5th ImageJ User & Developer Conference
- Location: Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery in Madison, Wisconsin, USA
- Dates: 3 - 4 September 2015
Information
The 2015 ImageJ User and Developer Conference complemented the EU meetings in Luxembourg and offered workshops to improve software knowledge and usage covering both beginner/user and advanced/developer topics. The conference provided a community forum for ImageJ development over the past three years and also featured shorter presentations highlighting case studies, plugins, and solutions to common problems.
Location
H.F. DeLuca Forum
Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery
330 N. Orchard St., Madison, WI 53715
- Directions: Directions to the Discovery Building
- Maps: Google map, Campus map
- Parking: Lot 17, Lot 20, Lot 80
Call for abstracts
Submissions from the ImageJ community were warmly encouraged:
- Presentations. Presentations were done in “lightning talk” style, with 10 minutes per speaker including Q&A session.
- Workshops. Workshops were 60 - 120 minutes, and cover any ImageJ-related topic.
- Posters. The conference offered a scientific poster session in parallel with workshops and invited talks. Posters covered any ImageJ-related topic.
The focus of this conference was on community, so tools being presented were made publicly available before the start of the conference.
Registration
Due to generous support from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and LOCI, there was no registration fee for this conference.
Visiting Madison
All attendees were expected to cover their own travel and lodging.
Flights
There are three common ways to travel to Madison:
- Fly to Chicago O’Hare and take the Van Galder bus to Madison.
- Fly to Milwaukee and take the Badger bus to Madison.
- Fly directly to Madison—convenient but often more expensive.
Nearby restaurants
- Steenbock’s on Orchard
- Aldo’s Cafe
- Babcock Hall Dairy Store
- The Library Cafe and Bar
- New Orleans Take-Out
- BrasserieV
- Brocach
- Ian’s Pizza on Frances St.
Things to do
Accommodation
Epic hosted its annual software developer conference August 31st through September 1st, 2015 and many hotels in the area were booked for Wednesday, September 2nd.
As such, the 2015 ImageJ Conference Organizers recommended that guests reserve rooms at The Lowell Center for the state rate of $82 per night.
Travel support
With this conference, there were no registration fees, and there was a free reception. As such, attendees covered their own travel expenses. There was limited travel support for workshop presenters and featured presentations.
Program
For full details including abstracts and presentation recordings, see the Conference 2015 Program page.
Organization
Organizers
- Kevin Eliceiri, Laboratory for Optical and Computational Instrumentation (LOCI) at UW-Madison
- Kristy Wendt, Laboratory for Optical and Computational Instrumentation (LOCI) at UW-Madison
- Curtis Rueden, Laboratory for Optical and Computational Instrumentation (LOCI) at UW-Madison
- Mark Hiner, Laboratory for Optical and Computational Instrumentation (LOCI) at UW-Madison
- Andreas Jahnen, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology
Advisory committee
Abstract submissions were reviewed by the conference advisory committee:
- Christian Birkhold (Dietz), University of Konstanz, Germany
- Andreas Jahnen, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology
- Lee Kamentsky, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
- Gabriel Landini, University of Birmingham
- Brian Northan, True North Intelligent Algorithms LLC
- Tobias Pietzsch, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG) at Dresden
- Wayne Rasband, National Institutes of Health
- Pavel Tomancak, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG) at Dresden
Sponsors and partners
