Brain Connectivity Workshop - Montreal 2011 21 – 23 June 2011 http://bcw2011.org/ The Brain Connectivity Workshop series aims to bring together experts in computational neuroscience, neuroscience methodology and experimental neuroscience with a special interest in understanding the tripartite relationship between anatomical connectivity, brain dynamics and cognitive function. The first BCW was organized by Rolf Kotter and Karl Friston in April 2002 in Düsseldorf, Germany. Since then, the workshop is a yearly recurrent event organized by a different institution around the globe. The 2-day workshop is preceded by a 1-day Brain Connectivity Course, in which brain connectivity experts will introduce the concepts underlying the current state-of-the-art methodologies and experimental designs. This year, the first day course will introduce dynamical systems, graph theory and network analysis, diffusion imaging, genetics and connectivity, cortical oscillations and connectivity of the developing brain. For a detailed program and registration, please see http://bcw2011.org/

EDUCATION SESSION

Viktor Jirsa (dynamical systems) : "Nonlinear Dynamics in Neuroscience"
Ed Bullmore (graph theory and network analysis)
Pierre Bellec (Data driven network organization)
Patrick Haggman (diffusion imaging)
Jacques Michaud (genetics and connectivity)
Petra Ritter (cortical oscillations)
Jay Giedd (connectivity of the developing brain)

PROGRAM

Day 1

Rolf Kotter Lecture: Karl Friston - A Tribute to Rolf Kotter
Allard Roebroeck (analysis of connectivity)
Jin Hyung Lee (imaging animal models & connectivity)
Markus Kaiser (imaging animal models, connectivity and epilepsy)

Di Cristo, Graziella (interneurons and development)
Thomason, M (genetic determine of functional connectivity in development)
Taga, G (NIRS imaging of connectivity in development)
Fair, Damien (graph theory metrics and development)

Day 2

Evans, A (life span changes in structural connectivity/morphology)
Valdez-Sosa, Pedro (connectivity in development)
Tononi, G (principles of information integration and network formation)
Bernard, Christophe (local network dynamics in epilepsy) : "Seizures: is the underlying mechanism as simple as a noise-driven emergent property of immature neuronal networks?"
Carmant, Lionel (connectivity in the infant epileptic brain)
Breakspear, M (dynamical systems approach to understanding epilepsy propagation)