AVA. Aston, Birmingham, UK

The AVA Chrismas meeting will be held at Aston University, Birmingham this year on Monday the 17th December.

Invited talks will be given by Anya Hurlbert, Zoe Kourtzi and Stuart Anstis. CRS will be sponsoring Prof Anstis in his invited talk entitled "Colours, Faces, and Mrs. Thatcher's Bikini".

The program is packed with presentations and posters, so visit the AVA as soon as possible to sign up for the meeting.

Why not sign up to our newsletter and be notified when Stuart Anstis's talk is added to our website?

BOMG
London, UK

The BOMG will meet again at Imperial College London this December.

Friday 7th December will see the annual meeting of the British Ocular Motor Group (BOMG) at Imperial College London. There is a morning session entitled “Oculomotor Brits Abroad” with Jean Buttner-Ennever, John Leigh and Fred Miles participating.

We will be sponsoring John Leigh in his lecture 'The linear and rotational vestibulo-ocular reflexes in patients with parkinsonian and cerebellar disorders'.

The lecture will be available on our website shortly afterwards - why not sign up to our newsletter to be notified when the talk goes live? Click here to sign up today.

OPAM California, USA

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The 15th annual meeting of OPAM will take place in Long Beach California this year.

We are sponsoring Dr Vince DiLollo in his key note lecture at this year’s event. Don’t worry if you miss it, the lecture will be available on our website shortly afterwards in our Research Topic area.

AAO,
New Orleans, USA

The 111th American Academy of Opthalmology meeting will be returning to a recovered New Orleans.

Judah Folkman will be the 2007 opening lecture keynote speaker, setting the scene for the exciting program that follows.

Click here to search through the online program of over 2,000 hours of clinical presentations, events and tours and plan your itinerary.

Click here to view the AAO 2007 Meeting wesbite.

SFN
California, USA

The 37th annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience will take place on Nov. 3-7 in San Diego, California.

Scientists from around the world will gather to exchange ideas about cutting-edge research on the brain, spinal cord, and nervous system. The preliminary program shows a lineup of fascinating lectures, symposia, workshops, and more.

Featured lecturers include Jeff Hawkins, Karel Svoboda, Tamas F. Freund, Shigetada Nakanishi, H. Sebastian Seung, Martha J. Farah, Newt Gingrich, Susan L. Lindquist, Mark H. Ellisman, Michael S. Gazzaniga, Heidi Johansen-Berg,

Click here to see full details of the event.

Click here to find out about MRI-Live! - our unique brain mapping tool.

CSN
Hangzhou, China

The Chinese Society for Neuroscience Conference will be held in Hangzhou, China on the 14th -28th October.

Come along and meet our Chinese distributors Shanghai Quichi Instruments who will be at the event with the latest information on our tools for vision science. It is the largest neuroscience meeting in China and there willl be more than a thousand neuroscience researchers attending.

OSA
California, USA

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The small, highly focussed scientific meeting on vision, colour and noninvasive assessment techniques is being held in Berkeley, CA this year in collaboration with the Optical Society of America.

The Fall Vision Meeting focuses on human vision. It is broadly divided into four categories : Vision, Colour, Applications and Clinical. This year, they are hosting an additional day dedicated to the relationship between vision science and computer graphics and games.

We are sponsoring and recording an invited lecture by Kathy Mullen (McGill Vision Research), which will be titled “Color processing in the human LGN and cortex measured with fMRI”.

Click here to view the program.

ECVP
Arezzo, Italy

The 30th European Conference on Visual Perception will be held in Arezzo, Italy. Be sure to pick up a CRS sponsored conference bag!

This year's opening perception lecture will be taken by Dr. Christopher Tyler and titled “The Science of Perspective in Renaissance: Urbino and Arezzo”. Held in St Francis Church, the frescos will act as the backdrop to Dr Tyler's lecture rather than powerpoint slides - a unique lecture not to be missed!

Visitors to the conference can attend the Rank Price Fund sponsored lecture, which is taken by Anthony Movshon this year.

The conference centre has many facilities; salad bars, cafes and restaurants and the organizers have also planned a medieval banquet for the Wednesday night complete with costumed waiters and jugglers!

Click here to view the program.

ECEM
Potsdam, Germany

The European Conference on Eye Movements 2007 is the 14th in the series of conferences dedicated to the research of eye movement and an event not to be missed for those interested in the field.

The event looks to be action packed with over 300 oral and poster presentations given by scientists from over 24 different countries.

Highlights include a plenary symposium in honour of John M. Findlay, and invited lectures from Gerry Altmann, Michael E. Goldberg, Hans-Otto Karnath, Susana Martinez-Conde and Keith Rayner.

Click here to view the program.

VSJ
Toyahashi, Japan

The Vision Society of Japan will meet this year for their summer symposium in Toyahasi and we hope to see you there.

The programme includes a lecture by Andrzej Cichocki and many others to be confirmed. Tom Robson will be there alongside our Japanese distributors Namoto with our MRI-Live! model.

ICVS
Pará, Brazil

We are really looking forward to this year's ICVS meeting - make sure you pick up a CRS sponsored conference bag!

The 2007 ICVS Symposium is being held in Brazil for the first time and the five day event focuses on colour vision and colour vision deficiencies.

This includes a special session dedicated to the Nagal Centenial: the anniversary of the introduction of the W.A. Nagel Anomaloscope in 1907.

Professor Barry Lee Phd. of SUNY State College of Optometry will be receiving this year’s Verriest Medal; honouring long term contributions to the field of colour vision. Professor Lee is a multidisciplinary scientist at the centre of the great advances made in the last 20 years in unraveling the relations between structure and visual function in the retina.

Click here to view the programme

CNS
Fukuoka, Japan

The 12th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Cognitive Neuroscience is being held Kyushi University Medical Department.

With lectures from Gastone G. Celesia and Deborah Fein.

Click for more.

CVRS
London, UK

The Biennial CVRS meeting will be held this year at City University and contains a special Festschrift for Alistair Fielder.

This meeting is organized every second year to provide an opportunity for exchanging new ideas and findings between basic scientists and clinicians concerned with vision in infants and children.This year we will be sponsoring a Keynote lecture by Graham Quinn. This will soon be available on the research topic section of our website along with Jan Atkinson's Keynote lecture from the day.

Be sure to pick up one of our bags on your way in!

OHBM
Chicago, USA

We are excited to launch MRI-Live! at this event and will be exhibiting the new model for all to see.

The Talairach Lecture, named after famed neurosurgeon Jean Talairach, is a prestigious honor given only to top neurologists. This year's Talairach lecture will be presented by Daniel Kahneman, Princeton University. Other details of the packed programme can be viewed here.

You can count on the traditional OHBM combination of exciting scientific programs and social events, but with a distinctive Chicago flavor. Do plan to give yourself a little extra time to experience this beautiful city located on the shores of Lake Michigan, on of the world's greatest inland seas.

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BOMG
Aston, UK

BOMG brings together researchers using a variety of (experimental, computational, clinical, and applied) approaches to the study of eye movement control, the relation between eye movements and visual perception, and between eye movements and other motor acts.

The CRS Invited Speaker, Richard Abadi, University of Manchester, UK, will speak on Eye movements and visual perception. The lecture will be recorded for the Research Topics area of our website. Sign up here to receive our newsletter, which will notify you when the lecture is available.

Cambridge Research Systems are also pleased to support the BOMG the Best Poster Prize once again this year.

Go to the BOMG Annual Meeting home page

Colour Group
London, UK

CRS are once again proud to support the Colour Group at their Vision Meeting at the Institute of Ophthalmology, UCL, London on 10th January.

This year the Cambridge Research Systems Sponsored Lecture, Color based object identification: alternatives to inverse optics, will be given by Qasim Zaidi, SUNY College of Optometry, New York. The lecture will be recorded for the Research Topics area of our website. Sign up here to receive our newsletter, which will notify you when the lecture is available.

Go to Colour Group home page

AVA
Aston, UK

CRS are proud to support the AVA Christmas Meeting, being held this year at the University of Aston.

We are pleased to announce that the CRS Guest Lecture Trying to model contrast discrimination dippers will be given by David J. Tolhurst, University of Cambridge, UK. The lecture will be recorded for the Research Topics area of our website. Sign up here to receive our newsletter, which will notify you when the lecture is available.

Go to AVA Christmas Meeting programme

Coloured Filters in the Eye: Protective functions and effects on visual performance with emphasis on colour vision.

The CRS sponsored speaker at this symposium is Richard Bone, Department of Physics, Florida International University, whose talk is entitled Macular pigment optical density determined by reflectometry and flicker: Is flicker the gold standard?

CRS Research Topics on Macular Pigment

CRS Metropsis Macular Pigment Optical Density Test

OPAM
Houston, TX, USA

Cambridge Research Systems are delighted to announce our sponsorship of the keynote address at the 14th Annual OPAM conference, which will be given by Dr Nancy Kanwisher.

OPAM is a conference dedicated to issues in object perception, attention, memory and other areas of visual cognition. It takes place, each year, on the first day of the meeting of the Psychonomic Society. OPAM is intended as a forum primarily for scientists early in their careers, such as graduate students or post docs. The conference embraces a diversity of approaches to the study of object perception and memory. Such approaches can include, for example, psychophysics, developmental psychology, or neuroscience.

CRS Advert in OPAM Abstract Book

The Department of Psychology and the BRAIN Center for Neuroscience of the University of Trieste are pleased to invite you to the 14th Kanizsa Lecture, sponsored by Cambridge Research Systems.

This year, the lecture will be given by Melvyn A.Goodale (University of Western Ontario) who will speak on “Visual Duplicity: Action without Perception in the Human Visual System”.

The lecture will be on Friday, October 27 at 4.00 pm in the Revoltella Museum Auditorium.

The accompanying Symposium on Perception and Cognition will begin on Thursday, October 26 at 3 pm and it will include additional selected oral presentations (Thursday afternoon), an invited workshop (Friday morning), and an open poster session (Friday lunch time). The Symposium will be held at the Psychology Department. Social activities will include a buffet lunch at the Friday poster session, sponsored by Cambridge Research Systems, and a social dinner on Friday night.

If you wish to contribute a presentation to the Symposium, please send us a title and a brief abstract. Traditionally, the Symposium is open to all areas and approaches to the study of cognition, has no registration fee, and runs on an informal, relaxed pace. Please submit the title of your contribution by electronic mail to either of the following addresses: nick@psico.univ.trieste.it or battagli@univ.trieste.it as soon as possible and no later than October 1. Please also specify whether you would like to be considered for oral presentations or have a need for special demonstration equipment.

Workshop on “Integrative Approaches to Perception and Action” The lecture will be accompanied by an invited workshop. The following specialists have agreed to contribute a presentation: Claudio Galletti (Bologna), Elisabetta Làdavas (Bologna), Laila Craighero (Ferrara), Frank Durgin (Swarthmore), David Westwood (Dalhousie), and Volker Franz (Giessen). The workshop will run from 8.30 to 12.30 am on Friday 27. Everyone is invited to join the discussion.

Guidelines for Symposium Submissions

Oral presentations

There will be space for 10-12 oral presentations only. Presentations will be selected based on the timing of submission and the general interest of the topic. Each participant will have 15-20 minutes to present the paper, including discussion.

Posters

Submitted posters will be grouped thematically and displayed for at least three hours. Recommended poster size is 100 x 140 cm (hor x vert). Posters should be readable from a distance of 2 meters.

Nicola Bruno & Paolo Battaglini, Symposium Organizers
Walter Gerbino, Kanizsa Lecture Organizer

More than 30,000 scientists from around the world gather at the Society for Neuroscience to exchange ideas about cutting-edge research on the brain, spinal cord, and nervous system.

Cambridge Research Systems presenting MRI-Live, a unique eye-tracking and visual stimulation system that can be used in fMRI environments, making possible stereoscopic stimulation with a wide visual field.

MRI-Live is being developed as part of Decisions in Motion - a Cognitive Systems Specific Targeted Research Project.

This year's OSA Vision Meeting will celebrate Donald MacLeod, the 2006 recipient of the Tillyer Award.

The Tillyer Award is presented to a person who has performed distinguished work in the field of vision. Past winners include John G. Robson, co-founder of Cambridge Research Systems, and John D. Mollon, with whom we developed the Cambridge Colour Test.

Our Sales and Support Manager, Steven Elliott, and Applications Engineer, Stephen Howell, will both be attending the meeting this year.

4th ACV
Matsue, Japan

The conference aims to facilitate debates on Vision Research in Asian and Oceania regions, while participants from all over the world are also welcome. The program consists of invited lectures, symposia and contributed papers.

Cambridge Research Systems are pleased to be attending in conjunction with our Japanese colleagues from Namoto Trading Co.

Go to ACV homepage

CSN
Kunming, PR China

Cambridge Research Systems are pleased to be attending the 4th International Neuroscience Symposium.

For local information, please contact our representatives in China.

Go to Neuroscience Symposium home page

The oculomotor system is one of the oldest and most thoroughly studied motor control systems. Yet, it was only in 2005 that we held the first ever Gordon Research Conference entitled "Oculomotor System Biology". By popular demand from the attendees and approval of the Gordon Research Conference organization, we are now organizing a second iteration of this conference. The emphasis of the 2007 meeting will be upon emerging topics that span the breadth of issues in oculomotor system biology

CRS are proud to sponsor this conference. Click here to read how our funding supports the Gordon Research Conferences in their commitment to advancing the frontiers of science.

CGIV 2006
Leeds, UK

On Wednesday 21st June, Sophie M Wuerger presented a talk, The Linearity of Colour Appearance Mechanisms, at IS&T's Third European Conference on Colour in Graphics, Imaging, and Vision (CGIV) at the University of Leeds.

The talk was sponsored by Cambridge Research Systems as part of our on-going support of the Vision Science community.

The results add further weight to the idea that the colour vision system in adult humans is able to recalibrate itself based on prior visual experience and that our colour appearance mechanisms may be a consequence of environmental constraints.

Read more in our Research Topics area

Go to CGIV 2006 home page

VSS 2006
Sarasota, Florida, USA

This year we will be demonstrating an innovative prototype Adaptive Optics Visual Stimulator. Developed in collaboration with Imagine Eyes, the instrument is based upon proven CRS Visual Stimulator technology coupled with the award winning crx1. It incorporates an advanced Wavefront Aberrometer and a Deformable Membrane Mirror, and is able to compensate for aberrations in any eye.

We will also be demonstrating our established range of Visual Stimulator systems that are MATLAB-compatible and offer unique features not available in any other device, and our latest high-speed Video Eyetracker Toolbox system which offers unparalleled performance at an exceptional price point.

Come and talk to Steve Elliott during the meeting.

Go to VSS 2006 home page

ARVO 2006
Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA

This year we will be demonstrating an innovative prototype Adaptive Optics Visual Stimulator. Developed in collaboration with Imagine Eyes, the instrument is based upon proven CRS Visual Stimulator technology coupled with the award winning crx1. It incorporates an advanced Wavefront Aberrometer and a Deformable Membrane Mirror, and is able to compensate for aberrations in any eye.

Also on show will be our range of products for vision science including the Metropsis vision testing system.

Go to ARVO 2006 home page

CRS are once again proud to support the Colour Group at their Vision Meeting at the Institute of Ophthalmology, UCL, London on Thursday 12th January.

This year the Cambridge Research Systems Sponsored Lecture, Understanding the Appearance of Small Spot Colours , will be given by Professor David Brainard of the Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

The talk is now available with slides and audio in our Research Topics section.