<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:PMingLiU,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">Call for Abstracts</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:PMingLiU,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:PMingLiU,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Co-Chaired by Prof Karl Friston & Prof Yike Guo @ Imperial College London (Aug 30 – Sep2, 2015), BIH’15 crosses the disciplines of neuroscience, cognitive science, computer science, signal processing, and neuroimaging. It also draws special attention to informatics for brain science, human behaviour and health.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:PMingLiU,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:PMingLiU,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">International Conference on Brain Informatics and Health (BIH’15)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:PMingLiU,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:PMingLiU,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">Venue: Imperial College London, London, UK,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:PMingLiU,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:PMingLiU,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">Time: Aug 30-Sep 2, 2015</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:PMingLiU,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:PMingLiU,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.braininformatics.london/" target="_blank" style="color:purple">www.braininformatics.london</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:PMingLiU,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:PMingLiU,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:PMingLiU,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">Abstract Submission Deadline: July 1, 2015 </span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:PMingLiU,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:PMingLiU,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">*****************</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:PMingLiU,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:PMingLiU,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">Conference Theme:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:PMingLiU,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:PMingLiU,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">Brain informatics has emerged as a distinct field of research. It crosses the disciplines of neuroscience, cognitive science, computer science, signal processing, and neuroimaging technologies. The data driven nature of brain research made brain informatics an important field of data science. Following the success of past conferences in this series, BIH’15 will take place at Imperial College London, in UK. For the first time, BIH gathers the researchers from major international brain research projects to form a forum for reviewing the progress of brain informatics research and its applications to human health and building up international collaboration. The conference will also organise an exhibition from industrial and research community.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:PMingLiU,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:PMingLiU,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">BIH’15 draws special attention to informatics for brain science, human behaviour and health. BIH’15 will address informatics approaches to both the brain and behaviour research with a strong emphasis on emerging trends of big data analysis and management technology for brain research, behaviour learning, and real-world applications of brain science in human health and wellbeing.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:PMingLiU,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:PMingLiU,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">The distinguished speakers include:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:PMingLiU,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:PMingLiU,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:PMingLiU,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">Keynote Speakers</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:PMingLiU,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:PMingLiU,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">Allan Jones, CEO, Allen Institute for Brain Science, USA;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:PMingLiU,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">Henry Markram, Director, Blue Brain Project; Coordinator, Human Brain Project, EPFL, Switzerland;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:PMingLiU,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">David Van Essen, PI, Human Connectome Project, Washington University School of Medicine, USA;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:PMingLiU,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:PMingLiU,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:PMingLiU,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">Feature Speakers</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:PMingLiU,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:PMingLiU,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">Giorgio Ascoli, (Founding Director, Center for Neural Informatics, George Mason University, USA);</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:PMingLiU,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">Henry Kennedy, (Director of Research, Stem-cell and Brain Research Institute, France);</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:PMingLiU,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">Barbara Sahakian, (University of Cambridge, UK);</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:PMingLiU,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">Nelson Spruston, (Scientific Program Director, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), USA);</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:PMingLiU,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">Paul Verschure, (Director, the Lab of SPECS at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Spain);</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:PMingLiU,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:PMingLiU,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:PMingLiU,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">BIH’15 welcomes paper submissions (full paper and abstract submissions). Both research and application papers are solicited. All submitted papers will be reviewed on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance and clarity. Accepted full papers will be included in the proceedings by Springer LNCS/LNAI.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:PMingLiU,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:PMingLiU,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">=================================</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:PMingLiU,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:PMingLiU,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS & PUBLICATIONS:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:PMingLiU,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:PMingLiU,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:PMingLiU,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">Submission Deadline: July 1, 2015</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:PMingLiU,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:PMingLiU,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">Each abstract is limited to 500 words. Experimental research is particularly welcome. Accepted abstract submissions will be included in the conference program, and will be published as a single, collective proceedings volume.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:PMingLiU,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:PMingLiU,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">Title: Include in the title of the abstract all words critical for a subject index. Write your title in sentence case (first letter is capitalized; remaining letters are lower case). Do not bold or italicize your full title.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:PMingLiU,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:PMingLiU,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">Author: List all authors who contributed to the work discussed in the abstract. The presenting author must be listed in the first author slot of the list. Be prepared to submit contact information as well as conflict of interest information for each author listed.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:PMingLiU,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:PMingLiU,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">Abstract: Enter the body of the abstract and attach any applicable graphic files or tables here. Do not re-enter the title, author, support, or other information that is collected in other steps of the submission form.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:PMingLiU,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:PMingLiU,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">Presentation Preference: Authors may select from three presentation formats when submitting an abstract: “poster only,”, “talk preferred” or “no preference.” The “talk preferred” selection indicates that you would like to give a talk, but will accept a poster format if necessary. Marking “poster only” indicates that you would not like to be considered for an oral-presentation session. Selecting “no preference” indicates the author’s willingness to be placed in the best format for the program.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:PMingLiU,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:PMingLiU,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">Each abstract requires one sponsoring attendee (i.e. someone who registered and is attending the conference). A single attendee can not sponsor more than two abstracts or papers.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:PMingLiU,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:PMingLiU,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:PMingLiU,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">Oral presentations will be selected from both full length papers and abstracts.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:PMingLiU,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:PMingLiU,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:PMingLiU,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">*** Contact Information ***</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:PMingLiU,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:PMingLiU,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><a href="mailto:BrainInformatics2015@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="color:purple">BrainInformatics2015@gmail.com</a></span></p></div></div></div>
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