<div dir="ltr">Here is a link to a shorter non-imaging course - teaching and practical parts with the aim to publish papers from large datasets.<div><br><div><a href="http://alzheimer.ucdavis.edu/fhpsych/">http://alzheimer.ucdavis.edu/fhpsych/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>I think the general idea is great and I've been advocating for brainhack to move toward this model, but it has never gotten any traction. With a model that encourages productivity, funding can be more easily obtained.</div><div><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature">Best Regards, Donald McLaren<br>=================<br>D.G. McLaren, Ph.D.<br>Research Fellow, Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital and<br>Harvard Medical School<br>Postdoctoral Research Fellow, GRECC, Bedford VA<br>Website: <a href="http://www.martinos.org/~mclaren" target="_blank">http://www.martinos.org/~mclaren</a><br>Office: (773) 406-2464<br>=====================<br>This e-mail contains CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION which may contain PROTECTED<br>HEALTHCARE INFORMATION and may also be LEGALLY PRIVILEGED and which is<br>intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above. If the<br>reader of the e-mail is not the intended recipient or the employee or agent<br>responsible for delivering it to the intended recipient, you are hereby<br>notified that you are in possession of confidential and privileged<br>information. Any unauthorized use, disclosure, copying or the taking of any<br>action in reliance on the contents of this information is strictly<br>prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail<br>unintentionally, please immediately notify the sender via telephone at (773)<br>406-2464 or email.</div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 2:08 PM, Alexandre Franco <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eng.franco@gmail.com" target="_blank">eng.franco@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Yeah, it was intense. And it was only lectures.<br>
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If we would use this schedule as an initial guide, we would certainly have to update it and include some hands-on time.<br>
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On Jan 20, 2015, at 17:04, rbrto <<a href="mailto:robertotoro@gmail.com">robertotoro@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> it's quite a lot of lectures.... is there any practical part ?<br>
><br>
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 7:16 PM, Alexandre R Franco<br>
> <<a href="mailto:eng.franco@gmail.com">eng.franco@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> This is what Cameron is talking about:<br>
>> <a href="http://www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/summer-schools/summer-school-mathematics-in-brain-imaging/?tab=schedule" target="_blank">http://www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/summer-schools/summer-school-mathematics-in-brain-imaging/?tab=schedule</a><br>
>><br>
>><br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> On Jan 20, 2015, at 3:50 PM, Cameron Craddock <<a href="mailto:cameron.craddock@gmail.com">cameron.craddock@gmail.com</a>><br>
>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> I would like to being back the old mathmatics in brain imaging format. That<br>
>> was two weeks and well attended.<br>
>><br>
>> Sent from my iPhone<br>
>><br>
>> On Jan 20, 2015, at 12:43 PM, rbrto <<a href="mailto:robertotoro@gmail.com">robertotoro@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> work to publish a paper? like the 1 month things at Santa Fe institut<br>
>> for complex systems... People were very happy to come, because they<br>
>> would have a paper by the end of the month<br>
>><br>
>> On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 6:29 PM, Chris Filo Gorgolewski<br>
>> <<a href="mailto:krzysztof.gorgolewski@gmail.com">krzysztof.gorgolewski@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> This is a pretty cool idea, but Mike is right - we need to figure out how to<br>
>> make it easy for participants to convince their supervisors to get funding<br>
>> for this.<br>
>><br>
>> Best,<br>
>> Chris<br>
>><br>
>> On Mon Jan 19 2015 at 7:37:37 AM rbrto <<a href="mailto:robertotoro@gmail.com">robertotoro@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> I want 12 months a year of that...<br>
>><br>
>> On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 4:09 PM, Pierre Bellec<br>
>> <<a href="mailto:pierre.bellec@criugm.qc.ca">pierre.bellec@criugm.qc.ca</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> @Cameron agreed, 2 weeks is more realistic.<br>
>><br>
>> @Daniel, re Banff, there have an on-going program to host workshops in<br>
>> mathematics. They may have a long workshop format, I'll look into it.<br>
>> For<br>
>> locations, the problem is not much different than hosting a traditional<br>
>> brainhack, with maybe more emphasis on local attendants.<br>
>><br>
>> @Roberto<br>
>> Re Nifti, that's recoding nii2mnc, or even re-inventing the minc format.<br>
>> Looks like some folks are taking this task seriously:<br>
>><br>
>> <a href="http://www.frontiersin.org/10.3389/conf.fninf.2013.09.00069/event_abstract" target="_blank">http://www.frontiersin.org/10.3389/conf.fninf.2013.09.00069/event_abstract</a><br>
>><br>
>> Re FSL, you never know what we'll discover.<br>
>> <a href="http://youtu.be/HdWRTleizFU?t=10m54s" target="_blank">http://youtu.be/HdWRTleizFU?t=10m54s</a><br>
>><br>
>> Re HCP, trying to test the level of actual security of their database<br>
>> may<br>
>> indeed be interesting & useful.<br>
>><br>
>> Now, regarding what this brainhack school would look like, I guess it<br>
>> would<br>
>> be like a longer version of brainhack, with most of the time devoted for<br>
>> attendants to work on their own projects, self-initiated and managed. We<br>
>> would still have well identified education talks & experts of various<br>
>> tools<br>
>> available onsite, some general (version control, programming) and some<br>
>> more<br>
>> specialized (e.g. AFNI), again very much like brainhack. We could also<br>
>> have<br>
>> some more maker-oriented resources, such as 3D printing, EEG set, or<br>
>> even an<br>
>> MRI depending on the location (I am pretty sure this could be arranged<br>
>> in<br>
>> Montreal or Leipzig for example). Maybe even a vibrating shirt, who<br>
>> knows.<br>
>> In two weeks, participants may be able to take advantage of the<br>
>> availability<br>
>> of large datasets and computational resources, which has not been the<br>
>> case<br>
>> in the short version of brainhack. Also, unlike the short brainhack,<br>
>> participants may be able to actually deliver a concrete output. Finally,<br>
>> the<br>
>> event should be family friendly for obvious reasons :) I'm sure my kids<br>
>> could totally work their way through a two weeks lego projects,<br>
>> especially<br>
>> if we throw in some quadropters as well.<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> Pierre Bellec<br>
>> <a href="http://simexp-lab.org/brainwiki/doku.php?id=pierrebellec" target="_blank">http://simexp-lab.org/brainwiki/doku.php?id=pierrebellec</a><br>
>> Telephone <a href="tel:%281%29%20514%20713%205596" value="+15147135596">(1) 514 713 5596</a><br>
>> SIMEXP lab <a href="http://simexp-lab.org" target="_blank">http://simexp-lab.org</a><br>
>><br>
>> On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 8:13 AM, rbrto <<a href="mailto:robertotoro@gmail.com">robertotoro@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> Yes!! Brainhacker school!! We teach people to read the nifti data<br>
>> directly from the file with an hex editor, p0wn the unused fields and<br>
>> write the results in new fancy formats!!! Make FSL do new types of<br>
>> analyses by using buffer overflows, etc :)<br>
>> I'm already loving it!!<br>
>> (anyone tried sql injection in HCP??)<br>
>><br>
>> On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 1:28 PM, Daniel Margulies<br>
>> <<a href="mailto:daniel.margulies@gmail.com">daniel.margulies@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> I love the idea, Pierre,<br>
>><br>
>> Any leads on the possibility of doing this as a retreat at the Banff<br>
>> Center?<br>
>> Perhaps there are other locations that might be possible as well?<br>
>><br>
>> Daniel<br>
>><br>
>> On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 4:21 AM, Pierre Bellec<br>
>> <<a href="mailto:pierre.bellec@criugm.qc.ca">pierre.bellec@criugm.qc.ca</a>><br>
>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> Hi guys,<br>
>><br>
>> Just ran into this:<br>
>> <a href="https://www.hackerschool.com/" target="_blank">https://www.hackerschool.com/</a><br>
>><br>
>> We should probably try to organize a summer brainhacker school<br>
>> modeled<br>
>> after this. 3 months is a tad long, but one month could be doable,<br>
>> especially if we get, say, the banff center to host the event.<br>
>><br>
>> Best,<br>
>><br>
>> Pierre Bellec<br>
>> <a href="http://simexp-lab.org/brainwiki/doku.php?id=pierrebellec" target="_blank">http://simexp-lab.org/brainwiki/doku.php?id=pierrebellec</a><br>
>> Telephone <a href="tel:%281%29%20514%20713%205596" value="+15147135596">(1) 514 713 5596</a><br>
>> SIMEXP lab <a href="http://simexp-lab.org" target="_blank">http://simexp-lab.org</a><br>
>><br>
>><br>
>><br>
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