The Pittsburgh Brainhack: DeBurghing 2020

Pittsburgh, PA, USA

December 9-10, 2020


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Meet & greet

Meet researchers from diverse backgrounds

Learn & gain

Learn and/or teach latest skills and tools

Collaborate & conquer

Propose and/or contribute to exciting projects

Registration for DeBurghing 2020 is now open!

The DeBurghing 2020 is an official satellite event of the International Global Brainhack 2020. The goal of the hackathon is to bring together researchers with disparate backgrounds to collaborate on open science projects in neuroscience and related fields.

Dates: December 9-10, 2020

Costs: Free

Participation: Remote

Participants are encouraged to post project ideas to www.brainhack.org and to submit a report describing their project to the 2020 Brainhack Proceedings that will be published by Gigascience after the event.

Please join the Brainhack MatterMost channel (like slack) for updated information on the developing Hackathon content and to contribute your own ideas.


Schedule

Wednesday, December 9

TIME EVENT LOCATION
9-9:15AM Welcome and orientation by Pradeep Reddy Raamana Zoom
9.15-10AM Guest lecture: Andre Marquand (Chair: Pradeep Reddy Raamana)

Using machine learning and big data neuroscience to move toward precision medicine in psychiatry

Zoom
10AM-12:30PM Meet & greet the labs and researchers participating! (Chair: Timothy Verstynen)
  • Ashok Panigrahy (pediatric neuroimaging)
  • Bea Luna (neurocognitive development)
  • Frank Yeh (diffusion tensor imaging)
  • Tim Verstynen (circuits of adaptive decision making)
  • Pradeep Raamana (biomarkers, confounds and QC)
  • Others
Zoom
12:30-1PM Lunch Gather.Town
1-3PM Talks and Tutorials on confounds, HPC, version control etc (Chair: Javier Rasero)
  1. Data harmonization in structural and functional MRI, by Joanne C. Beer
  2. Diffusion MRI data harmonization methods, by Yogesh Rathi
  3. Review of deconfounding methods in predictive modeling, by Richard Dinga
  4. [skipped] git/github/continuous integration/collaboration
  5. High Performance Computing by Pradeep Reddy Raamana
  6. Pittsburgh Supercomputing Centre (PSC.edu) by Shawn Brown
Zoom
3-4PM Project Pitches
  1. Validating & implementing new deconfounding methods
  2. Identifying neurophysiological predictors of externalizing behaviors in adolescence
  3. Support for braoder input formats for VisualQC
  4. Building a preprocessing tool for physiological confounds in fMRI
  5. More to come
Zoom
4PM- Start hacking Gather.Town
5:30PM Social event Gather.Town

Thursday, December 10

TIME EVENT LOCATION
9-9:15AM Catch-up: 1 min talk on plans for today Zoom
9:15-Noon Open Hacking Gather.Town
Noon-12:30PM Lunch and catch-up Gather.Town
12.30-2PM Open hacking Gather.Town
2-2.30PM Unconference

Talks and debates of interest to members

Zoom
2:30-3:30PM Guest lecture: Leila Wehbe (Chair: Timothy Verstynen)

Neural networks and brains: going beyond simple alignment

Zoom
3.30-5PM Open hacking Gather.Town
5-5:30PM Progress reports and discussion Zoom
5:30PM Goodbye and hasta la próxima! Zoom
5:30PM- Continue hacking for those who can continue on Friday/weekend. Gather.Town

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