BVI Seminar Series
BVI Seminars are free hour-long talks focusing on a particular area of vision research usually with an interdisciplinary flavour. They are delivered by national and international speakers from across the world with a broad appeal across the field of vision.
Our seminars and panels run on Fridays from 16.00 GMT, term-time and are free to attend. Please keep checking this page, as our schedule is regularly being updated.
Upcoming Seminars
Spring/ Summer 2026
| Date and time | Speaker | Title | Venue | Join online |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Friday 13 February 12:00-13:00 | Dr Benjamin Palmer |
Optically functional crystals in animal coloration and vision
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Psychology Common Room, Social Sciences Complex, Priory Road | |
| Friday 6 March | Prof. Pier Luigi Dragotti (Imperial College London) | Learning to Reconstruct: Modern Approaches to Inverse Imaging Problems | Room G13/14, Life Sciences Building, Tyndall Avenue, | |
| Friday 20 March | Angeliki Katsenou (Sony) | Challenges of Interactive Game Streaming at Scale | Room G13/14, Life Sciences Building, Tyndall Avenue, | |
| Friday 27 March | Rikesh Patel (Lund University) | Navigation above and below the water’s surface | Room G13/14, Life Sciences Building, Tyndall Avenue, |
Previous Seminars
Autumn / Winter 2025
Please note that this year we are introducing lunchtime events and therefore moving away from a single time slot (e.g. 4pm on Fridays).
| Date and time | Speaker | Title | Venue | Join online |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Friday 7 November 16:00-17:00 | BVI Management Team |
Panel discussion: Why should I collaborate with a vision scientist? |
Psychology Common Room, Social Sciences Complex, Priory Road | |
| Friday 14 November 12:00-13:00 | Psychology Common Room, Social Sciences Complex, Priory Road | |||
| Friday 21 November 15:00-16:00 | Dr Danielle Shore | What’s in a face? Facial expressions and decision-making | Psychology Common Room, Social Sciences Complex, Priory Road | |
| Friday 28 November 16:00-17:00 | Dr Sebastian Korb | Psychology Common Room, Social Sciences Complex, Priory Road | ||
| Friday 5 December 16:00-17:00 | Elizabeth Bratton, Lyn Li, Danlu Chen |
Psychology Common Room, Social Sciences Complex, Priory Road | ||
| Friday 12 December 12:00-13:00 | Dr Cedric van den Berg | Polarization vision in marine invertebrates | Psychology Common Room, Social Sciences Complex, Priory Road | |
| Friday 19 December 12:00-13:00 | Prof Steve Montgomery | Visual system evolution in response to micro-habitat divergence in tropical butterflies | Psychology Common Room, Social Sciences Complex, Priory Road |
If you have any suggestions about speakers who you think might be suitable to give a BVI Seminar, please email bvi-enquiries@bristol.ac.uk with further details.