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.
2012-04-19
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.
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.
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.
2012-04-16
Gabis "spiktårta"
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).
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).
2012-03-27
New workshop by Rita Almeida
The next workshop on statistical analysis of neuroimaging data by Rita Almeida will be held on Tuesday, 3rd of April from 9.00 to 12.30.
The first 2 hours will be held at the Tellus room, Dept. of Neuroscience, Retzius Väg 8, KI Solna. The last part, the tutorial, will take place in the computer room Space, close to the library at the Solna Campus.
Rita will talk about Bayesian analysis in neuroimaging, with focus on MRI.
The planned schedule follows the same organization as before:
9.00-9.45: "Bayesian methods in neuroimaging"- this first seminar will be an introduction to Bayesian statistics and its applications to neuroimaging.
It is prepared to be a stand-alone overview.
10.00-10.45: " Bayesian methods in neuroimaging - part II", this seminar will focus on more technical aspects and examples.
11.00 - 12.30: Tutorial.
Suggested reading are chapters 22 and 23 of the Statistical parametric mapping book by Friston et al.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780123725608
and the following article:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19059349
Please register by sending the manager an email if you are planning to attend the workshop. In particular, it is helpful to know if you are following the tutorial. The manager will put you in contact with Rita directly.
The first 2 hours will be held at the Tellus room, Dept. of Neuroscience, Retzius Väg 8, KI Solna. The last part, the tutorial, will take place in the computer room Space, close to the library at the Solna Campus.
Rita will talk about Bayesian analysis in neuroimaging, with focus on MRI.
The planned schedule follows the same organization as before:
9.00-9.45: "Bayesian methods in neuroimaging"- this first seminar will be an introduction to Bayesian statistics and its applications to neuroimaging.
It is prepared to be a stand-alone overview.
10.00-10.45: " Bayesian methods in neuroimaging - part II", this seminar will focus on more technical aspects and examples.
11.00 - 12.30: Tutorial.
Suggested reading are chapters 22 and 23 of the Statistical parametric mapping book by Friston et al.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780123725608
and the following article:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19059349
Please register by sending the manager an email if you are planning to attend the workshop. In particular, it is helpful to know if you are following the tutorial. The manager will put you in contact with Rita directly.
2012-03-20
Here, but busy
There are actually any number of things to blog about: guests, the Brain Imaging course, dissertations that went well... but due to illness and now the demanding task of running the Brain Imaging course there is just no time. Expect a series of posts sometime next week with the details!
2012-03-05
Timer functioning again!
Dalkia realized our terrible need for a functioning coffee maker and fixed the broken timer on the power outlet already this afternoon!
Broken coffee maker power outlet
The power outlet in the R43 pentry which is equipped with a timer has broken. There is another outlet without a timer, but please do not connect the coffee machine to that outlet! It is too easy to forget the machine and leave it turned on until it runs dry, breaks down and starts a fire.
Proof in point: this Saturday Leif came by R43 and noticed a bad smell. He found the coffee machine connected to the outlet without a timer, turned on and almost dry. So it is quite possible that there could have been a fire at R43 this weekend, if not for Leif's chance stopping-by!
Dalkia has been notified of the broken outlet and has also been told that we would like to have it fixed ASAP.
Proof in point: this Saturday Leif came by R43 and noticed a bad smell. He found the coffee machine connected to the outlet without a timer, turned on and almost dry. So it is quite possible that there could have been a fire at R43 this weekend, if not for Leif's chance stopping-by!
Dalkia has been notified of the broken outlet and has also been told that we would like to have it fixed ASAP.
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