BMVA  Distinguished Fellow 2001

The BMVA Executive Committee seeks nominations for the
Distinguished Fellow 2001 award.  This prestigious award
is given to one person only each year in
recognition to his/her services to the British Machine Vision community.

The nominees must be distinguish researchers, based in the UK,
 who have contributed significantly to the
field of research and the reputation of the British Machine Vision
Community both nationally and internationally.
Nominations with a few lines of rationale, should be sent to the
chairman of BMVA Prof Maria Petrou ([log in to unmask])
by the end of April 2001.

The Sullivan Doctoral Thesis Prize 2001

The BMVA Executive Committee seeks nominations for the
Sullivan Doctoral thesis prize. The 2001 prize will be awarded to the
best
thesis nominated which was submitted and examined during the calendar
year
2000. Theses examiners and supervisors may act as nominators, but the
committee would like to receive an accompanying report and endorsement
of the
nomination  from the thesis external examiner.
Please send any nominations to the secretary of the Association, Dr Paul

Rosin ([log in to unmask]) by the end of April 2001.
The theses nominated should be made available through a web page.
In addition, two hard copies (not necessarily bound) should be sent to
Dr Paul Rosin, Department of Computer Science, Cardiff University,
Queen's Buildings, Newport Road, Cardiff CF24 3XF.

BMVC 2002

The BMVA Executive Committee looks for expressions of interest
by University groups active in research in the field of Machine
Vision and/or Pattern Recognition, to organise BMVC 2002.
The Committee will consider all expressions of interest that arrive by
March 15, 2001. A short list of offers to organise the conference will
be
formed by the committee during its meeting on March 21.
The short-listed groups will
be then asked to produce full proposals that will be considered
by the  committee during its meeting in May.
The full proposals should include a full budget
and organisational details. Please send your expressions of interest
by email either to Prof Maria Petrou ([log in to unmask]) or to
 Dr Paul Rosin ([log in to unmask]).