2 Day Workshop at BIRS — Recent progress in detection and prediction of epilepsy

Human epilepsy is a common neurological disorder, 0.6% of Canadian suffer from it. The focus of this 2-days meeting is mathematical processing of epilepsy-associated EEG data, its role in seizure analysis and diagnostics. The purpose is to bring together three groups of researchers: physicians specializing in drug-resistant epilepsy, behavioral neuroscientists, and applied mathematicians.Thanks to the first group, extensive clinical data is available with detailed description. The second group experiments with animals, and some data analysis methods can be applied to clinical data as well. This is a conference, a brainstorming activity and a training opportunity for research associates, postdoctoral fellows and graduate students involved in all three groups. The proposed participants are members of the mathematics and statistics departments, neurology, clinical neurosciences, cell biology, physiology, psychology and practicing medical doctors.