Introductory Neuroinformatics Course

From April 23th to 25th, 2004, Havana City, Cuba
 
Organized by:
Pedro A. Valdés-Sosa
Rolf Kotter


Background:

Following the example of the popular short courses in Computational Neuroscience/Neuroinformatics and Functional Imaging techniques this course provides an introduction to connectivity analyses in the context of functional imaging studies.

Details:
 Speakers will explain the conceptual issues and introduce relevant resources and software packages with practical examples. Participants are encouraged to try them using the computer infrastructure provided. If you want to apply these techniques to data that you already have please contact the local organizing committee for details of compatible media.

 
Programme

Friday 23th April

Subjects

Hours

Rolf Kotter

Anatomical connections and online data retrieval from the CoCoMac database

10:00-13:00

Denis Riviere o Yann Cointepas

BrainVISA

14:00-15:30

Silke Dodel

To Be Announced

15:40-17:00

 

 

 

Saturday 24th april

Alexa Morcom

Overview

10:00-10:30

Lucy Lee      

Computational Anatomy

10:30-12:00

Alexa Morcom     

The General Linear Model

13:30-15:00

Uta Noppeney 

Random Field Theory and Classical inference

15:30-17:00

Sunday 25th april

Karl Friston    

Experimental Design

9:30-10:30

Will Penny      

Hierarchical Models and Bayesian inference

11:45-12:45

Christian Beckmann

Probabilistic ICA

14:00-15:00

 

 

 

Tim Behrens    

Anatomical connections and tractography

15:15-16:15

    

 

 

Registration:
There is a charge of $60 to cover administration and catering (coffee break and lunch) costs. Once you register in the Introductory Neuroinformatics Course you can participate in all the sessions of your interest.

To register and pay online click here

More details will be available soon