The ERI Education Committee invites your attendance and participation at a poster/gallery session, reception and lecture! Please register to attend and to present (registration link below; deadline Sept 25).
First Annual Eye Research Institute Vision Science & Visual Art
Poster and Gallery Session
Seeing Beyond the Art-Science Divide
Thursday, October 8, 2009
| Opportunity: | poster and gallery session to showcase both scientific research and artistic works, and to bring together faculty and students with wide-ranging interests in vision |
| Who: | Eye Research Institute and Visual Culture Center members and associated scientists, researchers, postdocs, graduate students and advanced undergraduates |
| What: | posters already prepared and previously presented at a recent conference OR new
posters presenting work not previously shown [No abstracts required] visual art works previously exhibited or new (in poster format; mounted or framed for hanging; for table display; other) |
| When: | Thursday, October 8, 2009 3:30pm to 4:00pm poster and display setup 4:00pm to 5:00pm presenters at posters & art displays (judges circulating) 4:00pm to 5:30pm Wine & Hors d’oeuvre Reception 5:30pm to 6:30pm featured speaker Stephen Palmer,* UC-Berkeley http://psychology.berkeley.edu/faculty/profiles/spalmer.html Aesthetics in Vision Science: Understanding Preferences for Color |
*The Visual Culture Center will be hosting a workshop with Stephen Palmer and research colloquium to promote "Seeing Beyond the Art-Science Divide." This part of their year-long series of public conferences on the senses is offered on Friday, October 9. Please see the attached advertisement for the series and directions to the Center's website, where details will be posted.
| Where: | Health Sciences Learning Center Atrium, 750 Highland Avenue http://www.map.wisc.edu/ |
| Awards: | for best student presentations |
Registration: Now open at this site link:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=v4JcrjowqwpcXauATyG_2fww_3d_3dRegistration deadline: 5pm on September 25th, 2009.
Corneal epithelial cells: mouse models and nanoscale foundations
Sakae Ikeda, DVM
Paul Nealey, PhD
Image manipulation: news/media to diagnostic analysis
Shiela Reaves, MA
Larry Hubbard, MAT
Lens Adaptability and Brain Plasticity
Hongrui Jiang, PhD
Yuri Danilov, PhD
The electroretinogram (ERG) toolbox
James VerHoeve, PhD
Bikash Pattnaik, PhD