Dear all,
The DEADLINE for the next IMBIZO is approaching very quickly. Don’t let this opportunity slip by if you are hoping to join 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 as widely as you can:
IBRO-SIMONS COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE IMBIZO
#Imbizo2023
12 April - 7 May 2022, Noordhoek Beach, Cape Town, South Africa
Application deadline: 20th October 2022
The #Imbizo2023 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).
Essential details
* Fee (which covers tuition, lodging, and meals): 1200 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: 20th October 2022
* Notification of results: Early December 2022
Information and application
Questions?
What is an Imbizo?
\ɪmˈbiːzɒ\ | Xhosa - Zulu
A gathering of the people to share knowledge.
Incl. FACULTY such as...
Demba Ba - Harvard University
Adrienne Fairhall - Washington University
Aza Allsop - Yale University
David Sussillo - Google
Leyla Isik - Johns Hopkins University
Peter Latham - University College London
Timothy Lillicrap - DeepMind
Joseph Raimondo - University of Cape Town
Mackenzie Mathis - EPFL Lausanne
Evan Schaffer - Columbia University
Henning Sprekeler - Technical University of Berlin
Thomas Tagoe - University of Ghana
Tim Vogels - Institute of Science and Technology Austria
Blake Richards - McGill University
Xaq Pitkow - Baylor College of Medicine
Bianca Jones Marlin - Columbia University
TUTORS
Mohamed Abdelhack - Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics
Annik Carson - AI Redefined
Spiros Chavlis - IMBB-FORTH
Christopher Currin - Institute of Science and Technology Austria
Nina Kudryashova- University of Edinburgh
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
Organizational Affiliates