<div dir="auto"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:9pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The 19th Annual Optical Society Vision Meeting is scheduled to take place at the Headquarters of the Optical Society of America in Washington, DC, from the 19th to the 22nd of September, 2019.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:9pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Links to registration, abstract submission and other details about the meeting will follow shortly.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:9pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Finally, as in previous years, attendees of the Fall Vision Meeting will receive one day of complimentary attendance at OSA’s  Frontier in Optics (FiO) meeting (Sept 16-19 in DC) and vice versa</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:9pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">This year’s Fall Vision Meeting includes two special events,  five invited sessions, 3 contributed talk sessions, and contributed poster presentations.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:9pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">For the first of the special events,</span><a href="https://lo.um.es/member/pablo-artal/" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(66,133,244)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(79,129,189);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Professor Pablo Artal</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> from the University of Murcia, Spain will be presented with the 2019 Tillyer Award for distinguished work in the field of vision and his Tillyer lecture will kick off the Fall Vision Meeting at 4 pm, Thursday September 19th. The second special event of the Fall Vision Meeting will be the Boynton Lecture, the presenter to be announced.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:9pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The invited talk sessions include: (1) Aberrations and vision: the limits of visual performance studied with adaptive optics; (2) Biological development of the visual system; (3) Understanding color; (4) Non-visual effects of light in development and disease; and (5) Perceptual learning and video games: new ways to learn. Confirmed invited speakers for these talk sessions include:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:9pt"><a href="https://www.sunyopt.edu/education/academics/faculty/emeritus-faculty/benjamin-backus" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(66,133,244)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(79,129,189);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Ben Backus</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, Vivid Vision</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:9pt"><a href="https://www.unige.ch/fapse/brainlearning/" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(66,133,244)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(79,129,189);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Daphne Bavelier</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, University of Geneva</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:9pt"><a href="https://irp.nih.gov/pi/bevil-conway" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(66,133,244)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(79,129,189);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Bevil Conway</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, NIH</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:9pt"><a href="https://www.uab.edu/optometry/home/people/faculty/timothy-gawne" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(66,133,244)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(79,129,189);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Timothy Gawne</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, University of Alabama, Birmingham</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:9pt"><a href="https://cnl.berkeley.edu/people/jesse-gomez/" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(66,133,244)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(79,129,189);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Jesse Gomez</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, University of California, Berkeley</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:9pt"><a href="https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/projects/pew-biomedical-scholars/directory-of-pew-scholars/2014/robert-j-johnston" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(66,133,244)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(79,129,189);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Robert Johnston</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, Johns Hopkins University</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:9pt"><a href="https://psychology.osu.edu/people/lindsey.43" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(66,133,244)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(79,129,189);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Del Lindsey</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, Ohio State University</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:9pt"><a href="http://www.vision.csic.es/People/Personal%20Web%20Pages/Susana%20Marcos.aspx" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(66,133,244)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(79,129,189);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Susana Marcos</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, Spanish National Research Council, Instituto de Optica, CSIC</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:9pt"><a href="https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/people/26772783-anna-majewska" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(66,133,244)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(79,129,189);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Ania Majewska</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, University of Rochester</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:9pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Anna Matynia, University of California, Los Angeles</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:9pt"><a href="https://www.dur.ac.uk/psychology/staff/profile/?id=14131" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(66,133,244)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(79,129,189);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Maria Olkkonen</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, Durham University</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:9pt"><a href="https://sleep.med.harvard.edu/people/faculty/1627/Shadab+A+Rahman+PhD+MPH" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(66,133,244)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(79,129,189);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Shadab A. Rahman</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, Brigham and Women’s Hospital</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:9pt"><a href="https://www.uakron.edu/biology/faculty-staff/detail.dot?identity=1114699" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(66,133,244)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(79,129,189);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Jordan Renna</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, University of Akron</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:9pt"><a href="http://faculty.ucr.edu/~aseitz/" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(66,133,244)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(79,129,189);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Aaron Seitz</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, University of California, Riverside</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:9pt"><a href="https://www.psy.ox.ac.uk/team/hannah-smithson" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(66,133,244)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(79,129,189);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Hannah Smithson</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, Oxford University</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:9pt"><a href="https://www.columbiapsychiatry.org/profile/michael-terman-phd" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(66,133,244)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(79,129,189);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Michael Terman</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, Columbia University</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:9pt"><a href="https://optometry.berkeley.edu/people/william-tuten-phd/" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(66,133,244)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(79,129,189);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">William S. Tuten</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, University of California, Berkeley</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:9pt"><a href="https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/people/22230140-geunyoung-yoon" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(66,133,244)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(79,129,189);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Geunyoung Yoon</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, University of Rochester</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:9pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:9pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We look forward to welcoming you in Washington, DC.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:9pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Sincerely,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:9pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Local Organizer Representative, Laura Spencer, The Optical Society (OSA)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:9pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Stacey Choi, Chair of OSA FVM Planning Committee</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:9pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Ravi Jonnal, Co-chair of OSA FVM Planning Committee</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"times new roman";font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Vicki Volbrecht, OSA Division Chair (Vision and Color)</span></p><br></div>