PROGRAM SCHEDULE
14th March 2011

Registration starts at 9:00 AM

Inauguration
9:30 – 10:00 AM

9:30 AM
Welcome address by Prof. T. S. S. R. K. Rao (Head, ISI Bangalore Center)

9:30 AM
Welcome address       by Prof. T. S. S. R. K. Rao (Head, ISI Bangalore Center)
 
9:38 AM
About ISI       by Prof. N. S. N. Sastry

9:48 AM
Speech by the Chief Guest, Prof. Obaid Siddique (F.R.S and Founder
Director of the NCBS)

9:56 AM
Vote of thanks by Dr. Kaushik Majumdar


10:00 – 10:30 Coffee

LECTURE SCHEDULE

10:30 – 11:30 Upinder S. Bhalla (NCBS, Bangalore)
Brain, mind and models

11:30 – 12:30 Vidita A. Vaidya (TIFR, Mumbai)
The emotional brain : Imprints of life history

12:30 – 13:30 John P John (NIMHANS, Bangalore)
Aberrant cognitive processing in schizophrenia: Insights from fMRI research

13:30 – 14:30 Lunch

14:30 – 15:30 Raghav Singh (India Research Lab, IBM, Delhi)
Network architecture of the long-distance pathways in the
macaque brain

15-30 – 16:30 Arpan Banerjee (NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA)
Decoding trial-by-trial information processing from brain
electric activity

16:30 Coffee

15th March 2011
LECTURE SCHEDULE

10:15 – 11:15 Rachid Deriche (INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France)
Computational diffusion MRI : From images to anatomical
connectivities in the brain and beyond

11:15 – 11:30 Coffee

11:30 – 12:30 V. Mohan Kumar (SCTIMST, Thiruvananthapuram)
Quantitative and qualitative analysis of sleep : Past, present
and future

12:30 – 13:30 Neeraj Jain (NBRC, Manesar, Haryana)
Effects of spinal cord injuries on the brain – interventions
using brain machine interface devices

13:30 – 14:30 Lunch

14:30 – 15:30 Vladislav Volman (Salk Institute, USA)
The other brain : Astrocytes in health and disease – insights
from computational modeling

15:30 – 16:30 Arun Sripati (IISc, Bangalore)
Why vision is a hard but interesting problem
16:30 – 16:45 Closing

16:45 Coffee

some presentation slides

1.why visinon is a hard but interesting problem.

2.Quantitative and qualitative analysis of sleep : Past, present and future.

3.Network architecture of the long-distance pathways in the macaque brain.

4.Aberrant cognitive processing in schizophrenia: Insights from fMRI research.

5.Computational diffusion MRI : From images to anatomical connectivities in the brain and beyond