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April 13, 2019 BRAIN U19 Data Science Consortium meeting

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- Aaron Milstein

Notes:  

• Need a relationship to establish long-term experience between theorists and experimentalists (postdocs to stay multiple weeks)
  • Personnel exchange - housing costs
  • takes time to write a theory paper - culture bridge
• BRAIN 2.0 wants bigger theories
  • Need more publications on new theories
  • Data analysis is not theory development
  • Data analysis may be easier to publish
  • better distinguish between theories and models for bigger theories (e.g. what is a predictive model deliverable for the U19s?)
• Not enough Theory RFAs, or promotion of theories explicitly in the RFA
• Theories, Models and Methods RFA offers 3 year awards - too short, need 5 year awards
• really need to keep promoting theory-driven, model-driven experimental design
• take advant of EAB to move theories earlier in each U19 project
• hard to work between U19
• post working theories and models on the wiki as much as possible!
• host webinars on modeling
• postdocs travel between U19's
• workshops to train (model credibilities) - web workshops