2009-2010
Talks are typically alternate Mondays, 12:15-1:15 pm, in Barchi Library (140 John Morgan Building), but see below for occasional exceptions.
Students (and postdocs): We encourage you to have lunch with a speaker or two during the year. Please contact the speaker's host (in advance, if possible).
Fall 2009
September 14:
Nicole Rust
Concurrent increases in selectivity and invariance
produce constant sparseness across the ventral visual pathway
University of Pennsylvania
Host: Larry Palmer
October 5:
Steve Fliesler
State University of New York at Buffalo
Retinal Degeneration in a Cholesterol Deficiency Syndrome: What We've
Learned from Animal Studies.
Host: Gus Aquirre
October 26:
Dawei Dong
Florida Atlantic University/Visiting Professor University of Pennsylvania
Confucius said: watching the past for seeing the future
--- the efficient coding of natural images
Host: Michael Freed
November 9:
Andrew Stockman
University College London
Human scotopic (rod) sensitivity regulation
Host: David Brainard
November 23:
Okihide Hikosaka
Subcortical mechanisms of motivational behavior - Beyond dopamine neurons
National Eye Institute
Host: Josh Gold
December 7:
Alyosha Molnar
Cornell University
Host: Michael Freed
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Spring 2010
January 11:
Vadim Arshavsky
G protein signaling in photoreceptors
Duke Eye Center
Host: Noga Vardi
January 25:
Alan Stocker
University of Pennsylvania
Host: Larry Palmer
February 8:
Joe Hollyfield
Host: Daniel Chung
February 22:
Michael Landy
New York University
Host: David Brainard
March 15:
Anitha Pasupathy
University of Washington
Host: Nicole Rust
April 5:
David Brainard
University of Pennsylvania
April 19:
Claire Mitchell
University of Pennsylvania
May 10:
Marc Sommer
Carnegie Mellon University
Host: Marc Schmidt
2008 2009 Vision Seminar Schedule
2007 2008 Vision Seminar Schedule