<html><head></head><body><div style="font-family: Verdana;font-size: 12.0px;"><div>Dear Fieldtrip, SPM and EEGLAB users,<br/></div><div><br/></div><div>I would like to announce the following workshop at the Brain Imagning Center in Frankfurt:<br/></div><div><br/></div><div>
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on Non-linear and model-free Interdependence Measures in Neuroscience
and TRENTOOL course</b></font></font></p>
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<p align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">April
26th/27th,</font></font></p>
<p align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">MEG
Unit, Brain Imaging Center, Goethe University</font></font></p>
<p align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in"> <font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">Frankfurt,
Germany</font></font></p>
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<p align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><b>Organizers:</b></font></font></p>
<p align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">Michael
Wibral, BIC, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany</font></font></p>
<p align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">Raul
Vicente, FIAS, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany</font></font></p>
<p align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">Joseph
T. Lizier, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences,
Leipzig, Germany</font></font></p>
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<p align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2" style="font-size: 9pt"><i>This
workshop is kindly supported by the NeFF-LOEWE Grant 'Neuronal
Coordination - Research Group Frankfurt”</i></font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><b>Synopsis:</b></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">Understanding
complex systems composed of many interacting units, such as neural
networks, means understanding their directed and causal interactions.
If the units in question interact in a nonlinear way, as it can be
assumed in neural networks, we are faced with the problem that the
analysis of interactions must be blind to the type of interaction if
we want to cover all possible interactions in the network, as we may
not know the type of nonlinear interaction </font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><i>a
priori</i></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">.
Prematurely limiting our search to specific models, nonlinearities
or, even worse, linear interactions may block the road to discovery.
Novel model-free techniques for the quantification of directed
interactions from information theory offer a promising alternative to
more traditional methods in the field of interaction analyses, but
also come with their own specific challenges. This symposium brings
together the most active researchers in the field to discuss the
state of the art, future prospects and challenges on the way to an
model-free, information theoretic assessment of neuronal directed
interactions.</font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><b>Course:
</b></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">TRENTOOL
(www.trentool.de) is a recently published MATLAB® toolbox for the
model-free analysis of directed interactions in neural time series.
As indicated in the schedule below, participants of the symposium
will have the opportunity to get a hands on tutorial in the use of
TRENTOOL on the two afternoons of the symposium (limited places!).</font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><b>Registration:</b></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">For
registration, please send an email to <a href="mailto:office.fries@esi-frankfurt.de">office.fries@esi-frankfurt.de</a>
. Registration fee will be 50.00EUR, </font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><b>payable
upon </b></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><u><b>acceptance
of your registration</b></u></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><b>
via bank transfer to</b></font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><b>IBAN:
DE32 5005 0201 0000 3799 99</b></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><b>IMPORTANT:
Please add “Drittmittelkonto: 8204689” as reference</b></font></font><br/></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">Please
note that there are limited places for both symposium attendance (70) and
course participation (22). </font></font>
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<p align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><b>Program
and speakers:</b></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><br/><br/></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><u>Day
1</u></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><br/>9:00
-9:30 </font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><b>Opening
Talk: Michael Wibral / Raul Vicente</b></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">,
MEG Unit, Brain Imaging Center, Frankfurt, Germany</font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"> </font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><i>Investigating
the function of an information processing system with information
theoretic methods – current prospects and challenges</i></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><br/><br/>9:30
-10:10 </font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><b>Andre
Bastos</b></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">,
Ernst Strüngmann Institute Frankfurt, Germany</font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"> </font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><i>Title
to be announced</i></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><br/><br/>10:10
- 10:50 </font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><b>Joseph
Lizier</b></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">,
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig,
Germany </font></font>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"> </font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><i>Multivariate
construction of effective computational networks from observational
data</i></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><br/></font></font><br/>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">10:50
– 11:10 Coffee break<br/></font></font><br/>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">11:10
- 11:40 </font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><b>Stefano
Panzeri</b></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">,
Italian Institute of Technology Department of Robotics, Brain and
Cognitive Sciences, Genova, Italy</font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><i> Title
to be announced</i></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><br/><br/>11:40
– 12:20 </font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><b>Luca
Faes</b></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">,
Biophysics and Biosignals Lab, University of Trento, Italy<br/></font></font><br/>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"> </font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Computing
Transfer Entropy in neurophysiological time series: an approach based
on efficient conditional entropy estimation</i></span></font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">12:20
- 14:00 lunch break<br/><br/>14:00 - 15:30 </font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><b>Discussion:</b></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">
On the way to multivariate TE and methods for nonstationary data</font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><br/>15:30
- 16:00 </font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><b>Tim
Mullen</b></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">,
Dept. Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego, USA</font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><i> </i></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><i> Title
to be
announced</i></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><br/>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br/>16:00
- 19:30 </font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><b>TRENTOOL
workshop (@ MEG Laboratory)</b></font></font></p>
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together (complimentary for speakers, but room enough for all)</b></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><br/></font></font><br/>
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<p align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><u>Day
2</u></font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">9:30
- 10:10 </font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><b>Vasily
Vakorin</b></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">,Baycrest
Centre, Rotman Research Institute of Baycrest, Toronto, Canada</font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"> </font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><i>Age-related
changes in local and distributed entropy of brain signals with brain
development and aging</i></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><br/><br/>10:10
- 10:50 </font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><b>Mikhail
Prokopenko</b></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">,
CSIRO ICT Centre, Sydney, Australia</font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"> </font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><i>Fisher
information and phase transitions in complex systems</i></font></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><br/><br/>10:50
– 11:10 Coffee break<br/><br/>11:10 - 11:40 </font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><b>Paul
Williams</b></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">,
Cognitive Science Program, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA</font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"> </font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><i>Decomposing
Multivariate Information</i></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><br/><br/>11:40
- 12:20 </font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><b>Daniel
Chicharro</b></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">,
Italian Institute of Technology Department of Robotics, Brain and
Cognitive Sciences, Genova, Italy</font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><i> </i></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><i> Title
to be announced</i></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"> <br/>12:20
- 14:00 Lunch break<br/><br/>14:00 - 14:40 </font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><b>Ingo
Fischer</b></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">,
Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems,
University of the Balearic Islands, Palma de Mallorca, Spain</font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"> </font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><i>Title
to be announced</i></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><br/>14:40
- 16:00 </font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><b>Discussion:</b></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">
Information Dynamics - beyond connectivity<br/></font></font><br/>
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- 19:30 </font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><b>TRENTOOL
workshop (@ MEG Laboratory)</b></font></font></p>
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</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br/></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Best Regards,<br/></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Michael Wibral<br/></p>
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