NeuroTechSF Hacknight

Join us every week for online Hacknight! Newcomers always welcome. Come in anytime between 6 and 9PM PDT and let’s stay connected while we have to stay apart.

We will be available to answer questions about neurotechnology and discuss recent research. Please check out NeuroTechX’s github for current projects (https://github.com/NeuroTechX/) but feel free to just drop in, learn more about what people are doing and be a part of the community. And don't forget to join our Slack channel (https://bit.ly/ntx-slack) to stay in touch and lots more.

Agenda

18:00 Introductions, updates and news of the week.

In Silico trailer
Ref: https://youtu.be/nWYx6__6HWM

Ref: http://galea.co/
Ref: https://www.kernel.com/news/kernel-flow-meets-virtual-reality

18:30 John Griffiths with updates on the OpenBCI data challenge and the latest eeg-notebooks GitHub activity. We will also get updates on the MOABB SSVEP progress.

Ref: https://github.com/neurotechx/eeg-notebooks
Ref: https://github.com/NeuroTechX/moabb

18:45 Morgan Hough will update us on the NeuroTechX Hardware Hub initiative.

Ref: https://neurotechx-hardware-hub.myshopify.com/password

18:55 Update from the NeuroTechX Diversity Committee

19:00 Joseph Crew, formerly with Advanced Bionics, will talk to us about his experience in cochlear implant research and development with a specialization on improving music listening.

Ref: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29503669/

20:00 Our weekly Neurorobotics meeting on Tuesday evening covered the article

Ref: https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.01758v1
Ref: https://sites.google.com/view/representation-matters

Reviewing the best paper finalists at CoRL 2020 this week
Ref: https://www.robot-learning.org/
Ref: https://www.youtube.com/c/conferenceonrobotlearning

Brain Inspired Computing
Ref: https://www.kisacoresearch.com/events/brain-inspired-computing

Brains@Bay Meetup Alternatives to Backpropagation in Neural Networks
Ref: https://www.meetup.com/BraIns-Bay/events/274459844/

20:20 We will look over the week's conferences and seminars.

NIMH Director’s Innovation Speaker Series
Ref: https://www.nimh.nih.gov/news/events/announcements/the-nimh-directors-innovation-speaker-series-decision-making-and-computational-psychiatry-an-explanatory-and-pragmatic-perspective.shtml

Aaron Swartz Day event
Ref: https://www.aaronswartzday.org/

16th Annual McMaster NeuroMusic Virtual Conference
https://www.neuromusic.ca/

NeuroNexus
Ref: https://www.neuronexustech.com/

Neosensory: Hacking your senses 101
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hacking-your-senses-101-tickets-128575451637

SFCM and UCSF MAC
Ref: https://sfcm.edu/last-dance
Ref: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lx6hzWrXkOW2786NOz1wqDIOdCboOz2T/view

The aging brain and neuroplasticity
Ref: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/the-aging-brain-and-neuroplasticity-tickets-121657186921?ref=eios

Brain-Computer Interfaces: Innovation, Security, and Society
Ref: https://nri.ntc.columbia.edu/events/bci-symposium

A Brain Odyssey: Challenges and solutions for tractography in clinical settings
Ref: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/6572409231067887630

20:40 Looking ahead to Friday, the weekend and next week.

Joint Transcontinental Computational Psychiatry Workgroup and Machine Learning in Clinical Neuroimaging seminar
"Social Physiology for Precision Psychiatry" with Guillaume Dumas
Ref: https://cmod4mh.com/
Ref: http://mlcnws.com/

Brain Space Initiative meeting Friday, Nov. 20th
Ref: https://brainspaceinitiative.github.io/

NeuroNovember Convention
Ref: https://www.neuronov.org/

Health Hack Week is November 23-29
Ref: https://neuro-nexus.ca/competition-overview

Neosensory, a company making a sensory substitution haptic wristband, teamed up with Edge Impulse – a dev platform for machine learning on edge devices – to create a developer contest. Check it out! Make something cool. Win some $$$ https://www.hackster.io/contests/neoedge

Let me know if you have any questions!

Looking forward to you joining us.