From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Fri Aug 6 12:43:17 2010 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 12:43:17 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] FW: Open ACES lab presentation, de Grand Pre, 1pm Monday 9th August. Carlton Chu: Machine Learning for fMRI connectivity & disease prediction Message-ID: Open ACES lab presentation, de Grand Pre, 1pm Monday 9th August. Title: Machine Learning for fMRI connectivity & disease prediction Abstract: In recent years, applying pattern recognition and machine learning methods to neuroimaging data has gained great popularity. In the first half of this presentation, which draws on my doctoral work, I will give brief introduction to the decoding and classification models, specifically the "kernel method", and how they are different from the conventional mass univariate statistical analysis. In the second half, I will talk about the following applications, 1. Classification of Alzheimer's diseases (AD). 2. Prediction of clinical scores for MCI and AD patients 2. Pittsburgh fMRI decoding competition. Biography: Carlton Chu(Chia-Yueh CHU) was borned in Taiwan, and later immigrated to New Zealand at age 16. He graduated with a first class honours degree in Computer Systems Engineering from University of Auckland, New Zealand. He then received a Masters in Biomedical Engineering from the University of New South Wales, Australia. After working as a part time research assistance for about a year at the Neuropsychiatric centre, Prince of Wales hospital, Sydney, he obtained a PhD in Neuroimaging method from University College London, working in the statistical methods group at the prestigious Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, creators of the famous 'SPM' program, the de-facto standard analysis tool for neuroimaging used around the world. There he developed innovative new pattern recognition methods to automatically detect the early stages of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Huntingdon's just from structural brain images. Carlton was supervised Dr. John Ashburner and Prof. Karl Friston, who are the authors of SPM. In 2007, Carlton won the first prize in the 2nd Pittsburgh Brain Activity Interpretation Competition (PBAIC), a prestigious international competition involving the application of machine learning to the problem of classification of brain activity. He led a small research team to victory, acclaim from peers in the field, and the $10K first prize, by beating out teams of experts from many top research facilities including MIT, NIH, Berkeley, Stanford and Caltech. He is currently working as a Postdoc fellow at the section of functional imaging method, National Institute of Mental Health, NIH, and is supervised by Dr. Peter Bandettini, a pioneer of fMRI research. His current research involves applying pattern recognition methods to study functional connectivities. From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Mon Aug 9 09:09:50 2010 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 09:09:50 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] REMINDER FOR TODAY - Open ACES lab presentation, de Grand Pre, 1pm Monday 9th August. Carlton Chu: Machine Learning for fMRI connectivity & disease prediction Message-ID: REMINDER FOR TODAY. Jennifer Jennifer Chew McConnell Brain Imaging Centre MNI - WB317 3801 University Street Montreal, Qc H3A 2B4 Telephone: 514-398-8554 Fax: 514-398-2975 -----Original Message----- From: bic-announce-bounces at bic.mni.mcgill.ca [mailto:bic-announce-bounces at bic.mni.mcgill.ca] On Behalf Of Jennifer Chew, Ms. Sent: Friday, August 06, 2010 12:43 PM To: bic-announce at bic.mni.mcgill.ca Subject: [BIC-announce] FW: Open ACES lab presentation, de Grand Pre, 1pm Monday 9th August. Carlton Chu: Machine Learning for fMRI connectivity & disease prediction Open ACES lab presentation, de Grand Pre, 1pm Monday 9th August. Title: Machine Learning for fMRI connectivity & disease prediction Abstract: In recent years, applying pattern recognition and machine learning methods to neuroimaging data has gained great popularity. In the first half of this presentation, which draws on my doctoral work, I will give brief introduction to the decoding and classification models, specifically the "kernel method", and how they are different from the conventional mass univariate statistical analysis. In the second half, I will talk about the following applications, 1. Classification of Alzheimer's diseases (AD). 2. Prediction of clinical scores for MCI and AD patients 2. Pittsburgh fMRI decoding competition. Biography: Carlton Chu(Chia-Yueh CHU) was borned in Taiwan, and later immigrated to New Zealand at age 16. He graduated with a first class honours degree in Computer Systems Engineering from University of Auckland, New Zealand. He then received a Masters in Biomedical Engineering from the University of New South Wales, Australia. After working as a part time research assistance for about a year at the Neuropsychiatric centre, Prince of Wales hospital, Sydney, he obtained a PhD in Neuroimaging method from University College London, working in the statistical methods group at the prestigious Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, creators of the famous 'SPM' program, the de-facto standard analysis tool for neuroimaging used around the world. There he developed innovative new pattern recognition methods to automatically detect the early stages of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Huntingdon's just from structural brain images. Carlton was supervised Dr. John Ashburner and Prof. Karl Friston, who are the authors of SPM. In 2007, Carlton won the first prize in the 2nd Pittsburgh Brain Activity Interpretation Competition (PBAIC), a prestigious international competition involving the application of machine learning to the problem of classification of brain activity. He led a small research team to victory, acclaim from peers in the field, and the $10K first prize, by beating out teams of experts from many top research facilities including MIT, NIH, Berkeley, Stanford and Caltech. He is currently working as a Postdoc fellow at the section of functional imaging method, National Institute of Mental Health, NIH, and is supervised by Dr. Peter Bandettini, a pioneer of fMRI research. His current research involves applying pattern recognition methods to study functional connectivities. _______________________________________________ BIC-announce mailing list BIC-announce at bic.mni.mcgill.ca http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/mailman/listinfo/bic-announce From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Mon Aug 9 10:53:17 2010 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 10:53:17 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] FW: RBIQ Ecole d'ete 2010 - QBIN 2010 Summer School August 16, 2010 Message-ID: FOR YOUR INFORMATION Jennifer Jennifer Chew McConnell Brain Imaging Centre MNI - WB317 3801 University Street Montreal, Qc H3A 2B4 Telephone: 514-398-8554 Fax: 514-398-2975 ________________________________ From: Francine B?langer [mailto:francine.belanger at criugm.qc.ca] Sent: Monday, August 09, 2010 10:51 AM To: Maria Sanchez ; christiane.laurier at umontreal.ca; Jennifer Chew, Ms. Subject: RBIQ Ecole d'ete 2010 - QBIN 2010 Summer School Il ne reste que 4 jours pour vous inscrire aux conf?rences du 16 ao?t (?ch?ance: 13 ao?t) RBIQ - ?COLE D'?T? 2010 : Imagerie multimodale 16 ao?t 2010 - Formation th?orique : Cette journ?e de formation est ouverte ? tous. Les conf?rences (4) seront donn?es ? l'Amphith??tre Jeanne Timmins ? l'Institut neurologique de Montr?al Le formulaire d'inscription est disponible ici : http://unfweb.criugm.qc.ca/QBIN_SUMMER_SCHOOL_2010/ Organisateurs : Dr. Julien Doyon, Universit? de Montr?al et Dr Robert Zatorre, McGill University. ------------------------------------------------- You have only 4 days left to register to the August 16th lectures (Deadline: August 13th) QBIN - SUMMER SCHOOL 2010: Multimodal Imaging 16 August 2010 - theoretical session: this day of training is open to all. Four lectures will be given to the Jeanne Timmins amphitheatre at the Montreal Neurological Institute. Registration form is available here: http://unfweb.criugm.qc.ca/QBIN_SUMMER_SCHOOL_2010/ Organizers: Dr. Julien Doyon, Universit? de Montr?al et Dr Robert Zatorre, McGill University. Date Th?mes / Topics Horaire / Schedule Titre / Title Conf?rencier / Lecturer Montreal Neurological Institute - Jeanne Timmins Amphitheatre 3801, University St, Montreal (Qc) 16 ao?t 2010 August 16, 2010 Formation th?orique / Theoritical lectures 9:00 - 10:30 Pattern recognition methods in neuroimaging Eugene DUFF University of Oxford, FMRIB Centre 10:30 - 10:50 Pause 10:50 - 12:20 Independent component analysis for exploratory analysis of fMRI and multimodal group data Adrian GROVES University of Oxford, FMRIB Centre 12:20 - 13:30 LUNCH 13:30 - 15:00 Brain plasticity - Evidence and interpretation Jan SCHOLZ University of Oxford, FMRIB Centre 15:00 - 15:20 Pause 15:20 - 16:50 Techniques for multimodal parcellation of the cerebral cortex Saad JBABDI University of Oxford, FMRIB Centre _______________________________________ Francine B?langer Coordonnatrice administrative UNF / RNQ / RBIQ-QBIN Centre de recherche, Institut universitaire de g?riatrie de Montr?al 4565, chemin Queen-Mary, Montr?al (Qu?bec) H3W 1W5 T?l.: (514) 340-3540 # 4785 T?l?c.: (514) 340-3530 Courriel: francine.belanger at criugm.qc.ca Web UNF: www.unf-montreal.ca Web RBIQ: www.rbiq-qbin.qc.ca -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Mon Aug 9 13:10:39 2010 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 13:10:39 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] Mini-symposium on AD Prevention, Friday, Aug. 27, 2010 begins at 8:00 A.M. Message-ID: FOR YOUR INFORMATION - Jennifer Jennifer Chew McConnell Brain Imaging Centre MNI - WB317 3801 University Street Montreal, Qc H3A 2B4 Telephone: 514-398-8554 Fax: 514-398-2975 Mini-symposium on Prevention of Alzheimer's Disease -- Profs. S. Lovestone and T. Montine. SAVE THE DATE ------------------ Dear colleague: The new McGill Centre for Studies on Prevention of Alzheimer's Disease (StoP-AD) invites you to a Mini-Symposium on AD Prevention. When: Friday August 27, 2010, 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon Where: C.F. Martin Amphitheatre McIntyre Medical Sciences Bldg. Invited speakers: Simon Lovestone, MD, PhD, Institute of Psychiatry, London; Thomas J. Montine, MD, PhD, University of Washington School of Medicine Full agenda to follow. Coffee and refreshments will be served. From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Thu Aug 12 15:41:34 2010 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 15:41:34 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] FW: Killam Lecture - Tuesday, March 23, 2010 Intravital Microscopy to Study Membrane Trafficking in Live animals Message-ID: Jennifer Chew McConnell Brain Imaging Centre MNI - WB317 3801 University Street Montreal, Qc H3A 2B4 Telephone: 514-398-8554 Fax: 514-398-2975 -----Original Message----- From: Jennifer Chew, Ms. Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 9:43 AM To: bic-announce at bic.mni.mcgill.ca Subject: FW: Killam Lecture - Tuesday, March 23, 2010 Intravital Microscopy to Study Membrane Trafficking in Live animals PLEASE DISCARD IF THIS IS A DUPLICATE. THANK YOU. JENNIFER Jennifer Chew McConnell Brain Imaging Centre MNI - WB317 3801 University Street Montreal, Qc H3A 2B4 Telephone: 514-398-8554 Fax: 514-398-2975 ________________________________ From: MNISTAFF - Montreal Neurological Institute Staff [mailto:MNISTAFF at LISTS.MCGILL.CA] On Behalf Of Enza Ferracane, Ms. Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 10:04 AM To: MNISTAFF at LISTS.MCGILL.CA Subject: Killam Lecture - Tuesday, March 23, 2010 Killam Lecture Speaker: Roberto Weigert, PhD Intracellular Membrane Trafficking Unit Oral and Pharyngeal Cancer Branch National Institute of Health Title: Intravital Microscopy to Study Membrane Trafficking in Live Animals Date: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 Time: 4:00 pm Place: de Grandpre Communications Centre Dear Colleagues: The Killam Seminar Speaker for this week (Tuesday, March 23rd) will be Dr. Roberto Weigert from the NIH in Bethesda. Roberto is a young cell biologist who focuses on membrane trafficking events, primarily exo and endocytosis. He has developed an amazing system to study these processes, specifically intravital two-photon microscopy in rats and mice. He has also developed techniques that allow him to deliver DNA constructs to cells in the living animal. The techniques have been refined to the point that he can observe membrane trafficking events such as endocytosis and homotypic endosome fusion, providing a powerful tool to study the molecular machinery regulating endocytosis in a physiological context. The title of his talk is "Intravital microscopy to study membrane trafficking in live animals." It should be fun and I hope to see you there. Sincerely, Peter McPherson From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Thu Aug 12 15:50:47 2010 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 15:50:47 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] PLEASE DISCARD THIS MESSAGE jennifer chew - FW: Killam Lecture - Tuesday, March 23, 2010 Intravital Microscopy to Study Membrane Trafficking in Live animals Message-ID: Jennifer Chew McConnell Brain Imaging Centre MNI - WB317 3801 University Street Montreal, Qc H3A 2B4 Telephone: 514-398-8554 Fax: 514-398-2975 -----Original Message----- From: bic-announce-bounces at bic.mni.mcgill.ca [mailto:bic-announce-bounces at bic.mni.mcgill.ca] On Behalf Of Jennifer Chew, Ms. Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2010 3:42 PM To: 'bic-announce at bic.mni.mcgill.ca' Subject: [BIC-announce] FW: Killam Lecture - Tuesday, March 23, 2010 Intravital Microscopy to Study Membrane Trafficking in Live animals Jennifer Chew McConnell Brain Imaging Centre MNI - WB317 3801 University Street Montreal, Qc H3A 2B4 Telephone: 514-398-8554 Fax: 514-398-2975 -----Original Message----- From: Jennifer Chew, Ms. Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 9:43 AM To: bic-announce at bic.mni.mcgill.ca Subject: FW: Killam Lecture - Tuesday, March 23, 2010 Intravital Microscopy to Study Membrane Trafficking in Live animals PLEASE DISCARD IF THIS IS A DUPLICATE. THANK YOU. JENNIFER Jennifer Chew McConnell Brain Imaging Centre MNI - WB317 3801 University Street Montreal, Qc H3A 2B4 Telephone: 514-398-8554 Fax: 514-398-2975 ________________________________ From: MNISTAFF - Montreal Neurological Institute Staff [mailto:MNISTAFF at LISTS.MCGILL.CA] On Behalf Of Enza Ferracane, Ms. Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 10:04 AM To: MNISTAFF at LISTS.MCGILL.CA Subject: Killam Lecture - Tuesday, March 23, 2010 Killam Lecture Speaker: Roberto Weigert, PhD Intracellular Membrane Trafficking Unit Oral and Pharyngeal Cancer Branch National Institute of Health Title: Intravital Microscopy to Study Membrane Trafficking in Live Animals Date: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 Time: 4:00 pm Place: de Grandpre Communications Centre Dear Colleagues: The Killam Seminar Speaker for this week (Tuesday, March 23rd) will be Dr. Roberto Weigert from the NIH in Bethesda. Roberto is a young cell biologist who focuses on membrane trafficking events, primarily exo and endocytosis. He has developed an amazing system to study these processes, specifically intravital two-photon microscopy in rats and mice. He has also developed techniques that allow him to deliver DNA constructs to cells in the living animal. The techniques have been refined to the point that he can observe membrane trafficking events such as endocytosis and homotypic endosome fusion, providing a powerful tool to study the molecular machinery regulating endocytosis in a physiological context. The title of his talk is "Intravital microscopy to study membrane trafficking in live animals." It should be fun and I hope to see you there. Sincerely, Peter McPherson _______________________________________________ BIC-announce mailing list BIC-announce at bic.mni.mcgill.ca http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/mailman/listinfo/bic-announce From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Thu Aug 12 15:53:38 2010 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 15:53:38 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] =?iso-8859-1?q?FW=3A_Mini-Symposium_on_=22Current_?= =?iso-8859-1?q?Approaches_to_AD_prevention=22_Friday=2C_August_27=2C_2010?= =?iso-8859-1?q?__Mini-Symposium_intitul=E9_=22Current_Approaches_to_AD_pr?= =?iso-8859-1?q?evention=22_Le_vendredi_27_ao=FBt_2010?= Message-ID: Dear colleagues : The new McGill Centre for Studies on Prevention of Alzheimer's Disease (StoP-AD) cordially invites you to a mini-symposium on ? Current Approaches to AD prevention ?. Please see the attached announcement and agenda. Chers coll?gues, Le nouveau Centre McGill d'?tudes sur la pr?vention de la maladie d'Alzheimer (StoP-AD) vous invite cordiallement ? un mini-symposium intitul? ? Current Approaches to AD prevention ?. Veuillez consultez l'annonce et l'ordre du jour ci-joints. John C.S. Breitner, MD, MPH Director, McGill Centre for Studies on Prevention of Alzheimer's Disease Douglas Mental Health Institute Research Centre Professor of Psychiatry McGill University, Faculty of Medicine john.breitner at mcgill.ca (514) 761-6131, ext. 3932 MINI-SYMPOSIUM ? Current Approaches to AD prevention ? Invited Speakers / Conf?renciers invit?s * Simon Lovestone, MD, PhD Professor of Old Age Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry Director NIHR Biomedical Research Centre for Mental Health * Thomas J. Montine, MD, PhD Director, Division of Neuropathology Alvord Endowed Professor in Neuropathology University of Washington When: Friday, August 27, 2010 Date: Vendredi, le 27 ao?t 2010 Time: 8:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Heure: 8h30 - 11h Where : Charles F. Martin Amphitheatre Endroit: McIntyre Medical Sciences Building AGENDA / ORDRE DU JOUR 8:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. Coffee, refreshments Caf?, rafra?chissements 8:30 a.m. - 8:50 a.m. Introduction to the Symposium and to the Centre Introduction au Symposium et au Centre 9:00 a.m. - 9:45 a.m. Simon Lovestone, MD, PhD Talk / Conf?rence: "Plasma based, combinatorial and multimodal biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease" 9:45 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Questions Questions 10:00 a.m. - 10:20 a.m. Break Pause 10:20 a.m. - 11:05 a.m. Thomas J. Montine, MD, PhD Talk / Conf?rence: "Prostaglandin E2 Signaling in Neurodegeneration" 11:05 a.m. - 11:20 a.m. Questions Questions 11:20 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Panel discussion with questions from floor Discussion et questions Jennifer Chew McConnell Brain Imaging Centre MNI - WB317 3801 University Street Montreal, Qc H3A 2B4 Telephone: 514-398-8554 Fax: 514-398-2975 ________________________________ From: catherine.cattan at douglas.mcgill.ca [mailto:catherine.cattan at douglas.mcgill.ca] Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2010 1:52 PM To: 06_DOUG_CR_CR%DOUGLAS%SSSS at isn.rtss.qc.ca; Communications Psychiatry; francine.belanger at criugm.qc.ca; IPN; Jennifer Chew, Ms. Subject: Mini-Symposium on "Current Approaches to AD prevention" Friday, August 27, 2010 Mini-Symposium intitul? "Current Approaches to AD prevention" Le vendredi 27 ao?t 2010 Bonjour, Veuillez trouver ci-joint l'annonce portant sur le Mini-Symposium cit? en rubrique de la part de Dr John Breitner. Merci. (See attached file: Symposium.doc) ************************************************************************************************************************* Good day, Please find enclosed the attached announcement on the above mentioned Mini-Symposium on behalf of Dr. John Breitner. Thank you Catherine Cattan Secr?taire de direction Centre de recherche de l'H?pital Douglas Bureau E-4206.1, Pavillon Perry (514) 761-6131, poste 3158 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Thu Aug 19 16:05:32 2010 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 16:05:32 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] FW: Postdoctoral fellow wanted at the University of Buenos Aires Message-ID: Circulating at Dr. Natasha Rajah's request. Jennifer ------------------------------------------- The Physiology of Action Laboratory (http://www.fmed.uba.ar/depto/fisiologia/fdaction.htm), located in the Department of Physiology of the School of Medicine, University of Buenos Aires, is seeking a postdoctoral fellow to carry out a project on prediction and action observation funded by the NIH. The project involves the use of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), EEG compatible with TMS, and MRI. The ideal candidate would have a Ph. D in neuroscience, experimental psychology or related field, and experience in one or more of these methods plus basic computer programming skills (e.g. matlab). Interested candidates may contact Dr. Valeria Della-Maggiore at vdellamaggiore at fmed.uba.ar. Please send a CV and a contact email for one or two references. Many thanks Valeria -- Valeria Della-Maggiore, Ph. D Department of Physiology, School of Medicine University of Buenos Aires Paraguay 2155, Capital Federal Buenos Aires, C1121ABG Argentina phone 54 11 5 950 9500 (2132) http://www.fmed.uba.ar/depto/fisiologia/fdaction.htm ------------------------------------------------------------ -- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From siddiqi at cim.mcgill.ca Tue Aug 24 10:51:45 2010 From: siddiqi at cim.mcgill.ca (Kaleem Siddiqi) Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:51:45 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] Fwd: I: cardiovascular medical image computing: postdoc and phd studentships in Barcelona References: <019701cb41f5$e12914f0$a37b3ed0$@upf.edu> Message-ID: FYI. -Kaleem http://www.cim.mcgill.ca/~siddiqi Begin forwarded message: > From: "Alejandro Frangi" > Date: August 22, 2010 8:31:00 AM EDT > To: > Subject: I: cardiovascular medical image computing: postdoc and phd studentships in Barcelona > > Dear colleague > > We are currently looking for PhD students and postdoctoral candidates for > various projects and, in particular, we are interested in people with > motivation or background to work in the areas of computational medical image > analysis and image-based computational cardiac electrophysiology, cardiac > electro mechanics and vascular hemodynamics modeling. > > You will find the various announcements below > >> PhD studentships > http://www.tecn.upf.es/~afrangi/opencalls_phdstudents.htm >> Post-doctoral fellowships > http://www.tecn.upf.es/~afrangi/opencalls_researchers.htm > > I would appreciate if you could circulate this add among your colleagues and > potential excellent candidates to these posts. > > Best > > Alex > > _________________________________________________________________________ > Dr. Alejandro Frangi > Center for Computational Imaging & Simulation Technologies in Biomedicine > (CISTIB) > Information & Communication Technologies Department > Universitat Pompeu Fabra - UPF - www.upf.edu > Networking Center on Biomedical Research - CIBER-BBN - www.ciber-bbn.org > Instituci? Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avan?ats - ICREA - www.icrea.cat > Visiting address: c/ T?nger 122-140 - E08018 Barcelona - Spain > Postal address: c/Roc Boronat 138 - E08018 Barcelona - Spain > Sec: +34 93-542-1347 - Fax: +34 93-542-1451 > > Please use coding in the subject of your mail, viz. > Q=Question I=Information U=Urgent A=Action > > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Tue Aug 31 16:17:48 2010 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:17:48 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] FW: Lecture - Dr. Michael Frank - Corticostriatal Mechanisms of Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making Message-ID: PLEASE DISCARD IF THIS IS A DUPLICATE. THANK YOU. JENNIFER Jennifer Chew McConnell Brain Imaging Centre MNI - WB317 3801 University Street Montreal, Qc H3A 2B4 Telephone: 514-398-8554 Fax: 514-398-2975 -----Original Message----- From: MNISTAFF - Montreal Neurological Institute Staff [mailto:MNISTAFF at LISTS.MCGILL.CA] On Behalf Of Enza Ferracane, Ms. Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 3:46 PM To: MNISTAFF at LISTS.MCGILL.CA Subject: Lecture - Dr. Michael Frank The MWP Brain-to-Society Research Center invites you to a Presentation by Dr. Michael Frank Brown University Corticostriatal Mechanisms of Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making Friday, September 3rd, 2010 9:00 AM Room 451, Bronfman Building 1001 Sherbrooke Street West Corticostriatal Mechanisms of Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making Abstract The basal ganglia and frontal cortex interact intimately to facilitate adaptive action plans while suppressing those that are less adaptive. Dopamine acting at D1 and D2 receptors plays a critical role in modulating both the selection and learning of actions that are most/least likely to lead to reward. The dynamics of this circuitry in reinforcement learning and decision making have been explored via a series of inter-related computational models. I will present novel predictions arising from these models and associated experimental findings with human patient populations, pharmacological manipulation, and genetics. Biography Dr. Michael Frank is widely recognized in the scientific world. After completing his undergraduate degree at Queen's University he pursued his Masters and PhD degrees at the University of Colorado Boulder. Dr. Frank is currently an assistant professor of Psychology and Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences at Brown University. His research combines computational modeling and experimental work to understand the neural mechanisms underlying reinforcement learning, decision making and working memory. In 2010, Dr. Frank was awarded the Janet T Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Contributions, granted by the Association for Psychological Science. From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Tue Aug 31 16:33:40 2010 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:33:40 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] Talk to be given by Dr. Rolf Clackdoyle - Classical tomography is (sort of) Local after all! Message-ID: SPEAKER: Dr. Rolf Clackdoyle (Directeur de Recherche, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) (member of the CNRS-Saint Etienne University mixed research unit, the Laboratoire Hubert Curien) DATE: Thursday, September 2, 2010 TIME; 2:30 P.M. PLACE: de Grandpre Communications Centre Abstract of talk given below this message. Jennifer Chew McConnell Brain Imaging Centre MNI - WB317 3801 University Street Montreal, Qc H3A 2B4 Telephone: 514-398-8554 Fax: 514-398-2975 ________________________________ Title: Classical Tomography is (sort of) Local after all! Abstract: Many medical scanners present (at least to first order) the same mathematical problem: how can the density function of the scanned object be recovered from the measurements, which are essentially summed densities taken over various straight lines? This problem arises in tomographic nuclear medicine imaging (PET and SPECT) and in x-ray imaging (CT). In the classical situation, a single slice is to be reconstructed from line-integrals constrained to the slice of interest. The solution to this mathematical problem was re-established in the 1970's by researchers unaware that it was just the 2D version of a solution given by J. Radon in 1917. In the general version, Radon's formulas showed that in odd dimensions (in 3D, 5D, 7D, ...) the problem is "local" in the sense that measurements only need to be taken 'near' the region of interest; whereas in even dimensions all measurements are required, including measurement lines far from the region of interest. As an example: if classical (2D) tomography were somehow "local" then a CT of the heart would only need x-ray passing through the heart. However, Radon's formula indicates that all x-rays in the tomographic slice must be measured including, for example, rays that pass through the liver but miss the heart. In a surprising mathematical development in 2002, it has been established that, even though classical tomographic is two dimensional, some degree of local behavior can occur. In some cases, accurate reconstruction can be obtained from local information. This talk will describe current findings, and indicate consequences for reduced dose and/or improved handling of noisy measurements in region-of-interest tomography. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: