Spring 2026 CONN workshop
live online course
full term course (35 hours)
duration 10 weeks
ten 3½-hour live classes (one class per week via Zoom)
all live meetings are recorded and can be reviewed at any time during the course
four office-hour segments available for additional student questions
Dates: January 15 2026 - March 19 2026
Times: Meeting weekly (10 weeks)
Thursdays @ 2:00 PM - 5:30 PM Central European Time CET (UTC+1)
Los Angeles: 5:00 AM - 8:30 AM PST (UTC-8) (note: 6:00AM - 9:30 AM after March 8)
Chicago: 7:00 AM - 10:30 AM CST (UTC-6) (note: 8:00AM - 11:30 AM after March 8)
New York: 8:00 AM - 11:30 AM EST (UTC-5) (note: 9:00AM - 12:30 PM after March 8)
London: 1:00 PM - 4:30 PM GMT (UTC+0)
Berlin: 2:00 PM - 5:30 PM CET (UTC+1)
Dubai: 5:00 PM - 8:30 PM GST (UTC+4)
New Delhi: 6:30 PM - 10:00 PM IST (UTC+5:30)
Beijing: 9:00 PM - 12:30 PM CST (UTC+8)
Tokyo: 10:00 PM - 1:30 AM JST (UTC+9)
Sydney: 12:00 AM - 3:30 AM AEDT (UTC+11)
Location: online (ZOOM meetings)
Thursday Jan 15, 2:00 PM - 5:30 PM CET. CORE 1. Introduction to fcMRI and CONN
Thursday Jan 22, 2:00 PM - 5:30 PM CET. CORE 2. Preprocessing functional & anatomical data
Thursday Jan 29, 2:00 PM - 5:30 PM CET. CORE 3. Setup: importing all data and study details
Thursday Feb 5, 2:00 PM - 5:30 PM CET. CORE 4. Denoising & Quality Control
Thursday Feb 12, 2:00 PM - 5:30 PM CET. CORE 5. First-level analyses: SBC, RRC, gPPI & group-ICA
Thursday Feb 19, 2:00 PM - 5:30 PM CET. CORE 6. Second-level analyses: GLM, designs & examples
Thursday Feb 26, 2:00 PM - 5:30 PM CET. ADVANCED 1. Homework discussion & FC applications
Thursday Mar 5, 2:00 PM - 5:30 PM CET. ADVANCED 2. Cluster-level stats & graph theory
Thursday Mar 12, 2:00 PM - 5:30 PM CET. ADVANCED 3. Voxel-to-voxel, fc-MVPA & dynamic connectivity
Thursday Mar 19, 2:00 PM - 5:30 PM CET. ADVANCED 4. Parallelization options, HPC & scripting
Office-hour days/times to be determined