<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.65pt;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Dear colleague, <br>
<br>We invite you to participate in the 25<sup style="">th</sup> Symposium of the International Colour Vision Society which will be held on July 5-9 in Riga, Latvia. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.65pt;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Submit an abstract for either a paper or a poster presentation on any aspect of colour vision.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.65pt;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">Traditionally to every symposium, ICVS will award a number of travel grants for student members of ICVS to attend the Symposium and present a talk or a poster.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Abstract submission deadline:   March 3^rd, 2019 <br>Registration opening date:        January 28^th, 2019 <br>Early registration deadline:       April 29^th, 2019 </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Please, see the submission webpage for details <br>
</span><a href="https://www.icvs2019.lu.lv/abstract-submission"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:blue">https://www.icvs2019.lu.lv/abstract-submission</span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"><br>
<br>About the ICVS Symposium<br>------------------------------<br>
<br>The meeting of ICVS encompasses fundamental, applied, and clinical aspects of research into colour vision, ranging from the molecular to the cognitive. In addition to the keynote presentations, there will be topical symposia, along with individual contributions reflecting the diversity of interests of the members of ICVS. These include physiologists, psychologists, physicists, engineers, geneticists, optometrists, ophthalmologists and other related professionals with interests in colour vision and colour vision deficiencies.<br>
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</span><span lang="LV" style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">In addition to the scientific program, lunches, a welcome reception, a half-day excursion and a banquet will be offered to both attendees and accompanying persons.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a name="_GoBack"></a><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"><br>
<br>Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to, any of the following:</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm" type="disc">
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Acquired loss of colour vision in diseases of the retina</span></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Central processing of colour signals</span></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Colour in occupational environments</span></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Colour induction and constancy</span></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Colour cognition</span></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Colour in the mesopic range</span></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Colour vision assessment</span></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Congenital colour vision deficiencies</span></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Clinical aspects of colour vision</span></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Ecology of colour vision</span></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Effects of ageing on colour vision</span></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Functional imaging and colour vision</span></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Genetics of colour vision</span></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Isolation of chromatic mechanisms</span></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Object-surface properties, material perception, and related topics</span></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Peripheral chromatic sensitivity</span></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Physiology of colour vision</span></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Unique hues</span></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Variability in colour vision</span></li>
</ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">We propose to hold the following topical sessions. You will have an opportunity to request inclusion on the abstract submission site.</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">         </span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Colour in Employment</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">         </span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Melanopsin and colour vision</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">         </span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Lighting and colour vision</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Verriest Medal</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">-----------------</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">The 2019 Verriest Medal Lecture w</span><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">ill be given by Professor Michael Webster (</span><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">University of Nevada Reno, Nevada</span><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">). The award was established in 1991 in memory of the founder of the Society, Dr. Guy Verriest, and honours outstanding contributions in the field of colour vision.</span><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"><br>
<br>Invited speakers<br>-----------------</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.65pt;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Beatrix Feigl</span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"> (Queensland University of Technology, Faculty of Health, Australia)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.65pt;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Sergey M. Gvozdev</span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"> (Moscow Research Institute, UN Expert in Lighting, Russia)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 12pt;line-height:12.65pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Greg Horwitz</span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"> (University of Washington, Department of Physiology & Biophysics, Neuroscience Focus Group, USA)<br>
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</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Scientific Committee <br>---------------------- <br>
<b>Marina V. Danilova</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Pavlov Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Anya Hurlbert</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">University of Newcastle, UK</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Jan Kremers</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">University Hospital Erlangen, Germany</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Galina V. Paramei</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Liverpool Hope University, UK</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Neil Parry</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Manchester Royal Eye Hospital, UK</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">John S. Werner</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">University of California, Davis, USA</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Organizing Committee <br>------------------------</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-indent:17.85pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">Sergejs Fomins</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 17.85pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">Evita Kassaliete</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 17.85pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">Ilze Ceple</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 17.85pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">Māris Ozoliņš</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 17.85pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">Gunta Krūmiņa</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 17.85pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">Andris Šternbergs</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:36pt;line-height:12.65pt;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-indent:17.85pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">University of Latvia Optometry and Vision Science Department</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-indent:17.85pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">University of Latvia Institute of Solid State Physics<br>
<br>Website and contact <br>----------------------<br>
<br>Conference website - <a href="http://www.icvs2019.lu.lv">www.icvs2019.lu.lv</a> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.65pt;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Organizers email - </span><a href="mailto:icvs2019@lu.lv"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:windowtext">icvs2019@lu.lv</span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.65pt;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">International Colour Vision Society (ICVS) - <a href="http://www.icvs.info">www.icvs.info</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.65pt;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.65pt;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.65pt;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Sincerely,<br>doc.Sergejs Fomins<br>University of Latvia<br>Optometry and Vision Science Department<br>Academic Centre for Life Sciences UL<br>1 Jelgavas Str, Riga, Latvia<br>+371 29530732<br>
<a href="mailto:sergejs.fomins@lu.lv"><span style="color:windowtext">sergejs.fomins@lu.lv</span></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.65pt;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">

































































































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