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MONDAY, AUGUST 10

1:00pm-1:10pm       Opening remarks by Dr. Caroline Palmer 
1:10pm-2:00pm       "Nonlinear Dynamics in Brain Rhythms", Dr. André Longtin, University of Ottawa 
2:00pm-2:10pm       Virtual coffee break
2:10pm-3:00pm        "Career Paths: What's Next for Natural and Life Scientists" panel with former CREATE members Hector Orozco-Perez (Aerial), Dr. Naeem Komeilipoor (AAVAA), Debanjan Borthakur (AIYogi)   
3:00pm-3:20pm        Flash Presentations for Poster Session 1 
3:20pm-3:30pm        Virtual coffee break   
3:30pm-4:45pm        Poster Session 1 
4:45pm-5:00pm        Certificate Presentations to Graduate Awardees

TUESDAY, AUGUST 11

1:00pm-1:05pm       Opening remarks by Dr. Caroline Palmer 
1:05pm-1:55pm        "Startups in the Life Sciences" workshop, Michaela Deneva (Dobson) [FULL]
2:00pm-2:05pm        Virtual coffee break
2:05pm-3:00pm        "Nature and Function of Circadian Clock Genes", Dr. Shimon Amir, Concordia University
3:00pm-3:20pm         Flash presentations for Poster Session 2 
3:20pm-3:30pm         Virtual coffee break
3:30pm-4:45pm        Poster Session 2
4:45pm-5:00pm        Poster Award Presentations to CREATE Trainees

Our partner, Rotman Research Training Centre, is holding a workshop on
Python for beginners on Friday July 17, 11am-2pm. All CREATE trainees are
welcome to attend.

This workshop will give you tools to read in data, calculate descriptive
statistics, find outliers, and plot your data. We will cover the basics
of Python—syntax, types of data, how to control flow using logic and
loops, basic data manipulation and visualization.

Guide to Entrepreneurship (online workshop)

June 11, 2020, 11am-noon 

Do you have a business idea but don’t know where to start? This webinar will identify different resources available to start-ups, show you how to create a basic business plan, and highlight key documents that are important when starting up a new business. 

CREATE trainees enrolled at any of our partner universities are eligible to register.

Systematic and scoping reviews for Science students

Tuesday May 19, 2020, 2pm-3:30pm

This 1.5-hour workshop will cover the steps involved in conducting systematic reviews and scoping reviews in the Sciences and Education. It will outline the differences between systematic and scoping reviews, as well as other knowledge syntheses. Participants will learn about protocol development; database selection and search strategies; grey literature; citation management options; documentation best practices; and screening and appraisal tools. All students are welcome; graduate students and postdocs may find this especially of interest.

This workshop will be presented remotely via Zoom. 

Research Skills for Life Sciences

May 7, 2020, 1pm-2:30pm

This workshop for undergraduate trainees will focus on library tools of relevance for undergraduate research. Led by library scientist Emily Kingsland from McGill University. 

A link to the remote webcast will be provided via email closer to the workshop date to registered trainees. 

CREATE graduate and postdoctoral trainees have the opportunity to attend two training workshops affiliated with the Montreal AI and Neuroscience conference on November 14-15, 2019. CREATE graduate and postdoc trainees can apply to be reimbursed for the following events by completing the webform here. Priority will be given to those trainees holding CREATE stipends.

Educational Workshops: 

$55 for 1 day or $110 for 2 days,

Registration: https://main-training.github.io/build/html/index.html

Topic: SKlearn and NILearn

Date: November 14th, 2019, 9am-5pm. Breakfast and registration at 8:30am

Summary: This course will be a hands-on and type-along introduction to machine learning for neuroimaging problems with scikit-learn and nilearn.

https://main-training.github.io/build/html/SKNILEARN.html

Topic: Deep Learning

Date: November 15, 2019, 9am-5pm. Breakfast and registraion at 8:30am

Summary: Deep learning is increasingly used in neuroscience research. This course is an introduction to deep learning geared towards neuroscientists.

https://main-training.github.io/build/html/DEEPLEARNING.html

Research Funding for CREATE Graduate Trainees

We have some funds available for the 2019-2020 academic year to support CREATE graduate trainees' research in nonlinear dynamics. We are offering research stipends in the amount of $8500 each for the period of December 1, 2019-April 30, 2020 to support the research of graduate trainees who have NOT yet received CREATE funds. Applicants include graduate trainees working with a CREATE mentor on research in nonlinear dynamics of brain and behaviour. 

Applicants should complete the application form here: Research Stipends Application

Please submit the application form directly to dynamics.create@gmail.com with a CV and an unofficial transcript from your graduate AND undergraduate institutions. Successful applicants will be responsible for attending 3 professional development workshops and one thematic workshop from a pre-approved list of workshops provided, and to have a secondary supervisor from the CREATE mentor list. Additional workshops that fulfill the requirement will be announced by the CREATE coordinator throughout the year. Applicants will also be required to present a poster on their research at the August 2020 CREATE symposium in Montreal (date TBD).

Applications are due by October 25, 5pm to dynamics.create@gmail.com. 

The Complex Dynamics training grant wishes to offer our CREATE funded graduate and postdoctoral trainees reimbursements toward their conference registrations when they are presenting their work related to complex dynamics at the following national conferences, for the period of September 1 2019 through March 31, 2020:

World Sleep Conference (Sept, Vancouver)
Soc for Neuroscience (October, Chicago)
Timing Research Forum (October, Mexico)
Biophysical Society meeting (Feb, San Diego)

If there are additional funds available, we will open the list of eligible conferences to suggestions for additional ones related to nonlinear dynamics in brain and behaviour.

Please complete this this form in order to apply. The CREATE grant can only fund conference registration fees (travel costs are not eligible).

Entrepreneurship for Researchers
June 26, 9:30AM-3:00PM
A832 Elizabeth Wirth Music Building
527 Sherbrooke St. West, McGill University

What is the path from scientific findings to commercialization? What
resources are available for researchers on this path? Where does
business funding come from? How is IP ownership handled? What does a
researcher need to know before becoming an entrepreneur?

Researchers from the Montreal academic community who have current
entrepreneurial experience, with representatives of incubator and
accelerator hubs in the Montreal entrepreneurial ecosystem, will address 
these questions in a workshop sponsored by CIRMMT and CRBLM.

9:30-11:30 - Researchers-Entrepreneurs panel:
Etienne De Villers-Sidani - Innodem Neurosciences
Matthew Boerum - Audible Reality
Sahil Gupta - Soundskrit

11:30 - 13:00 -  Networking Lunch (lunch will be provided, registration 
is required)

13:00 - 15:00 Incubators/accelerators panel:
Jane Somerville - District3
Omar Zahr - Tandemlaunch
Centech
McGill Dobson centre for entrepreneurship
La Piscine

Register at:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeWSHvvwgmOCjtnbDpOo-o1XwNOwWajMINMl5vYEZ_p2HD-CA/viewform

From Scientist to Entrepreneur, November 26, 2019, 10:30am-noon

Location: McGill University, Stewart Biology Building, Room N7-1 (7th floor)

All CREATE trainees (grad/postdoc/undergrad) are invited to this professional development workshop led by the Dobson Centre for Entrepreneurship at McGill. Trainees will learn frameworks and methodologies to help scientists think about their research in an entrepreneurial manner. 

To register please email dynamics.create@gmail.com no later than November 17.