Iowa-NA-MIC-2010-Kickoff

Back to 2010 Brainstorming

What

Planning the 3-year course:

• Roadmap project
  • What will the DBP engineer work on?
  • Is the image data already in hand?
• What modules for the NA-MIC Kit will result from this work?
• Outreach
  • Tutorial(s) on the wiki
  • Presentation at a DBP conference for year 2. The PI suggested the AAN (American Academy of Neurology) meeting in April 21-28, 2012 New Orleans as a possible venue. See http://www.aan.com/go/am10/education/proposals; Proposals for 2012 meeting are due May 2011.
  • Hands-on teaching event for the DBP scientific community for year 3

Who

• DBP: Hans Johnson, DBP engineer Mark Scully
• Algo: Martin Styner, DBP engineer Clement Vachet
• Eng: Dan Marcus, Jeff Grethe

When

Monday October 25th, 10:30am - 5:30pm Tuesday October 26th, 8:00am - 3:30pm

Where

The University of Iowa Campus, W240 Boyd Tower.

Take elevator BW to the second floor, and take two immediate rights. The conference room shares a wall with the BW elevator shaft.

Travel Information

The closest airport to Iowa City is the Cedar Rapids / Eastern Iowa Airport (CID) which is about 20 minutes from the hotel.

Airport Shuttle Services

The easiest way to get from the airport to Iowa City is via one of the shuttle services:

• Airport Shuttle Service (Phone: 1-800-725-8460)
• Airport Express (Phone: 319-626-5466)

Both are the same price and easiest to book before travel. The cost is roughly $60 round trip.

Rental Cars

Rental cars are also available from the Airport. The following companies have desks at the airport

• Avis
  • Website
  • Toll-Free Phone : 1-800-331-1212
  • Local Phone : (319) 366-6418
• Hertz
  • Website
  • Toll-Free Phone : 1-800-654-3131
  • Local Phone : (319) 365-9184
• National and Alamo
  • Website
  • Toll-Free Phone : 1-888-826-6890
  • Local Phone : (319) 363-0249
• Enterprise
  • Website
  • Local Phone : (319) 366-5522

If you have any questions regarding travel, feel free to contact Joe Ekdahl either via e-mail(joe-ekdahl@uiowa.edu) or phone (319-384-3026).

Hotel Information

We reserved a block of hotel rooms at Hotel Vetro at a rate of $139. The group code to get this rate is ITK. These rooms will be held at this rate until October 22.

• Hotel Vetro
  • Phone: 800-592-0355
  • Address: 201 South Linn Street, Iowa City, Iowa 52240

Other hotels that are close to the conference site, University of Iowa, and downtown include:

• Sheraton hotel
  • Phone: 319-337-4058
  • Address: 210 South Dubuque St, Iowa City, IA 52240
• Iowa House Hotel
  • Phone: 319-335-3513
  • Address: 125 North Madison St, Iowa City, IA 52242

Meeting Room

TBD