AHM 2008

Introduction

NA-MIC participants meet for a all-hands meeting (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 2008 project week, see below or click here. For information about Utah as a travel destination click here.
	SLC	The combined AHM, EAB and Project Week will be held in Salt Lake City, UT, January 6-11 2008.

Dates. Venue. Registration

Dates:

• The All Hands Meeting and External Advisory Board Meeting will be held on Thursday, January 10th.
• Project Activities will be held rest of the week between Monday, January 7th and Friday, January 11th.

Venue: The venue for the meeting is Marriot City Center, Salt Lake City, Utah Mariott City Center, Salt Lake City, Utah. (Floorplan). To reserve rooms at the meeting rate of $129/night, please call the hotel at 1-801-961-8700 and mention that you are attending the NAMIC meeting. 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. 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 here for online registration. This registration must be completed by Friday, December 14, 2007.

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 Plug-ins for Slicer3	Project Work 9am: Tractography Breakout Session	8:00 Introduction, Ron Kikinis Core 1 and 2 Presentations 8:05 Utah, Ross Whitaker 8:20: MIT, Polina Golland 8:35: Georgia Tech, Allen Tannenbaum 8:50: UNC, Martin Styner 9:05: MGH/WUSTL, Dan Marcus 9:20: Kitware, Will Schroeder 9:35: 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 contd	10:30: Isomics, Steve Pieper 10:45: UCSD, Mark Ellisman 11:00: UCLA, Arthur Toga 11:15: Outreach, Randy Gollub 11:25: 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	Project Work Tractography Breakout Session contd	DBP results 1:00: Queens/JHU, Gabor Fichtinger 1:15:UNC, Heather Cody Hazlett 1:30:Harvard, Marek Kubicki 1:45:MIND/UNM, Jeremy Bockholt NCBC Collaborations 2:00: Georgetown, Kevin Cleary 2:15: Wakeforest, Chris Wyatt 2:30: UIowa, Nicole Grosland,Vincent Magnotta
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 contd	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. (It is expected that the NIH IC Directors will make decisions about the competitive renewal mechanics in mid December, at which point we will let everybody know.)

Attendees

• BWH

1. Ron Kikinis (AHM + Programming week)
2. Nicole Aucoin (AHM + programming week)

• Kitware

• UNC

1. Martin Styner (AHM + Programming week)
2. Heather Hazlett (AHM)
3. Ipek Oguz (AHM + Programming week)
4. Clement Vachet (AHM + Programming week)