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= Halifax, Canada: February 16, 2013 =
== General information ==
'''Where:''' Kenneth C. Rowe Bldg., Room 1009, Dalhousie University

'''When:''' Saturday, February 16, 8am-5pm

'''Hosted by''': endMS Atlantic, RADIANT and NRC

'''Organizers:''' Timothy Bardouille, Jodi Reid, Lindsay Berrigan (Dalhousie University)

'''Instructors:''' Francois Tadel, Sylvain Baillet (MNI, McGill)

'''Target audience: '''Neuroscientists,  psychologists, clinicians, engineers, etc. using MEG or EEG as advanced  research tools. Students, post-docs, staff, faculty interested in  learning a new academic software tool for MEG and EEG data analysis,  with an emphasis on source imaging, spectral decompositions and  functional connectivity metrics.

'''Participation fees:''' $40 for trainees, $80 for faculty, free for endMS and RADIANT trainees

== Workshop program ==
<<HTML(<FONT color=red>)>>'''Requirements'''<<HTML(</FONT>)>>

The  participants are required to bring a laptop (an external mouse will add to your comfort). In order to make the session as efficient as possible, we ask  all the attendees to  download, install and test the software and sample  dataset on their  laptops prior to the workshop.

Please read carefully the following  instructions:<<BR>>[[WorkshopHalifax2013Install|How to prepare your laptop for the training]]<<BR>><<BR>>

'''08:00-09:00:''' '''Laptop clinic and breakfast '''

 * Bring your laptop if you are not sure you were  successful in installing the material for the training session

'''09:00-09:15''': '''Introduction by Sylvain Baillet'''

'''09:15-10:00''': '''Brainstorm overview'''

 * Software architecture
 * Typical data workflow

'''10:00-10:45: Hands-on training begins'''

 * Database explorer
 * Importing MRI volumes, surfaces and atlases
 * Introduction to anatomical atlases

'''10:45-11:00: Coffee break<<BR>>'''

'''11:00-12:30: Hands-on training<<BR>>'''

 * Co-registration MEG/MRI
 * Reviewing continuous recordings
 * Artifact  detection and correction
 * Filtering and epoching
 * Averaging, observation of a typical  somatosensory evoked response

__'''12:30-13:30: Lunch break'''__

'''13:30-17:00: Hands-on training resumes '''(coffee & refreshments served)

 * Head modeling, cortical source reconstruction
 * Definition of   ROIs, tracking the processing of the sensory information millisecond  by  millisecond at the cortex level
 * Frequency and time-frequency analysis
 * Functional connectivity
 * Group   analysis and statistics
 * Advanced scripting interface
 * Other topics can be discussed  depending on the audience   specific requests