We will be hosting a workshop at the Nineteenth Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting CNS*2010 which is taking place in San Antonio, TX from July 24th-30th, 2010. The exact date and time of the workshop is still to be determined but it will be held on either July 29th or 30th.

Organizers: John White (University of Utah), David Christini (Cornell), and Robert Butera (Georgia Tech)

RTXI is an open-source, real-time Linux-based dynamic clamp system (http://www.rtxi.org). While real-time Linux systems have a reputation of being difficult to install and use, we believe RTXI overcomes such issues. In this workshop, an introductory talk will describe the system, and two applications talks
will demonstrate its utility. Next, workshop participants will receive a bootable USB stick (containing a live Ubuntu-based RTXI system) with which to test drive RTXI on their laptops.

Agenda (3 hours)

(30 minutes) Introduction to RTXI: Risa Lin (graduate student, Georgia Tech)
(30 minutes) Science Application 1: Dr. Tay Netoff (University of Minnesota)
(30 minutes) Science Application 2: Dr. Fernando Fernandez (University of Utah)
(1.5 hours) Interactive tutorial, using live RTXI USB system on users’ laptops, with assistance from RTXI
developers.