NWB Workshops and Hackathons

All times are in PDT (US/Pacific time)

This calendar view shows the workshop agenda. Events in blue are highly recommended. Events in orange are optional. All times not marked are considered time for attendees to hack on their projects. Developers will be available to answer questions in the main Zoom room from 8:30am to 5pm PDT.

You can also add this Google Calendar to your calendar to see the workshop’s events with Zoom links in your time zone. https://bit.ly/2yBXU4V   

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Tuesday, May 12	Day 1: New User Training
8:30 - 9am	Call-in time, work out any technical issues
9 - 9:10am	Introduction: How to get the most out of this workshop YouTube Recording
9:10 - 10am	What is NWB, with short intro to NWB-enabled tools (Oliver Ruebel) YouTube Recording
10am - 1pm	Elective tutorials / technical introductions (covers PyNWB and MatNWB). 10 - 11am Intro to NWB for extracellular electrophysiology (Ben Dichter, Ryan Ly) PyNWB: YouTube Recording MatNWB: YouTube Recording 11am - 12pm Intro to NWB for optical physiology (Ben Dichter, Ryan Ly) PyNWB: YouTube Recording MatNWB: YouTube Recording 12 - 1pm Intro to NWB for intracellular electrophysiology (Oliver Ruebel, Pam Baker) Users should attend the tutorial(s) that is relevant to them and hack on their projects at other times.
1 - 1:50pm	Overview of NWB-enabled tools, Part 1: - NWB Explorer / Open Source Brain - CaImAn - NWB Widgets - Brainstorm - SpikeInterface
2 - 2:40pm	Overview of NWB-enabled tools, Part 2: - DANDI - calciumImagingAnalysis - DataJoint - Frank Lab, UCSF
2:40 - 5pm	Hacking on projects

Wednesday, May 13	Day 2 - Project Hacking
8:30 - 9am	Call-in time, work out any technical issues
9 - 10am	Project overviews / lightning talks on proposed hacking projects
10am - 5pm	Hacking on projects
10am - 3pm	Elective in-depth breakouts: 10 - 11am NWB Explorer / Open Source Brain (Padraig Gleeson, Matteo Cantarelli) 11am - 12pm DANDI (Satra Ghosh) 12 - 1pm NWB Widgets (Ben Dichter) 1 - 2pm calciumImagingAnalysis (Biafra Ahanonu) 2 - 3pm Brainstorm (Konstantinos Nasiotis)
3 - 3:30pm	Check-in
3:30 - 5pm	Hacking on projects

Thursday, May 14	Day 3: Advanced Training
8:30 - 9am	Call-in time, work out any technical issues
9 - 9:30am	How to build and share extensions (Ryan Ly) YouTube Recording
9:30 - 10am	How to write custom API classes in PyNWB (Andrew Tritt) YouTube Recording
10 - 10:30am	Advanced write in PyNWB (compression, chunking, iterative write, and parallel access) (Andrew Tritt) YouTube Recording
10:30 - 11am	Advanced write in MatNWB (compression, chunking, and iterative write) (Ben Dichter) YouTube Recording
11am - 5pm	Hacking on projects
11am - 3pm	Elective in-depth breakouts: 11am - 12pm SpikeInterface (Alessio Paolo Buccino) YouTube Recording 12 - 1pm CaImAn (Andrea Giovannucci) YouTube Recording 1 - 2pm DataJoint (Dimitri Yatsenko, Thinh Nguyen) Presentation and demo repository 2 - 3pm Frank Lab, UCSF (Loren Frank)
3 - 3:30pm	Check-in
3:30 - 5pm	Hacking on projects

Friday, May 15	Final day: Project hacking and final presentation
8:30 - 9am	Call-in time, work out any technical issues
9 - 9:10am	Introduction to final day
9:10am - 3pm	Hacking on projects
11am - 3pm	Elective user discussions by data modality: 11am - 12pm Extracellular electrophysiology 12 - 1pm Optical physiology 1 - 2pm Intracellular electrophysiology 2 - 3pm Behavior
3 - 4:30pm	Final check-in / lightning talks on hacking projects
4:30 - 5:30pm	Social happy hour