2008-2009
Talks are typically alternate Mondays, 12:00-1:00 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 2008
September 22:
Naoum Issa
The role of the early visual system in processing complex images
University of Chicago
Host: Diego Contreras
October 6:
Bruce Cumming
Where do correlations between neuronal activity and sensory decisions originate?
National Eye Institute
Host: Larry Palmer
October 20:
Anya Hurlbert
Colour constancy and colour memory of natural objects
University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Host: David Brainard
November 3:
Geoff Aguirre
Conjoint and independent neural tuning for object properties studied with fMRI
University of Pennsylvania
Host: David Brainard
November 10:
Botond Roska
Seeing with and without photoreceptors
Friedrich Miescher Institute
Host: Jean Bennett
December 8:
Sean MacEvoy
The representation of multiple simultaneous stimuli in the visual cortex
University of Pennsylvania
Host: Russell Epstein
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Spring 2009
January 5:
Kathy Boesze-Battaglia
Melanoregulin a Newly Identified Modulator of Lysosome Function in Retinal Pigment Epithelial Cells
University of Pennsylvania
Host: Claire Mitchell
January 26:
Long Ding
The
cortico-basal ganglia pathway and perceptual decision-making
University of Pennsylvania
Host: Josh Gold
February 9:
Eileen Kowler
Attention during the planning of sequences of saccades
Rutgers University
Host: Jack Nachmias
February 23:
Z. Jimmy Zhou
Role of ACh and GABA co-release in the detection of motion and motion direction
Yale University
Host: Noga Vardi
March 9:
Gustavo Aguirre
Shining a light on blindness, but blinded by the light
University of Pennsylvania
Host: Jean Bennett
March 23:
Gerald Chader
Artificial Vision: Sight Restoration through an Electronic Retinal Prosthetic Device
Doheny Eye Institute
Host: Gustavo Aguirre
April 20:
May 11:
Herwig Baier
Genetic Architecture of the Zebrafish Visual System
University of California, San Francisco
Host: Jonathan Raper
2007 2008 Vision Seminar Schedule
Other vision-related sites at Penn:
GRASP Lab
(General Robotics, Automation, Sensing, and Perception Laboratory) Talks
IRCS
(Institute for Research in Cognitive Science) Colloquia
CCN (Center for Cognitive
Neuroscience) Lunch
talks Campus-wide talk list
INS (Institute of Neurological
Sciences)
Department of Psychology Colloquia
UPHS Department of
Ophthalmology