<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear all, <br class=""><br class="">I’d like to remind you that the deadline for next year's IBRO-Simons computational neuroscience imbizo is TOMORROW<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Tell your friends, and tell your students, especially your African students, as we are still lacking a proper pipeline to disseminate this information. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The Imbizo is a summer school in computational neuroscience and machine learning, hosted <b class="">January 6th - 27th 2019</b> in Cape Town, South Africa.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> We are generously sponsored by the International Brain Research Organisation (IBRO) and the Simons Foundation (Simons).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><b class="">TO APPLY visit <a href="https://imbizo.africa/" class="">https://imbizo.africa</a></b></div></div><div class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""><b class="">IF YOU ARE NOT SURE WHETHER YOU CAN AFFORD IT, BY ALL MEANS, APPLY. </b></div><div class=""><b class="">We have generous merit-based awards and stipends to give away!!</b></div></div><div class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></div><div class="">The Imbizo is designed to introduce students with backgrounds in analytic fields (computer science, statistics, physics, mathematics, engineering, etc.) to the field of computational neuroscience. It will also benefit advanced experimental biologists who would like to learn more computational skills. It also provides an opportunity for students already working in computational neuroscience to do 3 weeks of intensive, focused work in a different sub-topic of the field.<br class=""><br class="">Students should generally be at Masters/early PhD level, and have completed at least a 2nd-year university level course in computer science, statistics, physics or mathematics. Some coding experience will also be helpful.<br class="">More advanced level students (post-Docs, early career PIs) may also be accepted if they can motivate how the courses at the Imbizo could help their career. Well motivated, exceptional undergraduates will also be considered.<br class="">African students are especially encouraged to apply.<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The faculty for 2019 include:<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Dora Angelaki (Bayor College, Houston)<br class="">Demba Ba (Harvard Uni, Boston)<br class="">Sophie Denève (ENS, Paris)<br class="">Adrienne Fairhall (Univ of Washington, Seattle)<br class="">Peter Latham (Univ College London)<br class="">Timothy Lillicrap (Google Deepmind, London)<br class="">Joseph Raimondo (Univ of Cape Town)<br class="">Athanassia Papoutsi (IMBB-FORTH, Hellas)<br class="">Srikanth Ramaswami (EPFL, Lausanne)<br class="">Blake Richards (Univ Toronto)<br class="">Andrew Trevelyan (Newcastle Univ., Newcastle)<br class="">Misha Tsodyks (Weizmann Inst., Rehovot)<br class="">Tim Vogels (Oxford)<br class="">Byron Yu (Carnegie Mellon Univ, Pittsburgh)<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><b class="">TO APPLY visit <a href="https://imbizo.africa/" class="">https://imbizo.africa</a></b></div></div><div class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">"Imbizo" is an isiXhosa word, meaning "A gathering to share knowledge". The aim of the isiCNI is exactly this: to create an environment in which young African and international students can explore computational neuroscience together, forming strong friendships in the process. Three weeks of intensive lectures, tutorials, projects and fun!<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Who should apply?<br class=""></b>The Imbizo is designed to introduce students with backgrounds in analytic fields (computer science, statistics, physics, mathematics, engineering, etc.) to the field of computational neuroscience. It will also benefit advanced experimental biologists who would like to learn more computational skills. It also provides an opportunity for students already working in computational neuroscience to do 3 weeks of intensive, focused work in a different sub-topic of the field.<br class=""><br class="">Students should generally be at Masters/early PhD level, and have completed at least a 2nd-year university level course in computer science, statistics, physics or mathematics. Some coding experience will also be helpful.<br class="">More advanced level students (post-Docs, early career PIs) may also be accepted if they can motivate how the courses at the Imbizo could help their career. Well motivated, exceptional undergraduates will also be considered.<br class="">African students are especially encouraged to apply.<br class=""><br class=""><b class="">What does it cost?<br class=""></b>The attendance fee for the isiCNI2019 is EUR 1,100.00.<br class="">Thanks to our generous sponsors, significant bursaries are available to subsidise and waiver student fees, and provide some travel bursaries. Funding will be allocated according to need and merit. Please be sure to complete the relevant section of the application.<br class=""><br class=""><b class="">IF YOU ARE NOT SURE WHETHER YOU CAN AFFORD IT, BY ALL MEANS, APPLY. </b></div><div class=""><b class="">We have generous merit-based awards and stipends to give away!!</b></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best wishes </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Tim Vogels</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><font size="1" class=""><span class="" style="text-align: start; white-space: normal;">------------------</span><br class="" style="text-align: start; white-space: normal;"><span class="" style="text-align: start; white-space: normal;">Dr Tim Vogels</span><br class="" style="text-align: start; white-space: normal;"><span class="" style="text-align: start; white-space: normal;">Sir Henry Dale Research Fellow, Associate Professor</span><br class="" style="text-align: start; white-space: normal;"><span class="" style="text-align: start; white-space: normal;">Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour</span><br class="" style="text-align: start; white-space: normal;"><span class="" style="text-align: start; white-space: normal;">Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics</span><br class="" style="text-align: start; white-space: normal;"><span class="" style="text-align: start; white-space: normal;">University of Oxford</span><br class="" style="text-align: start; white-space: normal;"><span class="" style="text-align: start; white-space: normal;">Mansfield Road</span><br class="" style="text-align: start; white-space: normal;"><span class="" style="text-align: start; white-space: normal;">Oxford, OX1 3SR</span></font></span></div><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><font size="1" class="">+44 (0) 1865 612 712<br class="" style="text-align: start; white-space: normal;"><font face="Helvetica" class=""><span class="" style="text-align: start; white-space: normal;"><a href="http://cncb.ox.ac.uk/" class="">http://cncb.ox.ac.uk</a></span></font></font></span></div><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://vogelslab.org/" class=""><font size="1" class="">vwww.vogelslab.org</font></a></span></div></div></body></html>