BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Emory Decision-Making Megalab//Meeting Calendar//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Emory Decision-Making Megalab X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT6H X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT6H BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2026-10-09-computational-phenotypes@edm-megalab.emory.edu DTSTAMP:20260905T120000Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260925T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260925T133000 SUMMARY:Computational phenotypes: traits\, states\, or moving targets? — Emory Decision-Making Megalab DESCRIPTION:Article discussion. A discussion of individual differences\, repeated measurement\, parameter stability\, and what makes a useful com putational phenotype. Featured article: Dynamic computational phenotypin g of human cognition. Authors: Schurr\, Reznik\, Hillman\, Bhui\, et al. . Journal: Nature Human Behaviour (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562 -024-01814-x Lead: Discussion leader to be announced. Location to be ann ounced. LOCATION:To be announced URL:https://hallquistlab.github.io/edm_megalab/schedule/#2026-10-09-compu tational-phenotypes STATUS:TENTATIVE TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2026-09-11-community-kickoff@edm-megalab.emory.edu DTSTAMP:20260905T120000Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261009T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261009T133000 SUMMARY:What should EDM Megalab be? — Emory Decision-Making Megalab DESCRIPTION:Community planning meeting. Meet the core organizing labs and colleagues from across Emory\; map shared interests\, methods\, dataset s\, and opportunities\; and help shape priorities for the series. Planni ng takes place at our second meeting so all six core labs can participat e. Lead: Core lab organizers. Location to be announced. LOCATION:To be announced URL:https://hallquistlab.github.io/edm_megalab/schedule/#2026-09-11-commu nity-kickoff STATUS:TENTATIVE TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2026-10-23-fmri-preprocessing@edm-megalab.emory.edu DTSTAMP:20260905T120000Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261023T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261023T133000 SUMMARY:Modern fMRI preprocessing: what choices actually matter? — Emory Decision-Making Megalab DESCRIPTION:Methods workshop. Compare pipelines used across Emory labs: d istortion and motion correction\, nuisance regression\, censoring\, glob al signal\, surface versus volume\, and QC. Lead: Workshop lead to be a nnounced. Location to be announced. LOCATION:To be announced URL:https://hallquistlab.github.io/edm_megalab/schedule/#2026-10-23-fmri- preprocessing STATUS:TENTATIVE TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2026-11-06-ai-computational-psychiatry@edm-megalab.emory.edu DTSTAMP:20260905T120000Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261106T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261106T133000 SUMMARY:AI in computational psychiatry and decision neuroscience — Emory Decision-Making Megalab DESCRIPTION:Current topic / workshop. Concrete use cases in coding\, mode ling\, literature synthesis\, analysis validation\, writing\, privacy\, reproducibility\, and emerging failure modes. Lead: Facilitators to be announced. Location to be announced. LOCATION:To be announced URL:https://hallquistlab.github.io/edm_megalab/schedule/#2026-11-06-ai-co mputational-psychiatry STATUS:TENTATIVE TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2026-11-20-wip-2@edm-megalab.emory.edu DTSTAMP:20260905T120000Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261120T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261120T133000 SUMMARY:WIP Session 1 — Emory Decision-Making Megalab DESCRIPTION:Works in progress. An analysis or modeling problem where a la rger pool of expertise can materially change the project. Lead: Present er to be announced. Location to be announced. LOCATION:To be announced URL:https://hallquistlab.github.io/edm_megalab/schedule/#2026-11-20-wip-2 STATUS:TENTATIVE TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2026-12-04-decision-neuroscience@edm-megalab.emory.edu DTSTAMP:20260905T120000Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261204T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261204T133000 SUMMARY:Sources of decision variability: latent states\, noise\, and mech anism — Emory Decision-Making Megalab DESCRIPTION:Article + year-end discussion. Variability\, latent states\, and mechanism—plus a springboard for choosing EDM Megalab’s spring prior ities. Featured article: Disentangling sources of variability in decisio n-making. Authors: Duffy\, Bellgrove\, Murphy\, et al.. Journal: Nature Reviews Neuroscience (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41583-025-00916-3 Lead: Discussion leader to be announced. Location to be announced. LOCATION:To be announced URL:https://hallquistlab.github.io/edm_megalab/schedule/#2026-12-04-decis ion-neuroscience STATUS:TENTATIVE TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2027-01-22-wip-3@edm-megalab.emory.edu DTSTAMP:20260905T120000Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270122T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270122T133000 SUMMARY:WIP Session 2 / Spring kickoff — Emory Decision-Making Megalab DESCRIPTION:Works in progress. One substantial project or two shorter pro jects\, followed by a brief reset of priorities for the semester. Lead: Presenter to be announced. Location to be announced. LOCATION:To be announced URL:https://hallquistlab.github.io/edm_megalab/schedule/#2027-01-22-wip-3 STATUS:TENTATIVE TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2027-02-05-neural-inference@edm-megalab.emory.edu DTSTAMP:20260905T120000Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270205T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270205T133000 SUMMARY:Fitting computational models with neural and amortized inference — Emory Decision-Making Megalab DESCRIPTION:Methods workshop. Parameter recovery\, likelihood approximati on\, simulation-based inference\, diagnostics\, and when these methods b eat MCMC or optimization. Lead: Workshop lead to be announced. Location to be announced. LOCATION:To be announced URL:https://hallquistlab.github.io/edm_megalab/schedule/#2027-02-05-neura l-inference STATUS:TENTATIVE TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2027-02-19-choice-variability@edm-megalab.emory.edu DTSTAMP:20260905T120000Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270219T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270219T133000 SUMMARY:Compulsivity\, choice variability\, and computational phenotypes — Emory Decision-Making Megalab DESCRIPTION:Article discussion. Separate variability in learning from var iability in choice\, and ask what would make a computational phenotype c linically meaningful. Featured article: Compulsivity is linked to subopt imal choice variability but unaltered reinforcement learning under uncer tainty. Authors: Lee\, Rouault & Wyart. Journal: Nature Mental Health (2 025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44220-024-00364-5 Lead: Discussion leader to be announced. Location to be announced. LOCATION:To be announced URL:https://hallquistlab.github.io/edm_megalab/schedule/#2027-02-19-choic e-variability STATUS:TENTATIVE TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2027-03-05-wip-4@edm-megalab.emory.edu DTSTAMP:20260905T120000Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270305T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270305T133000 SUMMARY:WIP Session 3 — Emory Decision-Making Megalab DESCRIPTION:Works in progress. A project crossing clinical and basic deci sion science\, presented early enough for the conversation to matter. L ead: Presenter to be announced. Location to be announced. LOCATION:To be announced URL:https://hallquistlab.github.io/edm_megalab/schedule/#2027-03-05-wip-4 STATUS:TENTATIVE TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2027-03-19-state-representation@edm-megalab.emory.edu DTSTAMP:20260905T120000Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270319T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270319T133000 SUMMARY:Representations\, schemas\, and state inference in reinforcement learning — Emory Decision-Making Megalab DESCRIPTION:Article discussion. Move beyond scalar learning parameters to ward the representations over which learning operates. Featured article: Schemas\, reinforcement learning and the medial prefrontal cortex. Auth ors: Bein & Niv. Journal: Nature Reviews Neuroscience (2025). https://do i.org/10.1038/s41583-024-00893-z Lead: Discussion leader to be announced . Location to be announced. LOCATION:To be announced URL:https://hallquistlab.github.io/edm_megalab/schedule/#2027-03-19-state -representation STATUS:TENTATIVE TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2027-04-02-foundation-models@edm-megalab.emory.edu DTSTAMP:20260905T120000Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270402T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270402T133000 SUMMARY:Computational psychiatry in the era of foundation models — Emory Decision-Making Megalab DESCRIPTION:Methods / current topic. Mechanistic versus predictive models \, construct validity\, LLMs as tools or participants\, interpretability \, evaluation\, and data governance. Lead: Facilitators to be announced . Location to be announced. LOCATION:To be announced URL:https://hallquistlab.github.io/edm_megalab/schedule/#2027-04-02-found ation-models STATUS:TENTATIVE TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2027-04-16-wip-5-planning@edm-megalab.emory.edu DTSTAMP:20260905T120000Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270416T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270416T133000 SUMMARY:WIP Session 4 and 2027–28 planning — Emory Decision-Making Megala b DESCRIPTION:Works in progress + planning. One WIP followed by a candid ev aluation of the series and a conversation about next year’s priorities. Lead: Presenter to be announced. Location to be announced. LOCATION:To be announced URL:https://hallquistlab.github.io/edm_megalab/schedule/#2027-04-16-wip-5 -planning STATUS:TENTATIVE TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR