3rd European Meeting in Physiological Optics

3rd European Meeting in Physiological Optics
City University, London, UK
7th to 9th of September 2006

**************Submissions now open**************


Deadline for submission: 30th of May, 2006.
Registration Fees: £180 per person.

Abstracts must follow the ARVO format guidelines
and should be submitted electronically as
Microsoft Word documents.

Guidelines for electronic submission will be
posted shortly on the meeting's website
http://www.city.ac.uk/optometry/Luis/myresearch/3rdEMPO/3rdeuropeanmeeti.html


The 3rd European Meeting in Physiological Optics
will be hosted by the Department of Optometry
and Visual Science, School of Allied Health
Sciences, City University in London.
This meeting plans to build upon the very
successful predecessors in Wroclaw, Poland and
most recently Granada, Spain. The meeting will
cover many aspects of Physiological Optics,
including clinical studies, basic research and
instrumentation. We aim to include all aspects of
optics related to the eye, such as:

scattering,
polarisation,
cornea,
crystalline lens and accommodation,
retinal image quality,
refraction and eye aberrations,
adaptive optics in the eye,
spectacle, contact and intraocular lens designs,
new ophthalmic technologies applied to vision.

The meeting will not address any issues directly
related to refractive surgery. This will allow us
time to explore other aspects of Physiological
Optics that are not as popular at the moment, and
in so doing encourage a forum for scientific
discussion.
The important aim of the meeting, being held in
one of the most cosmopolitan cities in the world,
is to provide an environment rich in discussion.

For further information please contact
Luis Diaz-Santana () for queries
regarding topics and scientific content.
Alison Lee () for queries
regarding venue, accommodation, travelling, etc.

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3rd European Meeting in Physiological Optics.
September 7th to 9th, 2006
City University
London, UK
http://www.city.ac.uk/optometry/Luis/myresearch/3rdEMPO/3rdeuropeanmeeti.html


Luis Diaz-Santana
Department of Optometry and Visual Science
City University, Northampton Square
London, EC1V 0HB, UK.
http://www.city.ac.uk/optometry/Luis/myresearch/
http://www.sharpeye.org/

Tel: +44 (0)20 7040 8335
Fax: +44(0)20 7040 8355
e-mail:



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Keeping refractive surgery topics out is a mistake, IMO. Much of the
wavefront clinical research involves refractive surgery in one form or
another. Clinical refractive procedures also include orthokeratology,
and a discussion of what these procedures do to the aberration profile
of the eye would seem to be in order.

DrG
http://www.coppellfamilyeyecare.com

 

I suspect it's such a hot topic these days, with so many conferences, that
if they let it in, it would overwhelm the conference. This is important,
especially if they try to accomodate all submissions. Trying to limit the
flood would place the organizers in a position of selecting the cream of
the crop, and many egos would be stroked the wrong way.

It's much like a local Folk Music Society taking over every open mike night
in a city.

So, being located at a facility with many colleagues at the cutting edge of
wavefront research, I don't think these folks will feel left out-- they'll
just know it isn't their conference. Believe me, they have plenty to
choose from.

 

Well, they still have a committee of scientists who select the papers.
Virtually all of the refractive surgery topics are discussed at ASCRS
and the AAO, and those are driven mostly by the sponsors. One would
think that there would be research going on that did not involve heavy
corporate sponsorship.

DrG

 

There is plenty of research that doesn't involve corporate sponsorship, but
if the research has the promise of valuable intellectual property,
sponsorship by those in a position to profit via that property is much more
secure than government funding, these days. Unfortunately, there are a
whole slew of ethical concerns that go along with this as baggage. Most
reputable journals have strict disclosure policies to try to make things
more transparent.

The concerns are real, though. I just sent my dad through a procedure
fresh out of Phase III's. The results looked promising, but I had to keep
the idea that all the research was sponsored by the drug company at the
center of the procedure. My filters were set twice as high as ordinarily.

Corporate sponsorship of conferences can bring some good things, too. For
example, I participate in the Neural Control of Movement society. We
solicit corporate sponsorship for our conference, but largely limit (or
maybe entirely limit) those funds to pay for students to travel to the
event and present their work.