<div dir="ltr"><p style="margin-bottom:9pt"><span style="color:black">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. Details
 about the meeting can be found at the following link:</span> <a href="http://www.osa.org/vision" target="_blank">
www.osa.org/vision</a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:9pt"><span style="color:black">The abstract submission is now open. Please submit your 250-word abstract at the following site by June 21, 2019:</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:9pt"><a href="https://www.osa.org/en-us/meetings/topical_meetings/osa_fall_vision_meeting/submit_papers/" target="_blank">https://www.osa.org/en-us/meetings/topical_meetings/osa_fall_vision_meeting/submit_papers/</a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:9pt"><span style="color:black">The online registration will open soon.  Registration details can be found here:</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:9pt"><a href="https://www.osa.org/en-us/meetings/topical_meetings/osa_fall_vision_meeting/registration/" target="_blank">https://www.osa.org/en-us/meetings/topical_meetings/osa_fall_vision_meeting/registration/</a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:9pt"><span style="color:black">The early-bird 
registration deadline is 13 August, 2019. Information about registration
 and hotels are available on the meeting website at
</span><a href="https://www.osa.org/en-us/meetings/topical_meetings/osa_fall_vision_meeting/" target="_blank">https://www.osa.org/en-us/meetings/topical_meetings/osa_fall_vision_meeting/</a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:9pt"><span style="color:black">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. For details
 please see </span><a href="http://www.frontiersinoptics.com/home/about-fio-ls/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(79,129,189);text-decoration:none">https://www.frontiersinoptics.com/home/about-fio-ls/</span></a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:9pt"><span style="color:black">This year’s 
Fall Vision Meeting includes a keynote lecture by this year's Tillyer Award winner,  5 invited sessions, 3 
contributed talk sessions, and contributed poster presentations.
</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:9pt"><a href="https://lo.um.es/member/pablo-artal/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(79,129,189);text-decoration:none">Professor Pablo Artal</span></a><span style="color:black">
 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 2019 Boynton Lecturer will be
</span><a href="https://www.uab.edu/medicine/ophthalmology/faculty/curcio" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Professor Christine Curcio</span></a><span style="color:black"> from the University of Alabama, Birmingham. However, due to schedule conflict,
 the Boynton lecture will be presented next year in 2020.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:9pt"><span style="color:black">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 style="margin-bottom:9pt"><a href="https://www.sunyopt.edu/education/academics/faculty/emeritus-faculty/benjamin-backus" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(79,129,189);text-decoration:none">Ben Backus</span></a><span style="color:black">, Vivid Vision  </span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:9pt"><a href="https://www.unige.ch/fapse/brainlearning/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(79,129,189);text-decoration:none">Daphne Bavelier</span></a><span style="color:black">, University of Geneva</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:9pt"><a href="https://irp.nih.gov/pi/bevil-conway" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(79,129,189);text-decoration:none">Bevil Conway</span></a><span style="color:black">, NIH</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:9pt"><a href="https://www.uab.edu/optometry/home/people/faculty/timothy-gawne" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(79,129,189);text-decoration:none">Timothy Gawne</span></a><span style="color:black">, University of Alabama, Birmingham</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:9pt"><a href="https://cnl.berkeley.edu/people/jesse-gomez/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(79,129,189);text-decoration:none">Jesse Gomez</span></a><span style="color:black">, University of California, Berkeley</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:9pt"><a href="https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/projects/pew-biomedical-scholars/directory-of-pew-scholars/2014/robert-j-johnston" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(79,129,189);text-decoration:none">Robert Johnston</span></a><span style="color:black">,
 Johns Hopkins University</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:9pt"><a href="https://psychology.osu.edu/people/lindsey.43" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(79,129,189);text-decoration:none">Del Lindsey</span></a><span style="color:black">, Ohio State University</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:9pt"><a href="http://www.vision.csic.es/People/Personal%20Web%20Pages/Susana%20Marcos.aspx" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(79,129,189);text-decoration:none">Susana Marcos</span></a><span style="color:black">, Instituto de Optico, CSIC</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:9pt"><a href="https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/people/26772783-anna-majewska" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(79,129,189);text-decoration:none">Ania Majewska</span></a><span style="color:black">, University of Rochester</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:9pt"><span style="color:black">Anna Matynia, University of California, Los Angeles</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:9pt"><a href="https://www.dur.ac.uk/psychology/staff/profile/?id=14131" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(79,129,189);text-decoration:none">Maria Olkkonen</span></a><span style="color:black">, Durham University</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:9pt"><a href="https://sleep.med.harvard.edu/people/faculty/1627/Shadab+A+Rahman+PhD+MPH" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(79,129,189);text-decoration:none">Shadab A. Rahman</span></a><span style="color:black">, Brigham and Women’s Hospital</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:9pt"><a href="https://www.uakron.edu/biology/faculty-staff/detail.dot?identity=1114699" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(79,129,189);text-decoration:none">Jordan Renna</span></a><span style="color:black">, University of Akron</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:9pt"><a href="http://faculty.ucr.edu/~aseitz/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(79,129,189);text-decoration:none">Aaron Seitz</span></a><span style="color:black">, University of California, Riverside</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:9pt"><a href="https://www.psy.ox.ac.uk/team/hannah-smithson" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(79,129,189);text-decoration:none">Hannah Smithson</span></a><span style="color:black">, Oxford University</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:9pt"><a href="https://www.columbiapsychiatry.org/profile/michael-terman-phd" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(79,129,189);text-decoration:none">Michael Terman</span></a><span style="color:black">, Columbia University</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:9pt"><a href="https://optometry.berkeley.edu/people/william-tuten-phd/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(79,129,189);text-decoration:none">William S. Tuten</span></a><span style="color:black">, University of California, Berkeley</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:9pt"><a href="https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/people/22230140-geunyoung-yoon" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(79,129,189);text-decoration:none">Geunyoung Yoon</span></a><span style="color:black">, University of Rochester</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:9pt"><a href="https://retinafoundation.org/studies/binocular-vision-research/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(79,129,189);text-decoration:none">Krista Kelly</span></a><span style="color:black">, Retina Foundation of the Southwest</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:9pt"> </p>
<p style="margin-bottom:9pt"><span style="color:black">We look forward to welcoming you in Washington, DC.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:9pt"> </p>
<p style="margin-bottom:9pt"><span style="color:black">Sincerely,</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:9pt"><span style="color:black">Local Organizer Representative, Laura Spencer, The Optical Society (OSA)</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:9pt"><span style="color:black">Stacey Choi, Chair of OSA FVM Planning Committee</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:9pt"><span style="color:black">Ravi Jonnal, Co-chair of OSA FVM Planning Committee</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="color:black">Vicki Volbrecht, OSA Division Chair (Vision and Color)</span></p><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Ravi Sankar Jonnal, Ph.D.<br>Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology<br>University of California at Davis<br>+1 812 391 0588 (cell)<br>+1 916 734 5839 (office)<br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>