The two-day International ICA conference will focus on theory of independent component analysis (ICA) and its applications to brain research, mainly in EEG/ERP analysis. The conference program consists of plenary lectures by invited leading experts of the field, accepted high-quality oral sessions and posters dealing with ICA and other related analysis techniques. The abstracts will appear online and in a conference abstract book. The interactive poster-sessions will offer on opportunity for discussions with leading experts on various methodological issues and the applicability of ICA-based analysis to your own data. Follow the links above for more information.

The conference will be followed by the Tenth International EEGLAB workshop which will concentrate on ICA-based analysis methods available in the EEGLAB toolbox developed at the Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience (SCCN) at the University of California San Diego (UCSD). The workshop offers both theoretical lectures and hands-on sessions tutored by experts from SCCN and associates. The workshop has a limited number of participants. A half-day excursion to Finnish nature resorts and several social events will be included to encourage participants to discuss their research.

We cordially invite you to participate in this exciting conference and ICA/EEGLAB workshop. Workshop participants are strongly encouraged to participate in the ICA conference, too, as it offers theoretical basis for much of the material dealt with in the workshop.

The workshop can accept a limited number of participants (50). The registration is now open for both the conference and the workshop.

We look forward to meeting you and welcoming you to Jyväskylä in June 2010!

Paavo Leppänen, Chairman of the Organizing Committee

Department of Psychology, University of Jyväskylä