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Conferences and Events

There are of course many international meetings each year dedicated to vision and neuroscience in general. Here is a small selection:

The Vision Sciences Society meeting takes place every year in Florida. The 2008 meeting is scheduled for May 9 to 14 in Naples, Florida. For more details please visit the VSS website at http://www.visionsciences.org

The next annual meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) will take place in Fort Lauderdale, FL between April 27 to May 1, 2008. More details can be found on their website http://www.arvo.org

The ICVS is an international group of physiologists, psychologists, physicists, geneticists, optometrists, ophthalmologists and others who have a research interest in the many aspects of colour vision and colour vision deficiencies. The 19th Congress of the International Colour Vision Society will take place from July 27 to 31, 2007 in Belém, Brazil http://www2.ufpa.br/icvs2007/index.html

The tenth edition of the Tübinger Wahrnehmungskonferenz is jointly co-organized by the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics and Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen. This year’s event will take place between July 27 to 29, 2007 http://www.twk.tuebingen.mpg.de/twk07

The European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP) is an annual meeting devoted to the scientific study of human visual perception. The next meeting will take place in Arezzo, Italy, between August 27 to 31, 2007 http://www.ecvp2007.org

The annual Neuroscience meeting is one of the largest meetings of its kind in the world. The next event is scheduled for November 3 to 7, 2007 in San Diego, California. More details at http://www.sfn.org

The Colour Group, founded in 1940, is an interdisciplinary society that draws together those concerned with different aspects of colour - its measurement, reproduction and perception. Monthly meetings are held, mostly in London, from October to April and provide a unique forum for the exchange of information and contacts. See here for more details: http://www.city.ac.uk/colourgroup

FENS, the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies, was founded with the goal of advancing research and education in neuroscience, as well as representing neuroscience research in the European Commission, IBRO, and other granting bodies. FENS is the European partner of the American Society for Neuroscience. The next bi-annual meeting will take place in Geneva, Switzerland between July 12 to 16, 2008 http://fens.mdc-berlin.de

 

Finally, the website of the International Association of Colour (AIC) can be viewed here: http://www.aic-colour.org

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