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                            CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

International Conference on Brain Informatics and Health (BIH’15)
Venue: Imperial College London, London, UK, 
Time: Aug 30-Sep 2, 2015
www.braininformatics.london 

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- What is BIH’15?
The 2015 International Conference on Brain Informatics & Health (BIH’15) is one of the top class conferences in Brain Informatics. It aims to give a common thesis of Informatics for human brain, behaviour and health. The conference provides a premier forum that will bring together researchers and practitioners from neuroscience, cognitive science, computer science, data science and neuroimaging technologies with the purpose of exploring the fundamental roles, interactions as well as practical impacts of Brain Informatics. Co-Chaired by Prof Yike Guo and Prof Karl Friston, BIH’15 is organized by Imperial College London, together with other co-organisers from all over the world.

- When and where will BIH’15 be hosted?
BIH’15 will be held at the Royal Geographical Society, at the heart of London, from 30th August to 2nd September, 2015.

- What’s special about BIH’15?
1) High-impact speeches in Brain Informatics
A great number of world leaders in brain research will present in BIH’15, including:
BIH’15 Keynote Speakers:
  · Allan Jones
    Chief Executive Officer of the Allen Institute for Brain Science;
  · Karlheinz Meier
    Professor of Universität Heidelberg;
  · David C. Van Essen
    Alumni Endowed Professor at Washington University School of Medicine;

BIH’15 Feature Speakers:
  · Giorgio A. Ascoli
    Founding director of the Center for Neural Informatics at the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study of George Mason University;
  · Henry Kennedy
    Director of Research at Stem-cell and Brain Research Institute, France;
  · Barbara Sahakian
    Professor in Department of Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge;
  · Nelson Spruston
    Janelia Group Leader and Scientific Program Director at Howard Hughes Medical Institute;
  · Paul Verschure
    ICREA Research Professor, Head of SPECS research group at Universitat Pompeu Fabra;
  · Paul Matthews
    Edmond and Lily Safra Chair of Translational Neuroscience and Therapeutics and Head of the Division of Brain Sciences in the Department of Medicine of Imperial College, London;

2) Cutting edge research and high quality presentations
   During the conference, we will have high quality talks from both brain and informatics communities presenting the state-of-the-art research in the field, including 40+ oral presentations, 70+ highlight talks/poster presentations in the BIH’15 main conference as well as 50+ talks in 10 BIH’15 satellite symposiums/special sessions/tutorials.

3) Media coverage of the panel discussion
   BIH 2015 also has a panel discussion among the leaders of the big brain initiatives in the world, moderated by Sarah Caddick from the Gatsby Charitable Foundation. The discussion will be around the topic “Very large scale approaches to understand the brain”.

4) WORLD EEG Festival:
   The WORLD EEG Festival will be hosted together with the BIH’15 and a number of world-leading EEG hardware/solution companies will attend and demonstrate the latest EEG technologies. Topics such as Brain-Computer Interfaces applications, next-generation EEG devices and commercialization of EEG related services will also be discussed during the festival.

5) New Business Models for Personal Mental Health in Big Data Era Forum:
   The special session “New Business Models for Personal Mental Health in Big Data Era” will be organised during BIH’15. The forum will bring together brain (disease) foundations and funding agencies from all over the world with the aim of enhancing knowledge sharing on funding support for brain research projects. Representatives of foundations and funding agencies will give presentations covering advice and strategies for acquiring funding for future research, and discuss their preferred new business models for personal health in the Big Data Era.

- Who is attending the BIH’15?
BIH’15 gathers people who are doing cutting edge research in the field of Brain Informatics. It will create great opportunities for researchers to exchange ideas, identify emerging challenges and present novel results from different domains in a more focused manner. You can expect to meet 200+ leading brain focused informaticians in the BIH’15. We warmly welcome young researchers and students to attend this conference to explore this rare opportunity of their career development.

- Where to find more information on BIH’15?
If you are interested in attending the BIH’15 conference, please visit our conference website: http://braininformatics.london/ or contact us at: BrainInformatics2015 at gmail.com. The BIH’15 Poster and video are also available on: http://braininformatics.london/poster.jpg and http://braininformatics.london/video.mp4.