CONFERENCE ON MATHEMATICS AND VISION
November 9-11, 2007

  LOCATION: Social Science Plaza A 2112

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9


1:00 Conference begins with comments by Donald Saari, Director of IMBS 

1:10 – 2:00 STAN OSHER , Professor of Mathematics, UCLA
The miracles performed by Bregman iteration for compressed sensing and image processing 

2:00 – 2:15 Discussion

2:15 – 3:05 DAVID BRAINARD, Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
Color, Cones, and Bayesian Modeling: Understanding the Appearance of Small Spot Colors

3:05 – 3:20 Discussion

3:20 – 3:45 BREAK in SSPA 2142

3:45 – 4:35 GEORGE SPERLING, Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Sciences and Neurobiology & Behavior, UC Irvine
"A computational model for binocular combination: How the two eyes combine information and some supporting evidence"    

4:35 – 4:50 Discussion


SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10

9:00 – 9:50 JACK GALLANT, Associate Professor of Psychology, UC Berkeley
Visual encoding and decoding of natural scenes

9:50 – 10:05 Discussion

10:05 – 10:55 LARRY MALONEY, Professor of Psychology, New York University
Bayesian decision theory, visual perception and the planning of movemen
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10:55 – 11:10 Discussion

11:10 – 11:30 BREAK in SSPA 2142

11:30 – 12:20 JACK XIN , Professor of Mathematics, UCI
Mathematical Challenges of Blind Source Separation

12:20 – 12:35 Discussion

12:35 – 2:00 LUNCH

2:00 – 2:50 GEORGE PAPANICOLAOU, Robert Grimmett Prof. in Mathematics, Stanford
Edge illumination and imaging with arrays

2:50 – 3:05 Discussion

3:05 – 3:30 BREAK in SSPA 2142

3:30 – 4:20 AL AHUMADA, Psychologist, NASA
Consequences of Photoreceptor Sampling

4:20 -- 4:35 Discussion


SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11

9:00 – 11:00 General Discussion

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