Hands-on tutorial: “M/EEG and MRI analysis in Python using MNE and Nipype” with Malte Güth (Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, Rutgers University Newark, USA)

This tutorial gave an introductory overview of M/EEG and MRI analysis in Python. Both preprocessing and inferential statistics were covered.

Open Hacking with Peer Herholz (The Neuro (Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital) at McGill and McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT) and Alexander Weuthen (OVGU Magdeburg)

Free hacking on (your own) projects, getting feedback and support regarding data/project management (BIDS, computational environments, BIDS-Apps, QC, version control, etc.) and various analyses (connectivity, uni-/multivariate statistics, machine learning, encoding, etc.). For that, every participant was asked to bring their own laptop.

Unconference: “Sharing is Caring: Sneak Peek at the World of Open-source with GitHub” with Soumick Chatterjee (Fondazione Human Technopole Milan, Italy and OVGU Magdeburg)

Open-source tools have the potential to simplify our research life and help us save ample amount of time – by not repeating things already done by others. On the other hand, we should also support the community by making our research open. When it comes to coding, we need the support of version controlling and open-source code sharing platform GitHub to achieve this goal. Thus, the unconference session provided a gentle introduction to version controlling using GitHub – while also introducing some open-source tool for image analysis and machine learning (including deep learning).