<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">The abstract deadline for the </span><span class="gmail-m_-8759828181218533500gmail-il" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">OSA</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> </span><span class="gmail-m_-8759828181218533500gmail-il" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Fall</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> </span><span class="gmail-m_-8759828181218533500gmail-il" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Vision</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> </span><span class="gmail-m_-8759828181218533500gmail-il" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Meeting</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> is July 17th (Monday, end of the day).  Information about the </span><span class="gmail-m_-8759828181218533500gmail-il" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">meeting </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">and abstract submission instructions are below.</span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px">Hope to see you in DC,</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:13.3333px"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">Arthur Shapiro (American University)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">Bei Xiao (American University) </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px">******************************<wbr>******************************<wbr>************************</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt">The 17th Annual Optical Society </span><span class="gmail-m_-8759828181218533500gmail-m_2233276992572718671gmail-il" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt">Vision</span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt"> Meeting is scheduled to take place at the </span><a href="http://www.american.edu/cas/katzen/" target="_blank" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt">Katzen Arts Center</a><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt"> at </span><b style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt">American University in Washington, DC, from the <span class="gmail-m_-8759828181218533500gmail-m_2233276992572718671gmail-m_-3529650296770669304gmail-m_8491198138511054081gmail-aBn"><span class="gmail-m_-8759828181218533500gmail-m_2233276992572718671gmail-m_-3529650296770669304gmail-m_8491198138511054081gmail-aQJ"><span class="gmail-m_-8759828181218533500gmail-m_2233276992572718671gmail-aBn"><span class="gmail-m_-8759828181218533500gmail-m_2233276992572718671gmail-aQJ">13th to the 15th of October 2017</span></span></span></span>. </b><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"><a href="http://www.osavisionmeeting.org/2017/conf/index.php" target="_blank">http://www.osavisionmeeting.or<wbr>g/2017/conf/index.php</a><b></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">This is a reminder that the abstract submission is open:</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><a href="http://www.osavisionmeeting.org/2017/conf/submit.php" target="_blank" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt">http://www.osavisionmeeting.or<wbr>g/2017/conf/submit.php</a><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:13.3333px">Please note the **new** abstract submission deadline is </span><b style="font-family:Arial;font-size:13.3333px">July 17th (Monday), 2017. </b><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>The online registration is here: </b></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"><a href="http://www.osavisionmeeting.org/2017/conf/registration.php" target="_blank">http://www.osavisionmeeting.or<wbr>g/2017/conf/registration.php</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:13.3333px">The early-bird registration deadline is <b><span class="gmail-m_-8759828181218533500gmail-m_2233276992572718671gmail-m_-3529650296770669304gmail-m_8491198138511054081gmail-aBn"><span class="gmail-m_-8759828181218533500gmail-m_2233276992572718671gmail-m_-3529650296770669304gmail-m_8491198138511054081gmail-aQJ"><span class="gmail-m_-8759828181218533500gmail-m_2233276992572718671gmail-aBn"><span class="gmail-m_-8759828181218533500gmail-m_2233276992572718671gmail-aQJ">September 5th, 2017</span></span></span></span></b>. Information about registration and hotels are available on the meeting website. </span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"><br>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: </span><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"><a href="http://visionlab.harvard.edu/members/ken/nakayama.html" target="_blank">Prof. Ken Nakayama</a></span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"> from Harvard University will be presented with the 2017 Tillyer Award for distinguished work in the field of <span class="gmail-m_-8759828181218533500gmail-m_2233276992572718671gmail-il">vision</span>; and </span><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"><a href="https://color.psych.upenn.edu/" target="_blank">Prof. David H. Brainard</a></span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"> from University of Pennsylvania will present the annual Boynton Lecture.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Attendees of <span class="gmail-m_-8759828181218533500gmail-m_2233276992572718671gmail-il">Fall</span> <span class="gmail-m_-8759828181218533500gmail-m_2233276992572718671gmail-il">Vision</span> can attend <span class="gmail-m_-8759828181218533500gmail-m_2233276992572718671gmail-il">OSA</span> Frontier in Optics (FiO) meeting (<span class="gmail-m_-8759828181218533500gmail-m_2233276992572718671gmail-m_-3529650296770669304gmail-m_8491198138511054081gmail-aBn"><span class="gmail-m_-8759828181218533500gmail-m_2233276992572718671gmail-m_-3529650296770669304gmail-m_8491198138511054081gmail-aQJ"><span class="gmail-m_-8759828181218533500gmail-m_2233276992572718671gmail-aBn"><span class="gmail-m_-8759828181218533500gmail-m_2233276992572718671gmail-aQJ">Sept 17-21</span></span></span></span> in DC) complimentary for one day and vice versa attendees of FiO can attend <span class="gmail-m_-8759828181218533500gmail-m_2233276992572718671gmail-il">Fall</span> <span class="gmail-m_-8759828181218533500gmail-m_2233276992572718671gmail-il">Vision</span> Meeting complimentary for one day. Details please see </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"><a href="http://www.frontiersinoptics.com/home/about-fio-ls/" target="_blank">http://www.frontiersinopti<wbr>cs.com/home/about-fio-ls/</a></span></p></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">The invited talk sessions include: (1) </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">Applications of High Resolution Retinal Imaging (2) Myopia Development  (3) </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">Material Perception</span><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS""></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"> (4) From Retina to Extra-striate cortex: Forward Models of Visual Input</span><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS"">  </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">(5) Lighting, Color Rendering, and Color <span class="gmail-m_-8759828181218533500gmail-m_2233276992572718671gmail-il">Vision</span>.</span><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS""></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><b style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">Besides the keynote speaker, the invited speakers includes:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"> </span></p><table class="gmail-m_-8759828181218533500gmail-m_2233276992572718671gmail-m_-3529650296770669304gmail-m_8491198138511054081gmail-m_8852004873488086994gmail-m_-3566032206857661246gmail-MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="370" style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;width:370pt;margin-left:4.65pt;border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr style="height:15.6pt"><td width="370" nowrap style="width:370pt;padding:0in 5.4pt;height:15.6pt"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:black"><a href="https://www.uab.edu/optometry/home/copy-full-time/29-facultystaff/facultybio/308-apucker" target="_blank">Andrew Pucker</a></span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">, University of Alabama Birmingham<b></b></span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:15.6pt"><td width="370" nowrap style="width:370pt;padding:0in 5.4pt;height:15.6pt"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:black"><a href="http://www.ncl.ac.uk/ion/staff/profile/anyahurlbert.html" target="_blank">Anya Hurlbert</a></span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">, University of New Castle<b></b></span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:15.6pt"><td width="370" nowrap style="width:370pt;padding:0in 5.4pt;height:15.6pt"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:black"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/beixiao/" target="_blank">Bei Xiao</a></span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">, American University<b></b></span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:15.6pt"><td width="370" nowrap style="width:370pt;padding:0in 5.4pt;height:15.6pt"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:black"><a href="https://web.stanford.edu/group/vista/cgi-bin/wandell/" target="_blank">Brian Wandell</a></span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">, Stanford University<b></b></span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:15.6pt"><td width="370" nowrap style="width:370pt;padding:0in 5.4pt;height:15.6pt"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:black"><a href="http://www.ohsu.edu/xd/education/schools/school-of-medicine/departments/basic-science-departments/biomedical-engineering/people/david-huang.cfm" target="_blank">David Huang</a></span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">, Oregon Health and Science University <b></b></span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:15.6pt"><td width="370" nowrap style="width:370pt;padding:0in 5.4pt;height:15.6pt"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:black"><a href="https://www.sunyopt.edu/research/graduate_faculty/david-troilo" target="_blank">David Troilo</a></span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">, SUNY College of Optometry<b></b></span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:15.6pt"><td width="370" nowrap style="width:370pt;padding:0in 5.4pt;height:15.6pt"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:black"><a href="http://www.opt.indiana.edu/dtmiller/index.aspx" target="_blank">Don Miller</a></span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">, Indiana University<b></b></span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:15.6pt"><td width="370" nowrap style="width:370pt;padding:0in 5.4pt;height:15.6pt"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:black"><a href="http://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/faculty-profiles/az/profile.html?xid=28472" target="_blank">Greg Schwartz</a></span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">, Northwestern University<b></b></span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:15.6pt"><td width="370" nowrap style="width:370pt;padding:0in 5.4pt;height:15.6pt"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:black"><a href="https://faculty.washington.edu/ionefine/" target="_blank">Ione Fine</a></span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">, University of Washington <b></b></span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:15.6pt"><td width="370" nowrap style="width:370pt;padding:0in 5.4pt;height:15.6pt"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:black"><a href="http://cvnlab.net/home.shtml" target="_blank">Kendrick Kay</a></span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">, University of Minnesota<b></b></span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:15.6pt"><td width="370" nowrap style="width:370pt;padding:0in 5.4pt;height:15.6pt"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:black"><a href="https://www.phas.ubc.ca/users/lorne-whitehead" target="_blank">Lorne Whitehead</a></span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">, University of British Columbia<b></b></span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:15.6pt"><td width="370" nowrap style="width:370pt;padding:0in 5.4pt;height:15.6pt"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:black"><a href="http://www.varrd.emory.edu/people/machelle-pardue/" target="_blank">Machelle Pardue</a></span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">,  Georgia Tech <b></b></span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:15.6pt"><td width="370" nowrap style="width:370pt;padding:0in 5.4pt;height:15.6pt"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"><a href="http://metame.rs/" target="_blank">Manuel Spitschan</a></span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">, Stanford University<b></b></span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:15.6pt"><td width="370" nowrap style="width:370pt;padding:0in 5.4pt;height:15.6pt"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:black"><a href="http://www.rit-mcsl.org/fairchild/" target="_blank">Mark Fairchild</a>,</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:black"> Rochester Institute of Technology<b></b></span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:15.6pt"><td width="370" nowrap style="width:370pt;padding:0in 5.4pt;height:15.6pt"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"><a href="http://www.cns.nyu.edu/~msl/" target="_blank">Michael Landy</a>,</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"> New York University<b></b></span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:15.6pt"><td width="370" nowrap style="width:370pt;padding:0in 5.4pt;height:15.6pt"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:black"><a href="http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~nbe/research.html" target="_blank">Noah Benson</a></span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">, New York University<b></b></span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:15.6pt"><td width="370" nowrap style="width:370pt;padding:0in 5.4pt;height:15.6pt"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"><a href="http://poseidon.sunyopt.edu/Zaidi/lab_people/aFaculty/Qasim%20Zaidi/page.html" target="_blank">Qasim Zaidi</a>,</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"> SUNY College of Optometry<b></b></span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:15.6pt"><td width="370" nowrap style="width:370pt;padding:0in 5.4pt;height:15.6pt"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:black"><a href="https://www.usn.no/om-hsn/kontakt-oss/ansatte/rigmor-baraas-article29278-6688.html" target="_blank">Rigmor Baraas</a></span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">, <span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">University of Southeast Norway</span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"></span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:15.6pt"><td width="370" nowrap style="width:370pt;padding:0in 5.4pt;height:15.6pt"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:black"><a href="http://www.kecl.ntt.co.jp/people/nishida.shinya/" target="_blank">Shin’ya Nishida</a></span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">, NTT Japan<b></b></span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:15.6pt"><td width="370" nowrap style="width:370pt;padding:0in 5.4pt;height:15.6pt"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:black"><a href="http://www.opt.indiana.edu/people/faculty/burns/stevhom2.htm" target="_blank">Stephen Burns</a></span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">, Indiana University<b></b></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif">A tentative schedule and description of the invited talk sessions can be found here:</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><u><span style="f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