Monday
Monday, September 19th - Audimax (H1 - Central Lecture Building)
| 13:00 | Opening Remarks |
| Session1: | Origins of Color (Moderator: Christoph Wagner) |
| 13:10 | Phenomena of Color and the Quest for Mechanisms John S. Werner, University of California, Davis |
| 13:40 | Cortical response to categorical color differences in prelinguistic infants Ichiro Kuriki, Tohoku University |
| 14:10 | How the world became colored: the evolution of conscious color perception in primates Jay Neitz, University of Washington |
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| Session 2: | Early Stage Mechanisms (Moderator: Mark Greenlee) |
| 15:10 | A Comparative Look at Photopigments and Color Vision Gerald Jacobs, University of California, Santa Barbara |
| 15:40 | Electrophysiological correlates of cone-opponent processing in the human retina Jan Kremers, University of Erlangen – Nuremberg |
| 16:10 | Colour blindness and Coloured Filters: What Dalton saw about the attenuation of colour vision Justin Broackes, Brown University |
| 16:40 | Final discussion |
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Tuesday
Tuesday, September 20th - Vielberth Building (H24)
| Session 3: | Chromatic and Achromatic Pathways (Moderator: Herbert Jägle)
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| 09:00 | Segregated transmission of achromatic and chromatic signals in the primate visual pathways Barry Lee, Max Planck Institute – Göttingen and State University of New York |
| 09:30 | Seeing colors in achromatic stimuli: Grapheme-color synesthesia Gregor Volberg, University of Regensburg |
| 10:00 | Multiple spatial systems for color vision Arthur Shapiro, American University, Washington DC |
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| Session 4: | Discrimination and Hue (Moderator: Maka Malania) |
| 11:00 | Seeing colours as different John D. Mollon, University of Cambridge |
| 11:30 | Assessing the severity of colour vision loss - implications for occupational environments. John Barbur, City University London |
| 12:00 | Discriminating colours in tetrachromatic space Gabriele Jordan, University of Newcastle |
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| Session 5: | Complexities of Color (Moderator: Anton Beer) |
| 13:30 | Blue and yellow in the world, the brain, and the dress Michael Webster, University of Nevada, Reno |
| 14:00 | Distorted insights: from hue anomalies to colour mechanisms Andrew Stockman, University College London |
| 14:30 | The neural basis of color "filling-in" and its attentional modulation Peter Tse, Dartmouth College |
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| Session 6: | Color Constancy (Moderator: Alf Zimmer ) |
| 15:30 | Why Colour Constancy Needs More Than Colour David Foster, University of Manchester |
| 16:00 | Color perception and Memory - The impact of color on our experience and behavior Axel Buether, Bergische University Wuppertal |
| 16:30 | Seeing (and Feeling) the Light Anya Hurlbert, University of Newcastle |
| 17:00 | Final discussion |
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Wednesday
Wednesday, September 21st - Vielberth Building (H24)
| Session 7: | Cortical Mechanisms (Moderator: Patrick Cavanagh)
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| 09:00 | Comparing color systems in monkeys and humans Bevil Conway, Wellesley College |
| 09:30 | Colour vision across the life span: perception, brain imaging and individual differences Sophie Wuerger, University of Liverpool |
| 10:00 | Colours in the human brain: of movies, the binding problem, constancy, and predictive coding Andreas Bartels, University of Tübingen |
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| Session 8: | Color in Art and Culture (Moderator: John S. Werner) |
| 11:00 | "Interaction of Color" – Concepts of Seeing Colors in Modern Art Christoph Wagner, University of Regensburg |
| 11:30 | Color – from Means of Representation to Object of Representation Matthias Bleyl, Weissensee School of Art, Berlin |
| 12:00 | The Colours of Paradise and its Discontents Karl Schawelka, Bauhaus University, Weimar |
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Ground Transport to Central Train Station (Hauptbahnhof)
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