Summer School: Mathematics in Brain Imaging

July 14 - 25, 2008

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Monday, July 14, 2008

Morning Session

Week I
8:00 - 8:50 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
8:50 - 9:00 Welcome and Introduction

Surface-Based Computational Anatomy (Chair: Paul Thompson)
9:00 - 9:45
David van Essen (Washington University in St.Louis - School of Medicine)

Surface-Based Computational Mapping of the Cerebral Cortex
Presentation (PowerPoint File)
9:45 - 10:00 Break
10:00 - 10:45
10:45 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 11:45
Zhuowen Tu (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))

Towards Automated Whole Brain Image Segmentation
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
PDF Presentation
12:00 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:00 - 2:45
2:45 - 3:00 Break
3:00 - 3:45

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast

Computational Anatomy of Shape (Chair: Michael Miller)
9:00 - 9:45
9:45 - 10:00 Break
10:00 - 10:45
10:45 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 11:45
Anqi Qiu (National University of Singapore)

Computational Functional Anatomy
PDF Presentation
12:00 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:00 - 2:45
2:45 - 3:00 Break
3:00 - 3:45
4:00 - 5:30 Reception (Location: IPAM Lobby)

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast

Mathematics of Diffusion Tensor Imaging (Chair: Christophe Lenglet)
9:00 - 9:45
9:45 - 10:00 Break
10:00 - 10:45
10:45 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 11:45
Steve Smith (University of Oxford)

Tract-Based Spatial Statistics
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
PDF Presentation
12:00 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:00 - 2:45
2:45 - 3:00 Break
3:00 - 3:45
3:45 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 4:45
5:00 - 7:00 Speakers' Dinner (Wednesday Evening)

Thursday, July 17, 2008

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast

Mapping Anatomy in Population Studies (Chair: James Gee)
9:00 - 9:45
9:45 - 10:00 Break
10:00 - 10:45
10:45 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 11:45
12:00 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:00 - 2:45
Tom Goldstein (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))

Improving Image Reconstruction in MRI
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
3:00 - 4:00
4:00 - 5:30 Student Presentations (10 minutes each; sign up on Monday)

Friday, July 18, 2008

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast

Statistics on Manifolds for Computational Anatomy and DTI (Chair: Christos Davatzikos)
9:00 - 9:45
James Gee (University of Pennsylvania)

Geodesics in Deformation Morphometry and DTI
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
PDF Presentation
9:45 - 10:00 Break
10:00 - 10:45
10:45 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 11:45
11:45 Closing Remarks

Saturday, July 19, 2008

Morning Session
8:30 - 3:00 CCB Demo Day at the NeuroScience Research Building Auditorium (Optional)

Monday, July 21, 2008

Morning Session

Week II
8:00 - 8:50 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
8:50 - 9:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks

Advances in first-level modeling (Chair: Tom Nichols)
9:00 - 9:45
9:45 - 10:00 Break
10:00 - 10:45
Steve Smith (University of Oxford)

Modeling temporal structure
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
PDF Presentation
10:45 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 11:45
Thomas Liu (University of California, San Diego (UCSD))

fMRI Design Optimization
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
Presentation (PowerPoint File)
12:00 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

Bayesian Methods in fMRI (Chair: Steve Smith)
2:00 - 2:45
2:45 - 3:00 Break
3:00 - 3:45
3:45 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 4:45 Panel Session (Glover,Nichols,Poline,Poldrack,Smith,Strother,Worsley)"Remaining Challenges in Multi-Subject fMRI"

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast

Reproducibility in fMRI (Chair: Lars Kai Hansen)
9:00 - 9:45
9:45 - 10:00 Break
10:00 - 10:45
J.B. Poline (Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique (CEA))

Reproducibility in group modeling
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
10:45 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 11:45
Stephen Strother (University of Toronto)

Reproducibility across analysis methods
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
Presentation (PowerPoint File)
12:00 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

Random Field Methods (Chair: J-B Poline)
2:00 - 2:45
2:45 - 3:00 Break
3:00 - 3:45
3:45 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 4:45
Ruth Heller (University of Pennsylvania)

Advances in FDR for fMRI
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
PDF Presentation

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast

Improved modelling with Multivariate Methods (Chair: Keith Worsley)
9:00 - 9:45
Lars Kai Hansen (Technical University of Denmark)

Decomposition methods for explorative neuroimaging
PDF Presentation
9:45 - 10:00 Break
10:00 - 10:45
Vince Calhoun (University of New Mexico)

Group ICA of fMRI
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
PDF Presentation
10:45 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 11:45
Ola Friman (MeVis Research GmbH, Center for Medical Image Computing)

Adaptive Multivariate Analysis
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
PDF Presentation
12:00 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

Imaging Genomics (Chair: Tom Nichols)
2:00 - 2:45
Nelson Freimer (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))

What makes a genetic association significant?
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
2:45 - 3:00 Break
3:00 - 3:45

Thursday, July 24, 2008

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast

Connectivity models (Chair: Russ Poldrack)
9:00 - 9:45
9:45 - 10:00 Break
10:00 - 10:45
Marta Garrido (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))

Dynamic causal modeling
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
Presentation (PowerPoint File)
10:45 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 11:45
Judea Pearl (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))

The Mathematics of Cause and Effect
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
Presentation (PowerPoint File)
12:00 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

Meta-analysis (Chair: Jeanette Mumford)
2:00 - 2:45
2:45 - 3:00 Break
3:00 - 3:45
3:45 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 4:45
Angela Laird (University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio)

Coordinate-Based Meta-Analysis using Activation Likelihood Estimation (ALE)
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
PDF Presentation

Friday, July 25, 2008

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast

Machine learning methods (Chair: Walt Schneider)
9:00 - 9:45
9:45 - 10:00 Break
10:00 - 10:45
10:45 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 11:45
Isabelle Guyon (Clopinet)

Feature selection methods
Presentation (PowerPoint File)
12:00 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

Advanced topics in machine learning (Chair: Francisco Pereira)
2:00 - 2:45
2:45 - 3:00 Break
3:00 - 3:45
3:45 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 4:45
Janaina Mourao-Miranda (King's College London)

Analysis of fMRI data using Machine Learning Methods
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)