
of visual coding and, in particular, visual adaptation - the process
by which the visual system constantly modifies its operation to
account for changes in the environment. Mike has published extensively
on this phenomenon as it applies across the visual system - from early
color vision mechanisms through to higher-level percepts such as blur,
face identity and even digital mammograms.

After a PhD from Berkeley and a postdoctoral fellowship at Cambridge,
he joined the Psychology Department of the University of Nevada at
Reno (UNR) in 1994 and has made UNR a major center for vision research
using both psychophysical and neuroimaging methods of investigation.
He is now a Professor at UNR where he is also Co-Director of the
Graduate MS/PhD Neuroscience Program, Co-Director of the Undergraduate
BS Neuroscience Program and Director of the Center for Integrative
Neuroscience.

Mike has a long history of involvement with Optica (previously OSA)
and has served in many different  leadership positions within the
organization. He has been involved with the Fall Vision Meeting since
its inception in 2001 and organized the 2018 meeting in UNR. He became
an OSA Fellow in 2000 and was awarded the Verriest Medal by the
International Color Vision Society in 2019.

This year’s meeting will be held in-person from 3-6 October in York,
UK and will feature invited sessions on

Cortical Visual Prosthetics,
Colour in the Environment,
The structure and Function of the Fovea,
Machine learning and AI approaches to retinal diagnostics,
as well as the Boynton Lecture by Mike!

Please save the date; registration and abstract submission will open soon!


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https://opticafallvisionmeeting.org



-- 
Professor Alex Wade
Department of Psychology
University of York
Heslington, UK
YO10 5DD

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