The Institut de Neurosciences des Systèmes in Marseille is happy to announce a workshop collaboration with Michael Betancourt, a core developer of the popular platform Stan and expert on Hamilton Monte Carlo!

Bayesian Data Analysis is a key methodology for advanced brain simulation with The Virtual Brain, as can be seen in the Bayesian Virtual Epileptic Patient.

Stan is a state-of-the-art platform for statistical modeling and high-performance statistical computation. Thousands of users rely on Stan for statistical modeling, data analysis, and prediction in the social, biological, and physical sciences, engineering, and business.

That's why the Institut de Neurosciences des Systèmes (INS) of Aix-Marseille Université is very happy to announce a 3-day workshop with Michael Betancourt, one of Stan's core developers and a noted statistician and Hamilton Monte Carlo expert!

Michael is widely praised as excellent educator and will be guest of the INS in Marseille from May 17 – 19, taking you on a deep, highly interactive journey into

• Probabilistic modelling
• Identifiability and degeneracy
• Model building Bayesian workflow
• Hierarchical modeling

Registration deadline for this unique workshop opportunity is May 12, 2022!

So don't hesitate and register right away!

The Virtual Brain: Facility Hub went online under hub.thevirtualbrain.org and serves as the first official EBRAINS contact point for any TVB related questions.

This complements the EBRAINS hub network, providing access to state-of-the-art facilities and resources of HBP partners, fostering collaboration to carry out cutting-edge scientific research.

Announced in June 2021, The Virtual Brain: Facility Hub is a contribution of Aix-Marseille University to Europe’s new digital research infrastructure EBRAINS. It complements the current range of EBRAINS services. Aix-Marseille University is partner of the Human Brain Project (HBP).

The Virtual Brain: Facility Hub offers training and help in TVB project development, organizes workshops and provides a concise map to the multitude of sites and TVB services in the EBRAINS ecosystem:

• Education:
  learning how to do full-scale brain modeling with TVB

• Application:
  using TVB on various platforms and contributing to its source code

• Brain data:
  access to data sets usable in the TVB software

The EBRAINS Facility Hub network is aligned with the FENIX supercomputing network to provide user access to computing resources, e.g. for data storage, analysis, and simulation.

The Virtual Brain Facility Hub at Aix-Marseille University will provide expert support for activities linked to the use of The Virtual Brain. The Hub aims to increase the capacity of neuroscientists to use ICT tools, such as TVB and EBRAINS, in order to advance scientific knowledge and facilitate the translation of research into clinical applications. To find out more, Click Here

The Facility Hubs are contributions from HBP partners to the new EBRAINS research infrastructure, and complement the EBRAINS services currently on offer. The FENIX supercomputing network - which delivers the computational power behind EBRAINS - will support the Facility Hubs by providing access to computing resources for data storage, analysis, and simulation, through its six centres; BSC in Spain, CEA in France, CSC in Finland, CINECA in Italy, CSCS in Switzerland, and JSC in Germany.