[Neurobureau-hubs] brainhacker school

Tue Jan 20 12:28:25 PST 2015

and would it work if it were neuroimaging MOOCs instead of real life
seminars? Instead of meeting to listen folks talk, we could have video
recorded lessons that people could listen and watch as often as they
want/need. It would be a great resource. And then, we use the time
together to actively work on projects...

On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 9:06 PM, Cameron Craddock
<cameron.craddock at gmail.com> wrote:
> MBI was an exceptional workshop that has had a great impact on my career.
> Unfortunately nothing similar to it exists anymore. I wouldn't advocate the
> same number of talks. But I think it has to have more talks than a typical
> brainhack. Maybe 50/50? We need to be able to show a clear course curriculum
> with explicit goals so that it is a "no brainer" for supervisors to send
> their students and postdocs.
>
> I am not sure about the publication part. I think it is better if the
> publication arises organically from the school rather than being a mandated
> part of it. If it is the latter, I think we will fail.
>
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 2:24 PM, rbrto <robertotoro at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 8:08 PM, Alexandre Franco <eng.franco at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Yeah, it was intense. And it was only lectures.
>>
>> hahaha, sounds more like brainwasher than brainhacker :D
>>
>> >
>> > If we would use this schedule as an initial guide, we would certainly
>> > have to update it and include some hands-on time.
>> >
>> >
>> > On Jan 20, 2015, at 17:04, rbrto <robertotoro at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> it's quite a lot of lectures....  is there any practical part ?
>> >>
>> >> On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 7:16 PM, Alexandre R Franco
>> >> <eng.franco at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>> This is what Cameron is talking about:
>> >>>
>> >>> 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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