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AVA - DAVID MARR MEDAL - 2025</span></p>
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FINAL REMINDER, TWO WEEKS TO THE DEADLINE **</span></p>
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<p style="line-height:11pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;text-indent:0in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;vertical-align:baseline">The
AVA awards, normally every two years, a medal recognizing the achievements of
an outstanding vision scientist in the early part of their research career. The
award is called the David Marr Medal, in memory of one of Britain's most
distinguished vision researchers. This notice is a call for nominations for the
2025 award.</span></p>
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<p style="line-height:11pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;text-indent:0in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;vertical-align:baseline">Nomination</span></p>
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<p style="line-height:11pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;text-indent:0in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;vertical-align:baseline">Candidates
from any country are eligible as long as they can demonstrate a significant
link to UK research, and who completed their PhD no more than 10 years ago*.
More precisely: for the 2025 award, nominees should have submitted their PhD on
or after Jan 1st 2015.</span></p>
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<p style="line-height:11pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;text-indent:0in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline">*</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;vertical-align:baseline">Allowances can be made for illness,
career or child-rearing breaks.</span></p>
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<p style="line-height:11pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;text-indent:0in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;vertical-align:baseline">Nominations
(but not self-nominations) are invited from AVA members, and should include: </span></p>
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<p style="line-height:11pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;text-indent:0in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;vertical-align:baseline">• a letter of recommendation </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline">(use standard letter template from
AVA website)</span></p>
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<p style="line-height:11pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;text-indent:0in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;vertical-align:baseline">• the nominee's CV (with list of publications,
funding, outreach)</span></p>
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<p style="line-height:11pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;text-indent:0in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;vertical-align:baseline">• two example publications (PDF files). </span></p>
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<p style="line-height:11pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;text-indent:0in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;vertical-align:baseline">Any
eligible vision scientist may be nominated, whether nominated previously or
not.</span></p>
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<p style="line-height:11pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;text-indent:0in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;vertical-align:baseline">The
Award</span></p>
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<p style="line-height:11pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;text-indent:0in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;vertical-align:baseline">The
winner of the 2025 award will be announced by the end of May 2025. They will be
invited to receive it and to give a talk at the AVA Christmas meeting 2025.</span></p>
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<p style="line-height:11pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;text-indent:0in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;vertical-align:baseline">Previous
awards</span></p>
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about previous Marr medal winners can be found here:</span></p>
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<p style="line-height:11pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;text-indent:0in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;vertical-align:baseline">Deadline:
Nominations (in electronic form) should be e-mailed to the AVA Marr Medal
chairperson, George Lovell (<a href="mailto:p.g.lovell@abertay.ac.uk">p.g.lovell@abertay.ac.uk</a>) by Friday, March 14th
2025.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;vertical-align:baseline">Nominators considering candidates
who submitted their PhD earlier than Jan 1st 2015, but who subsequently had a
career break, are welcome to apply for this award. In this case we ask that
nominators add a short explanation of the nature of the break in their
application for review by the committee. A template for the letter of
recommendation is provided on the AVA website
<<a href="https://www.theava.net/awards/marr.php">https://www.theava.net/awards/marr.php</a>>.</span></div><div><br><br>George Lovell</div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><p><a name="SignatureSanitizer_SafeHtmlFilter_UNIQUE_ID_SafeHtmlFilter__MailAutoSig"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">-----------------------------------</span></a></p>
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