Cavonius Meeting, Palmer Lecture and CRS Lecture
Wednesday 11 January 2012
at the Cavonius Centre, Stephen Hawking Building, Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge

The programme and abstracts may be found here

In the very superior surroundings of the new Stephen Hawking Building, Gonville and Caius College have established the Cavonius Centre to commemorate the life and work of C R Cavonius. The meeting was addressesd by speakers who had all worked with or been helped by Dick during their careers.
ABOVE: Lillie Cavonius began the meeting by talking about her father, his work and what he was like as a father: there were many anecdotes.	BELOW: The speakers (left to right) John Mollon, chairman (Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, UK), Thomas J T P van den Berg (Amsterdam, NL), Gabriele Jordan (Newcastle, UK), Oscar Estévez (Amsterdam, NL), Adam Reeves ((Boston, USA), Lillie Cavonius (Gothenberg, Sweden), Galina Paramei, co-chairwoman (Liverpool, UK), Marina Danilova (St Petersburg, Russia) & Michael Morgan (London, UK)
	Palmer lecturer 2012 Every year in January at the scientific meeting on colour vision, a distinguished vision expert is invited to deliver the Palmer Lecture. The Palmer lecture honours the memory and achievements of David Alan Palmer, a highly respected vision scientist and expert on mesopic and scotopic vision, and a generous benefactor of the Colour Group. the Palmer Lecturer for 2012 is Adam James Reeves. Adam was born in Gloucester in 1947. He obtained his PhD from the City University of New York in 1977 under the supervision of George Sperling. The subject of his thesis was the speed and consequences of shifts of attention. He then went to Bell labs as a PostDoc with John Krauskopf, where he worked mainly on Transient Tritanopia. From 1978 to 1982, Adam was a Research Associate at the University of Dortmund, where he worked with Dick Cavonious on binocular flicker, metacontrast and dark adaptation. In 1982, Adam moved to NorthEastern University in Boston, where he remains as a Professor of Psychology. Adam's interests in visual and auditory psychophysics and visual perception are varied, and include colour, light and dark adaptation, visual attention, visual masking, various transient "-opias", visual imagery, and visual illusions such as the watercolour illusion. At the meeting he talked about Oddities of Early Dark Adaptation.
	CRS lecturer 2012 It has become a much appreciated tradition that at this meeting Cambridge Research Systems Ltd sponsor a lecture from an internationally renowned expert.: this year he is Michael Morgan. Michael was born in Cardiff in1942. He obtained his degree in Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge in 1964. His Ph.D in 1969, also from Cambridge, was on the then hot topic of response learning in the rat. Since then he has variously been at the University of Cambridge (in Experimental Psychology), McGill University, the University of Durham (as the Chair of Psychology), UCL, and the University of Edinburgh (as the Darwin Fellow in Pharmacology at the Centre for Neuroscience). His research interests are varied but fall mainly within the broad area of vision research from Neuroanatomy to Perception and Psychophysics. Michael was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2005. He is currently a Professor of Visual Psychophysics at City University and a Max Planck Fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute for Neurological Research in Cologne, where he is the Head of Visual Perception Group.The title of his talk was: Variance Discrimination for Spatial Regularity is Impeded by Irrelevant Contrast Variance.
The participants were very well catered for with excellent refreshments and mild weather - so mild that many ate their buffet lunch in the delighful gardens which suround the Centre - in mid-January!

The Colour Group gratefully acknowledges the support of Gonville and Caius College for this meeting

More photos from the meeting are now available on the Members Picasa Web Album: Cavonius Meeting 2012

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