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Conference Schedule

Day
8:45 am
9:00am - 6:00pm
6:00-8:00pm
8:00pm
Thursday 04-14-2005


Welcome Reception

Friday 04-15-2005
Welcome Remarks

Session I + II



Saturday 04-16-2005

Session III + IV


Banquet
Seagate Hotel & Beach Club, Delray Beach


Friday 04-15-2005


          08:15 AM  Breakfast

Welcome Remarks

        08:45 AM    Welcome Remarks by:
       

            Dr. John Pritchett, Provost FAU

            Dr. Dennis Glanzman, NIMH

Session I : Principles of spatiotemporal pattern formation

Chair: Randy McIntosh

        09:00 AM    Sue Ann Campbell, University of Waterloo :
                           
Synchronization and Multistability in Rings of Coupled Oscillators

        09:45 AM    Olaf Sporns, Indiana University:
                            
Motifs in Brain Networks: Building Blocks for a Cognitive Architecture

        10:30 AM    Coffee Break

        11:00 AM    John Beggs, Indiana University :
                             Critical branching captures activity in living neural networks and places constraints on local network topology

        11:45 AM    Michael Breakspear, University of New South Wales :
                           
Symbiotic Relationship Between Neuronal Dynamics and Architectures

        12:30 AM    Lunch Break

Session II : Measuring connectivity and dynamics

Chair: Scott Kelso

        02:30 PM    Karl Friston, Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience :
                            Dynamic Causal models of ERPs

        03:15 PM    Peter Bandettini, NIMH :
                            Functional Connectivity and The Hemodynamic Response

        04:00 PM    Coffee Break

        04:30 PM    Scott Makeig, UCSD :
                            Independence and Coordination of Macroscopic Brain Dynamics

        05:15 PM    Ed Bullmore, University of Cambridge :
                           
Connectivity, Distance and Scaling in Whole Brain Functional Networks

        06:00 PM    End of Sessions on Day 1

Saturday 04-16-2005

        08:30 AM  Breakfast

Session III : Measuring connectivity and dynamics

Chair: Rolf Kötter

        09:00 AM    Mingzhou Ding, University of Florida :
                           
Assessing Directions of Neural Interactions with Granger Causality Spectra

        09:45 AM    Barry Horwitz, NIDCD/NIH :
                           
Using Large-Scale Neural Models to Help Determine the Neural Substrates of Functional and Effective Connectivity

        10:30 AM    Coffee Break

        11:00 AM    Klaas Stephan, Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience :
                           
Inter-hemispheric connectivity: what is the functional role of the corpus callosum?

        11:45 AM    Richard Leahy, Univeristy of Southern California :
                           
Imaging Oscillatory Activity with MEG

        12:30 AM    Lunch Break

Session IV: Clinical aspects of anatomical and functional connectivity

Chair: Betty Tuller

        02:30 PM    John Milton, The Claremont Colleges :
                            Anatomical and electrophysiological insights into seizure propagation in the human brain


        03:15 PM   
Kelly Jantzen FAU :
                            Neural Signatures of Behavioral Dynamics Revealed Using Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging

        04:00 PM    Coffee Break

        04:30 PM    Tomáš Paus, University of Nottingham :
                             Neural Connectivity in the Lesioned Brain

        05:15 PM    Steven Schiff, George Mason University :
                            Wave Formation and Control in Brain

        06:00 PM    Break out session: Next year's workshop

        06:20 PM    End of Sessions on Day 2

        08:00 PM    Banquet & Party at the  Seagate Hotel, Delray Beach