<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">This is what Cameron is talking about:<div class=""><a href="http://www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/summer-schools/summer-school-mathematics-in-brain-imaging/?tab=schedule" class="">http://www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/summer-schools/summer-school-mathematics-in-brain-imaging/?tab=schedule</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 20, 2015, at 3:50 PM, Cameron Craddock <<a href="mailto:cameron.craddock@gmail.com" class="">cameron.craddock@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">I would like to being back the old mathmatics in brain imaging format. That was two weeks and well attended. <br class=""><br class="">Sent from my iPhone<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Jan 20, 2015, at 12:43 PM, rbrto <<a href="mailto:robertotoro@gmail.com" class="">robertotoro@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">work to publish a paper? like the 1 month things at Santa Fe institut<br class="">for complex systems... People were very happy to come, because they<br class="">would have a paper by the end of the month<br class=""><br class="">On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 6:29 PM, Chris Filo Gorgolewski<br class=""><<a href="mailto:krzysztof.gorgolewski@gmail.com" class="">krzysztof.gorgolewski@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">This is a pretty cool idea, but Mike is right - we need to figure out how to<br class="">make it easy for participants to convince their supervisors to get funding<br class="">for this.<br class=""><br class="">Best,<br class="">Chris<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Mon Jan 19 2015 at 7:37:37 AM rbrto <<a href="mailto:robertotoro@gmail.com" class="">robertotoro@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">I want 12 months a year of that...<br class=""><br class="">On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 4:09 PM, Pierre Bellec<br class=""><<a href="mailto:pierre.bellec@criugm.qc.ca" class="">pierre.bellec@criugm.qc.ca</a>> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">@Cameron agreed, 2 weeks is more realistic.<br class=""><br class="">@Daniel, re Banff, there have an on-going program to host workshops in<br class="">mathematics. They may have a long workshop format, I'll look into it.<br class="">For<br class="">locations, the problem is not much different than hosting a traditional<br class="">brainhack, with maybe more emphasis on local attendants.<br class=""><br class="">@Roberto<br class="">Re Nifti, that's recoding nii2mnc, or even re-inventing the minc format.<br class="">Looks like some folks are taking this task seriously:<br class=""><br class=""><a href="http://www.frontiersin.org/10.3389/conf.fninf.2013.09.00069/event_abstract" class="">http://www.frontiersin.org/10.3389/conf.fninf.2013.09.00069/event_abstract</a><br class=""><br class="">Re FSL, you never know what we'll discover.<br class="">http://youtu.be/HdWRTleizFU?t=10m54s<br class=""><br class="">Re HCP, trying to test the level of actual security of their database<br class="">may<br class="">indeed be interesting & useful.<br class=""><br class="">Now, regarding what this brainhack school would look like, I guess it<br class="">would<br class="">be like a longer version of brainhack, with most of the time devoted for<br class="">attendants to work on their own projects, self-initiated and managed. We<br class="">would still have well identified education talks & experts of various<br class="">tools<br class="">available onsite, some general (version control, programming) and some<br class="">more<br class="">specialized (e.g. AFNI), again very much like brainhack. We could also<br class="">have<br class="">some more maker-oriented resources, such as 3D printing, EEG set, or<br class="">even an<br class="">MRI depending on the location (I am pretty sure this could be arranged<br class="">in<br class="">Montreal or Leipzig for example). Maybe even a vibrating shirt, who<br class="">knows.<br class="">In two weeks, participants may be able to take advantage of the<br class="">availability<br class="">of large datasets and computational resources, which has not been the<br class="">case<br class="">in the short version of brainhack. Also, unlike the short brainhack,<br class="">participants may be able to actually deliver a concrete output. Finally,<br class="">the<br class="">event should be family friendly for obvious reasons :) I'm sure my kids<br class="">could totally work their way through a two weeks lego projects,<br class="">especially<br class="">if we throw in some quadropters as well.<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Pierre Bellec<br class="">http://simexp-lab.org/brainwiki/doku.php?id=pierrebellec<br class="">Telephone (1) 514 713 5596<br class="">SIMEXP lab http://simexp-lab.org<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 8:13 AM, rbrto <robertotoro@gmail.com> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">Yes!! Brainhacker school!! We teach people to read the nifti data<br class="">directly from the file with an hex editor, p0wn the unused fields and<br class="">write the results in new fancy formats!!! Make FSL do new types of<br class="">analyses by using buffer overflows, etc :)<br class="">I'm already loving it!!<br class="">(anyone tried sql injection in HCP??)<br class=""><br class="">On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 1:28 PM, Daniel Margulies<br class=""><daniel.margulies@gmail.com> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">I love the idea, Pierre,<br class=""><br class="">Any leads on the possibility of doing this as a retreat at the Banff<br class="">Center?<br class="">Perhaps there are other locations that might be possible as well?<br class=""><br class="">Daniel<br class=""><br class="">On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 4:21 AM, Pierre Bellec<br class=""><pierre.bellec@criugm.qc.ca><br class="">wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="">Hi guys,<br class=""><br class="">Just ran into this:<br class="">https://www.hackerschool.com/<br class=""><br class="">We should probably try to organize a summer brainhacker school<br class="">modeled<br class="">after this. 3 months is a tad long, but one month could be doable,<br class="">especially if we get, say, the banff center to host the event.<br class=""><br class="">Best,<br class=""><br class="">Pierre Bellec<br class="">http://simexp-lab.org/brainwiki/doku.php?id=pierrebellec<br class="">Telephone (1) 514 713 5596<br class="">SIMEXP lab http://simexp-lab.org<br class=""></blockquote><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Neurobureau-hubs mailing list<br class="">Neurobureau-hubs@www.nitrc.org<br class="">http://www.nitrc.org/mailman/listinfo/neurobureau-hubs<br class=""></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote>_______________________________________________<br class="">Neurobureau-hubs mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Neurobureau-hubs@www.nitrc.org" class="">Neurobureau-hubs@www.nitrc.org</a><br class="">http://www.nitrc.org/mailman/listinfo/neurobureau-hubs<br class=""></blockquote></blockquote>_______________________________________________<br class="">Neurobureau-hubs mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Neurobureau-hubs@www.nitrc.org" class="">Neurobureau-hubs@www.nitrc.org</a><br class="">http://www.nitrc.org/mailman/listinfo/neurobureau-hubs<br class=""></blockquote>_______________________________________________<br class="">Neurobureau-hubs mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Neurobureau-hubs@www.nitrc.org" class="">Neurobureau-hubs@www.nitrc.org</a><br class="">http://www.nitrc.org/mailman/listinfo/neurobureau-hubs<br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></body></html>