Dear all, 

The DEADLINE for the next IMBIZO is approaching very quickly. Don’t let it swoosh by to join a diverse neuroscience summer school at the most beautiful beach in the world!

If you know anyone who would benefit from a diverse and extraordinary computational neuroscience summer school, please forward this information:

IBRO-SIMONS COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE IMBIZO 
#isiCNI2022
12 August - 4 September 2022, Noordhoek Beach, Cape Town, South Africa
http://imbizo.africa/

Application deadline: 15th February 2022

The #isiCNI2022 is a southern hemisphere summer school aiming to promote computational neuroscience in Africa. It will bring together international and local students under the tutelage of the world's leading experts in the field. Like its international sister courses, this four-week summer school aims to teach central ideas, methods, and practices of modern computational neuroscience through a combination of lectures and hands-on project work. Mornings will be devoted to lectures on topics across the breadth of computational neuroscience, including experimental underpinnings and machine learning analogues. The rest of the day will be spent working on research projects under the close supervision of expert tutors and faculty. Individual research projects will focus on the modelling of neurons, neural systems, behaviour, the analysis of state-of-the-art neural data, and the development of theories to explain experimental observations.
New this year is a week focused on neuroscience-inspired machine learning!

Who should apply?
This course is aimed at Masters and early-PhD level students though Honours or advanced undergraduates may also apply. Postdoctoral students who can motivate why the course would benefit them are also encouraged to apply, Students should have sufficient quantitative skills, (e.g. a background in mathematics, physics, computer science, statistics, engineering or related field). Some knowledge of neural biology will be useful but not essential. Experimental neuroscience students are encouraged to apply, but should ensure that they have a reasonable level of quantitative proficiency (i.e. at least second-year level mathematics or statistics and have done at least one course in computer programming).

Please distribute this information as widely as you can.

Essential details
* Fee (which covers tuition, lodging, and meals): 1100 EUR
Thanks to our generous sponsors, significant financial assistance is available to reduce and waiver fees for students, particularly for African applicants. We also hope to provide some travel bursaries for international students. If you are in need of financial assistance to attend the Imbizo, please state so clearly in the relevant section of your application.
The Imbizo is planned to be hosted in person, with everyone following our COVID policy. If it is unsafe to hold the summer school, we will follow up with further information at the appropriate time.

* Application deadline: 15th February 2022
* Notification of results: late April 2022
Information and application
https://imbizo.africa/


Questions?
isicn.imbizo@gmail.com


What is an Imbizo?
\ɪmˈbiːzɒ\ | Xhosa - Zulu
A gathering of the people to share knowledge.

FACULTY
Demba Ba - Harvard University
Adrienne Fairhall - Washington University
Peter Latham - University College London
Daphne Bavelier - University of Geneva
Timothy Lillicrap - DeepMind
Jonathan Pillow - Princeton University
Joseph Raimondo - University of Cape Town
Mackenzie Mathis   - EPFL Lausanne
Athanassia Papoutsi - IMBB-FORTH
Evan Schaffer - Columbia University
Henning Sprekeler - Technical University of Berlin
Thomas Tagoe - University of Ghana
Misha Tsodyks - Weiszmann Institute of Science
Tim Vogels - Institute of Science and Technology Austria
Blake Richards - McGill University
Alex Pouget - University of Geneva

TUTORS
Mohamed Abdelhack - Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics
Annik Carson - McGill University
Spiros Chavlis - IMBB-FORTH
Christopher Currin - Institute of Science and Technology Austria
Sanjukta Krishnaopal - University College London
Marjorie Xie - Columbia University

ORGANISERS
Demba Ba (Harvard University)
Christopher Currin (Institute of Science and Technology Austria)
Peter Latham (Gatsby Unit for Computational Neuroscience)
Joseph Raimondo (University of Cape Town)
Emma Vaughan (Imbizo Logistics)
Tim Vogels (Institute of Science and Technology Austria)

Sponsors
The isiCNI is made possible by the generous support from the Simons Foundation and the International Brain Research Organisation (IBRO), as well as the Wellcome Trust, Deep Mind and Wits University

Organizational Affiliates
University of Cape Town, University College London, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, TReND in Africa, Neuroscience Institute, Gatsby Foundation, IBRO African Center for Advanced Training in Neurosciences at UCT