Program

OPTICA FALL VISION MEETING 

2nd-5th October

Hosted by the University of Minnesota 

Schedule overview

Thursday 2nd October 

        17:30-19:30 - Welcome registration, drinks reception CMMR

Friday 3rd October 

08:30-09:00 - Registration / coffee

09:00-09:15 - Welcome, Chair / LOC?

09:15-11:15 - Invited talk session 1 - Modeling the visual system
Rhea Eskew   (Northeastern), 

 Thomas Naselaris     (UMN)

  Miguel Eckstein (UCSB) 

 Fred Kingdom     (McGill)

11:15-11:45 - Break

11:45-13:15 - Contributed talk session I (6x 15 min talks in research theme)

13:15-14:30 - Lunch 

14:30-16:30 - Poster session I 

16:30-17:30 - Tillyer Award Lecture Marcos

17:30-20:00 - Conference dinner 

Saturday 4th October

08:30-09:00 - Registration / coffee

        09:00-11:00 - Invited talk session 2 - New technologies for vision science
Amani Fawzi (Northwestern) 

  Eric Muir (UNC) 

 Jesse Schallek (U.Rochester)

Steve Burns (Indiana U)

        11:00-11:15 - Break

11:15-12:45 - Contributed talk session II (6x 15 min talks in research theme)

12:45-13:45 - Lunch 

        13:45-15:45 - Invited talk session 3 - Advances in MR imaging of the visual system

Jon Winawer (NYU) 

Shahin Nasr (MGH) 

Kalanit Grill-Spector (Stanford)

Kendrick Kay (UMN)

         15:45-16:00 - Break

         16:00-17:30 - Poster session II

   17:30-18:30 - Boynton Award Lecture - Austin Roorda

        18:30 - Evening entertainment - own arrangements

Sunday 5th October

          08:30-09:00 - Registration and refreshments

          09:00-10:30 - Invited: 40 Years of Reading (Special session): 

Gordon Legge (UMN) 

Susana Chung (UC Berkeley) 

Denis Pelli (NYU)

           10:30-10:45 - Break 

           10:45-11:45 - Contributed talk session III (4x 15 min talks in research theme)

           11:45-12:00 - Concluding remarks and presentation of Young Investigator Awards