Dear colleagues,

I wanted to draw your attention on the upcoming 2012 Brainhack, 1st edition, to be held from September 1-4 at the Max Plank Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany. Brainhack is not a conference or a workshop. It should be closer to one of those exciting conversations you may have had at HBM during cocktail or poster sessions. Except that we will have over three days to build up those conversations into full-fledge collaborations. One should come to brainhack ready to engage into collaborative projects, and with some material (slides, ideas, data, tools) ready to start a project or a discussion panel. Brainhack will build on the successful techniques used in other unconferenceshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconference to keep the meeting focussed and productive. It is possible to start a project and build a team as early as today. Please have a look at the website for informations on the conference and a sample of projects (more will be added over the summer): http://brainhack.org/2012/04/06/brainhack-2012-unconference/

The list of confirmed attendees includes F. Xavier Castellanos, Michael Hanke, Michael P. Milham, Tal Yarkoni, Arno Villringer, and many members of the neurobureau http://www.neurobureau.org/NeuroBureau/Welcome.html. Brainhack is a satellite of the resting-state connectivity conferencehttp://www.restingstate.com/. Although many participants will have an interest in connectivity analysis, there will also be attendees coming from a variety of backgrounds within neuroscience. Registration is now opened: http://www.cbs.mpg.de/events/workshops/brainhack

Please do not hesitate to share this invitation with your circles.

Best Regards, Donald McLaren ================= D.G. McLaren, Ph.D. Research Fellow, Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School Postdoctoral Research Fellow, GRECC, Bedford VA Website: http://www.martinos.org/~mclaren Office: (773) 406-2464 ===================== This e-mail contains CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION which may contain PROTECTED HEALTHCARE INFORMATION and may also be LEGALLY PRIVILEGED and which is intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above. If the reader of the e-mail is not the intended recipient or the employee or agent responsible for delivering it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you are in possession of confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized use, disclosure, copying or the taking of any action in reliance on the contents of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail unintentionally, please immediately notify the sender via telephone at (773) 406-2464 or email.