AHM 2009

Introduction

This is the home page for the 2009 NA-MIC all hands meeting (AHM). NA-MIC participants meet for a AHM once a year. The purpose of the AHM is to coordinate, discuss plans and report to NIH officers and the external advisory board (EAB). The external advisory board meets with the NA-MIC leadership immediately after the AHM. In parallel, NA-MIC is organizing a project week. These events, with the exception of the EAB meeting, are open to collaborators and potential collaborators. For more information about the project weeks in general, click here. For information about the January 2009 project week, see below or click here. For information about Utah as a travel destination click here.
	SLC	The 2008 AHM, EAB and Project Week will be held in Salt Lake City, UT, January 5-9 2009.

Agenda

(preliminary)

Time	Monday, January 5	Tuesday, January 6	Wednesday, January 7	Thursday, January 8	Friday, January 9
	Project Activities in Capitol B-C	Project Activities in Capitol B-C	Project Activities in Capitol B-C	AHM in Capitol A-B, EAB in Olympus B Project Activities in Olympus A	Project Activities in Capitol B-C
7:30-8:00		Breakfast	Breakfast	Breakfast	Breakfast
8:00-10:00	9:30 Core 1 and 2 PI closed session in Capitol A	Project Work TBD in Amethyst 1	Project Work 8:00-9:00 TBD Amethyst 1	8:00 Introduction, Ron Kikinis 8:05 NA-MIC Highlights (Ross Whitaker) Roadmap Projects 8:35: JHU/Queens (Gabor Fichtinger) 8:55: UNC (Heather Cody) 9:15: PNL (Marek Kubicki) 9.35: Mind Institute (Jeremy Bockolt)	Project Work TBD
10:00-10:30	Core 1 and 2 PI closed session	Coffee	Coffee	Coffee	Coffee
10:30-12:00	Core 1 and 2 PI closed session	Project Work	Project Work TBD	Collaborations 10:30: Iowa collaboration (Nicole Grosland) 10:45: Wake Forest collaboration (Chris Wyatt) 11:00: Georgetown U. collaboration (Kevin Cleary) 11:15: UNC collaboration (Dinggang Shen) 11:30: Mario Negri Collaboration (Luca Antiga) 11:45: Discussion	Project Work
12:00-1:00	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Adjourn
1:00-3:00	Begin Project Activities: Introduce Projects and Participants	Breakout: TBD Amthyst 1	Project Work TBD	Tools and Tutorials (coordinator) 1:00-1:20 Slicer (Steve Pieper) 1:20-1:40 Plug-ins for Slicer (Jim Miller) 1:40-2:00 Non-interactive tools (Stephen Aylward) 2:00-3:00 Tutorial Contest: Presentations by the winners (Randy Gollub)
3:00-3:30	Coffee	Coffee	Coffee	Coffee
3:00-5:00	4:00-5:00 NA-MIC Kit Update (Steve, Jim) Amethyst 1	Project Work TBD Amethyst 1	Project Work 3:00-5:00 Meshing Tutorial (Vince, +) Amethyst 1	EAB Olympus B 3:00-4:00 Discussion with NA-MIC Leadership 4:00-5:00 Closed Session
05:00-07:00				6:00 Optional: Beer at Murphy's (like last year)

Please note that there will be a Core 1&2 Site PI Retreat on the morning of Monday, January 5th. This is a closed session for Core 1&2 Site PIs, with no delegates. The topic is the competitive renewal.

   *  Meshing Tutorial (Nicole, Vince, Curt, Steve)
   * Python Modules (Demian, Luca?)
   * GUI Testing and Developing Test Modules for Slicer (Sebastien)
   * How to use NITRC and slicer(Steve, Terry)
   * how to use batchmake and xnat to process larger studies (Julien and Dan Marcus)
   * DTI (sonia, randy, others?)

Dates. Venue. Registration

Dates:

• The All Hands Meeting and External Advisory Board Meeting will be held on Thursday, January 8th.
• Project Activities will be held rest of the week between Monday, January 5th and Friday, January 9th.

Venue: The venue for the meeting is Marriot City Center, Salt Lake City, Utah Mariott City Center, Salt Lake City, Utah. (Floorplan). Please either call the hotel at 1-801-961-8700 or 1-866-961-8700 (toll free) or book online by using the code SCISCIA to get rooms at $139/night. Please note that we do need attendees to use this hotel in order to not incur additional charges for the use of conference rooms.

Registration: We are charging a registration fee to all participants ($200 for AHM only, and $450 for AHM+). The fee covers the costs of the facilities and food provided. In order to keep the fee low, we need to get a sufficient number of hotel nights by our participants. See above for more on this. Please click http://www.sci.utah.edu/namic2009/registration.html for online registration. This registration must be completed by December 12, 2008.
Brigham and Women's Hospital Attendees

Connectivity We have three wireless access points at the AHM. Two of them are located in the capital ballroom. One is named capital-ballroom, the other is named capital-ballroom2. If one access point doesn't let you connect it is probably overloaded. In that case, please try connecting to the other one.

Attendees

Please follow http://www.sci.utah.edu/namic2009/registration.html to complete your online registration. The organizers will periodically publish the list of registered attendees in the space below. Attendees should NOT add their names in this section.