[Neurobureau-hubs] brainhacker school

[Cameron Craddock]

I would like to being back the old mathmatics in brain imaging format. That was two weeks and well attended. 

Sent from my iPhone

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