Workshop: Machine learning for functional brain imaging

Machine learning for functional brain imaging

Dear all, we are very pleased to announce the joint NatMEG / StratNeuro symposium and workshop Machine learning for functional brain imaging. The event is taking place the 19th - 20th of January 2017, at Karolinska Institutet, Solna Campus.

 

Symposium

The symposium will take place on January 19th, and will consist of an introduction to machine learning for functional brain imaging followed by a series of lectures illustrating the applications of machine learning for MEG and fMRI.

 

Confirmed speakers are:

  • Alexandre Gramfort, Telecom ParisTech, Paris, France
  • Marcel van Gerven, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands
  • Radoslaw Cichy, Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany
  • Lauri Parkkonen, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland

 

Additional invited and local speakers to be confirmed.

 

Workshop

On January 20th, we offer hands-on machine learning tutorials for MEG and fMRI using Python (MNE Python and Nilearn). Teachers:

  • Alexandre Gramfort, Telecom ParisTech, Paris, France - MEG - MNE Python
  • Gaël Varoquaux, INRIA, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, Paris, France - fMRI – Nilearn.

 

A detailed program will be sent out later.

 

Registration

To apply for registration, please send an email to machinelearning@natmeg.se with the following information:

1) Your name

2) Your institution

3) Do you wish to attend the symposium (19th of January)?

4) Do you wish to attend* the workshop on MEG (20th of January)?

5) Do you wish to attend* the workshop on fMRI (20th of January)?

6) If yes on both 4 AND 5 above, please let us know which one you prioritize if we can’t arrange for you to join both.

* Note that bringing your own laptop, pre-installing relevant software, and downloading sample data in advance will be required.

 

Terms

The workshop is supported by Swedish Bioimaging, StratNeuro and NatMEG, and is free of charge, but the number of available places is limited. For this reason, please note that you are registered only when your registration has been confirmed by email from us.

 

Travel grants

Via support from Swedish Bioimaging, we can offer some travel grants to attendees. To qualify for this, attendees must be affiliated to a Swedish university and travel to the workshop from outside of Stockholm, but from within Sweden. To apply, please write us an email (same address as above), including information about your home university affiliation, including estimated ticket and accommodation costs. If approved, your ticket and accommodation costs will be reimbursed upon delivery of original receipts.

 

Daniel Lundqvist (daniel.lundqvist@ki.se, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, KI, NatMEG)

Rita Almeida (rita.almeida@ki.se, Department of Neuroscience, KI, StratNeuro)