<div dir="ltr"><br clear="all"><b id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-ac78d01f-d601-5341-8efe-a6f6e360f9a3" style="font-weight:normal"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia;font-size:18.66px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:700;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Save the date</span></p><br><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia;font-size:14.66px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">The Eighth Seizure Prediction Workshop presents:</span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:700;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">The International Conference for Technology and AnaLysis of Seizures, 2017 (ICTALS2017)</span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia;font-size:14.66px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">This conference will be held at University of Minnesota August 20-23rd 2017.</span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia;font-size:14.66px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">The</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia;font-size:14.66px;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> goal of this conference</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia;font-size:14.66px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> is to bring together neurologists, neuroscientists, engineers and physicists to develop improved quantitative methods to predict, quantify, characterize, and control seizures.</span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia;font-size:14.66px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">This conference is a continuation in the series of the International Workshop for Seizure Prediction (IWSP8).  We are renaming the conference to broaden the scope and increase the attendance of the conference.</span></p><br><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia;font-size:14.66px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">The theme of this conference will be: </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia;font-size:14.66px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:700;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Designing the next generation of closed loop seizure control</span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia;font-size:14.66px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Each day will focus on different aspects of closing-the-loop:</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia;font-size:14.66px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;list-style-type:disc;background-color:transparent" dir="ltr"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia;font-size:14.66px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Input: sensing and biomarkers</span></p></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia;font-size:14.66px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;list-style-type:disc;background-color:transparent" dir="ltr"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia;font-size:14.66px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Processing: system analysis</span></p></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia;font-size:14.66px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;list-style-type:disc;background-color:transparent" dir="ltr"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia;font-size:14.66px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Output: intervention</span></p></li></ul><br><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia;font-size:14.66px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">The schedule is organized as follows:</span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia;font-size:14.66px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Day 0 will have two didactic sessions, August 20th</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia;font-size:14.66px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;list-style-type:disc;background-color:transparent" dir="ltr"><p style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia;font-size:14.66px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Discovering biomarkers using Big Data analysis tools</span></p></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia;font-size:14.66px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;list-style-type:disc;background-color:transparent" dir="ltr"><p style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia;font-size:14.66px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Mini-med school on Epilepsy</span></p></li></ul><p style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia;font-size:14.66px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Concluding with a mentoring session</span></p><br><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia;font-size:14.66px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Day 1: Biomarkers, August 21</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia;font-size:8.79px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:super;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">st</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia;font-size:14.66px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> </span></p><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia;font-size:14.66px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;list-style-type:disc;background-color:transparent" dir="ltr"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia;font-size:14.66px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">High Frequency Oscillations as a biomarker</span></p></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia;font-size:14.66px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;list-style-type:disc;background-color:transparent" dir="ltr"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia;font-size:14.66px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Biomarkers of Seizure Onset</span></p></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia;font-size:14.66px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;list-style-type:disc;background-color:transparent" dir="ltr"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia;font-size:14.66px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Mapping Seizure Onset Zone and Epileptic Networks</span></p></li></ul><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia;font-size:14.66px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Concluding with a Provocative Session and a Poster Session</span></p><br><p style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia;font-size:14.66px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Day 2: System Analysis, August 22nd</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia;font-size:14.66px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;list-style-type:disc;background-color:transparent" dir="ltr"><p style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia;font-size:14.66px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Dynamical States During Seizures</span></p></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia;font-size:14.66px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;list-style-type:disc;background-color:transparent" dir="ltr"><p style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia;font-size:14.66px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Multiple-scale Computational Modeling of Epilepsy</span></p></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia;font-size:14.66px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;list-style-type:disc;background-color:transparent" dir="ltr"><p style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia;font-size:14.66px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Technology for Long Term Ambulatory Monitoring</span></p></li></ul><p style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia;font-size:14.66px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Concluding with a Banquet and boat ride on the Mississippi</span></p><p style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia;font-size:14.66px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> </span></p><p style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia;font-size:14.66px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Day 3: Closed-Loop Control, August 23rd </span></p><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia;font-size:14.66px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;list-style-type:disc;background-color:transparent" dir="ltr"><p style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia;font-size:14.66px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Control Theory and Closed-Loop Adaptive Therapies</span></p></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia;font-size:14.66px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;list-style-type:disc;background-color:transparent" dir="ltr"><p style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia;font-size:14.66px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Dynamical States During Seizures</span></p></li></ul><p style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia;font-size:14.66px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Concluding with a discussion to develop a multi-center grant application focusing on seizure analysis.</span></p><br><p style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia;font-size:14.66px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:700;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Registration:</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia;font-size:14.66px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> will begin in mid February.  Another announcement will follow.</span></p><p style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia;font-size:14.66px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:700;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Website: </span><a style="text-decoration:none" href="http://ictals2017.umn.edu/"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:georgia;font-size:14.66px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">http://ictals2017.umn.edu</span></a></p><p style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia;font-size:14.66px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:700;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Contact: </span><a style="text-decoration:none" href="mailto:ictals2017@umn.edu"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:georgia;font-size:14.66px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">ictals2017@umn.edu</span></a></p><br><p style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia;font-size:14.66px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">This conference will partner with the iCOMOS 2nd International Canine and Human Epilepsy Workshop, which will take place on the afternoon of the 23rd and the 24th.  This conference will be hosted by Ned Patterson and Greg Worrell.  The focus will be on seizure prediction in long term ambulatory canine recordings as well as novel therapies for epilepsy.</span></p><br><p style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia;font-size:14.66px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Sincerely,</span></p><p style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia;font-size:14.66px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Tay Netoff and William Stacy, </span></p><p style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia;font-size:14.66px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Organizers of ICTALS2017</span></p><br><p style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia;font-size:14.66px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Please share this e-mail to distribute this announcement.</span></p><br><p style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia;font-size:14.66px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">For those who wish to be added or removed from this e-mail list, please use the following google form to let us know:</span></p><p style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia;font-size:14.66px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;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