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After 2 years delay due to the pandemic, we are happy to announce the next in-person meeting of the Society for functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy will be held in
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, USA
October 9-12 2022
While we hope everyone will be able to participate in person, we are planning an hybrid format with live streaming
Following the tradition of previous biennial meetings, fNIRS Boston will bring together scientists from all over the world to present and discuss the latest developments and advances in diffuse optics for the study of the human brain.
The aims are to identify new opportunities for fNIRS, to delineate the key challenges facing the field and to identify strategies to overcome these challenges.
The program will span the topics of hardware development, data analysis and algorithms, computational neuroscience and neuroscience applications, clinical applications, neonatal, pediatric applications and neurodevelopment neuroscience, cognitive and social neuroscience, and global fNIRS.
Our goal is to present the cutting edge technology and the novel discoveries of the field.
The objectives of the meeting are:
Discuss recent milestone discoveries
Nurture novel applications
Disseminate novel data analysis method
Provide best practice guidelines
Support clinical translation
Promote adoption of emerging technologies
Combine imaging techniques
Foster discussion and collaboration
Chairs

Mari Franceschini
Harvard Medical School, USA
Conference Chair

Ippeita Dan
Chuo University, Japan
Program Chair

Sabrina Brigadoi
University of Padova, Italy
Virtual Program Chair

Meryem Yucel
Boston University, USA
Educational Program Chair
Program Committee
Gemma Bale, University of Cambridge, UK
Jeff Dunn, University of Calgary, Canada
Turgut Durduran, ICFO, Barcelona, Spain
Lauren Emberson, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
David Highton, The University of Queensland, Australia
Joy Hirsch, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CO, USA
Kaja Jasińska, University of Toronto, Canada
Adam Liebert, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
Rickson Mesquita, University of Campinas, Brazil
Yasuyo Minagawa, Keio University, Yokohama, Japan
Haijing Niu, Beijing Normal University, China
Yumie Ono, Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan
Felipe Orihuela-Espina, University of Birmingham, UK
Stephane Perrey, Université de Montpellier, France
Sungho Tak, Korea Basic Science Institute, Daejeon, South Korea

October 8-9 2022
Pre-Conference Educational Course
For 2 days preceding the conference we will held an educational course with regular lectures and parallel sessions to provide mini-courses and hands-on demonstrations on more focused topics
venue
George Sherman Union, Boston University
International travel
You will want fly to Boston Logan airpor
accomodation
Links to Hotels near Boston University
Health and safety
We are working to provide a safe event
Supported by National Institute of Health


