Dear All,
One of the disk partitions used to store analyzed data is full. As an
emergency measure the disk partition is being extended so that analysis
can continue. The extension of the partition will slow access time
considerably this morning, so it would be wise to postpone heavy duty
analysis until this afternoon.
Thanks
Tony
Hello All,
This is a reminder that YNiC will be closed from 5pm Friday 3rd October
through to 9am 13th October for a major infrastructure project. Computing
on the cluster will not be possible during this period and desktop access
will not be available. Cluster jobs submitted on Friday will have to be
complete before 5pm. At 5pm, all cluster jobs will be stopped.
The new infrastructure will allow, among many other improvements,
investigators to book scanner slots via a web interface. Details of the new
booking procedures will appear in another email.
Thanks
Tony
Antony Morland PhD
Deputy Director York Neuroimaging Centre
Professor of Visual Neuroscience
Department of Psychology
University of York
York YO10 5DD
UK
Tel +44 (0) 1904 432 860
Email a.morland(a)psychology.york.ac.uk
This week the Thursday afternoon meeting at YNiC (4-5 pm) will focus on
Users' feedback from conferences that you have attended over the summer.
Everyone is invited to talk about how their neuroimaging work was
received. We would also like to hear about posters/presentations from
other labs that you found particularly interesting and exciting.
Tony Morland will chair this session.Please contact Tony
<a.morland(a)psychology.york.ac.uk> if you would like to contribute.
--
Dr. Rebecca E. Millman
York Neuroimaging Centre
The Biocentre
York Science Park
York
YO10 5DG
Email: rem(a)ynic.york.ac.uk
Tel: 01904 435 5373
Dear Users
Please find below the schedule for YNiC's Thursday sessions (4-5 pm at
YNiC, except where stated).
Please contact me if you have any questions.
Best wishes
Rebecca
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2nd October: Debrief from conferences
All Users are invited to talk about how their neuroimaging work was
received at conferences they attended over the summer. We would also
like to hear about posters/presentations from other labs that you found
particularly interesting and exciting. Tony Morland will chair this
session. Please contact Tony Morland <a.morland(a)psychology.york.ac.uk
<mailto:a.morland@psychology.york.ac.uk>> if you would like to contribute.
9th October: Annual User Meeting
A meeting for YNiC staff and Users to discuss the best way forward for
research at YNiC. Please use ynic-users(a)ynic.york.ac.uk
<mailto:ynic-users@ynic.york.ac.uk> to generate ideas for the agenda.
The co-ordinators for this meeting will be Andy Ellis (Chair of Science
Committee) and Gary Green. *N.B. This meeting will be held in Venables
(A202)*
16th October: Analysis Support Colloquium (ASC) - Piers Cornelissen
"Virtual electrodes II: an update on group level analysis of VE data"
23rd October: Taking your research through to publication
This session will focus on problems that YNiC users may be experiencing
in analyzing their data to the point where they are happy to submit it
for publication, and will try to identify issues concerning the analysis
tools, visualisation tools, statistics etc that could usefully be
addressed. Please use ynic-users(a)ynic.york.ac.uk
<mailto:ynic-users@ynic.york.ac.uk> to generate ideas for the agenda.
Gary Green will co-ordinate this meeting.
30th October: External speaker - Joachim Gross
"Oscillatory coupling and activity in sensorimotor areas studied with MEG"
http://www.psy.gla.ac.uk/staff/index.php?id=JG001
6th November: External speaker - Stephan Moratti
"Steady state visual evoked potentials/ fields: Advantages of High
Signal to Noise Ratio in Basic and Clinical Psychophysiological Research"
http://web.mac.com/smoratti/Stephan_Moratti,_Researcher/Stephan_Moratti_Inf…
13th November: Applying for neuroimaging grants
Presentations by Sue Gathercole (and others) on strategies for
successful grant applications.
20th November: TMS lab opening
Silke Goebel and Beth Jeffries will open the new TMS lab.
27th November: Feedback from Annual Users Meeting
Andy Ellis and Gary Green will lead a discussion on the outcomes of the
Annual Users Meeting (9th October).
4th December: Analysis Support Colloquium (ASC) - Silke Goebel
"Investigating Number Processing with MEG - Lost in (Source) Space"
11th December: Work in progress by Users and Staff
Presentations by YNiC staff and Users on current research projects.
Please contact gary.green(a)ynic.york.ac.uk
<mailto:gary.green@ynic.york.ac.uk> if you would like to volunteer.
18th December: Work in progress by Users and Staff (& Christmas
drinks)
Presentations by YNiC staff and Users on current research projects.
Please contact gary.green(a)ynic.york.ac.uk
<mailto:gary.green@ynic.york.ac.uk> if you would like to volunteer.
--
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Dr. Rebecca E. Millman
Science Liaison Officer
York Neuroimaging Centre
The Biocentre
York Science Park
Heslington
YO10 5DG
Tel: +44 (0) 1904 567614
Fax: +44 (0) 1904 435356
Dear all
University Research Committee has delivered its report on YNiC following
the review that was conducted in June. The report compliments YNiC on
having reached the point it has, notes (inevitably) the need for more
external grant income, and makes a variety of points about the
relationship between Psychology and YNiC, the committee structure etc.
that are prefectly acceptable and already being addressed.
The department is required to make a formal response to the review. It
would be good to include in that response the growing list of the
publications that are now emerging from YNiC, along with the conference
presentations.
I attach the most up-to-date list I have. Please could you let me know of
any changes or additions. A response by the end of Friday would be very
helpful.
With thanks
Andy
Simon Duckett and I have organised a chemistry/YNiC hyperpolarisation
team meeting this morning where we are discussing MRI/NMR theory.
As the numbers attending are more than can be housed in my office we are
moving the seminar into the open plan area of YNiC. All are welcome and
the talk will start at 9.30
A presentation on the mathematical background to NMR and MRI will be
presented. The talk will be mainly on Density matrices, Product
operators and the theory behind double quantum states selection in
polarised molecules.
Sorry for the late notice
Gary
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Gary Green
York Neuroimaging Centre
The Biocentre
York Science Park
Innovation Way
Heslington
York
YO10 5DG
http://www.ynic.york.ac.uk
tel. 01904 435349
fax 01904 435356
mobile 07986 778954
Hello All,
For the start of the new academic year we're making changes that will
require some downtime on the systems here at YNiC. The reason for this
downtime is that we will be implementing some major changes to the
software that helps us run and administer the Centre. Hopefully many of
these changes will go unnoticed, but there will be one or two things
that we hope will make your lives easier. The most significant change
will be the introduction of a new booking system that can be accessed
off site and will allow users to make their own bookings for MRI, TMS
and MEG. This will be part of a new and improved database that will also
allow investigators to track their projects' progress and help us ensure
that the right projects get the appropriate support at the appropriate
time. The upgrades will also include a uniform login and security
system across all the computers (this will be invisible to most users
but does have some major advantages) and a better, more equitable use of
quotas on the filesystems. We will also add more disc space to help with
the current overloading of the existing systems. To do all this we need
to change the servers that run the whole system.
As a result, YNiC will be closed from 5:00 p.m. on Friday the 3rd of
October and will reopen at 9:00 a.m. on Monday the 13th of October.
This version of the database will be released as v0.9, and we already
have some ideas about what will be going into v0.95 and v1.0, but early
next term, when people have had a chance to play with it, we'll be
asking for your input on additional functionality that you'd find
useful. Look out for the Annual Users' Meeting that will provide an
opportunity for users to contribute to planning the next stages of
development.
We will need some additional information for some projects to allow
investigators to take advantage of the new booking procedure, and in the
next couple of days principal investigators will be getting an email
requesting those details. It is very important that we get this
information by the end of the month or some projects will no longer be
able to book time on the scanners.
One unfortunate side effect of some of the changes is that all passwords
will have to be reset. First thing on Monday the 13th when we reopen,
new passwords will be provided which will enable you to login and reset
you password to something more memorable. Hopefully though, that will be
the only disruption and from the 13th normal (and improved) service will
resume.
So, to reiterate, YNiC will be closed between:
17:00 Friday 3rd October and
09:00 Monday 13th October.
If you have any questions about these changes, please contact Sam
Johnson <sam.johnson(a)ynic.york.ac.uk> or Mark Hymers
<mark.hymers(a)ynic.york.ac.uk>.
Thanks, and sorry for any inconvenience,
Sam
