matRad User Meeting & Hackathon 2025

Thank you and Goodbye

We would like to thank our invited speakers and our participants for such a nice matRad User Meeting and Hackathon. It was really a pleasure to welcome everyone in Heidelberg at DKFZ.

Congratulations to Remo Cristoforetti from DKFZ for receiving the Creativity Award and to Eric Christiansen from Canada for receiving the Coding Award.

Looking forward to welcoming you the next time.

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The open-source multi-modality dose calculation and treatment planning toolkit matRad has been around nearly a decade, and it is time bring our users - researchers, educators and students - together to share your work, ideas, and to hack away with us during our matRad User Meeting & Hackathon 2025!

The course is divided into a matRad User Meeting from February 17 to 18, 2025, followed by a Hackathon from February 19 to 21, 2025. You can register for both parts or the matRad User Meeting only. Participants can submit their projects to be presented during the course.

Target Group, Travel Grants & Awards

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Target Group:

All users somehow working with matRad are welcome. Researchers, educators, developers, or industry users. We want to see the spectrum of matRad applications, hear what you like and don't like in matRad, and work on integrating your ideas.

Travel Grants:

Thanks to the funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG) there are a limited number of travel grants available to those participants who submits their research projects to be presented during the workshop. The travel grant consists of the following:

Travel Costs up to € 250 (cheapest booking class only, i.e., 2nd class train / economy flights)
6 nights in a pre-booked hotel in Heidelberg

Awards

Depending on the final number of participants we can offer a Coding Award as well as a Creativity Award.

Dates & Program

Event Dates of the Workshop

17 - 18 February, 2025: matRad User Meeting
19 - 21 February, 2025: Hackathon

Program

The final program is available below:

Download Program

latest version ( PDF , 86.90 KB )

Venue

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The workshop takes place in Heidelberg at the following venue:

German Cancer Research Center, Communication Center
Seminar Room K1/K2 (1st floor) and Lecture Hall (ground floor)
Please check the program for the extact place/room of each day.

Address:
Im Neuenheimer Feld 280
DE-69120 Heidelberg
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How to get there

Fees and Application

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Fees:

You can decide to register for the whole workshop (Mon. - Fri.) or for the user meeting only.

matRad User Meeting and Hackathon (Mon - Fri): € 100
matRad User Meeting only (Mon. - Tue.): € 75

Payments can only be done either by Credit Card or Wire Transfer/Invoice. The candidates will receive all relevant information to initiate the payment by email once their participation is accepted and confirmed in mid of December 2024. Please only register for the course, if you can use one of our two payment options.

Please note: Neither on-site/cash payments nor payments by Paypal are possible.

Application Procedure:

Start of Application: September 17th 2024

Application Deadline: EXPIRED on December 2nd 2024

Confirmation of Acceptance: mid of December 2024

Application

The application deadline is expired and it is no longer possible to submit your application.

For applicants who applied for participation: Your application will be reviewed by the course leaders. Once the application is accepted mid of December 2024, each participant gets further instructions on how to pay the fees either by Credit Card or by wire transfer based on an invoice. Cash payments of payment by PayPal are not possible.