<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="ES" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dear collegues</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="ES" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="ES" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">from the Vision Sciences Committee @SEDOPTICA we invite you to attend the 2026 Young researchers biophotonics winter meeting @CCVision @SEDOPTICA, </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt">which will be held online on </span><b style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt">February 18, 2026</b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt">.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt">The program, as you can see in the attached documents, includes a guest talk by  </span><b style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt">Adrian Podoleanu (University of Kent)</b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt"> </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt">and 6 talks by young researchers from different groups of Optics and Photonics in Spain.</span></p><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="ES" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"> </span></p></blockquote><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="689" style="width:517pt;border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr style="height:23.15pt"><td width="129" valign="top" style="width:97pt;padding:0.75pt 7.7pt 0cm;height:23.15pt"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="ES" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">15:00–15:10</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p></td><td width="559" valign="top" style="width:419pt;padding:0.75pt 7.7pt 0cm;height:23.15pt"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">WELCOME Vision Science Committee @SEDOPTICA</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Mikel Aldaba | Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:33.5pt"><td width="129" valign="top" style="width:97pt;padding:0.75pt 7.7pt 0cm;height:33.5pt"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="ES" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">15:10–16:00</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p></td><td width="559" valign="top" style="width:419pt;padding:0.75pt 7.7pt 0cm;height:33.5pt"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">KEYNOTE SPEAKER</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Coherence gating in support of technology for imaging the eye</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Adrian Podoleanu | </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">University of Kent, Canterbury, UK</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="ES" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Discussion</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Moderator. Alba Paniagua | University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:133.9pt"><td width="129" valign="top" style="width:97pt;padding:0.75pt 7.7pt 0cm;height:133.9pt"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="ES" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">16:00–16:45</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p></td><td width="559" valign="top" style="width:419pt;padding:0.75pt 7.7pt 0cm;height:133.9pt"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">BIOPHOTONICS ENGINEERING</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Beyond Corneal Maps: Deep Learning Fusion of Scheimpflug Images and Topography for Keratoconus Detection</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Juan Casado Moreno | University of Zaragoza, Spain</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Experimental Implementation of Artificial Intelligence Techniques for the Optimization of Optical and Visual Quality Measurements in the Human Eye</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Juan Sebastian Ramirez Quintero | University of Antioquia, Colombia</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Estimating IOL position in cataract surgery using eigeneyes and machine learning algorithms</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Javier Rodríguez Sánchez | Instituto de Óptica "Daza de Valdés" CSIC, Spain</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Moderator. Mikel Aldaba| Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:125.9pt"><td width="129" valign="top" style="width:97pt;padding:0.75pt 7.7pt 0cm;height:125.9pt"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="ES" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">16:45-17:30</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="ES" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p></td><td width="559" valign="top" style="width:419pt;padding:0.75pt 7.7pt 0cm;height:125.9pt"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">CLINICAL APPLICATIONS</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Foveal neural contrast sensitivity remains stable until late adulthood</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Sara Silva Leite | </span><span lang="SV" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH, Germany</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Chromatic properties of diffractive optics: clinical implications in vision</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Laura Clavé | Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The role of visual performance and the impact of induced vision impairment on fine motor skills.</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Pilar Granados Delgado | University of Granada, Spain</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Moderator. Clara Mestre | Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt"> </span><br><b style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><span lang="ES" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"inherit",serif">++ INFO & REGISTRO </span></b><br><b style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><u><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="https://www.sedoptica.es/comites_SEDO/vision/actividades.html" target="_blank">https://www.sedoptica.es/comites_SEDO/vision/actividades.html</a>  </span></u></b><br><b style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><span lang="EN-GB">REGISTRATION FORM: <a href="https://forms.gle/NLzmvZNbj2UuEdaG7" style="color:blue" target="_blank">https://forms.gle/CE15JKSqBjFghP8L8</a></span></b><br><b style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><span lang="EN-GB">Meet LINK: <u><a href="https://meet.google.com/aor-gvkf-sjf" target="_blank">https://meet.google.com/aor-gvkf-sjf</a></u></span></b><br><b style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><span lang="ES"><a href="mailto:ccvision@sedoptica.com" target="_blank">ccvision@sedoptica.com</a></span></b><br><span style="font-family:"inherit",serif;font-size:12pt"> </span><br><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt"> </span><br><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt">Un saludo cordial</span><br><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt">Comité CC Visión</span><br><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt"> </span><br><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="ES" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></p><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse:collapse;border:none"><tbody><tr><td width="138" valign="top" style="width:103.8pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="ES" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Presidente              </span></p></blockquote></td><td width="154" valign="top" style="width:115.7pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="ES" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Mikel Aldaba           </span></p></blockquote></td></tr><tr><td width="138" valign="top" style="width:103.8pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="ES" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Vicepresidenta        </span></p></blockquote></td><td width="154" valign="top" style="width:115.7pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="ES" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Alba Paniagua         </span></p></blockquote></td></tr><tr><td width="138" valign="top" style="width:103.8pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="ES" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Secretaria               </span></p></blockquote></td><td width="154" valign="top" style="width:115.7pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="ES" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Clara Mestre </span></p></blockquote></td></tr></tbody></table></div>
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