CONN workshop Fall 2026
live online course
full term course (35 hours)
duration 1 month
ten 3½-hour live classes
all live meetings are recorded and can be reviewed at any time during the course
shared document available for additional offline questions and discussions
Dates: Sept 10 - Oct 12 2026
Times: Weekly, Mondays & Thursdays @ 12:00 PM - 3:30 PM UTC
Los Angeles: 5:00 AM - 8:30 AM
Chicago: 7:00 AM - 10:30 AM
New York: 8:00 AM - 11:30 PM
London: 1:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Berlin: 2:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Dubai: 4:00 PM - 7:30 PM
New Delhi: 5:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Beijing: 8:00 PM - 11:30 PM
Tokyo: 9:00 PM - 12:30 AM
Sydney: 10:00 PM - 1:30 AM (11:00 PM from Oct 8)
Location: online (ZOOM meetings)
Thursday Sept 10, 12:00 PM - 3:30 PM UTC. CORE 1. Introduction to fcMRI and CONN
Monday Sept 14, 12:00 PM - 3:30 PM UTC. CORE 2. Preprocessing functional & anatomical data
Thursday Sept 17, 12:00 PM - 3:30 PM UTC. CORE 3. Setup: importing all data and study details
Monday Sept 21, 12:00 PM - 3:30 PM UTC. CORE 4. Denoising & Quality Control
Thursday Sept 24, 12:00 PM - 3:30 PM UTC. CORE 5. First-level analyses: SBC, RRC, gPPI & group-ICA
Monday Sept 28, 12:00 PM - 3:30 PM UTC. CORE 6. Second-level analyses: GLM, designs & examples
Thursday Oct 1, 12:00 PM - 3:30 PM UTC. ADVANCED 1. Homework discussion & FC applications
Monday Oct 5, 12:00 PM - 3:30 PM UTC. ADVANCED 2. Cluster-level stats & graph theory
Thursday Oct 8, 12:00 PM - 3:30 PM UTC. ADVANCED 3. Voxel-to-voxel, fc-MVPA & dynamic connectivity
Monday Oct 12, 12:00 PM - 3:30 PM UTC. ADVANCED 4. Parallelization options, HPC & scripting