= Brainstorm courses =
{{attachment:brainstorm_training.png||width="150px",align="right"}} The best way to learn how to use Brainstorm, like any other academic software, is to benefit from local experts. However, you may be the first one in your institution to consider using Brainstorm for your research. We are happy to provide comprehensive online documentation and support through our forum but there is nothing better than a course to make your learning curve steeper.<<BR>>

We organize courses for institutions who are willing to develop a user community for Brainstorm. Please [[http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/PeopleFaculty/BailletSylvain|contact us]] to get your started locally.

'''More information:'''   [[http://www.facebook.com/BrainstormSoftware|facebook.com/BrainstormSoftware]]

== New Brainstorm courses just added: Register NOW ! ==
All courses feature intensive hands-on practice of Brainstorm. Attendees bring their own laptops and go through most software features in a step-by-step, interactive way, with the assistance of at least two Brainstorm experts. No Matlab license required, runs on all operating systems! Our philosophy is to offer a personal first experience with using Brainstorm, that attendees will be able to keep alive on their laptops and share when back to their home institution. See links to reports from attendees to our previous courses below.

=== Boston (USA): April 28, 2012 (full day) ===
Location: !McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT<<BR>>Program: [[http://mcgovern.mit.edu/component/content/article/21-events/538-brainstorm-training-workshop-at-mit|MIT website]]

Instructors:<<BR>>Sylvain Baillet [download slides]<<BR>>Francois Tadel [[[attachment:120428_worshop_boston.pdf|download slides]]]

The registration to this event is now closed: all 90 seats are gone. Sign-up for the other two training opportunities (see below).

The Brainstorm course will immediately follow the MIT's !McGovern Institute Symposium: "''Magnetoencephalography: Applications to Cognitive Neuroscience''", which will be held on Friday, April 27, 2012.

'''Registered participants:'''[[WorkshopBoston2012Install|Prepare your laptop for the training session]].

=== Montreal (Canada): July 11, 2012 (half-day MEG course, half-day Brainstorm practice) ===
Location: Université du Quebec à Montréal (UQAM)<<BR>>Program and registration: [[http://www.summer12.isc.uqam.ca/page/renseignement.php?lang_id=2|UQAM website]]

The Brainstorm course will be part of a 3-day practical workshop on brain imaging techniques that will immediately follow the UQAM's Summer School in Cognitive Science (June 29-July 11, 2012). <<BR>>Full program to be announced.

=== Paris (France): August 31, 2012 (full day, including 1st Brainstorm-Users Symposium) ===
Location: Satellite symposium of the 2012 edition of BioMag conference (August 25-31, 2012); Brain & Spine Institute, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière ([[http://icm-institute.org/menu/fondation/se-rendre-a-licm?lang=en|ICM]])

Call for papers and registration: [[WorkshopBiomag2012|click here]] (participation fees are $35 USD for students & postdocs;  $65 USD for faculty)

This course will feature  presentations from Brainstorm users, sharing their results obtained using the software; followed by a full hands-on session using your own laptop (full program available soon). If you would be interested in presenting your results in a 20-min talk, please [[mailto:brainstorm@sipi.usc.edu|contact us]] with a title and abstract.

<<BR>>

== Past Brainstorm courses ==
=== Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University (November 19, 2011) ===
70 participants from around Canada gathered at the Montreal Neurological  Institute (Nov 17-19, 2011) for a series of lectures and practical training on MEG  acquisition, data analysis, imaging and a hands-on Brainstorm course. We have received [[http://www.canada-meg-consortium.org/EN/WorkshopPictures|great and  positive feedback]] from our attendees, and we are glad the meeting has  met its primary objectives of providing scientists with a first  technical exposure to time-resolved brain exploration and imaging with  MEG and Brainstorm.

The meeting was initiated by the [[http://www.canada-meg-consortium.org|Canada MEG Consortium]].

More pictures are available on the [[http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/Facilities/MEG|MEG@McGill]] group [[http://www.facebook.com/pages/MEG-at-McGill/296866506997465|Facebook page]].

{{attachment:workshop01.jpg}} {{attachment:workshop02.jpg}}