Connectionists: International Summer Term Course on Neuroscience at Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

[Md Sahidullah]

Registration for the International Summer Term course "*Methods and
Techniques of Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience*" has started. The course
will be conducted at Dept. of Electronics & ECE of IIT Kharagpur campus,
during July 02 - 12, 2014 with a Sunday break in between. The course
brochure can be downloaded from here (Link<http://tinyurl.com/iswt-iitkgp-neuro>
).

*Learning Outcomes:*
By the end of the course, a student will be able to demonstrate an
understanding of: (a) neurophysiological basis of various techniques
(correlational and causal) to measure brain activity patterns; (b)
state-of-the art data analysis methods  for complex brain responses (single
unit, EEG/MEG and fMRI); (c) pros and cons and appropriateness of each
method and the relationships between different methods.

*International Faculty:*
The principal faculty, Dr. Joydeep Bhattacharya, Professor, Goldsmiths,
University of London is well-known name in this field for his long list of
contribution (Link <http://www.gold.ac.uk/psychology/staff/bhattacharya/>).
We at IITKGP worked together with him on quite a few neurosignal processing
problems, the research output of which were published in high impact factor
journals (Link1<http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0043351>
, Link2 <http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960077909003129>
,Link3<http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0043351>
). Dr. Caroline Di Bernardi Luft, a Senior Research Fellow working at
Goldsmiths, University of London will assist with her extensive knowledge
of EEG, fMRI and MATLAB programming for neuro data analysis.

*National Faculty:*
Among national faculty, we have Dr. Abhijit Das, MD, DM, the Director of
Neurorehabilitation and a Consultant Neurologist at Institute of
Neurosciences, Kolkata, India (Link <http://in.linkedin.com/in/abhijitneuro>).
His expertize includes Cognitive Neurorehabilitation, Cortical Plasticity,
Non Invasive Brain Stimulation (TMS/tDCS), Neuroimaging etc. We at IITKGP
got acquainted with him through a collaborative research initiative
(Link<http://sslsiitkgp.wordpress.com/>).
My departmental colleague, Prof. Sudipta Mukhopadhyaya
(Link<http://www.iitkgp.ac.in/fac-profiles/showprofile.php?empcode=bWmVR>)
and yours truly too will pitch in time to time and supplement!!!

*No. of seats and Course Fee:*
No. of participants to this course is capped at fifty. We intend to reserve
ten seats for participants from Industry and R & D organizations. Initial
application fee is Rs. 500 only. Upon confirmation, one has to pay the
following course fee.

Course CodeCourse NameCourse Fee: Participants fromFor StudentsIndustries &
R & D organisationsAcademic
InstitutionIST 0118Methods & Techniques in Cognitive and Clinical
NeuroscienceRs, 20,000Rs. 15,000Rs. 15,000
*Course Fee waiver for faculty / students:*
There is a grant available with us which will allow us to reimburse full
course fee on successful completion of the course to most of the
participating faculty of recognized institutes of India. Students from
Indian institutions, interested in this area are also eligible for fee
waiver. We are asking to pay up initially, to avoid cases where one blocks
the seat and then does not turn up, wasting the opportunity for another and
if one is casual in his / her approach in completing the course. There will
be exam. to clear at the end of the course. IIT Kharagpur students will be
able to earn two credits from this course.

*How to Register:*
Please follow the guideline available at following webpage of IIT Kharagpur:
http://www.mymail.iitkgp.ernet.in/iswt/registration.php
Last date of application is June 02, 2014.

*Priority Rule:*
Since there are limited no. of seats and the course is virtually free for
most of the participants from academic institutions, Course Coordinator
reserves the right to give priority to faculty, then research and
pstgraduate students and finally UG students working / intend to work in
this area. We shall try to confirm as early as possible whether one gets
selected. We are trying hard to arrange full reimbursement of course fee to
all participants from recognized academic institutions of India. If it is
not possible to waive fee for all, the priority rule will follow
first-come-first-served policy among selected, confirmed candidates who
complete the registration process and successfully complete the course.

*Travel Booking and Confirmation Schedule:*
We would like to confirm candidature of 1st set of applicants of this
course by 30th April so that there is enough time to get reservation done
for outstation candidates. Train reservation now starts 2 months ahead.
Those who apply before 30th April, will get the confirmation on 30th April
from the pool applied till then. After that, we shall release list every 10
days till last day.

*Accommodation & Food:*
While we are trying to arrange reimbursement of course fee for most the
candidates from academic institutions, the accommodation, food etc. are
chargeable. Accommodation will be provided from whatever is available at
campus at that time. We shall try to provide relatively inexpensive
accommodation for student participants.

*Other information:*
It is expected to be monsoon time here in the first fortnight of July. Last
year, during the course period, temperature varied between 25 and 35 degree
centigrade. For any query of this course, please email me at
gsaha.iitkgp at gmail.com or gsaha at ece.iitkgp.ernet.in
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