# Outreach Events & Resources This page highlights outreach events organized by our group, including workshops, hackathons, conference sessions, and education activities. It also serves as a hub for associated learning materials such as code tutorials, repositories, and supporting resources. Our outreach efforts are designed to make Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics datasets, tools, and scientific workflows more accessible to the broader community. You can also view previous and upcoming outreach events here: https://www.allenneuraldynamics.org/events. --- ## Types of Outreach Events Our outreach efforts span several formats, including: - **Workshops** — structured training sessions focused on data, tools, and analysis workflows - **Hackathons** — collaborative coding events centered on open-ended data exploration and project development - **Conference sessions** — talks, tutorials, and workshops at scientific meetings - **Classroom outreach** — course-integrated tutorials and student-facing educational activities --- ## Featured Resources This section highlights materials that may be useful beyond the original event they were created for. - **Summer Workshop on the Dynamic Brain 2025 collection** Code Ocean collection for a two-week summer training course, includes code tutorials for multiple projects and datasets. [View collection](https://codeocean.allenneuraldynamics.org/collections/815cebfe-1829-4287-8e99-f1346b5d6ccb) - **Credit Assignment During Learning tutorial** Code Ocean capsule with code tutorials to access the BCI neurophysiology and behavior dataset. [View capsule](https://codeocean.allenneuraldynamics.org/capsule/0692322/tree/v3) --- ## Workshops Workshops provide structured training experiences focused on datasets, tools, and computational approaches used across the Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics. ### Summer Workshop on the Dynamic Brain 2025 **Date:** August 24 – September 7, 2025 **Audience:** graduate students, researchers **Location:** Friday Harbor Laboratories, San Juan Island, WA, USA **Highlighted projects/platforms:** multiple Allen Institute large-scale neural datasets A two-week summer course focused on computational analysis of large-scale neuroscience datasets. #### Resources - [Code Ocean collection](https://codeocean.allenneuraldynamics.org/collections/815cebfe-1829-4287-8e99-f1346b5d6ccb) - [SWDB Data Book](https://allenswdb.github.io/intro.html) --- ### Workshop at Western Washington University **Date:** October 30, 2025 **Audience:** undergraduate students, graduate students (neuroscience, biology, computer science) **Location:** WWU, Bellingham, WA, USA **Highlighted projects/platforms:** Brain-wide Anatomy, Exa-SPIM, Credit Assignment During Learning This workshop included short talks on team science, an overview of Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics, and hands-on code tutorials using neuron reconstructions from the Brain-wide Anatomy platform and neurophysiology and behavior data from the BCI project. #### Resources - [Exa-SPIM tutorial capsule](https://codeocean.allenneuraldynamics.org/capsule/0685965/tree/v1) - [BCI / Credit Assignment tutorial capsule](https://codeocean.allenneuraldynamics.org/capsule/0692322/tree/v1) --- ### Workshop at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology **Date:** January 30, 2025 **Audience:** researchers **Location:** OIST, Okinawa, JP **Highlighted projects/platforms:** Brain-wide Anatomy, Electrophysiology This workshop focused on introducing and sharing resources from the Brain-wide Anatomy and Electrophysology platforms. --- ## Hackathons Hackathons are collaborative coding events where participants work directly with Allen Institute datasets and develop exploratory analyses, tools, or prototype research workflows. ### University of Washington Neurohackathon (2026) **Date:** March 6–8, 2026 **Audience:** undergraduate students, graduate students, researchers **Location:** UW, Seattle, WA, USA **Highlighted projects/platforms:** Credit Assignment During Learning Our second year participating in the UW Neurohackathon, sharing updated data and tutorials from the *Credit Assignment During Learning* project. #### Resources - [BCI / Credit Assignment tutorial capsule](https://codeocean.allenneuraldynamics.org/capsule/0692322/tree/v3) --- ### University of Washington Neurohackathon (2025) **Date:** May 16–18, 2025 **Audience:** undergraduate students, graduate students, researchers **Location:** UW, Seattle, WA, USA **Highlighted projects/platforms:** Credit Assignment During Learning A hackathon organized by the Conect and Synaptech student clubs at UW, where participants used neurotechnology devices and/or Allen Institute neural datasets to develop a project or prototype. #### Resources - [BCI / Credit Assignment tutorial capsule](https://codeocean.allenneuraldynamics.org/capsule/6784496/tree/v1) --- ### UW CNC–AIND Hackacollabathon: Credit Assignment During Learning **Date:** May 14, 2025 **Audience:** graduate students, researchers **Location:** UW,Seattle, WA, USA **Highlighted projects/platforms:** Credit Assignment During Learning A collaborative hackathon to share new data from the *Credit Assignment During Learning* project with researchers at UW and the Allen Institute. #### Resources - [BCI / Credit Assignment tutorial capsule](https://codeocean.allenneuraldynamics.org/capsule/6784496/tree/v1) --- ### UW CNC–AIND Hackacollabathon: Mesoscale Connectivity **Date:** December 4, 2024 **Audience:** undergraduate students, graduate students, researchers **Location:** UW, Seattle, WA, USA **Highlighted projects/platforms:** Thalamus in the Middle, Brain-wide Anatomy A collaborative hackathon to share new data from the *Thalamus in the Middle* project with researchers at UW and the Allen Institute. #### Resources - [Mesoscale Connectivity tutorial capsule](https://codeocean.allenneuraldynamics.org/capsule/6784496/tree/v1) --- ## Conference Sessions & Talks Conference sessions and invited talks help introduce Allen Institute datasets, tools, and scientific resources to broader technical and research communities. ### Talk at Cosyne Tutorial Session **Date:** March 12, 2026 **Audience:** researchers **Location:** Cosyne, Lisbon, PT **Highlighted projects/platforms:** Brain-wide Anatomy, Electrophysiology, AIND Community Portal, Dynamic Routing, Visual Behavior Neuropixels A talk delivered during the Cosyne tutorial session highlighting datasets, tools, and resources from the Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics. --- ### Talk at the NeurIPS Data on the Brain & Mind Workshop **Date:** December 7, 2025 **Audience:** researchers (machine learning, AI, neuroscience) **Location:** NeurIPS 2025, San Diego, CA, USA **Highlighted projects/platforms:** Visual Behavior Neuropixels A short talk during a workshop on AI applications for neuroscience and cognitive science data, highlighting a preprint and code tutorial from the Visual Behavior Neuropixels project. #### Resources - [Workshop website](https://data-brain-mind.github.io/) - [Blogpost on the tutorial](https://data-brain-mind.github.io/tutorials/an-overview-of-the-neuropixels-visual-behavior-dataset-from-the-allen-institute/) --- ### Lectures & Classroom Outreach Lectures and classroom activities support student learning by introducing Allen Institute datasets and computational neuroscience workflows in educational settings. ### Lecture at Undergraduate Course at University of Puget Sound **Date:** September 24, 2025 **Audience:** undergraduate students (neuroscience, computer science) **Location:** UPS, Tacoma, WA, USA **Highlighted projects/platforms:** Credit Assignment During Learning A lecture for an undergraduate class in which students developed quarter-long research projects using Allen Institute datasets. #### Resources - [Code tutorial repository](https://github.com/AllenNeuralDynamics/ups_nrsc490_tutorial/tree/main) --- ### Code Tutorial for High School Field Trip **Date:** February 13, 2026 **Audience:** high school students **Location:** Allen Institute, Seattle, WA, USA **Highlighted projects/platforms:** Thalamus in the Middle, Brain-wide Anatomy A code tutorial for high school group visiting the Allen Institute, focused on introducing neural anatomy data and mapping connections between brain areas. #### Resources - [Code tutorial repository](https://github.com/leesuyee/mesoscale-connectivity-tutorial) --- ### Have questions? 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