10th Aegean Summer School in Visual Optics

The 10th Aegean Summer School in Visual Optics will take place at the Terra Maris Hotel in Hersonissos, Heraklion, Crete - Greece, from October 2nd until October 4th, 2011, immediately prior to the EVER 2011 meeting.

The Aegean Summer School in Visual Optics is an international course organised annually since 2002 by the Institute of Vision and Optics (IVO), University of Crete. The scientific program will cover many aspects of basic and advanced research on accommodation and presbyopia with an emphasis on

            • Ocular refraction and aberrations

            • Vision quality in the ageing eye

            • Crystalline lens and accommodation

            • Advances in spectacle and contact lens designs for presbyopia correction

            • Advances in the surgical modalities for presbyopia

Program Director
Ioannis Pallikaris, Professor in Ophthalmology, University of Crete

Scientific Committee
David Atchison, Professor in Optometry, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Pablo Artal, Professor of Optics, Universidad De Murcia
Neil Charman, Professor in Visual Optics, The University of Manchester, UK
Vasyl Molebny, Professor of Optics, University of Kiev, Ukraine
Ian Murray, Senior Lecturer, The University of Manchester, UK
Ioannis Pallikaris, Professor in Ophthalmology, University of Crete

Organizing Committee (University of Crete)
Harilaos Ginis, PhD
Sotiris Plainis, MSc, PhD
Aristophanis Pallikaris, MSc

Invited Speaker
James Wolffsohn, Professor in Optometry, Aston University, UK