2012-04-19

Dissertation by Gabriela Spulber

Gabriela Spulber will defend her thesis on Friday 27th of April, at 12.00 noon at the University of Eastern Finland in Kuopio, Finland. The title is "Imaging the progression from mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer's disease", and you can read more about it here.

2012-04-17

SMILE Collaborators page

The SMILE webpage section called "Collaborators" is now in the process of being updated. If you are interested in having your name on this page -- or perhaps a webpage of your own linked to the list on the page -- please contact the manager who will be happy to help you.

You can find the Collaborators page here:
http://www.smile.ki.se/about_us/assoc_en.html
where you also can find examples of different styles of personal pages. 

Summer programming course at PDC

PDC- Center for High-Performance Computing and the KTH School of Computer Science and Communication (CSC) are organizing an introductory course in high-performance computing. The Summer School will be held at the KTH main campus, Stockholm on August 20-31. The course is open to KTH masters students as course number DN2258. Other students, both national and international, as well as academic and industrial, are also welcome to apply. 


This course will give an introduction to the skills needed to utilize high performance computing resources, including an introduction to HPC programming languages, libraries and tools, modern computer architectures, parallel algorithms, and optimization of serial and parallel programs. Case studies in various scientific disciplines will help illustrate these topics. The course consists of both lectures and guided hands-on lab experience. It carries 7.5 ECTS (European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System), where 1.5 ECTS credits are equivalent to one week's workload of 40 hours. The student receives these credits on successful completion of the post-course project. The number of seats are limited. 


The course is suitable for scientist and graduate students with interest in high-performance computing. It requires good experience in programming. The course language is English. 


Course registration opens on March 15, and closes June 1, 2012. 


Read more about the course at http://agenda.albanova.se/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=3301

Updated N4U manual

For those interested in applying for a N4U (neuGRID) certificate, there is now an updated version of the how-to! Ask the manager for a copy.

New exam worker

We have a new exam worker in the lab: Dhiraj Kumar, who will be writing his masters' thesis in Machine Learning at Computer Science at KTH here at SMILE. Dhiraj's supervisors are Eric Westman and Carlos Aguliar, and the project is entitled Multivariate comparison of voxel-based versus morphometric analysis. You can read more about it here: http://www.smile.ki.se/education/exam_en.html

Matlab updated

The Matlab version in the lab has been updated to release 2012a.


2012-04-16

Gabis "spiktÄrta"


There will be cake in the kitchen of Clinical geriatrics on Tuesday 17th of April at 15.00, to celebrate the upcoming "spikning" of Gabriela Spulbers thesis (more news on the blog after the spikning).

Matlab learning event


The Matlab learning event scheduled for Wednesday 18th of April is now full.

Brain Imaging course


The KI graduate student course "Brain Imaging" was held during week 12. All 18 seats were taken and an additional five-six persons listened in without receiving points. We organizers have received generally positive feedback and feel that the reorganization of the course (as compared to 2009 when it was last given) has worked out well.
 

Guests


SMILE has been visited by two guests lately.

Alberto Redolfi, PhD student at Fatebenefratelli Centro San Giovanni di Dio, Laboratory of Epidemiology & Neuroimaging, Brescia, Italy came on two occasions, both in connection with N4U. On the 5th to 9th of March he instructed SMILE users in the finer points of using the grid, and on the 21st to 22nd of March he did a broad introduction to the grid for the participants in the Brain Imaging course.

Julia Miralbell, PhD student at Department of Psychiatry and psychobiology, University of Barcelona, Spain stayed during the whole Brain Imaging week, from the 19th to the 23rd of March, and helped us with the hands-ons for automated volumetry.

Blog problems


The blog is currently not being updated as often as it should. The problem is that the manager’s computer is tied within Atlas to an extremely old version of Explorer, which the blog page no longer accepts as valid. Updates are then made when I’m in the lab, but then I usually have other, more pressing things on my mind. Thus, the dearth of updates lately. IT tells me that they are working on packaging a new version of Explorer which will come out as soon as possible. (This was however a month ago and I have not heard back from them).