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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td width="100%" valign=top style='width:100.0%;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:7.5pt 15.0pt 7.5pt 15.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#09A3BA'>VSS Is Pleased to Announce</span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#09A3BA'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#09A3BA'>the Second Annual "Meet the Professors" Event</span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#09A3BA'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#09A3BA'>for Students and Postdocs</span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#09A3BA'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td></tr></table></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td width="100%" valign=top style='width:100.0%;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;word-wrap: break-word'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:7.5pt 15.0pt 7.5pt 15.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'>Monday, May 22</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'>4:45 to 6:00 pm</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'>(before the Demo Night BBQ) </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'>Breck Deck North</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'>This will be an opportunity for a free-wheeling, open-ended discussion with members of the VSS Board and a number of other professors. You might chat about science, the meeting, building a career, or whatever comes up. </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'>The event will consist of two 30-minute sessions separated by a 15-minute snack break. Please select a <i>different professor </i>for each session. Participants must <a href="http://www.visionsciences.org/2017-meet-the-professors-form/" target="_blank"><span style='color:#09A3BA'>pre-register</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F788B'>.</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'> Space is limited and is assigned on a first-come, first-served basis.</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#09A3BA'>Professors and VSS Board Members</span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'>David Brainard*</span></b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'> (University of Pennsylvania) studies human color vision, with particular interests in the consequences of spatial and spectral sampling by the photoreceptors and in the mechanisms mediating color constancy.</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'>Eli Brenner* </span></b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'>(Free University, Amsterdam) studies how visual information is used to guide our actions.</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'>Marisa Carrasco</span></b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'> (NYU) uses human psychophysics, neuroimaging, and computational modeling to investigate the relation between the psychological and neural mechanisms involved in visual perception and attention.</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'>Isabel Gauthier</span></b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'> (Vanderbilt University) uses behavioral and brain imaging methods to study perceptual expertise, object and face recognition, and individual differences in vision.</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'>Julie Harris </span></b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'>(St. Andrews) studies our perception of the 3D world, including binocular vision and 3D motion. She also has an interest in animal camouflage.</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'>Sheng He </span></b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'>(University of Minnesota & Institute of Biophysics, CAS) uses psychophysical and neuroimaging (fMRI, EEG, MEG) methods to study spatiotemporal properties of vision, binocular interaction, visual attention, visual object recognition, and visual awareness.</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'>Michael Herzog</span></b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'> (EPFL - Switzerland) studies spatial and temporal vision in healthy and clinical populations.</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'>Todd Horowitz</span></b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'> (National Cancer Institute) is broadly interested in how vision science can be leveraged to reduce the burden of cancer, from improving detection and diagnosis to understanding the cognitive complaints of cancer survivors.</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'>Lynne Kiorpes*</span></b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'> (NYU) uses behavioral and neurophysiological approaches to study visual development and visual disability. The goal is to understand the neural limitations on development and the effects of abnormal visual experience.</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'>Dennis Levi</span></b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'> (UC Berkeley) studies plasticity both in normal vision, and in humans deprived of normal binocular visual experience, using psychophysics and neuroimaging.</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'>Ennio Mingolla</span></b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'> (Northeastern) develops and tests of neural network models of visual perception, notably the segmentation, grouping, and contour formation processes of early and middle vision in primates, and on the transition of these models to technological applications.</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'>Concetta Morrone </span></b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'>(University of Pisa) studies the visual system in man and infants using psychophysical, electrophysiological, brain imaging and computational techniques. More recent research interests have been vision during eye-movement, perception of time and plasticity of the adult visual brain.</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'>Tony Norcia* </span></b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'>(Stanford University) studies the intricacies of visual development, partly to better understand visual functioning in the adult and abnormal visual processing.<b> </b></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'>Aude Oliva</span></b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'> (MIT) studies human vision and memory, using methods from human perception and cognition, computer science and human neuroscience (fMRI, MEG)</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'>Mary Peterson</span></b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'> (University of Arizona) uses behavioral methods, neuropsychology, ERPs, and fMRI to investigate the competitive processes producing object perception and the interactions between perception and memory.</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'>Jeff Schall* </span></b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'>(Vanderbilt University) studies the neural and computational mechanisms that guide, control and monitor visually-guided gaze behavior.</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'>James Tanaka </span></b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'>(University of Victoria) studies the cognitive and neural processes of face recognition and object expertise. He is interested in the perceptual strategies of real world experts, individuals on the autism spectrum and how a perceptual novice becomes an expert.</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'>Preeti Verghese* </span></b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'>(Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute) studies spatial vision, visual search and attention, as well as eye and hand movements in normal vision and in individuals with central field loss.</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'>Andrew Watson* </span></b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'>(Apple) studies human spatial, temporal and motion processing, computational modeling of vision, and applications of vision science to imaging technology.<b> </b></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'>Jeremy Wolfe*</span></b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'> (Harvard Med & Brigham and Women’s Hospital) studies visual attention and visual search with a special interest in socially important tasks like cancer screening in radiology<b>.</b></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'>Note: Members of the VSS Board are indicated with an asterisk*, in case you have a specific interest in talking to a board member.</span></i><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing: 0;width:initial'><tr><td width="100%" valign=top style='width:100.0%;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td style='padding:7.5pt 15.0pt 7.5pt 15.0pt'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 style='background:#535256;border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:6.75pt 11.25pt 7.5pt 11.25pt'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:white'><a href="http://www.visionsciences.org/2017-meet-the-professors-form/" target="_blank"><span style='color:white;text-decoration:none'>Register for "Meet the Professors"</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><br />
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