Optica
Fall Vision Meeting
Thank you all for an excellent meeting in October, 2022. We will be announcing the dates and location of the 2023 meeting some time in February, 2023.
Highlights from last year's meeting:
This years award lectures:
We will be honoring two Edgar D. Tillyer Award winners in-person this year with Tillyer Award Lectures from David Brainard (2021) and Mary Hayhoe (2022).
We are pleased to announce Andrew Stockman as the 2022 Boynton Award Lecture recipient!
This year's invited sessions are on the following themes:
Vision restoration
Michael Beyeler, UC Santa Barbara; Juliette McGregor, University of Rochester; Rachel M. Huckfeldt, Harvard Massachusetts Eye and Ear; Daniel Yoshor, University of Pennsylvania
Myopia and myopa control
Frank Schaeffel, University of Tübingen; Lisa Ostrin, University of Houston; David Troilo, SUNY College of Optometry; Christine F. Wildsoet, UC Berkeley
Neural network models of the visual system
Grace Lindsay, New York University; Hannah Choi, Georgia Tech; SueYeon Chung, New York University; Ilker Yildirim, Yale University
Studies of the visual cortex with sub-millimeter resolution
Sandra J. Kuhlman, Carnegie Mellon University; Eyal Seidemann, UT Austin; Na Ji, UC Berkeley; Prakash Kara, University of Minnesota
The eye as a window to systemic and neurodegenerative health
Steven M. Silverstein, University of Rochester; Yuhua Zhang, UC Los Angeles; Richard Rosen, New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai; Joe Xing, C. Light Technologies, Inc.
More details to be announced as they come! We will announce additional news on this site, the Optica Technical Group distribution lists, the cvnet and visionlist distribution lists, and via the @OSAFVM Twitter account.
Abstracts from the 2021 Fall Vision Meeting have been published!
Abstracts from the 2021 Fall Vision Meeting have now been published in the Journal of Vision. The 2021 meeting was held virtually, and you can access the past program (including video recordings of each session) at the 2021 meeting site. The quality of work presented by our trainees was highly competitive, and so we are pleased to announce three Young Investigator Award winners for 2021:
Alisa Braun, University of California, Berkeley: The benefits of naturally moving over stabilized stimuli for acuity increase with longer presentation times
Sierra Schleufer, University of Washington: In-vivo classification of human cone photoreceptors reveals crystalline S-cone sub-mosaics in the central retina
Martin T.W. Scott, University of York: Evidence for a dipper effect in the perception of global form: findings from psychophysics and EEG