Next Wednesday 4th April the Colour Group (GB) is
holding an important vision meeting in Cambridge,
organised by John Mollon (see below). The Colour Group would like
to invite members of AVA to attend this meeting. Full
details are on the Web site at:
http://www.city.ac.uk/colourgroup/
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A Tribute to Professor Robert Alexander Weale
The meeting is in honour of the many contributions to
visual science of Robert Weale, who is a former
Chairman of the Colour Group.
Venue:
Gonville and Caius College
University of Cambridge
Time: 11.00 hrs to approximately 17.00 hrs.
Registration: Advanced booking is necessary.
The registration fee (covering coffee, lunch and tea)
will be £16 for Colour Group members and £25 for
non-members of the Group. To book for this meeting,
please send a cheque for the appropriate amount to:
Professor J. D. Mollon
Department of Experimental Psychology
University of Cambridge
Downing St.
Cambridge, CB2 3EB
Cheques should be payable to the Kenneth Craik Club.
Please enclose a note with your name and address.
The deadline for bookings is March 31 2007.
Dinner: In the evening there will be a dinner in honour
of Robert Weale, beginning at approximately 6.00 p.m.
and ending at 9 p.m. If you would like to attend the dinner,
there will be an inclusive charge of £35 (including wines).
Please indicate in your registration application if you wish
to attend and include the cost in the sum on your cheque.
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Provisional Programme
10.30 Coffee Bateman Room
11.00 Opening remarks. J. D. Mollon. Bateman Auditorium
11.10 D. van Norren Fundus reflectometry: Weale and his ideas in Utrecht
11.40 J. K. Bowmaker Colour vision: phylogeny and ontogeny
12.10 H. Cooper A melanopsin cone in Humans
12.40 Buffet Lunch Senior Parlour
14.00 G. Jordan Screening for tetrachromacy
14.30 C. Wehrhahn Receptoral and postreceptoral processes in colour induction
15.00 H. Smithson The relative roles of temporal and spatial context in determining colour
appearance
15.30 J. L. Barbur Effects of scattered light on colour constancy in human vision
16.00 Tea Bateman Room
16.30 D. J. Tolhurst Perception of changes in coloured photographs of natural scenes, and a
cortex-based model
17.00 R. Weale A Brief Illustrated History of Trichromacy
17.15-18.00 Reception
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