Schnurmacher Institute for
Vision Research Colloquia
...and other events of interest
Spring 2008
12:00pm-1:00pm Thursdays (except as noted)
Sunyopt students/faculty: see journal club website for speaker pdfs
Feb 28 (12noon)
No Colloquium, but we encourage you to attend @ Columbia University...
Moo-ming Poo, UC Berkeley
Activity-induced modifications of neural circuits
Neurobiology and Behavior Seminar
Neurological Institute Alumni Auditorium, 710 West 168th Street
March 6 (11am-12noon)
Room 1401
Balamurali Vasudevan, Sunyopt
Dissertation seminar
Nearwork Induced Transient Myopia- Structural and Functional
Aspects
Advisor: Ken Ciuffreda
March 10 (Monday, 6-9pm)
Room 206
VisioNYC - Claude Desplan, NYU, The
color vision pathway in Drosophila
Miguel Eckstein, UC Santa Barbara, TBA
Schedule: 6-6:30pm refreshments; 6:30-7:30pm talks; 7:30-9pm light
supper
March 13
Room 206
Patrick Garrigan, Saint Joseph's University
Efficient Color Coding: How the human cone mosaic is optimized
for
transmitting the chromatic information in natural scenes.
March 20
Room 1401
Susan Barry, Mt. Holyoke College
Beyond the critical period: Acquiring stereovision in adult
life
March 26 (Wednesday)
Room 206
Mavi Sanchez-Vives, University of Alicante
Neuronal and network mechanisms of adaptation in visual and
auditory primary cortices
March 27
Alumni Commons
Mel Slater, University College London
The importance of Visual Realism for Perception in Virtual
Environments
April 4 (Friday)
Alumni Commons
Josh Gold, U Penn
Sensory, sensory-motor and oculomotor correlates of perceptual
learning
April 11 (Friday)
Alumni Commons
Rowan Candy, Indiana University School of Optometry
The retinal visual experience of the human infant
April 17
Room 206
Neera Kapoor, Sunyopt
Vision Function and Acquired Brain Injury
April 24 (11am-2:30pm)
Room 1401
Dr. Benjamin Backus, Sunyopt -VSS Talk
The subjective reliability of a newly recruited visual
cue is similar whether or
not a long-trusted cue is also present
Yinan Wang, PhD Student- Sunyopt- ARVO Talk
Individual Differences In Accommodation To Wavefront
Vergence And Chromatic Aberration: Color Normal And Deutan Observers
Preethi Thiagarajan, PhD Student- Sunyopt- ARVO Poster
Convergence training alters only the speed of convergence
accomodation response reduction and the CA/C ratio
May 6 (Tuesday,
2pm-3pm)
Room 1425
Jacob Nachmias, University
of Pennsylvania
Informal chalk talk: Recent work related to Judging
spatial properties of
simple figures (Prof. Nachmias will assume audience familiarity
with his recent paper of this title which can be found on-line
in the April 2008 issue of Vision Research)
June 2 (Monday,
12 noon)
Gordon Legge, University of Minnesota
Sunyopt Honorary Degree Recipient
TBA
To receive email reminders, to schedule a meeting with a speaker, or for other questions/comments,
contact Nili Parekh at nparekh(at)sunyopt.edu
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