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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><font color="#222222" face="sans-serif" size="2" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">Dear all, </font></div><div class=""><font color="#222222" face="sans-serif" size="2" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="sans-serif" size="2" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" color="#222222" class="">The <b class="">DEADLINE</b> for next year</font><font face="sans-serif" size="2" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">’</font><font face="sans-serif" size="2" class=""><font color="#000000" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="">s IMBIZO is approaching very quickly, with only 4 days left. Don</font><font color="#222222" class="">’</font><font color="#000000" class=""><font color="#222222" class="">t let this opportunity slip by, if you are hoping to join the most diverse neuroscience summer school at the most </font>beautiful<font color="#222222" class=""> beach in the world!</font></font></font></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><font color="#222222" face="sans-serif" size="2" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="">We are very excited to announce that we have three new faculty this year, adding</span></font></div><div class=""><font color="#222222" face="sans-serif" size="2" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><font color="#222222" face="sans-serif" size="2" class="">Prof. Eve Marder, of Brandeis University, Gruber and Kavli Prize winner, past president of SfN and generally awesome person in Neuroscience, coming </font><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small;" class="">with Prof Arthur Wingfield, also of Brandeis and also awesome person in neuroscience.</span></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><font color="#222222" face="sans-serif" size="2" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="">And</span></font></div><div class=""><font color="#222222" face="sans-serif" size="2" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><font color="#222222" face="sans-serif" size="2" class="">Prof. Henning Sprekeler, Technical University Berlin, Bernstein Award winner, and ALSO generally awesome person in neuroscience. </font></div><div class=""><font color="#222222" face="sans-serif" size="2" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class="">If you know anyone who would benefit from a diverse and extraordinary computational neuroscience summer school, please forward this information:</div><div class=""> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><b class="">IBRO-SIMONS COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE IMBIZO <br class="">#isiCNI2020</b><br class=""></font></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">5 - 26 January 2020, Muizenberg Beach, Cape Town, South Africa</font><br class=""><font color="#1155cc" class=""><span style="font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><u class=""><a href="http://imbizo.africa/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" class="">http://imbizo.africa/</a></u></span></font></div></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" class=""><br class=""><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12.8px;" class="">Application deadline: 8th July 2019<br class=""></b><br class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><span style="font-size: 12.8px;" class="">The #</span></font><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12.8px;" class="">isiCNI2020</b><font color="#000000" class=""><span style="font-size: 12.8px;" class=""> 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 three-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 experimental and computational neuroscience. 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.</span></font><br class=""><br class=""><div style="font-size: small;" class=""><b class=""><font color="#000000" class="">Who should apply?</font></b></div><font color="#000000" class="">This course is aimed at Masters and early-PhD level students though Honours or advanced undergraduates may also apply. <font color="#000000" class="">Postdoctoral students who can motivate why the course would benefit them are also encouraged to apply, </font>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. <b class="">Experimental neuroscience</b> 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).<br class=""><br class=""><u class="">Please distribute this information as widely as you can.</u></font></div></span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""></span><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><br class=""><b style="font-size: 12.8px;" class="">Essential details<br class=""></b>* Fee (which covers tuition, lodging, and meals): 1100 EUR<br class="">Thanks to out generous sponsors, significant financial assistance is available to reduce and waiver fees for students, particlualry for African applicants. We also hope to provide some travel bursaries for interrnational students. If you are in need of financial assistance to attend the Imbizo, please state so clearly in the relevant section of your application.<br class=""></font></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><span style="font-size: 12.8px;" class="">* Application deadline:</span><b style="font-size: 12.8px;" class=""> <b class="">8th July 2019</b></b><br class=""><span style="font-size: 12.8px;" class="">* Notification of results: late August 2019</span></font><span style="font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><br class=""><b class="">Information and application<br class=""></b><a href="http://isicni.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" class=""><u class="">https://imbizo.africa/</u></a></font></span></div><div class=""><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><div class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><b class="">Questions?</b></font></div><div class=""><a href="mailto:isicn.imbizo@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" class="">isicn.imbizo@gmail.com</a><font color="#000000" class=""><br class=""></font></div></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><b class="">What is an Imbizo?<br class=""></b>\ɪmˈbiːzɒ\ | Xhosa - Zulu<br class="">A gathering of the people to share knowledge.<br class=""></font><div class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><br class=""><b class="">CONFIRMED FACULTY</b><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12.8px;" class="">Demba Ba - Harvard University</span></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" class="">Adrienne Fairhall - Washington University<br class=""></font></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12.8px;" class="">Peter Latham - University College London</span></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><span style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80);" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">Timothy Lillicrap - Google DeepMind</font></span></font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><span style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80);" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">Eve Marder - Brandeis University</font></span></font></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12.8px;" class="">Joseph Raimondo - University of Cape Town</span></div></span><div style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">Srikanth Ramaswamy - EPFL Lausanne</font></div><div style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80); font-family: sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12.8px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">Athanassia Pap</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><font size="2" class="">outsi - IMBB-FORTH</font></span></div><div style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80); font-family: sans-serif;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><font size="2" class="">Evan Schaffer - Columbia University</font></span></div><div class=""><font size="2" class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">Anna</span><font color="#500050" face="sans-serif" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(80, 0, 80);" class=""> </span></font><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">Schapiro - </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">University of Pennsylvania</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica;" class=""></font></div><div style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80); font-family: sans-serif;" class=""><font color="#000000" size="2" class="">Henning Sprekeler - Technical University of Berlin</font></div><div style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80); font-family: sans-serif;" class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><font size="2" class="">Thomas Tagoe </font><span style="font-size: 12.8px;" class="">- University of Ghana</span></font></div><div style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12.8px;" class="">Misha Tsodyks - Weiszmann Institute of Science</span></div><div style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><span style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80);" class=""><div class=""><font color="#000000" class="">Tim Vogels - University of Oxford<br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" class="">Arthur Wingfield - Brandeis University</font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" class="">Byron Yu - Carnegie Mellon University</font></div></span></font></div><div style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><div style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><b class="">Tutors<br class=""></b></font></div></div><div style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12.8px;" class="">Everton Agnes University of Oxford</span></div></div><div style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12.8px;" class="">Annik Carson - McGill University</span></div><div style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><div class=""><font color="#000000" class="">Chris Currin - University of Cape Town</font></div></div><div style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12.8px;" class="">Callie Federer - University of Colorado</span></div><div style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">Grace Lindsay - University College London</font></div><div style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">Richard Pang - University of Washington</font></div><div style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><b class="">Organisers<br class=""></b></font></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" class=""><font color="#000000" style="font-size: 12.8px;" class="">Christopher Currin (University of Cape Town, South Africa)</font></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" class=""><font color="#000000" style="font-size: 12.8px;" class="">Emma Vaughan (Conference Managemant Centre)<br class=""></font></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" class=""><font color="#000000" style="font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><b style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80);" class=""><br class=""></b></font></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" class=""><font color="#000000" style="font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><b style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80);" class="">DIRECTORS<br class=""></b></font>Peter Latham (Gatsby Unit for Computational Neuroscience, UCL, UK)<br class="">Joseph Raimondo (University of Cape Town, South Africa)<br class="">Tim Vogels (University of Oxford, UK)<font color="#000000" style="font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><br class=""></font></div><font color="#000000" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><br class=""><b class="">Sponsors</b></font></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80);" class=""><div class=""><font color="#000000" class="">The isiCNI is made possible by the generous support from the Simons Foundation (<a href="https://www.simonsfoundation.org/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" class="">https://www.simonsfoundation.<wbr class="">org</a>) and the International Brain Research Organisation (IBRO) (<a href="http://ibro.info/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" class="">http://ibro.info</a>)</font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><b class="">Organizational</b><b class=""> Affiliates</b></font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" class="">University of Cape Town, University College London, University of Oxford, <a href="http://trendinafrica.org/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" class="">TReND in Africa</a>, <a href="http://www.cncb.ox.ac.uk/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" class="">CNCB</a>, <a href="http://www.gatsby.org.uk/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" class="">Gatsby Foundation</a>, IBRO African Center for Advanced Training in Neurosciences at UCT</font></div></span></div></div></div></div></body></html>