Brain Connectivity Workshop 2015

Date: June 10–12, 2015
Location: UC San Diego
La Jolla, California

Program

Proposed topics and tentative speakers.

One-Day Educational Course – June 10

8:30–8:40am

Welcome:  Scott Makeig (UCSD) & Randy McIntosh (Rotman Institute, Educational Course Chair)

8:40–9:40am

Kötter Lecture: Klaas Enno Stephan (University of Zurich & ETH Zurich)

9:40–10:40am

Ingo Bojak (University of Reading)
Biophysical Modeling in Electrophysiology

10:40–11:00am

Break

11:00–12:00pm

Carsten Wolters (University of Muenster)
Forward and Inverse Problems in EEG/MEG

12:00–1:30pm

Lunch

1:30–2:30pm

Rasmus Birn (University of Wisconsin Madison)
Challenges in fMRI Analysis of Connectivity

2:30–3:30pm

Andrew Zalesky (University of Melbourne)
Challenges in Brain Connectivity Statistics

3:30–4:00pm

Break

4:00–5:00pm

Sheraz Khan (Harvard Medical School)
Connectivity in magnetoelectroencephalography (MEG)

5:00–5:30pm

All Course Speakers
General questions & discussion

5:30–7:00pm

Welcome Reception

Poster & Demo Session

 

Two-Day Workshop – June 11-12

Day 1: June 11th

Session I
(8:30am–12:30pm)

Modeling Connectivity in Brain Electrophysiology

Jorge Riera (Chair) (Fla Intl Univ)
Alain Destexhe (Unit for Neuroscience, Information and Complexity (UNIC), CNRS) 
Eugene Izhikevich (Brain Corp)
Stefan Kiebel (Max Planck Leipzig)
Matias Palva (Univ. Helsinki) 

Session II
(1:30–5:30pm)

Roles of Oscillations in Functional Connectivity

Randy McIntosh (Chair) (Rotman Institute)
Charles Schroeder (Columbia University)
Francesco de Pasquale (Univ Chieti)
Sylvain Baillet (McGill University)
Dora Hermes (Stanford University)

 

Day 2: June 12th

Session III
(8:30am–12:30pm)

Source-Resolved Causality Analysis

Tim Mullen (Chair) (University of California San Diego)
Steve Bressler (Florida Atlantic University)
Jean-Philippe Lachaux (U280, INSERM)
Stefan Haufe (New York University)
Pedro Valdes-Sosa (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China)

Session IV
(1:30–5:30pm)

Dynamic Connectivity of Agency

Michael Breakspear (Chair) (QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute)
Scott Makeig (University of California San Diego)
Hirokazu Tanaka (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
Muthuraman Muthuraman (University of Kiel)
Kathleen Poston (Stanford University)