[BIC-announce] Announcing the dev nilearn days: software and science

[Gael Varoquaux]

Dear friends and colleagues,

Nilearn is a Python tool for multivariate statistics on brain images. It
has recently gained more statistical models: the next release will also
provide tools for build models of task response.
https://nilearn.github.io

On May 19-22, we are organizing the nilearn dev days, to discuss advanced
topics to and shape what's next. https://nilearn.github.io/dev-days-2020/

Our goal is to grow a stronger technical community for statistics on
brain images in Python

Schedule:

* Software development day: 19 May

  Presentations and discussions will teach the development and open-science
  principles that underlie nilearn. Their goals are to empower new
  developers and maintainers.

* Scientific day: 22 May

  Invited talks will illustrate exciting neuroscience that can be done
  with statistical techniques as those in nilearn.

  To inspire and sketch the future of nilearn, the talks are not
  restricted to studies performed using nilearn.

The event will be fully open. Details on video-conferencing to be
released soon.


Software development: 19 May
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 EDT  | CET   | Speaker              | Presentation Title
------|-------|----------------------|-------------------
09:00 | 15:00 | Gaël Varoquaux       | Introduction and overview
09:15 | 15:15 | Julia Huntenburg     | Adding new features to Nilearn
10:00 | 16:00 | Break                | Break
10:15 | 16:15 | Bertrand Thirion     | Documentation-driven development
11:00 | 17:00 | Gaël Varoquaux       | Open source software: how to live long and go far
11:45 | 17:45 | Break                | Break
13:00 | 19:00 | Elizabeth DuPre      | GitHub for project maintainers
13:45 | 19:45 | Chris Markiewicz     | Testing numerical code in python
14:30 | 20:30 | Break                | Break
14:45 | 20:45 | Jérôme Dockès        | Continuous integration for academic software
15:30 | 21:30 | Alejandro de la Vega | The Python ecosystem for neuroimaging

EDT = Eastern Daylight Time: New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Montreal...

CET = Central European Time: Paris, Rome, Berlin, Madrid...


Scientific day: 22 May
=======================

 EDT  |  CET  | Speaker           | Presentation Title
------|-------|-------------------|-------------------
09:00 | 15:00 | Nilearn Team      | Introduction
09:10 | 15:10 | Sylvia Villeneuve | Predicting Functional Brain Aging in Preclinical Alzheimer’s Disease
09:50 | 15:50 | Carsen Stringer   | Rastermap: A Visualization Tool for High-dimensional Neural Data
10:30 | 16:30 | Break             | Break
10:50 | 16:50 | Eva Dyer          | Comparing High-Dimensional Neural Recordings Across Time, Space, and Behavior
11:30 | 17:30 | Aki Nikolaidis    | Bagging Improves Reproducibility of Functional Parcellation of the Human Brain
12:15 | 18:15 | Break             | Break
10:50 | 16:50 | Eva Dyer          | Comparing High-Dimensional Neural Recordings Across Time, Space, and Behavior
13:30 | 19:30 | Jo Etzel          | Pattern Similarity Analyses of Frontoparietal Task Coding: Individual Variation and Genetic Influences
14:10 | 20:10 | TBA               | To Be Announced
14:50 | 20:50 | Nilearn Team      | Wrap-up


See you all online soon, and stay safe.

Best,

Gaël

-- 
    Gael Varoquaux
    Research Director, INRIA		  Visiting professor, McGill 
    http://gael-varoquaux.info            http://twitter.com/GaelVaroquaux