<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em;text-align:center"><font size="4"><b>AoN Brainhack Warsaw 2017</b></font></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em;text-align:center"><b>November 17-19, 2017</b></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em;text-align:center"><b>University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland</b></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em;text-align:center"><b>— The early bird registration extended to 15th October2017 — </b></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em">On the weekend of <b>17-19th November 2017</b>,
the first edition of AoN Brainhack Warsaw will take place. During this
three-day event dedicated to students and PhD students, we will work in
teams on<b> neuroscience-related projects</b>.</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em">The aim of the event is to
meet new, enthusiastic researchers, make new friendships in academia,
learn, share the knowledge on data mining and brain research, but also
promote open science in the spirit of the whole Brainhack community <a href="https://gigascience.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13742-016-0121-x" target="_blank">(</a><a href="https://gigascience.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13742-016-0121-x" target="_blank">Craddock et al., 2016)</a>. Attendees of various backgrounds are welcome to join!</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em"></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em">Please note AoN Brainhack Warsaw 2017 is a satellite event for the interdisciplinary <a href="http://neuroaspects.org/">Aspects of Neuroscience conference</a> which will take place on 24-26th November 2017 in Warsaw.
Participation in the conference is not mandatory to take part in Brainhack but we encourage to also consider this.</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em">Below you could see list of projects which will be realised during our three day event:</p>
<ol style="margin:1.2em 0px;padding-left:2em"><li style="margin:0.5em 0px"><p style="margin:0.5em 0px"><a href="https://brainhackwarsaw.github.io/#connectivity" target="_blank">Functional connectivity research: can we find a common ground?</a></p>
</li><li style="margin:0.5em 0px"><p style="margin:0.5em 0px"><a href="https://brainhackwarsaw.github.io/#connectivity%23trypophobia" title="Trypophobia is a fear and disgust reaction when seeing a clusters of small holes or bumps (maggots, infected skin). During this workshop we will create an artificial convolutional neural network that predicts if an image is likely to cause a trypophobic response. We will use Keras - a popular deep learning framework in Python." target="_blank">Detecting trypophobia triggers</a></p>
</li><li style="margin:0.5em 0px"><p style="margin:0.5em 0px"><a href="https://brainhackwarsaw.github.io/#connectivity%23game" title="Joint-action is a coordinated behavior of two or more individuals. There is an ongoing research concerning cognitive mechanisms behind it. This project is about developing a new tool for studying joint-action in the form of cooperative video game." target="_blank">Development of video game for studying joint action dynamics </a></p>
</li><li style="margin:0.5em 0px"><p style="margin:0.5em 0px"><a href="https://brainhackwarsaw.github.io/#connectivity%23movies" target="_blank">Training a human-like movie evaluation system based on the semantic features of the storylines</a></p>
</li><li style="margin:0.5em 0px"><p style="margin:0.5em 0px"><a href="https://brainhackwarsaw.github.io/#connectivity%23whitematter" target="_blank">Hypothesis-driven white matter tractography from T1-weighted MRI images</a></p>
</li><li style="margin:0.5em 0px"><p style="margin:0.5em 0px"><a href="https://brainhackwarsaw.github.io/#connectivity%23neuroon" target="_blank">One channel EEG sleep staging with open source and open hardware NeuroOn sleep mask</a></p>
</li><li style="margin:0.5em 0px"><p style="margin:0.5em 0px"><a href="https://brainhackwarsaw.github.io/#connectivity%23ageingbiomarker" target="_blank">Building a brain-ageing biomarker using machine learning</a></p>
</li><li style="margin:0.5em 0px"><p style="margin:0.5em 0px"><a href="https://brainhackwarsaw.github.io/#connectivity%23flypi" title="FlyPi, an open source, affordable, portable biology lab! Want to do behavioural tracking, optogenetics, diagnosis anywhere and on the cheap? Come join our workshop, we will build, learn how to use and develop interesting experiments for research and education." target="_blank">Building and using the “FlyPi”: the 3D-printed Neurobiology Lab</a> </p>
</li></ol>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em"><b>‘Early bird’</b> registration for project participants,<b> closes on 15th October 2017</b>. The applications will be reviewed and the notification of acceptance will be sent to the applicants until 20th October2017. </p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em">We welcome everyone at the AoN
Brainhack Warsaw 2017 event. We would like to prepare the equipment
and the clusters properly before the event, therefore we are asking the
participants to register in advance and choose the projects of their
preference. We will do our best to make sure that everyone can take
part in the project they like, and that the projects are well prepared
for the participants. In any case, we welcome everyone to come, watch
the event and help us at the first Brainhack in the history of AoN
conference!</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em">A registration
fee of 25EUR (or 100PLN) will be requested upon acceptance. The
registration fee will be spent on the catering during the event.</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em">To register please visit our page and learn more about the Brainhack Warsaw!<br><a href="https://brainhackwarsaw.github.io/" target="_blank">https://brainhackwarsaw.github<wbr>.io/</a><br><a href="https://brainhackwarsaw.github.io/" target="_blank">
</a></p><br><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em">We looking forward to see you in Warsaw!<br><b>The AoN Brainhack Warsaw 2017 team:</b><br>Natalia Bielczyk, MSc, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Nijmegen, The Netherlands (<a href="mailto:natalia.bielczyk@gmail.com" target="_blank">natalia.bielczyk@gmail.com</a>)<br>Krzysztof Bielski, Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland<br>Daniel Borek, MSc, Doctoral School of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, (<a href="mailto:norbert.kopco@upjs.sk" target="_blank">dtborek@g</a><a href="http://mail.com/" target="_blank">mail.com</a>)</p></div></div>