[BIC-announce] IPAM/CCB Summer School: Mathematics in Brain Imaging

[Keith Worsley]

Dear Colleagues,
We are organizing a Summer School on Mathematics in Brain Imaging at the 
UCLA Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM), from July 14 - 25, 
2008. Funding is available to attend the workshop via a number of 
scholarships sponsored by IPAM, and by the UCLA Center for Computational 
Biology (CCB). We hope you consider joining us for the Summer School. More 
details are below and a full schedule of speakers is linked here:
http://www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/mbi2008/
Please consider forwarding this announcement to colleagues who may be 
interested - and please encourage your students and colleagues to come!


Keith Worsley (on behalf of the organizers)
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IPAM/CCB Summer School: Mathematics in Brain Imaging
July 14 - 25, 2008
University of California, Los Angeles


This two-week intensive workshop will focus on mathematical techniques 
applied to brain images to measure, map and model brain structure and 
function. Topics will range from modeling anatomical structures in MRI 
scans, and mapping connectivity in diffusion tensor images, to statistical 
analysis of functional brain images from fMRI, EEG, and MEG. Current 
applications in radiology and neuroscience will be highlighted, as will new 
directions in the mathematics of structural and functional image analysis. 
In the second week on Functional Brain Mapping, a series of lectures on 
diffusion tensor imaging will discuss mathematics and tools for 
registration, segmentation, fiber tracking and connectivity modeling in 
tensor and "beyond-tensor" (high-angular resolution) diffusion images, using 
metrics on Riemannian manifolds. Software implementing a wide range of 
algorithms will be demonstrated; tutorial notes will be provided. Talks will 
interest newcomers as well as experts in the field. Morning lectures on the 
principles behind the methods; afternoon lectures will go in-depth into 
applications.

Program Schedule

Week 1: Computational Anatomy, July 14 -18, 2008
Week 2: Functional Brain Mapping, July 21 -25, 2008
see http://www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/mbi2008/ for more details.
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