The 20th Symposium of the International Colour Vision Society (ICVS) will take place in the University of Minho, Braga, Portugal, from Friday July 24th to Tuesday July 28th, 2009

The meeting will encompass fundamental, applied, and clinical aspects of research into colour vision, ranging from the molecular to the cognitive. In addition to the keynote presentation, there will be topical symposia, along with individual contributions reflecting the diversity of interests of the members of the ICVS, who include physiologists, psychologists, physicists, engineers, geneticists, optometrists, ophthalmologists and other related professionals with interests in colour vision and colour-vision deficiencies.


A social and cultural programme will allow participants to relax and interact informally between sessions and will include visits to some of the most beautiful areas of northern Portugal, most notably the Douro valley, where the grapes for Port wine are grown.