Program

July 1st

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14.30

Welcome of:
Pier Ugo Calzolari (Rector of Bologna University)
Fabrizio Bolletta (Dean of Faculty of Science)
Guido Masetti (Dean of I Faculty of Engineering)
Franco Persiani (Dean of the II Faculty of Engineering)
Claudio Bonivento (Director of DEIS)
Giovanni Dore (Director of Mathematics Department)
Ilio Galligani (President of Accademia delle Scienze of Bologna)

15.00

Jean Petitot:
"Neurogeometry and symplectic structures"

16.00

Jan Koenderink (Utrech University):
"Fechner's Law and Visual Field Effects"

Coffe break

17.15

Mario Zanforlin, Luigi Beghi, Elisabetta Xausa (Università di Padova):
"Stereokinetic phenomena: demonstrations and a possible explanation"

18.30

Visit at Accdemia delle Scienze

July 2nd

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9.00

Steven Zucker (University of Yale):
"Visual Computations and the Geometry of Connections in V1"

10.00

Paul Bressloff (Utah University):
"Neural pattern formation and the functional architecture of V1"

Coffe break

11.15

Raul Serapioni (Università di Trento):
"Elements of Sub-Riemennian Geometry"

12.15

Ermanno Lanconelli (Università di Bologna):
"Non-variational sub-elliptic equations: fundamental solutions and pointwise estimates"

Lunch

15.00

Giulio Sandini (Genova University and MIT):
"Learning Visuomotor Coordination in a Developing Robot"

16.00

Alessandra Angelucci (Utah University):
"Spatial and functional organization of lateral, feedforward and feedback pathways in the primate visual cortex"

Coffe break

17.15

Mauro Ursino (Università di Bologna):
"Computer simulations of the vision early processing stages: feature selection, contour extraction, segmentation and attention"

July 3rd

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8.30

Walter Gerbino (Università di Trieste)
"Visual preferences and inner constraints"

9.30

Nicola Fusco (Università di Napoli):
"An overview of the Mumford-Shah model"

Coffe break

10.45

Simon Masnou (Paris VI):
"From amodal completion to image compression"

11.45

Riccardo March (CNR, Roma):
"Image segmentation by minimizing a curvature depending functional: approximation by Γ-convergence"