The 5th International MCX Training Workshop (joint with the 1st NeuroJSON Open-Data Workshop/Hackathon) Registration Form
Update [Apr. 24, 2024]:
Please notice that the workshop dates have been postponed by 1-week to June 29 - July 2 to avoid conflict with a conference. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Our in-person training workshop is coming back, and growing even stronger! We miss you and have a lot to share!

It is our pleasure to announce that we will be holding the 5th International MCX Training Workshop (June 29-30) joint with our Inaugural (1st) NeuroJSON Open-data Workshop/Hackathon (July 1-2) between June 29-July 2 on the Boston campus of Northeastern University, USA. 

  • The MCX training workshop will give detailed hands-on training on all the software tools that we have extensively improved/extended over the past 5 years, and utilize MCX Cloud and Google Colab Jupyter Notebook for interactive training. 
  • We will also officially launch our extensively developed (for two decades) comprehensive DOT image reconstruction MATLAB/Octave toolbox, Redbird-m, that is behind nearly all of our breast DOT publications.
  • NeuroJSON workshop will also include training on large-scale data analysis using MCX/MMC with the free data resources on NeuroJSON.io.

Event Address:        ISEC (805 Columbus Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA)
Dates:                       June 29-30 (MCX Training Workshop) and July 1-2 (NeuroJSON Workshop/Hackathon)
Website:                   https://mcx.space, https://neurojson.org, https://neurojson.io
Tentative agenda:   Coming soon!

Seats are limited, please register at your earliest convenience to secure your enrollment.

We also provide funding (competitive) to support 2-3 students traveling from other institutions to join our training events. If you are interested in applying for the travel grant (covering up to $500 per domestic student and $1000 per international student), please indicate so in the below registration form, and submit an application, including your up-to-date CV, a 2-page personal statement and minimum 1 support letter within 10 days after the registration. Details can be found below. Low-cost campus housing options are also provided.

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Participant information
Full name *
Your work email address *
Institution/Company *
Location (city, country) *
The title that best describes your current position *
Current job title
Please briefly describe your field of research/work *
Workshop enrollment information
Please check below all workshops that you would like to register *
Required
Participants of the NeuroJSON Hackathon (July 2) are expected to participate one of the two interactive activities (or both) during the hackathon: 

1) converting one of the public imaging datasets produced by your lab (associated with a paper or standalone) and uploading to NeuroJSON.io (must be the copyright owner or have the permission to do so, can be your own paper's data), or

2) implementing functions in an open-source software/toolbox developed by your lab (or open-source software used in your domain) to support NeuroJSON data files or URL-based API to read data on NeuroJSON.io (we will provide hands-on tutorials and needed libraries)
Please check the activities that you would like to participate during the Hackathon (you must check at least one, or both)
If you checked the Activity 1 above, please describe the dataset or associated publications (provide details, URLs, and why it is worth sharing)
If you checked the Activity 2 above, please describe the software or toolbox you plan to enable NeuroJSON data access support (provide details, URLs, license etc)
Travel grant and On-campus housing applications
Travel grant
If you are a full-time student and would like to apply for our limited travel grant (covering up to $500 per domestic student and $1000 per international student), please select "Yes" in the below question, and send your application, including a full CV, a 2-page statement/cover-letter describing you research (and their relevance to MCX/MMC/NeuroJSON) and a recommendation letter from your advisor and send those to Dr. Qianqian Fang (q.fang at neu.edu) within 10 days of your registration.
Do you want to apply for the travel grant (full-time student only)?
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On-campus housing
We encourage the participants to arrange their own lodging and transportation. Northeastern University Summer Housing program has limited apartments (shared by 2 of same-gender or single) available at a relatively low price. If you need us to reserve the on-campus housing for your stay (June 29- July 1), please choose one of the below options.
On-campus housing options *
On-campus apartment type (if selected above)
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Dates that you need on-campus housing (if selected above), check all that apply (if you need to say for additional days, we can help you connect to the housing office to arrange)
Social events
During the event, we will have a dinner (on the house!) for social interactions on June 29 and a poster session in the afternoon of June 30. Please indicate whether you will participate these events.
I will join the dinner on June 29 *
I would like to present a poster on June 30 in the poster session (afternoon) *
Additional Background Information
Laptop
To participate our training workshop, you must bring your own laptop. The laptop must be tested to support OpenCL or CUDA (or support OpenCL on your CPU). Please provide the below information to facilitate the preparation of the event.

If you do not have a laptop that can run MCX, we can still use MCX Cloud, Google Colab or a remote desktop for you to run MCX/MCX-CL or MMC training materials, although you will not have a working environment that you can bring back with you. Please read our online documentation to see if you can pre-install our latest released software and test if you can run these tools.
Please install our MCX/MCX-CL and MMC software and confirm your laptop status
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What OS does your laptop run? (MCX-CL support on Apple silicon is experimental and unstable)
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Please provide your CPU/GPU type/model if you know
Have you used any of the below packages? please check all that apply *
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What is your primary operating system and how frequent do you use it? *
Exclusively
Frequently
Sometimes
Rarely
Never
Windows
Mac OS
Linux
Other
If your research is related to optical imaging and biophotonics, please check all modalities that are relevant
If your research is related to neuroimaging or neuroscience, please check all modalities that are relevant 
Where did you hear about this workshop?
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