OKINAWA/OIST COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE COURSE 2024
 Methods, Neurons, Networks and Behaviors
                June 17 to July 4, 2024
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Japan
            https://groups.oist.jp/ocnc

The aim of the Okinawa/OIST Computational Neuroscience Course is to provide opportunities for young researchers with theoretical backgrounds to learn the latest advances in neuroscience, and for those with experimental backgrounds to have hands-on experience in computational modeling.

We invite graduate students and postgraduate researchers to participate in the course, held from June 17th through July 4th, 2024 at an oceanfront seminar house of the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University. Applications are through the course web page (https://groups.oist.jp/ocnc) only; January 1 - January 31, 2024. 
Applicants will receive confirmation of acceptance end of March.

Like in preceding years, the 19th OCNC will be a comprehensive three-week course covering single neurons, networks, and behaviors with ample time for student projects. The first week will focus exclusively on methods with hands-on tutorials during the afternoons, while the second and third weeks will have lectures by international and local experts. The course has a strong hands-on component based on student proposed modeling or data analysis projects, which are further refined with the help of a dedicated tutor. Applicants are required to propose their project at the time of application. 

There is no tuition fee. The sponsor will provide lodging and meals during the course. We hope that this course will be a good opportunity for theoretical and experimental neuroscientists to meet each other and to explore the attractive nature and culture of Okinawa, the southernmost island prefecture of Japan.

Lecturers:
    Erik De Schutter (OIST)
    Kenji Doya (OIST)
    Tomoki Fukai (OIST)
    Izumi Fukunaga (OIST)
    N. Alex Cayco Gajic (École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France)
    Yukiko Goda (OIST)
    Arvind Kumar (KTH, Stockholm, Sweden)
    Bernd Kuhn (OIST)
    Matthew Larkum (Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany)
    Hakwan Lau (RIKEN CBS, Tokyo, Japan)
    Sukbin Lim (NYU Shangai, China)
    Gerald Pao (OIST)
    Thomas Parr (Oxford University, UK)
    Sam Reiter (OIST)
    Kazumasa Tanaka (OIST)