Brainhack Aus 2024 - Melbourne!

Nov 4 - 6

Registration

ABOUT

What is a BrainHack anyway?

BrainHack

The purpose of the Brainhack organistaion is to bridge the data science and neuroscience research communities to advance the progress of neuroscience.

BrainHack Aus 2024

BrainHack Aus 2024 is a hackathon to be held over three days at the University of Melbourne. Bring a project or your curiosity, all are welcome. This year it is being held in conjunction with OHBM Australia Chapter annual meeting and the Maths in the Brain conference.

Code of conduct

Brainhack is dedicated to a harassment-free conference experience for everyone. Our anti-harassment policy can be found here: Code of Conduct

About Image

Dall-E impression of what an Australasian BrainHack is about

VENUE

Getting together to hack brains!

The University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne

The University of Melbourne

Building 174, Infrastructure Engineering (Block C)

We acknowledge the traditional owners of the lands on which the hackathon will be held, the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung and Bunurong peoples, and we pay our respect to the knowledge embedded forever within the Aboriginal Custodianship of Country.

Provisional Schedule

What's happening

Monday, November 4

08:30 - 10:00
Meet, greet (over breakfast)
10:00 - 12:00
Project pitches and team formation
12:00 - 13:00
Lunch
13:00 - 18:00
Hacking
18:00 - 22:00
Social
TBA

Tuesday, November 5

08:30 - 09:00
Breakfast
09:00 - 12:00
Hacking
12:00 - 13:00
Lunch
13:00 - 18:00
Hacking

Wednesday, November 6

08:30 - 09:00
Breakfast
09:00 - 12:00
Hacking
12:00 - 13:00
Lunch
13:00 - 15:00
Hacking
15:00 - 16:00
Project demos
16:00 - 18:00
DIY drinks

PROJECTS

Form collaborations in Australia and around the world

Guidelines

Guidelines

How to contribute

Submitted projects

Submitted projects

The list of projects that have been proposed

New project

New project

Submit your own proposal here

FEATURED

Interesting projects from past hackathons

Psy2R

Port PSY package to R

Behapy

A behavioural neuroscience analysis package for Python

Nipype2Pydra

Porting tool interfaces from Nipype to Pydra

NeuroDesk

A flexible, scalable, and browser-based data analysis environment for reproducible neuroimaging

Brainharmonic

Generating music from brain signal data using deep learning

BIDS-ephys

BIDSify your animal electrophysiology data

GET IN TOUCH

Please reach out if you have any questions

BrainHack Mattermost

Please sign up to the Mattermost channel (an open-source Slack alternative) in order to receive any updates and reach out to the local event organisers (via their handles).

Organisers

SPONSORS

We would like to kindly thank

National Imaging Facility (NIF)

National Imaging Facility (NIF)

The National Imaging Facility (NIF) provides open access to flagship imaging equipment, expertise, tools, data and analysis within Australia’s strategic science and research priorities. NIF has generously supplied funds, and staff time to help organise and promote the hackathon.

Cognitive Neurosceience Hub

Cognitive Neurosceience Hub

Cognitive neuroscience investigates the biological processes that underlie human cognition. We strive to answer the question: How does the brain generate behaviour? To do so we combine behavioural methods with brain imaging techniques (such as functional MRI and electroencephalography), computational modelling, and artificial intelligence. The Cognitive Neuroscience Hub has generously organised the venue for this year's hackathon.

OHBM Australian Chapter

OHBM Australian Chapter

The goal of the newly formed Australian Chapter is to unite and invigorate the neuroimaging community in Australia. Our members come from a variety of universities and research institutes around the country – Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide – working in the fields of fundamental and clinical neuroscience. We aim to further promote scientific communication and outreach through organising lectures, colloquia, workshops, conferences, and social/networking events throughout Australia. The OHBM Australian Chapter has helped with organisation and promotion of this year's Brain Hack, and its annual meeting will be colocated at the University of Melbourne in the days following the hackathon.