[visionlist] Celebrating Professor Dennis Levi: Final Program

[Susana Chung]

Dear Colleagues,

Here’s the program for the one-day festschrift to celebrate Professor Dennis Levi’s extremely productive academic career.  There is still time to register <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe2xp9IKUDLLbbemZ7RBwDZZRiplFABjlcn6IsZiBkBhQW8bQ/alreadyresponded> (registration closes end of the day on May 1, 2026).  See you on May 13th!

If you would like to say a few words to Dr. Levi, please upload a message/photo/short video (please keep it to shorter than 5 minutes) here <https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1sc9IeVECqpdDLHlz5tIgoYjg0_xIkS4u?usp=drive_link> by May 1, 2026. It would be best to keep your recording or photos in the landscape mode, and please save your contribution as “Last name, First name”.

Susana Chung
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8:30 am	Welcome address (Sharon Bentley)

		Session 1: Foundations of binocular and spatial vision (Moderator: Daniel Coates)

8:35 am	Dennis Levi, calmly advances progress in optometric research and education (Gerald Westheimer)

9:15 am	Perceptual geometry of elementary visual computations (Peter Neri)

9:45 am	Sensory-motor cross-link interactions between accommodation and convergence during stimulus conflicts (Cliff Schor)

10: 15 am	Break

		Session 2: Visual deprivation, binocular vision, amblyopia (Moderator: Jian Ding)

10:30 am	Short-term monocular deprivation on binocular vision (Paul McGraw)

11:00 am	Animal models of amblyopia (Tony Movshon)

11:30 am	Lightning Talks (Berny Fresco, Andrew Carkeet, Tina Beard, Srimant Tripathy, Cong Yu)

Noon	Lunch

		Session 3: Visual functions in human participants with amblyopia (Moderator: Andrew Carkeet)

1:00 pm	Are fixational eye movements in individuals with amblyopia optimal for seeing? (Susana Chung)

1:30 pm	Best retinal locus for stereopsis in amblyopic individuals and neurotypicals (Preeti Verghese)

2:00 pm	Organized chaos: managing a large clinical study (Suzanne McKee)

2:30 pm	Break

		Session 4: Plasticity (Moderator: Ângela Gomes Tomaz)

2:45 pm	Space and time in early vision: brain plasticity, binocular vision, masking and crowding (Uri Polat)

3:15 pm	Video game and plasticity (Daphne Bavelier)

3:45 pm	Lightning Talks (Roger Li, Avi Aizenman, Adrien Chopin, Angelica Godinez, Sunwoo Kwon, Ângela Gomes Tomaz)

4:15 pm	Break

4:30 pm	It’s been a journey (Dennis Levi)

5:00 pm	Final remarks + Reception

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