AHM 2008

Venue

Marriot City Center, Salt Lake City, Utah Mariott City Center, Salt Lake City, Utah
Floorplan

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Agenda Outline

This is the agenda outline for AHM 2008 and related activities:

Sunday, January 6: Core 1&2 Site PI Retreat

• Morning: Travel
• 1-5pm: Closed session for Core 1&2 Site PIs, no delegates. Topic: competitive renewal. (The NIH IC Directors will provide us with additional information about the competitive renewal mechanics in mid December, at which point we will circulate it.)
• 3pm: coffee break

Monday January, 7: Core 1&2 Site PI retreat/Project Activities

• 8am: Breakfast
• 9am-noon: Core 1&2 Site PI retreat continued
• 10:30am: coffee break
• Noon: lunch
• 1-3pm: Introduce Project Half Week Participants and Projects
• 3pm: coffee break
• 3-4pm: Slicer Update??
• 4-5pm: Special Breakout Session: EM Segmenter User Group

Tuesday January, 8: Project Activities

• 8am: Breakfast
• 9am-noon: Project Work
• 10:30am: coffee break
• Noon: lunch
• 1-2pm: Special Topic Breakout Session: Geometry and Topology processing of Meshes (owner Alex G, Caltech)
• 2-5pm: Project Work
• 3pm: coffee break

Wednesday January, 9: Project Activities and Tractography Validation/Comparison

• 8am: Breakfast
• 9am-5pm: Project Work
• 9am-5pm: Tractography Breakout Session
• 10am: Coffee Break
• noon-1pm: lunch
• 3pm: Coffee Break

Thursday January, 10: AHM, EAB

• 7:30am Breakfast
• Morning: Presentation of the NA-MIC kit modules (software plus training materials) contributed by each core 1 and 2 site
• 8:00-8:05am: Introduction, Ron Kikinis
• 8:05-11:15am: Core 1 and 2 Presentations
  • 8:05-8:20am: Utah, Ross Whitaker
  • 8:20-8:35am: MIT, Polina Golland
  • 8:35-8:50am: Georgia Tech, Allen Tannenbaum
  • 8:50-9:05am: UNC, Martin Styner
  • 9:05-9:20am: MGH/WUSTL, Dan Marcus
  • 9:20-9:35am: Kitware, Will Schroeder
  • 9:35-9:50am: GE Research, Jim Miller
  • 10:00-10:30am: Coffee Break
  • 10:30-10:45am: Isomics, Steve Pieper
  • 10:45-11:00am: UCSD, Mark Ellisman
  • 11:00-11:15am: UCLA, Arthur Toga
• 11:15-11:25am: Outreach, Randy Gollub
• 11:25-12:00: Invited speaker: Mike Sherman, Stanford NCBC Simbios, SimTK Architect
• 12:00-1:00pm: Lunch
• DBP results
  • 1:00-1:15pm: Queens/JHU, Gabor Fichtinger
  • 1:15-1:30pm:UNC, Heather Cody Hazlett
  • 1:30-1:45pm:Harvard, Marek Kubicki
  • 1:45-2:00pm:MIND/UNM, Jeremy Bockholt
• NCBC Collaborations
  • 2:00-2:15pm: UNM/Mind, Nicole Grosland/Vincent Magnotta
  • 2:15-2:30pm: Wakeforest, James Daunais/Robert Kraft/Chris Wyatt
  • 2:30-2:45pm: Georgetown, Kevin Cleary
• 3pm: coffee break
• 3:30-5:30pm: EAB (members planning to come, thus far: Godfrey Pearlson, Bill Lorensen, Sandy Napel, Chris Johnson, Fred Prior, Zohara Cohen, Carlo Pierpaoli)
• 6pm: Optional: Beer at Murphys (like last year)

Friday January, 11: Project Activities

• 8am: breakfast
• 9-10:30am: SimTK technical discussion breakout session
• 10:30am Coffee break
• 10:30am-noon: Project Updates
• Noon: adjourn and travel

Agenda

Time	Monday, January 7	Tuesday, January 8	Wednesday, January 9	Thursday, January 10	Friday, January 11
	Project Activities	Project Activities	Project Activities	AHM, EAB	Project Activities
7:30-		Breakfast	Breakfast	Breakfast	Breakfast
8:00-10:00		Project Work	Project Work 9am: Tractography Breakout Session	8:00-8:05am: Introduction, Ron Kikinis 8:05-11:15am: Core 1 and 2 Presentations 8:05-8:20am: Utah, Ross Whitaker 8:20-8:35am: MIT, Polina Golland 8:35-8:50am: Georgia Tech, Allen Tannenbaum 8:50-9:05am: UNC, Martin Styner 9:05-9:20am: MGH/WUSTL, Dan Marcus 9:20-9:35am: Kitware, Will Schroeder 9:35-9:50am: GE Research, Jim Miller	Project Work
10:00-10:30		Coffee	Coffee	Coffee	Coffee
10:30-12:00		Project Work	Project Work Tractography Breakout Session	10:30-10:45am: Isomics, Steve Pieper 10:45-11:00am: UCSD, Mark Ellisman 11:00-11:15am: UCLA, Arthur Toga 11:15-11:25am: Outreach, Randy Gollub 11:25-12:00: Invited speaker: Mike Sherman, Stanford NCBC Simbios, SimTK Architect	Project Work
12:00-1:00	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Adjourn
1:00-3:00	Introduce Projects and Participants	Breakout: Geometry and Topology processing of Meshes	Tractography Breakout Session	DBP results 1:00-1:15pm: Queens/JHU, Gabor Fichtinger 1:15-1:30pm:UNC, Heather Cody Hazlett 1:30-1:45pm:Harvard, Marek Kubicki 1:45-2:00pm:MIND/UNM, Jeremy Bockholt NCBC Collaborations 2:00-2:15pm: UNM/Mind, Nicole Grosland/Vincent Magnotta 2:15-2:30pm: Wakeforest, Chris Wyatt 2:30-2:45pm: Georgetown, Kevin Cleary
3:30-4:00	Coffee	Coffee	Coffee	Coffee
3:00-5:00	3-4pm: Slicer Update 4-5pm: Breakout: EM Segmenter User Group	Project Work	Project Work Tractography Breakout Session	EAB
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 starting the afternoon of Sunday, January 6 and continuing on Monday, January 7th. This is a closed session for Core 1&2 Site PIs, with no delegates. The topic is the competitive renewal. (The NIH IC Directors will provide us with additional information about the competitive renewal mechanics in mid December, at which point we will circulate it.)