Dear All, I am pleased to announce that the next official SPM course covering fMRI/MRI/VBM will take place in London: *Thursday 14^th May to Saturday 16^th May 2015.* The course is organised by the Methods Group at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging ("the FIL"), where SPM is developed. The three-day course will be divided into theoretical sessions covering experimental design and statistical inference and practical sessions in which SPM12 will be used to analyse exemplar data sets. This course is suitable for both beginners and more advanced users, with topics including image pre-processing, the general linear model (GLM), voxel-based morphometry (VBM) and Dynamic Causal Modelling (DCM). The course is held directly after the SPM for MEG/EEG course, which will be 11^th -13^th May at the same venue. *Registration opens 9^th March*and places are strictly limited. If you would like an email reminder when registration opens, please add your email address here - https://spmcourses.typeform.com/to/W3VGTK . The programme for the course is below. Best, Peter. Peter Zeidman, PhD Methods Group Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging 12 Queen Square London WC1N 3BG peter.zeidman(a)ucl.ac.uk <mailto:peter.zeidman@ucl.ac.uk> *Programme (provisional):* *Thursday 14^th May* ** 08:45 -- 09:15 Registration and Coffee 09:15 -- 09:30 Introduction to the Course 09:30 -- 10:00 Overview of SPM 10:00 -- 10:30 Pre-processing for fMRI -- Theory 10:30 -- 11:00 Pre-processing for fMRI -- Demo /Coffee/ 11:30 -- 12:00 The General Linear Model 12:00 -- 12:45 Contrasts and Classical Inference /Lunch/ 13:45 -- 14:15 Group Analysis 14:15 -- 15:00 Random Field Theory & Alternatives /Tea/ 15:30 -- 16:15 Segmentation and VBM -- Theory 16:15 -- 17:00 Segmentation and VBM -- Demo 17:00 -- 18:00 "Questions and Answers" Clinic ** *Friday 15^th May* ** 09:30 -- 10:15 Experimental Design 10:15 -- 11:00 Event-related fMRI -- Theory /Coffee/ 11:30 -- 12:15 Event-related fMRI -- Demo 12:15 -- 13:00 Bayesian Inference /Lunch/ 14:00 -- 15:00 Dynamic Causal Modelling for fMRI /Tea/ 15:30 -- 16:30 DCM for fMRI -- Advanced Topics 16:30 -- 17:15 DCM for fMRI -- Demo 17:15 -- 18:00 "Questions and Answers" Clinic /18:30 --/ /Social Event/ // *Saturday 16^th May* *PRACTICAL WORKSHOPS* 9:30 -- 10:00 Introduction; Allocation of Groups 10:00 -- 15:30 Parallel session in small groups covering: fMRI analyses (several groups depending on attendees' level of knowledge), Voxel-Based Morphometry (VBM) and Dynamic causal modelling (DCM). /Coffee / 16:00 -- 17:00 Workshop feedback presentations