[Neuroinfo] Neuroscience Gateway SfN workshop, Oct 17th, 2015 Chicago

[Sivagnanam, Subhashini]

Dear Community,

Neuroscience Gateway (NSG) will be hosting a Satellite Symposium as a part of the SFN Annual Meeting in Chicago on October 17th from 9am till 12pm. The workshop is titled "Using the Neuroscience Gateway Portal for Parallel Simulations".
Information about the workshop:http://www.nsgportal.org/workshop.html
Registration link: http://www.neuron.yale.edu/neuron/static/courses/nsg2015/nsg2015.html
The deadline to register is Friday, October 2, 2015.

This workshop is intended for neuroscientists who are already using, or would like to use, the Neuroscience Gateway Portal (NSG http://www.nsgportal.org/) in their research. The NSG provides free and easy access to supercomputers for modeling and data analysis projects.The NSG portal eliminates most administrative and technical barriers that face neuroscientists who need to use high performance computing resources for large modeling projects and other computationally intensive tasks such as analysis of neuroimaging data. Its web-based interface simplifies the tasks of uploading models or data, specifying job parameters, monitoring job status, and storing and retrieving output data. Software currently installed includes the Freesurfer Software Suite, the Virtual Brain Empirical Data Pipeline, and simulators such as Brian, MOOSE, GENESIS3, NEST, NEURON, and PyNN. The workshop will combine didactic presentations by NSG's developers, hands on instruction in how to use the portal and presentations from researchers.

Title of talks:

Introduction to NSG (Amit Majumdar1, Subha Sivagnanam1, Ted Carnevale4)
Using Models from the Open Source Brain repository on the NSG portal (Padraig Gleeson2)
Extracting personalized virtual brains from multimodal neuroimaging data (Simon Rothmeier3)
Simulating large neuronal networks with NEST (Alex Peyser5 and Hannah Bos5)

1San Diego Supercomputer Center, UC San Diego
2Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology, University College London
3Neurology, Charité - University Medicine Berlin, Germany
4Neurobiology, Yale University
5Forschungszentrum Jülich

Location: Downtown Chicago (Registered attendees will receive directions and address)
Registration is limited to 25 individuals on a first-come, first-serve basis.
Registration Deadline: Friday, October 2, 2015
NO on-site registration will be accepted.