Workshop on Transient Dynamics and Epilepsy

Workshop on Transient Dynamics and Epilepsy

A one-day workshop focused around identifying mathematical challenges involving transient network dynamics and their application to epilepsy.

Event aims:

• To present the latest advances in epilepsy research and the theory of transient dynamics on networks.
• To make connections from mathematical theory to health related applications, in particular epilepsy.
• An opportunity to develop a network of collaborative links between computational neuroscientists and clinical researchers studying epilepsy.

Final Programme and Abstracts

Please click here to download a PDF of the workshop programme and abstracts.

Who should attend?

This event intends to bring together computational neuroscientists and clinicians studying epilepsy. We welcome enquiries from all interested parties.

What is the event about?

Analysis of the transition between neurological states, such as a transition to a seizure like state in people with epilepsy is crucial to understanding and effective treatment of neurological disorders. Research into these transitions, also called transient dynamics, is an emerging area of interdisciplinary research that presents many challenges to study.

This workshop intends to identify mathematical challenges involving transient network dynamics, and determine how advances in this field could contribute to improving prognosis, diagnosis and treatment of epilepsy.

This event is supported by the EPSRC Centre for Predictive Modelling in Healthcare. The centre brings together a world leading team of mathematicians, statisticians and clinicians with a range of industrial partners, patients and other stakeholders to focus on the development of new methods for managing and treating chronic health conditions using predictive mathematical models.

Programme

10:00 Arrival and refreshments

10:55 Welcome

11:00 David Liley (Swinburne University of Technology) - Epilepsy: the price we pay for mean field models of electro-cortical activity

11:30 Philippa Karoly (University of Melbourne) - Empirically relating seizures to critical transitions

12:00 Marc Goodfellow, (University of Exeter) - Cancelled

12:30 Lunch

13:30 Mark Cook (University of Melbourne) - Stimulation and Prediction: are we there yet?

14:00 Adam Zeman (University of Exeter) - Transient Epileptic Amnesia

14:30 Jennifer Creaser (University of Exeter) - Modelling Seizure Initiation

14:45 Discussion

16:00 Drinks reception

17:00 End

Registration

Please register using the green registration button at the top of this page. The deadline for registration is Wednesday 31 August. If you have any questions about the event please email research-events@exeter.ac.uk

Sponsors

This event is funded by the EPSRC.

Travel and directions

Find out more about how to get to the University of Exeter's Streatham Campus.