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Workshop 4: Connectome generation and data pipelines
MARCH 17, 2021
Goal: To identify the current state of the art, challenges and opportunities associated with connectome generation and data pipelines.
Draft Agenda: [Click here to download PDF version]
11:00 am ET
11:10 am ET
Workshop co-leads: Nicola Ferrier and Viren Jain
11:20 am ET
Workshop Logistics
11:25 am ET
SPEAKER SESSIONS
Each speaker will address three questions:
- What are the prospects and challenges you see in scaling your approach (and/or analysis goals in general) to volumes comprising hundreds of petavoxels of imaging data?
- What kinds of general improvements in technical infrastructure (hardware and/or software) would mostly dramatically aid in scaling your analysis?
- What new frontiers of analysis (especially as may be enabled by, or complementary to, a whole mammalian connectome) are you most excited by? What challenges do you see in pursuing those frontiers?
11:25 am ET
Speaker Session 1 – Volume assembly (stitching, alignment, registration)
11:25 pm ET
11:35 pm ET
11:45 pm ET
11:55 am ET
Break
12:05 pm ET
Speaker Session 2 – Automated reconstruction and annotation (segmentation,
synapses, types, compartments)
12:05 pm ET
12:15 pm ET
12:25 pm ET
12:35 pm ET
Break
12:45 pm ET
Speaker Session 3 – Connectome proofreading, verification, crowd-sourcing
12:45 pm ET
12:55 pm ET
1:05 pm ET
1:15 pm ET
Break
1:25 pm ET
Speaker Session 4 – HPC, data infrastructure, visualization
1:25 pm ET
1:35 pm ET
1:45 pm ET
1:55 pm ET
Q&A session
2:40 pm ET
Break
3:00 pm ET
Discussion Panel
Panel Discussion topic: Reflections on how experience as a computer scientist might inform an ‘exascale’ project aimed at generating comprehensive maps of brain connectivity
Panel Chairs: Nicola Ferrier, Viren Jain
Discussants: Frances Chance, Adrienne Fairhall, Ian Foster, Eugene Myers, Olga Ovchinnikova, Andreas Tolias
4:00 pm ET
Closing remarks / End of workshop
Workshop co-leads: Nicola Ferrier and Viren Jain