IAP 2018 Activities by Sponsor - Brain and Cognitive Sciences

Ray Gonzalez

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/05
Limited to 12 participants
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions

(Same subject as brew.001)
This course will attempt to answer the question "what does coffee taste like?" by removing the sugar, milk, pumpkin spice, and other accessories from this popular beverage. Like wine tasting but hotter.

Possible themes are:

+ Light/Medium/Dark/Starbucks: Exploring the Roast

+ A Taste of Processing Methods

+ From Africa to the Americas and Beyond (Indonesia)

+ Price vs. Flavor

+ Espresso

Sponsor(s): Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Contact: Ray Gonzalez, 617 324-7271, RAYGON@MIT.EDU

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	Jan/13	Sat	11:00AM-12:00PM	46-4062
	Jan/14	Sun	11:00AM-12:00PM	46-4062
	Jan/20	Sat	11:00AM-12:00PM	46-4062
	Jan/21	Sun	11:00AM-12:00PM	46-4062

Ray Gonzalez

Sarah Schwettmann, Maddie Cusimano

Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/03
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Prereq: None

The constructive nature of perception is at work in the gap between observer and the outside. From incoming sensory data with infinite potential interpretations, the brain builds a rich world of experience and expectation. This course explores the mechanisms that underlie how perceptual systems do that building. Drawing from computational modeling, behavioural experiments in cognitive neuroscience, & generative methods for artistic creation, the class also introduces new paradigms for investigating and experiencing these structures. Each day will include both activities where we apply these paradigms in novel scientific and artistic contexts as well as discussion of relevant literature on perception. Schedule to be posted at mit-sensorium.com. Please email Sarah Schwettmann (schwett@mit.edu) and Maddie Cusimano (mcusi@mit.edu) to let us know you will be attending.

Sponsor(s): Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Contact: Maddie Cusimano, MCUSI@MIT.EDU

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	Jan/16	Tue	03:00PM-05:00PM	10-150
	Jan/17	Wed	03:00PM-05:00PM	10-150
	Jan/18	Thu	03:00PM-05:00PM	10-150
	Jan/19	Fri	03:00PM-05:00PM	10-150

Sarah Schwettmann, Maddie Cusimano

Dorota Jarecka, Research Scientist

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/05
Limited to 40 participants
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Prereq: basic scripting experience, basic shell

Reproducibility is the ability to get the same research results having the full computational environment, including the code and raw data, used to produce the results. Unfortunately, providing the computational environment is not required during the publication process and many scientific findings are very hard or impossible to reproduce.  Sharing the computational environment is not a standard procedure also because it requires tools and skills that are not part of the standard scientific curriculum.

These workshops introduce two basic components needed to conduct reproducible computational science, version control systems and reusable computational environments.

The first workshop will cover creating and using reusable computational environments.  We will introduce the concept of containers and use Docker and Singularity as examples. Singularity/Docker not only offers the ability to efficiently and ubiquitously deploy environments on linux systems but also gives future researchers access to the exact environment used in the publication.

The second workshop will cover Git that is a free and open source version control system widely used for software development, and a Web-based Git repository Hosting System - GitHub. We will also talk about git-annex and Datalad that solve the problem of sharing and synchronizing collections of large data files.

Please sign-up at this link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/reproducible-research-in-computational-science-tickets-41433469623

Sponsor(s): Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Contact: Jillian Auerbach, 46-2005Q, 617 253-0482, JILLIANA@MIT.EDU

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	Jan/10	Wed	05:00PM-07:30PM	46-3310, Bring your laptop
	Jan/24	Wed	05:00PM-07:30PM	46-3310, Bring your laptop

lecture and hands-on exercises, we will send an email with software requirements

Dorota Jarecka - Research Scientist, Jakub Kaczmarzyk - Technical Associate, Mario Belledonne - Research Assistant