[Neurobureau-hubs] brainhacker school

Tue Jan 20 10:16:34 PST 2015

This is what Cameron is talking about:
http://www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/summer-schools/summer-school-mathematics-in-brain-imaging/?tab=schedule <http://www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/summer-schools/summer-school-mathematics-in-brain-imaging/?tab=schedule>


> On Jan 20, 2015, at 3:50 PM, Cameron Craddock <cameron.craddock at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
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