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Saturday 27 August

17:00 – 22.00WOPM registration and dinner

Sunday 28 August

09.00 – 17.00 Satellite meetings, Edgbaston Park Hotel (see here for details)
17.00 – 18.30 Opening Ceremony and reception, Great Hall (in-person only)
Welcome Address: Paul Furlong, Emeritus Professor of Clinical Neuroimaging,
President, Association of Neurophysiological Scientists, Institute of Health and Neurodevelopment, Aston University

Monday 29 August

09.00In-person registration, exhibition, and poster viewing – Green Heart Marquee (hybrid)
WOPM sessions – Great Hall
11.00 – 11.15Welcome address – Great Hall (hybrid)
Professor Ed Wilding, Head of the School of Psychology, College of Life & Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, and Prof. Ole Jensen, Centre for Human Brain Health, University of Birmingham and Biomag 2022 Chair
11.15 – 12.15

Keynote: – Great Hall
Sabine Kastner, Professor of Psychology, Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University
Chair: Prof. Ole Jensen, Centre for Human Brain Health, University of Birmingham and Biomag 2022 Chair

12.15 – 13.15Poster session (virtual) and Oral poster presentations – Great Hall (hybrid)
13.15 – 14.15Lunch and exhibition viewing – Green Heart Marquee (hybrid)
14.15 – 16.15Symposium 1: Great Hall
Advances and applications in the field of dynamic functional connectivity
Symposium 2: C-Block LT
Biomagnetic Imaging in Dementia
Symposium 3: Bramall
Optically Pumped Magnetometers for Magnetoencephalography

16.15 – 17.30

17:00 – 18.00

Poster session with refreshments (in person only – Green Heart Marquee) and Virtual exhibition viewing

Data analysis competitions: results and discussion – C-block LT

Tuesday 30 August

8.15 Morning refreshments – Green Heart Marquee
08.45 – 10.45 Symposium 4: Great Hall – Rhythms in Auditory, Visual, and Audiovisual Speech Processing: Multisensory representations in unisensory cortices and beyond Symposium 5: Bramall – Recent advances in biomagnetic applications of optically pumped magnetometers beyond MEG Early Career Researcher Award Finalist Presentations – C-block LT
10.45 – 11.30 Refreshment break, exhibition and poster viewing – Green Heart Marquee (hybrid)
11.30 Keynote: Great Hall – Stan Dehaene, Professor, Experiential Cognitive Psychology, College De France
Chair: Dr Hyojin Park, Assistant Professor, Centre for Human Brain Health (CHBH), University of Birmingham
12.30 Poster session (virtual only) and Oral presentations – Great Hall (hybrid)
13.30 Lunch, exhibition viewing and poster viewing – Green Heart Marquee (hybrid)
14.30 Poster session (in person only – Green Heart Marquee) and exhibition viewing (virtual only)
15.30 Refreshment break, exhibition and poster viewing – Green Heart Marquee (hybrid)
16:00 – 18:00 Symposium 6: Bramall – How can we study social cognition in the MEG lab? The tug-of-war between experimental control and ecological validity Symposium 7: C-Block LT – Magnetocardiography Symposium 8: Great Hall – New insights from animal and human studies into the functional role of sensorimotor beta burst dynamics
19.00 – 22.00 Aston University social event – band night

Wednesday 31 August

8.15 Morning refreshments – Green Heart Marquee
08.45 – 10.45 Symposium 9: Great Hall – Time-resolved cortico-subcortical connectivity in patients with deep brain recordings Symposium 10: Bramall – Multivariate methods to disclose brain networks in multiple functional neuroimaging modalities Symposium 11: C-block LT – Applications of MEG in Psychiatry: The Past, Present and the Future
10.45 – 11.30 Refreshment break, exhibition and poster viewing – Green Heart Marquee (hybrid)
11.30 – 12.30 Keynote: Great Hall – Dr Margot Taylor, Professor of Medical Imaging, Director of Functional Neuroimaging,
Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto
Chair: Professor Matthew Brookes, Professor of Physics, University of Nottingham
12.30 – 13.30 Poster session (virtual only) and Oral presentations – Great Hall (hybrid)
13.30 Lunch, exhibition viewing and poster viewing – Green Heart Marquee (hybrid)
14.30 Poster session (in person only – Green Heart Marquee) and exhibition viewing (virtual only)
15:30 Refreshment break, exhibition and poster viewing – Green Heart Marquee (hybrid)
16:00 – 18.00 Symposium 12: Great Hall – Infant MEG: Examining normal and abnormal brain development Symposium 13: Bramall – Oscillations and memory: From local to large-scale synchronization, from working memory to long-term memory, from correlation to causation Symposium 14: C-block LT – Contribution of MEG, EEG and TES to the presurgical diagnosis and treatment of epilepsy
19.00 – 23.00 Conference social event at the Custard Factory

Thursday 1 September

8.15 Morning refreshments – Green Heart Marquee
08.45 – 10.45 Symposium 15:Great Hall – The pathophysiology of mild Traumatic Brain Injury Symposium 16: Bramall – Insights into the laminar basis of neural oscillations: multimodal and multi-species approaches Symposium 17: C-block LT – Tracking neural development of cognitive functions
10.45 Refreshment break, exhibition and poster viewing – Green Heart Marquee (hybrid)
11.30 Town Hall – Great Hall (hybrid)
12.30 – 13:30 Keynote: Great Hall – Mark Woolrich, Professor of Computational Neuroscience,
Oxford centre for Human Brain Activity (OHBA), Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging (WIN)
Chair: Dr Caroline Witton, Scientific Lead for MEG, Aston Institute of Health and Neurodevelopment, Aston University
13.30 – 14.15 Lunch and exhibition viewing – Green Heart Marquee (hybrid – exhibition closes after lunch)
14.15 Symposium 18: Great Hall – Open source and the MEG community: advancing science together Symposium 19: Bramall – Predicting clinical endpoints from M/EEG: Challenges and opportunities of large-scale data analysis
16.00 Closing remarks – Great Hall (hybrid)
16.30 Conference closes