Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

International Research Visitors

Visits of International Scientists

• Simon Warfield and Benoit Scherrer, Harvard University, visited the VisAGeS team for the annual seminar on Jun 9-10 2016.

• From Jun to Aug 2016, Michael Paquette, PhD student from Sherbrooke supervised by Maxime Descoteaux, visited the VisAGeS team to collaborate with Emmanuel Caruyer on the development on new analysis techniques for the structural brain connectome. This visit was funded by a MITACS/Inria scholarship.

• Alessandro Daducci, Gabriel Girard and Jean-Philippe Thiran visited the VisAGeS team for a 2 days workshop on the development of novel validation methods for the human brain connectome using software generated phantoms.

Visits to International Teams

• Sudhanya Chatterjee visited the Computational Radiology Lab, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard University for 3 weeks in Oct-Nov 2016. This stay was funded by the international program of University of Rennes 1. Christian Barillot, Emmanuel Caruyer and Olivier Commowick visited the same lab for a 3 days workshop in the context of the Associate Team.

• Christian Barillot, Emmanuel Caruyer, Olivier Commowick and Sudhanya Chatterjee visited the Microstructure Imaging Group, UCL (London, UK) of Daniel Alexander for a workshop on “MRI based Virtual Histology: Meeting Tomorrow’s Healthcare Challenges Today”

• Olivier Commowick and Christian Barillot visited the Mathematics department, Politecnico di Milano (Italy) for the annual meeting of the Italian statistical society and collaborated with Aymeric Stamm and Simone Vantini.