This year’s International Workshop on Brain Connectivity (WBC), to be held at the University of California, San Diego, will focus for the first time primarily on the role of electrophysiological data in understanding the fine temporal scale underlying brain network dynamics as well as the mechanisms by which emergent dynamics originate from multi-scale interactions between brain areas, brain activity frequencies and timescales, and between brain activity and behavior. The first day will be dedicated to Educational Course lectures, followed by two days of half-day workshop sessions. The WBC will bring together leading investigators in the fields of neuroimaging, cognitive and computational neuroscience to discuss current and forthcoming challenges for brain connectivity research based on electrophysiological data. The goal will be to stimulate research students and scientists from diverse backgrounds for research in topics related to electrophysiology and brain connectivity, promoting larger international collaborations in these fields, and to inform the neuroscience community about emerging methods, and comprehensive theory and models for brain connectivity analysis, in particular from electrophysiological recordings.

For more information, please check out our BCW web page:

http://sccn.ucsd.edu/BrainConnectivityWorkshop2015/

To book your hotel room under our special block rate by May 12, please click here: http://sccn.ucsd.edu/BrainConnectivityWorkshop2015/travel.php

Educational Course –June 10, 2015

8:00 - 8:30am - Light Breakfast

8:30 - 8:40am - Welcome Remarks:

Scott Makeig, University of California, San Diego

Randy McIntosh, Rotman Institute, Educational Course Chair

8:40 - 9:40am - Kötter Lecture: Klaas Enno Stephan, Univeristy of Zurich & ETH Zurich

9:40 - 10:40am - Ingo Bojak, University of Reading

Biophysical Modeling in Electrophysiology

10:40 - 11:00am Break

11:00am -12:00pm Carsten Wolters, University of Muenster

Forward and Inverse Problems in EEG/MEG

12:00 - 1:30 pm: 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 Session

Two-Day Workshop – June 11-12, 2015

Day 1: June 11th

8:00am Light Breakfast

Session I (8:30am - 12:30pm): Modeling Connectivity in Brain Electrophysiology

Chair: Jorge Riera, Florida International University

Alain Destexhe, Unit for Neuroscience, Information and Comlpexity (UNIC), CNRS

Eugene Izhikevich, Brain Corporation

Stefan Kiebel, Max Planck Institute Leipzig

Matias Palva, University of Helsinki

12:30-1:30pm Lunch

Session II (1:30 - 5:30 pm): Roles of Oscillations in Functional Connectivity

Chair: Randy McIntosh, Rotman Institute

Charles Schroeder, Columbia University

Dora Hermes, Stanford University

Francesco de Pasquale, University of Chieti

Sylvain Baillet, McGill University

Day 2: June 12th

8:00am Light Breakfast

Session III (8:30 am - 12:30 pm): Source-Resolved Causality Analysis

Chair: Tim Mullen, University of California, San Diego

Pedro Valdes-Sosa, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

Stefan Haufe, New York University

Jean-Philippe Lachaux, U280, INSERM

Steve Bressler, Florida Atlantic University

12:30-1:30pm Lunch

Session IV (1:30-5:30 pm): Dynamic Connectivity of Agency

Chair: Michael Breakspear, 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