International Symposium on Fixational Eye Movemements and Visual Stabilization

Program

The symposium will take place between the 21st and 22nd of June, 2010. Each speaker is invited to talk for 30 minutes on a topic of their expertise; ample time is set aside for discussions and opportunities to collaboration. The program below is preliminary although dates and starting times are set.

Sunday June 20th

17:00

Get together at the Bernadotte laboratory for invited speakers

Monday June 21st

08.30			Registration
09:00			Welcome from the organizing comittee
09:20			Opening speech by Professor emeritus Torsten Wiesel, Nobel laureate and honorary chairman of the Bernadotte foundation
09:40			Fixational Eye Movements Chair: Jan Ygge Moderator: Dominik Straumann
09:50			Susana Martinez-Conde
10:20			Presentation of exhibitors Coffee / Refreshments
11:00			Zoi Kapoula
11:30			Steven Macknik
12:00			Roberto Bolzani
12:30			Lunch
13:30			Lance M. Optican
14:00			Tony Pansell
14:30			Presentation of the Nobel foundation by Professor Sten Lindahl of the Nobel Committee
14:50			Visual Stabilization Chair: Hans van der Steen Moderator: Susana Martinez-Conde
15:00			Dora Angelaki
15:30			Michael G. Halmagyi
16:00			Coffee / Refreshments
16:30			Ian Curtoys
17:00			David Guyton
17:30			Daniel M. Merfeld
18.00			Departure by bus for the conference dinner at the Vasa museum

Tuesday June 22nd

09:00			Stefano Ramat
09:30			David Zee
10:00			Developmental Aspects of Fixation Chair: Gunnar Lennerstrand Moderator: David Guyton
10:10			Michael C. Brodsky
10:40			Coffee / Refreshments
11:20			Chris Harris
11:50			Claes von Hofsten
12:20			Gustaf Öqvist Seimyr
12:50			Lunch
13:50			Clinical Aspects of Visual Stabilization Chair: Måns Magnusson Moderator: Michael C. Brodsky
14:00			Lena Jacobson
14:30			John Lee
15:00			Coffee / Refreshments
15:30			Dominik Strauman
16:00			Kenneth J. Ciuffreda
16:30			Concluding discussion moderated by David Zee
17:00			Closing remarks and finishing buffet dinner