Scottish Vision Group (SVG)
06 - 08 April 2006
Aberdeen
Scottish Vision Group includes member of scientific community involved in researching various aspects of visual processing in Universities in Scotland. Vision research has a long history in Scotland and many previous renowned scientists have been inspired by the landscape (and Whisky) notably, David Brewster, James Clerk Maxwell, Alexander Crum Brown, Kenneth Craik and Fergus Campbell.
Today, across Scotland, vision scientists carry out leading international research in areas of perception, visual psychophysics, computational vision, visual processing in clinical populations and visual cognition.
The annual SVG conference was established in 2001 to provide a forum for debate and exchange of ideas in all aspects of visual science. It is attended by established investigators as well as post-graduates in the early stages of their career both from Scotland and from other European institutions. The format of the meetings includes presentations of the latest research findings followed by discussions, with emphasis on informal and in-depth debate on the presented material.
The plenary speakers for the annual meeting are leading experts in their research field and in the previous years include: Roger Watt (2001), Nick Wade (2002), Frans Verstraten and Julie Harris (2003), Alan Johnston (2004) John Findlay and Hiroshi Ono (2005).
2006 SVG conference will be held in King's College, Aberdeen on 6-8th April. It is envisaged that the meeting will continue the format of previous years (two half-days and one full day), with active participation of researchers and a series of oral presentations and discussions. The plenary speaker, will be Prof. David Milner (University of Durham) who will discuss the Neuropsychology of Vision.
Deadline for abstracts and registration will be Friday 17th February 2006.
Meeting Registration fees will be £55 and will include buffet lunches, refreshments and a conference dinner on Thursday night (6th April).
Limited accommodation will be available on campus for two nights (single rooms £42, twin rooms £35 per night, per person) and you can book rooms directly with King's hall (01224 27 3444). These rooms are of reasonable quality and are available to visitors to the university.
Organisers:
Dr. Arash Sahraie
Vision Research Laboratories
School of Psychology
University of Aberdeen
a.sahraie@abdn.ac.uk
Prof Julie Harris
Department of Psychology
University of St Andrews
Julie.Harris@st-andrews.ac.uk
Please send your abstract and registration form to:
Miss Samantha Reid
University of Aberdeen
School of Psychology
William Guild Building
Aberdeen, AB24 2UB
s.d.reid@abdn.ac.uk