Connectionists: TA applications now open for Simons Computational Neuroscience Imbizo, 12 January to 2 February 2025

[Spyridon Chavlis]

Dear Colleagues,

We are looking for teaching assistants for the Simons Computational 
Neuroscience Imbizo, a computational neuroscience summer school held in 
Cape Town, South Africa (https://imbizo.africa/).

We are looking for post-doctoral or advanced PhD researchers to join our 
team as Teaching Assistants (TAs) for the Imbizo in January 2025. Please 
apply via the link: https://imbizo.africa/ta-application/.

Before you apply, you should have the following documents/information ready:
1) A brief CV (2-4 pages is fine)
2) A short motivational statement about your scientific interests and 
background, why you would be a good fit, and your favourite topics for 
teaching tutorials and supervising student projects.
3) Contact details of one referee.

*The application deadline is April 25, 2024 (20:00 UTC), and the 
reference letter submission deadline is April 29, 2024 (20:00 UTC).* 
Please notify your referee beforehand to meet the deadline.

*About the Imbizo:*
The school hosts 28-30 students for an amazing 22 days of lectures, 
tutorials, projects and forging new friendships. All this takes place on 
Noordhoek beach, between the mountain and the ocean. It's a spectacular 
location.

  * /Arrival day: Sunday 12 January 2025/
  * /Imbizo dates: Monday 13 January to Saturday 1 February 2025/
  * /Departure day: Sunday 2 February 2025 /

The Imbizo is a special experience, with students being totally immersed 
in academic, social, touristic and cultural activities, and has resulted 
in student and TA groups from previous schools becoming very close, 
personally and scientifically. This is fantastic, as a major goal of the 
Imbizo project is to help young African researchers grow their academic 
peer and friend group.

*About being a TA:*

  * Each TA runs one afternoon tutorial in the first week of the school,
    which they design themselves.
  * Each TA will teach a different topic, which the TA's choose among
    themselves, to provide students with a broad exposure to problems
    and methods in computational neuroscience.
  * Each TA is also assigned 5 students to supervise for project work
    during the last 2 weeks of the school.
  * TAs will be asked to help process student applications.


*TAs are integral in helping run the school.* In addition to academic 
support, they foster good social interactions and academic discussions 
among students, and they help 'shy' students meet faculty. They also act 
as 'social glue’, helping to notice and support students who may be 
feeling ill, not fitting in socially, or generally having difficulties.

To fulfill these roles, TAs need to be at all school meals and activities.

We will also need a little help processing student applications.

*What we provide:*
We cover as direct as possible, economy class tickets to Cape Town, as 
well as all board and lodging during the school.

*We will start assessing applications on May 1, 2024.*
A call for student applications will follow soon. We hope to hear from 
you soon! Let us know if you have any questions.

Thanks and regards

Demba Ba, Arif Hamid, Peter E Latham, Spiros Chavlis, and Emma Vaughan
Simons Computational Neuroscience Imbizo Committee 2025
Twitter: @CompNeuroImbizo
email: isicn.imbizo[AT]gmail.com

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*Spyridon Chavlis, PhD* Postdoctoral Researcher and Systems 
Administrator Poirazi Lab Institute of Molecular Biology and 
Biotechnology (IMBB) Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas 
(FORTH) Nikolaou Plastira, 100 GR 70013 Heraklion, Crete, Greece Tel: 
(+30) 2810 39 1264 Εmail: schavlis at imbb.forth.gr Webpage: dendrites.gr 
<http://www.dendrites.gr>
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