AVA membership invitation

The Applied Vision Association (AVA) is a registered charity which aims to promote research work in all areas related to vision and to advance its application in healthcare and industry.

The AVA's activities include the organisation of regular scientific meetings, production of a tri-monthly bulletin, and management of the Vision Scientists Memorial Fund, which provides travel and other grants to assist junior vision scientists.

Until now, AVA members have paid an annual subscription in order to receive the bulletin and benefits such as reduced registration fees at meetings. The system is now changing, however, so that a single, one-off payment will secure lifetime membership. At 25 UK pounds for ordinary membership, the new fee is only slightly increased from the usual yearly charge.

The benefits of membership are as follows:

• regular receipt of the AVA bulletin by e-mail
• invitation to attend all AVA meetings (e.g. the AVA Christmas meeting in Birmingham, December 2004; Ł25 registration for members)
• inclusion on the AVA@JISCMAIL.ac.uk address, as a forum for discussion about vision-related matters
• eligibility to apply for AVA grants to attend meetings such as VSS and ECVP
• annual receipt of a membership list with details of other members' interests and contact details, to encourage cross-working.

The AVA would be delighted to welcome new, or renewing, members in to its fold. Members should have an active interest in vision and vision-related matters, and all membership applications are subject to ratification by the AVA's Executive Committee. Further details, and an application form, may be found on the AVA website at http://www.dmu.ac.uk/ava/

For any enquiries, please contact the AVA secretariat:

Tom Troscianko tom.troscianko@bris.ac.uk Gillian Porter gillian.porter@bris.ac.uk