AlgorithmRetreat2010

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Nov 5-6, Chapel Hill, NC

Introduction

• The NA-MIC algorithm core holds an annual retreat
• The 2010 event will begin on 8:30 am on Friday the 5th of Nov and finish at approximately 2pm on Saturday the 6th.
• Meeting location: SittersonHall/Brooks Building, chair's conference room, FB120 (first floor)

Agenda

Friday

• 8:30 meet in Chair's conference room, Brooks Building, coffee
• 9-10 DBP updates, data availability, each 15 minutes
• 10-10:30 DBP common themes, differences, what is missing
• 10:30-12 Overview of Core 1 site short and long term plans (each 15 min)
• noon lunch
• 1-2 Discussion on longitudinal & personalized registration topics
• 2-3 Discussion on longitudinal & personalized segmentation topics
• 3-4 Discussion on longitudinal & personalized shape topics
• 4-5 makeup slot

Saturday

• 8:30 meet & coffee, meeting first in front of Sitterson Hall (doors are closed on Saturday)
• 9-11 Slicer update by run, demo
  • Gao and Tannenbaum demo
  • Discussion on interactive issues, what level of interaction, how to mesh those with Slicer
• 11-12 AHM planning
• noon lunch on Franklin street
• 1-2 summary, make up slot

Topics

• Plans, Needs, Expectations of and Interactions with DBPs (Core-1 contacts, all)
  • Actions items for the AHM
  • Plans for the next 12 months
• Segmentation
• Registration
  • Upcoming event: New Directions in Registration Workshop
• Other algorithm classes
  • Shape
  • Interactive algorithms
• Interaction with the Engineering Core
  • See whitepaper about the interactions between Cores 1a, 1b, and 2.

Suggested Hotels

Nice for walking to campus & Franklin Street, but rather expensive (ask for the University/Computer Science rate of 159 USD per night):

• Carolina Inn, 211 Pittsboro Street, Chapel Hill, NC
• Franklin Hotel, 311 W Franklin St, Chapel Hill, NC

Best suggestions (need taxi or rental car to campus & Franklin Street):

• Courtyard Marriott, 100 Marriott Way, Chapel Hill, NC
• Days Inn, 15-501 & Fordham Blvd, Chapel Hill, NC 27514 US

Attendees

• Ross Whitaker
• Guido Gerig
• Polina Golland
• Allen Tannenbaum
• Martin Styner
• Ron Kikinis (Saturday only)
• Michal Depa, MIT
• Archana Venkataraman, MIT
• Sam Gerber, Utah
• Marcel Prastawa
• Yi Gao, Georgia Tech
• Romeil Sandhu, Georgia Tech