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The PRNI 2013 workshop will be held June 22-24 in Philadelphia. http://www.prni.org It is an existing venue that unites the brain mapping community with the pattern recognition and machine learning communities to study brain imaging with new powerful data processing tools. Keynote speakers ================= This year we are excited to welcome as keynote speakers Steven Smith, associate director of FMRIB Oxford, and Tom Mitchell, chair of Carnegie Mellon University's machine learning department. Tutorial program ================= PRNI's tutorials are a great opportunity to learn from the experts of multivariate data analysis in neuroimaging. * Introduction to the early detection of schizophrenia and Alzheimer's disease, by Christian Gaser * An introduction to regularized risk minimization for predicting from neuroimaging data, by Alexandre Gramfort * Alternatives to support vector machines in neuroimaging: ensembles of decision trees for classification and information mapping, by Jonas Richiardi Call for papers ================ PRNI welcomes original papers on multivariate predictive models of neuroimaging data. 4-page long papers should be submitted before March 27th following instructions on http://www.prni.org/submit.html Accepted papers will be published as proceedings on IEEE Xplore. Last year's proceedings can be accessed at http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/mostRecentIssue.jsp?punumber=6294582 Student travel awards ====================== 3 student travel awards of 500$ US each will be awarded to students authors of accepted papers, based on the merit of the paper.