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Stop press: Verriest medallist announced. Daltoniana is on its way
Nov 5th. The latest issue of Daltoniana (#126) has just been emailed out to to all who requested it via your GDPR permissions. If you haven't received a copy, please send a message via the contact page. Daltoniana issues 1-125 are available from this website for download.
The 2026 Verriest Medal will be awarded to Professor Keiji Uchikawa at the 28th Symposium of the International Colour Vision Society (ICVS) to be held at the University of Sussex in Brighton in 2026. The award was established in 1991 in memory of the founder of the Society, Dr. Guy Verriest, and honours outstanding contributions in the field of colour vision.
ICVS 2026 will be in Brighton, UK on 14th-18th August 2026. We look forward to welcoming you at the Attenborough Centre for Creative Arts at the University of Sussex. The venue is easily accessible from Brighton city centre and is in close proximity to a train station and bus links. It is a lovely venue with an auditorium that seats up to 350, refurbished in 2016.
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Jenny Bosten, Anna Franklin, Ana Rozman, John Maule, Alice Skelton, Tom Baden, Ian Pennock, Daniel Osorio and Christoph Witzel
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Jenny Bosten, Anna Franklin, Ana Rozman, John Maule, Alice Skelton, Tom Baden, Ian Pennock, Daniel Osorio and Christoph Witzel
We're pleased to announce that the colour vision feature issue of JOSA A has been mailed out to all ICVS members. These include the proceedings of the last meeting, held in Ljubljana in 2024.
Karl Gegenfurtner
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Professor Gegenfurtner’s career in colour vision began with doctoral studies at New York University under the supervision of George Sperling and John Krauskopf, followed by a post-doctoral fellowship at NYU with Anthony Movshon, and then by appointments at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen and Otto-von- Guericke University, Magdeburg. He took up his present position as Professor of Psychology at the Justus-Liebig-University Giessen in 2001. His research contributions have ranged from low-level chromatic adaptation and discrimination, through colour constancy and higherlevel cortical mechanisms, all the way to cognitive aspects such as colour memory, colour categorization, and colour in scene and object recognition. His work is centred on psychophysics, but he has embraced methodological innovations, using the power of deep neural networks and the immersive capabilities of virtual reality. His influential review articles have brought developments in colour vision to the larger community, and his laboratory in Giessen has provided a welcoming and productive environment for colour vision scientists from across the world. |
The next ICVS summer school will run from Monday 11th August to Friday 15th August 2025, with students arriving on Sunday 10th. As in previous years, it will take place at Pembroke College, Oxford, UK. We will post further details soon. In the meantime, please put these dates in your diary.