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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:4.5pt;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(34,34,34)">Early Registration for
2017 OSA Fall Vision Meeting is 10<sup>th</sup>, <span> </span>September 2017.</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:4.5pt;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:4.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(34,34,34)">The 17th
Annual Optical Society Vision Meeting will take place at the <a href="http://www.american.edu/cas/katzen/"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Katzen
Art Center</span></a> at <b>American University in Washington, DC,
from the 13th to the 15th of October 2017. </b><a href="http://www.osavisionmeeting.org/2017/conf/index.php"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://www.osavisionmeeting.org/2017/conf/index.php</span></a><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:4.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:4.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(34,34,34)">Please
register here:<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:4.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:4.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(34,34,34)"><a href="http://american.tix.com/Event.aspx?EventCode=964732">http://american.tix.com/Event.aspx?EventCode=964732</a><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:4.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:4.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:4.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(34,34,34)">Special
rate hotel can be booked at <a href="http://www.marriott.com/meeting-event-hotels/group-corporate-travel/groupCorp.mi?resLinkData=AU%20Fall%20Vision%20Room%20Block%5EWASVY%60AFVAFVB%60129.00%60USD%60false%601%6010/5/17%6010/15/17%609/12/17&app=resvlink&stop_mobi=yes">Marriot
Chevy Chase hotel</a>. <span> </span>The special rate
will only be valid until September 12<sup>th</sup>, 2017. </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:4.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:4.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(34,34,34)">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: <b><a href="http://visionlab.harvard.edu/members/ken/nakayama.html"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Prof. Ken Nakayama</span></a></b> from Harvard
University will be presented with the 2017 Tillyer Award
for distinguished work in the field of vision; and <b><a href="https://color.psych.upenn.edu/"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Prof. David
H. Brainard</span></a></b> from University of Pennsylvania will present
the annual Boynton Lecture.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:4.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:4.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(34,34,34)">The
invited talk sessions and speakesr include: (1) Applications of High
Resolution Retinal Imaging (Steve Burns, Rigmor Barass, Don Miller, David
Huang) (2) Myopia Development (Machelle Pardue, Greg Schwartz, Andrew
Pucker, David Troilo) (3) Material Perception (Shin’ya Nishida, Bei
Xiao, Qasim Zaida, Mike Landy) (4) From Retina to Extra-striate cortex:
Forward Models of Visual Input (Brian Wandell, Ione Fine, Noah Benson,
Kendrick Kay) (5) Lighting, Color Rendering, and Color Vision (Lorne
Whitehead, Manual Spitschan, Anya Hurlbert, Mark Fairchild).</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:4.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:4.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(34,34,34)">The three
contributed speaker sessions will include: (1) Color/Lightness, (2)
Retina to Cortex, (3) Clinical and Applied.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:4.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:4.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(34,34,34)">A
tentative schedule with speaker line-up can be found here:</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:4.5pt;background:white"><u><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(34,34,34)"><a href="http://www.osavisionmeeting.org/2017/conf/program.php"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://www.osavisionmeeting.org/2017/conf/program.php</span></a><span></span></span></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in;background:white"><u><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span></span></span></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in;background:white"><u><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span></span></span></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(34,34,34)">We look forward to welcoming you
in DC in October! <span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><br></p>
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</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><br><font size="1">Bei Xiao, PhD<br>Assistant Professor</font><div><font size="1">Computer Science & </font><span style="font-size:x-small">Center of Behavioral Neuroscience</span></div><div><font size="1">American University, Washington DC<br></font></div><div><font size="1">Office: Sports Center Annex Rm 110 (SCAN)</font></div><div><font size="1">Web: <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/beixiao/" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/site/beixiao/</a><br></font></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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