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The University of California, Berkeley Vision Science Graduate Group is pleased to announce that the 26th Annual Bay Area Vision Research Day (BAVRD) will be held on Friday, February 6, 2015 from 8 AM - 5 PM in Sutardja Dai Hall on the UC Berkeley campus.
BAVRD is an annual meeting hosted and organized by Vision Science graduate students at UC Berkeley. It is dedicated to fostering a collaborative community among vision-related researchers in the San Francisco Bay Area by bringing together members of diverse fields – including neuroscience, computer science, optics, bioengineering, ophthalmology, molecular biology, immunology, and optometry.
We are excited to announce the talks featured in this year's program:
Marla Feller
UC Berkeley
The development and function of direction selective circuits in the retina
Adam Coates
Baidu
Scalability in AI
Steven Schwartz
UCLA
Stem cell derived RPE transplantation for macular disease
Alan Yuille
UCLA
Bottom-up and top-down visual processing
Michael Webster
University of Nevada, Reno
A neural basis for perceptual norms
Saidas Nair
UCSF
The complex genetics of glaucoma: what animal models can teach us
E.J. Chichilnisky
Stanford University
Responses of complete neural populations in primate retina to naturalistic stimuli
Ashutosh Saxena
Stanford University
RoboBrain: large-scale knowledge engine for robots
Robert Chang
Stanford University
Smartphone-based tele-ophthalmology screening for diabetic eye disease
Nicolas Davidenko
UC Santa Cruz
Motion pareidolia: perception of coherent apparent motion in random flicker
Karen K. De Valois
UC Berkeley
TBA
Austin Roorda
UC Berkeley
From sensation to perception: adaptive optics for probing human vision on a cellular scale
We would also like to thank our sponsors for their generous contributions:
Helen Wills Neuroscience InstituteMicrosoft ResearchOptovueRedwood Center for Theoretical NeuroscienceRicoh InnovationsThorlabsUC Berkeley Department of PsychologyUC Berkeley Graduate AssemblyUC Berkeley School of OptometryUC Berkeley Vision Science Graduate GroupYahoo!
