Neuroimaging,
Neuro-oncology
and Neuroscience
- 25th-30th June 2023
- Lipari, Sicily, Italy
It’s time to put
our brains together!
Sano Center for Computational Medicine and The University of Pennsylvania are happy to announce the 2nd edition of AI Neuro Summer School!
The first edition of AI for Neuro Summer School in 2022 was a remarkable success, with 15 speakers and almost 50 participants from all over the world. If you study neuroimaging, neuro-oncology or neuroscience, join us this year!
You will spend a week in the company of world-class scientists in an idyllic landscape of the Aeolian Islands (Italy, Sicilian province of Messina). Inspiring and informative lectures, workshops and tutorials, as well as networking and brainstorming, will be complemented by entertaining trips.
The Summer School will be held at the Aktea hotel of Lipari (ME), Italy from 25th to 29th June 2023. The complete program will be posted soon.
Please, be informed, that 24 hours of teaching can be accepted as 2 ECTS (35 lecture hours +15 contact hours).
Event endorsed by:
Meet our Speakers
Participants who wants to be more than just auditors, are expected to participate to the tutorials and take a final exam (The grades will be given following the ECTS grading scale). The course will involve a total of 24 hours of teaching. Passing the final exam gives the right to an equivalent of 6 ECTS credits which might be accepted by any Ph.D. program.
Paul Thompson
Luiz Pessoa
Bozena Kaminska
Gael Varoquaux
Stephanie Forkel
Daniel Margulies
ALESSANDRO CRIMI
Andras Jakab
Spyridon Bakas
Giovanni Petri
Norbert Galldiks
Aly H. Abayazeed
Lee Alex Donald Cooper
Susan Short
- A full list of speakers for the event will be available soon
Neuro Agenda
On Monday 4th between 9 and 11 we will have a poster session, where participants can bring their own poster about their past or current work.
Please do not exceed the A0 format.If you wish to present during this session, mention your specific needs in the application within the field „Curriculum”.
| June 25th | June 26th | June 27th | June 28th | June 29th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:00-10:30 Poster session, Coffee | 9:00-10:00 Poster session, Coffee | 9:00-10:00 Poster session, Coffee | 9:00-10:00 Poster session, Coffee | 9:00-10:00 Poster session, Coffee |
| 10:30-11:00 Opening (Alessandro Crimi) | 10:00-11:00 Neuro-Oncology (Susan Short) | 10:00-11:00 Brain tumor heterogeneity and plasticity: the challenge to catch a moving target (Bozena Kaminska) | 10:00-11:00 The Entangled Brain: how emotion and cognition are integrated in the brain (Luiz Pessoa) | 10:00-11:00 Causality in AI (Alessandro Crimi) |
| 11:00-12:00 Scikit Learn for AI in Neuro studies (Gael Varoquaux) | 11:00-12:00 AI and imaging the developing brain (Andras Jakab) | 11:00-12:00 PET in Neuro-Oncology: An overview (Norbert Galldiks) | 11:00-12:00 ENIGMA, AI, & Global Neuroscience: Neuroimaging & Genetics of 30 Brain Diseases in 100,000 People from 45 Countries (Paul Thompson) | 11:00-12:00 Optional paper brainstorming (at Aktea hotel) |
| 12:00-12:30 Poster reviews | 12:00-12:30 Poster reviews | 12:00-12:30 Poster reviews | 12:00-12:30 Poster reviews | 12:00-18:00 Social event on the water followed by dinner on the boat |
| 12:30-14:00 Lunch break | 12:30-14:00 Lunch break | 12:30-14:00 Lunch break | 12:30-14:00 Lunch break | |
| 14:00-18:00 Brainstorming Event (Castle/Necropolis) | 14:00-15:00 Histopathology image analysis in neuro-oncology (Lee Cooper) | 14:00-18:00 boat trip to Vulcano | 14:00-15:00 Neurovariability (Stephanie Forkel) | |
| 15:00-16:00 Federated Learning & Reproducibility of AI (Spyridon Bakas) | 15:00-16:00 Federated Learning & Reproducibility of AI (Spyridon Bakas) | |||
| 16:00-17:00 Open-source tools for federated neuro-oncology (Sarthak Pati) | 16:30-17:00 Neuroscience - Cognition (Daniel Margulies) | |||
| 17:00-18:00 From Lab to Bedside: An AI Story (Aly Abayazeed) |
- A detailed agenda for the event will be available soon
Organizing Committee
Spyridon Bakas, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia USA
Partners' AI Neuro Summer School
Location
You can reach the location on your own. Nevertheless, we provide assistance: Meeting point on June 24th at the Airport Fontana Rossa (CTA) and at Milazzo harbour where someone will guide you. Alternatively the best route is: Airpot Fontana Rossa (CTA) and then the bus from the airport to the Milazzo habour offered by Giuntabus. Further details after registration.
If you need connection Catania Airport to Catania Central station, use Alibrando. You can also use the ferry offered by Liberty Lines and and the Siremar boat (the slow boats).
- Hotel Aktea
- Via Paolo Borsellino e Giovanni Falcone, 98055 Lipari ME, Włochy
- +39 090 981 4234
Terms of Participation
To confirm your participation, participants are asked to pay one week within their registration (last day to register May 30th)
The fee covers lectures, learning materials, coffee breaks, trips during the social events, closing gala dinner, and access to fast internet at the location. The fee does not include accomodation (see below), and lunches (you are welcome to bring your lunch or have the hotel lunch at 15-30 EUR per day).
Accommodation
You are welcome to organize accomodation at your preference and esigence. Prices valid at the Mistral Residence hotel can be found at www.mistralresidence.it
You are welcome to organize accomodation at your preference and esigence. Prices valid at the Tritone Hotel can be found at https://www.tritonelipari.it/en/
If you want to take advantage of this special price, please contact the Tritone Hotel directly: hoteltritone@bernardigroup.it
Pickups
First pick up Catania Airport 15-15.30 (in front of the bus, look for people with paper written „Neuro”.
Bus leaving at 15.30 (reaching harbour 17.30)
Second pickup: Harbor, boat leaving at 17.45 (in case of delay take boat 18.30 or 19.30 but buy tickets in advance, you might not make it to buy the ticket and board in 15 minutes).
Important
information
Neuro Summer School is related to a special issue of Frontiers in Neuroscience and we will even have 2 meetings allowing people to brainstorm and prepare a preprint or at least an idea to be potentially sent to Frontiers. The first meeting will be inside the Castle/Necropolis. The exact title of the special issue will be unvealed soon
- Please pay the fee according to your qualification at the IBAN PL 87 1240 4432 1978 0011 0792 1098 (Pekao bank SWIFT PKOPPLPWXXX) within 1 week of the registration (afterwards we will remove your application), and send a proof to generated a bill to summerschool@sanoscience.org. You can also call us +48 123072737 or contact via e-mail.
- The registration is complete only after we receive the payment. There is no selection process (First-in-First-served), we only require to be from academic/scientific context (student, post-doc, researcher, faculty).
- The easiest way to reach the location is by the hydrofil from Libertylines from Milazzo. The best option is landing at Catania (FontanaRossa) airport from which is a direct bus to Milazzo harbour.
- On Sunday 25th June we will have a poster session, where participants can bring their own poster about their past or current work. Please do not exceed the A0 format.
