Conferences, Workshops and Meetings News

MOTION CORRECTION IN MRI & MRS

David Kennedy — Fri, 28 Jul 2017 1:22:01 GMT

ISMRM 2017 WORKSHOP SERIES:
MOTION CORRECTION IN MRI & MRS

REGISTER BY 03 AUGUST & SAVE ON FEES!

08-11 September 2017
Vineyard Hotel, Cape Town, South Africa

"We invite MR scientists, researchers and clinicians to join us in learning cutting-edge techniques for motion correction and developing solutions with industry and manufacturer representatives."

Workshop Co-Chairs:
Andre J.W. van der Kouwe, Ph.D., Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA, USA
Ernesta M. Meintjes, Ph.D., University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

See http://www.ismrm.org/workshops/MoCor17/ for more information.

Showcase at the Allen Institute

David Kennedy — Thu, 05 Nov 2015 2:20:03 GMT

Showcase is a two-day symposium focusing on innovative approaches to big science. Featuring presentations, team talks, lightning talks and poster sessions from Allen Institute for Brain Science scientists, as well as presentations from this year’s Next Generation Leaders.

Join us in the conversation and exploration as we share our perspectives on advancing understanding of the brain through innovative approaches to big science. All taking place in the new Allen Institute headquarters building located in the South Lake Union neighborhood of Seattle.

Event highlights include:

- Presentations by this year’s class of the Next Generation Leaders Advisory Council

* Eiman Azim, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Neuroscience, Columbia University
* Jennifer Garrison, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Buck Institute for Research on Aging
* Michael Halassa, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor, The Neuroscience Institute, New York University
* Evan Macosko, M.D., Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Genetics, Harvard Medical School
* Lucy Palmer, Ph.D., Senior Research Fellow, The Florey Institute for Neuroscience and Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Australia
* Michael Yartsev, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Bioengineering, Nanosciences and Nanoengineering, University of California, Berkeley

- Team science talks highlighting examples of the collaborative science being pioneered at the Allen Institute

- Dynamic poster sessions and lightning talks

Space is limited. Apply by Nov. 13, 2015.

Visit the event website (http://engage.alleninstitute.org/site/R?i=p1M_E3k93XUBVZJnUvvKUw) for application information.

CNS 2015

NITRC ADMIN — Wed, 29 Apr 2015 8:45:40 GMT

Organization for Computational Neurosciences (OCNS)

CNS*2015

24th Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting
Prague, Czech Republic
July 18-23, 2015

The main meeting (July 19-21) will be preceded by a day of tutorials (July 18) and followed by two days of workshops (July 22-23).

Invited Keynote Speakers:

Jack Cowan, University of Chicago, USA
Gustavo Deco, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
Adrienne Fairhall, University of Washington, USA
Wulfram Gerstner, EPFL, Switzerland

PRNI 2015

NITRC ADMIN — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 11:56:34 GMT

5th International Workshop on Pattern Recognition in NeuroImaging (PRNI 2015)
Stanford, CA, USA - June 10-12 2015

PRNI 2015

Pattern recognition techniques have become a staple of neuroimaging data analysis, with several open source dedicated toolboxes available to a large audience, in a variety of languages. In parallel, there has been a large increase in the availability of publicly available datasets, which routinely comprise several hundred subjects. Not only has the amount of data increased, but the variety of modalities available openly has also kept up, with behavioral test results, biomarker data, genotype and gene expression data now becoming abundant. This has created new challenges for storage and distribution of neuroimaging data, and given more importance to informatics infrastructures. This state of affairs has also further emphasized the critical role of multivariate modeling techniques, in particular those techniques that can handle multiple modalities, such as partial least squares, joint/parallel ICA, or canonical correlation analysis and their sparse and regularized versions. The dialogue between producers and consumers of multivariate, predictive modeling methods is ongoing, with great benefits for all involved.

** Topics of interest
PRNI welcomes late breaking abstract submissions on predictive models of neuroimaging data, using e.g. fMRI, sMRI, EEG, MEG, ECoG modalities, including but not limited to the following

* Learning & inference on neuroimaging data
Multimodal learning
Causal modeling
Dynamic and time-varying models
Graph kernels

* Large-scale open neuroimaging datasets
Distributed learning
Meta- and mega-analysis frameworks
Approximate inference for large-scale data
Tools and languages for efficient

* Applications
Imaging genomics
Neurorehabilitation
Affective sciences
Perception

** Submission Guidelines
Authors should prepare shorts abstracts of no longer than 500 words in text/word/pdf format. Abstracts may be submitted by email to PRNIabstracts@gmail.com. Accepted abstracts will be presented as posters at the conference. Accepted abstracts will not be included in the IEEE proceedings but will be published online. For detailed instructions, please see the workshop website.

** Important Dates
Abstract submission deadline: Rolling deadline until 31st of May, 2015
Acceptance notification: within a week of submission
Workshop: 10th-12th of June, 2015

** Organising Committee

Chairs
   V. Menon (Stanford U., US)
   JB Poline (UC Berkeley, US)

Programme Chairs
   S. Ryali (Stanford U., US)
   T. Chen (Stanford U., US)
   B. Ng (Stanford U., US)
   S. Koyejo (Stanford U., US)

Local Chair
   K. Supekar (Stanford U. US)

Social Chair
   J. Schrouff (Stanford U., US)

Finance & Sponsorship Chair
   J. Richiardi (U. of Geneva, CH)

** Steering Committee
    Moritz Grosse-Wentrup (MPI, DE)
    Nikolaos Koutsouleris (LMU, DE)
    Janaina Mourao-Miranda (UCL, UK)
    Marcel Van Gerven (Radboud U., NL)
    Gaël Varoquaux (INRIA/CEA Neurospin, FR) (Chair)

2015 HCP course

NITRC ADMIN — Wed, 25 Mar 2015 2:47:52 GMT

This 5-day intensive course will provide training in the acquisition, analysis and visualization of data from the Human Connectome Project using methods and informatics tools developed by the WU-Minn HCP consortium plus data made freely available to the neuroscience community. Participants will learn how to acquire, analyze, visualize, and interpret data from four major MR modalities (structural MR, resting-state fMRI, diffusion imaging, task-evoked fMRI) plus magnetoencephalography (MEG) and extensive behavioral data. Lectures and labs will provide grounding in neurobiological as well as methodological issues involved in interpreting multimodal data, and will span the range from single-voxel/vertex to brain network analysis approaches.

The course is open to graduate students, postdocs, faculty, and industry participants.

CoSMo 2015

NITRC ADMIN — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 10:27:29 GMT

Attendants will become familiar with fundamental modelling techniques and their applications to sensory-motor neuroscience. These techniques will be embedded into teaching modules linking theory, empirical findings and clinical applications in areas such as decision making, limb motor control, sensory-motor transformations, computational neuroimaging and learning. There will be morning lectures and hands-on Matlab programming and simulation sessions in the afternoon aimed at solidifying the concepts taught in the morning.

OSB 2015

NITRC ADMIN — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 10:11:30 GMT

This workshop will provide an introduction to the OSB initiative and associated technologies and there will be a number of presentations from modellers, experimentalists and tool developers interested in creating open, community developed models of neuronal systems.

One day of the meeting will be dedicated to creating and sharing experimentally constrained models of the hippocampus.

NEST User Workshop

NITRC ADMIN — Thu, 12 Mar 2015 11:01:17 GMT

The First NEST User Workshop shall foster the dialog between NEST users and developers and strengthen the growing NEST Community. It is primarily intended for users and developers whohave practical experience with NEST. We will present the new NEST Git Repository and Code Review Platform as part of the workshop. This workshop is organized in collaboration between the NEST Initiative and the HBP Education Program.

Spatial computation workshop

NITRC ADMIN — Tue, 10 Mar 2015 11:41:10 GMT

Spatial computation: from neural circuits to robot navigation

The Informatics Forum, Edinburgh, April 11th, 2015.

A workshop focussing on computations underlying navigation from the perspectives of neuroscience and robotics.

Confirmed speakers:

Kevin Allen (Heidelburg)

Neil Burgess (UCL)

Margarita Chli (Edinburgh)

Michael Hasselmo (Boston)

Kate Jeffery (UCL)

Jack Mellor (Bristol)

Michael Milford (Queensland)

Ralph Moeller (Bielefeld)

Subramanian (Ram) Ramamoorthy (Edinburgh)

Lukas Solanka (Edinburgh)

Barbara Webb (Edinburgh)

Thomas Wolbers (Magdeburg)

Further details and registration here: http://blog.inf.ed.ac.uk/spatialcomputationworkshop/

OHBM Hackathon 2015

NITRC ADMIN — Tue, 10 Mar 2015 11:40:00 GMT

During this three day event, the first two days will focus on collaborative and open neuroscience projects in data analysis and methods development. See brainhack.org for examples of previous projects and to submit your project ideas!