Systems Vision Science Virtual Summer School & Symposium: July 8^th – July 31^st, 2026

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Applications are invited for a virtual edition of the Systems Vision Science Summer School and Symposium that took place in Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tuebingen, Germany in August 2023 and August 2025 and virtual in 2024.

This year, the virtual edition enables students to attend from afar by formal lectures via Zoom and informal and social communications via a Slack channel.

Systems Vision Science combines computational, behavioral, and neuroscience methods to discover functions and algorithms for vision in various brain regions

and their implementations in neural circuits. This summer school is designed for everyone interested in gaining a systems level understanding of biological vision.

We plan a coherent, graduate-level, syllabus on the integration of experimental data with theory and models. The syllabus content will be very similar to the edition in 2024.
Experience or knowledge in (A) computational methods, (B) visual psychophysics, and (C) vision neuroscience, is not required.

However, experience in at least one of (A), (B), and (C), and a readiness to learn, is expected.

The Summer School will be followed by a Systems Vision Science Virtual Symposium on July 31^st. All admitted summer school students will be invited to attend this symposium

and are encouraged to submit for a presentation at the symposium. The symposium will also feature two invited keynote presentations.

A certificate of completion of the summer school course will be provided after the student’s successful completion of the summer school.

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Important Dates:

March 28, 2026 Deadline for applications

April 10, 2026 Notification of acceptance

April 27, 2026 Registration fees due

July 8 – Virtual Systems Vision Science Summer School takes place

July 30, 2026 (formal lectures via Zoom and informal and social communications via a Slack channel)

July 31, 2026 Virtual Systems Vision Science Symposium takes place

(3 -7 pm German time)

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Please click here to find more details and to apply by March 28, 2026.

Summer School admission will be based on interest/motivation and prior knowledge/experience of the applicants, and on how much the applicants could benefit from participation.

Please direct inquiries to svs.summerschool@tue.mpg.de

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Organizing Team

Li Zhaoping

Maria Pavlovic

Vladislav Aksiotis

Franziska Lohrmann

Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics

University of Tuebingen