Dear colleagues and friends,
Given that SONA (the SfN / FENS conference equivalent in Africa is starting today) and that we have a bit of representation there, we have decided to extend the DEADLINE for the next IMBIZO by one week.
Apply now to join us at the most diverse neuroscience summer school at the most beautiful beach in the world!
If you know anyone who would benefit from an extraordinary computational neuroscience summer school, please distribute this information to them.
All the best,
Tim Vogels
IBRO-SIMONS COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE IMBIZO
#Imbizo2024
7 January - 28 January 2024, Noordhoek Beach, Cape Town, South Africa
Application deadline: 18th July 2023
The #Imbizo2024 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. It also includes 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).
Essential details
* Fee (which covers tuition, lodging, and meals): 1350 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: 18th July 2023
* References submitted: 24th July 2023
* Notification of results: August 2023
Information and application
Questions?
\ɪmˈbiːzɒ\ | Xhosa - Zulu
A gathering of the people to share knowledge.
Past and future faculty:
Adrienne Fairhall - Washington University
Alex Pouget - University of Geneva
Anne-Marie Oswald - University of Pittsburgh
Annik Carson - AI Redefined
Arif Hamid - University of Minnesota Medical School
Aza Allsop - Yale University
Bard Ermentrout - University of Pittsburgh
Bianca Jones Marlin - Columbia University
Blake Richards - McGill University
Brent Doiron - University of Chicago
Cengiz Pehlevan - Harvard University
Christopher Currin - Institute of Science and Technology Austria & IndabaX South Africa
Daniela Vallentin - Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence
David Sussillo - Google
Demba Ba - Harvard University
Dongyan Lin - MILA
Evan Schaffer - Columbia University
Franck Kalume - University of Washington
Grace Lindsay - New York University
Guillaume Lajoie - University of Montreal & MILA
Henning Sprekeler - Technical University of Berlin
Ilenna Jones - Harvard University
Joseph Raimondo - University of Cape Town
Mackenzie Mathis - EPFL Lausanne
Marjorie Xie - Columbia University
Mohamed Abdelhack - Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics
Nina Kudryashova- University of Edinburgh
Peter Latham - University College London
Rachael Dangarembizi - University of Cape Town
Roy Eyono - MILA
Spiros Chavlis - IMBB-FORTH
SueYeon Chung - New York University
Thomas Tagoe - University of Ghana
Tim Vogels - Institute of Science and Technology Austria
Timothy Lillicrap - DeepMind
Xaq Pitkow - Baylor College of Medicine
ORGANISERS
Demba Ba (Harvard University)
Christopher Currin (Institute of Science and Technology Austria & IndabaX South Africa)
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 Imbizo is made possible by the generous support from the Simons Foundation, the International Brain Research Organisation (IBRO) as well as the Wellcome Trust, Google Deep Mind, Meta and others.
Organizational Affiliates
University of Cape Town, University College London, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Harvard University, TReND in Africa, Neuroscience Institute, Gatsby Foundation, IBRO African Center for Advanced Training in Neurosciences at UCT