<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=""><font face="Arial" class="">Dear all, <br class=""><br class="">This is a reminder that t<font color="#222222" class="">he application <b class="">DEADLINE</b> for the next</font> IMBIZO is TOMORROW. If you, or anyone you know who would benefit from this opportunity please consider applying:<br class=""><br class=""><b class="">IBRO-SIMONS COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE IMBIZO </b><br class=""><b class="">#isiCNI2022</b><br class="">12 August - 4 September 2022, Noordhoek Beach, Cape Town, South Africa<br class=""><u class="" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><a href="http://imbizo.africa/" target="_blank" class="">http://imbizo.africa/</a></u><br class=""><br class=""><b class="">Application deadline: 15th February 2022</b><br class=""><br class="">The #<b class="">isiCNI2022</b> 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 four-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 computational neuroscience, including experimental underpinnings and machine learning analogues. 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.</font><div class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><i class="">New this year is a week focused on neuroscience-inspired machine learning!</i><br class=""><br class=""><b class="">Who should apply?</b><br class="">This course is aimed at Masters and early-PhD level students though Honours or advanced undergraduates may also apply. Postdoctoral students who can motivate why the course would benefit them are also encouraged to apply, 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><br class=""><br class=""><b class="">Essential details</b><br class="">* Fee (which covers tuition, lodging, and meals): 1100 EUR<br class="">Thanks to our generous sponsors, significant financial assistance is available to reduce and waiver fees for students, particularly for African applicants. We also hope to provide some travel bursaries for international 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="">The Imbizo is planned to be hosted in person, with everyone following our <a href="https://imbizo.africa/covid-policy/" class="">COVID policy</a>. If it is unsafe to hold the summer school, we will follow up with further information at the appropriate time.<br class=""><br class="">* Application deadline:<b class=""> <b class="">15th February 2022</b></b><br class="">* Notification of results: late April 2022<br class=""><b class="">Information and application</b><br class=""><a href="https://imbizo.africa/" target="_blank" class="">https://imbizo.africa/</a><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><b class="">Questions?</b><br class=""><a href="mailto:isicn.imbizo@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">isicn.imbizo@gmail.com</a><br class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b><br class=""><b class="">What is an Imbizo?</b><br class="">\ɪmˈbiːzɒ\ | Xhosa - Zulu<br class="">A gathering of the people to share knowledge.<br class=""><br class=""><b class="">FACULTY</b><br class="">Demba Ba - Harvard University<br class="">Adrienne Fairhall - University of Washington<br class="">Peter Latham - University College London</font><div class=""><font face="Arial" class="">Daphne Bavelier - University of Geneva<br class="">Timothy Lillicrap - DeepMind<br class="">Jonathan Pillow - Princeton University<br class="">Joseph Raimondo - University of Cape Town<br class="">Mackenzie Mathis - EPFL Lausanne<br class="">Athanassia Papoutsi - IMBB-FORTH<br class="">Evan Schaffer - Columbia University<br class="">Henning Sprekeler - Technical University of Berlin<br class="">Thomas Tagoe - University of Ghana<br class="">Tim Vogels - Institute of Science and Technology Austria<br class=""></font><div class=""><font face="Arial" class="">Blake Richards - McGill University</font></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" class="">Alex Pouget - University of Geneva<br class=""><br class=""><b class="">TUTORS</b><br class="">Mohamed Abdelhack - Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics</font><div class=""><div class=""><font face="Arial" class="">Annik Carson - McGill University</font></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" class="">Spiros Chavlis - IMBB-FORTH<br class="">Christopher Currin - Institute of Science and Technology Austria</font></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" class="">Sanjukta Krishnaopal - University College London</font></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" class="">Marjorie Xie - Columbia University<br class=""></font><div class=""><b class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><br class=""></font></b></div><div class=""><b class=""><font face="Arial" class="">ORGANISERS</font></b></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" class="">Demba Ba (Harvard University)<b class=""><br class=""></b>Christopher Currin (Institute of Science and Technology Austria)<br class="">Peter Latham (Gatsby Unit for Computational Neuroscience)<br class="">Joseph Raimondo (University of Cape Town)<br class="">Emma Vaughan (Imbizo Logistics)<br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" class="">Tim Vogels (Institute of Science and Technology Austria)<br class=""><br class=""><b class="">Sponsors</b><br class=""><font color="#000000" class="">The isiCNI is made possible by the generous support from the <a href="https://www.simonsfoundation.org" class="">Simons Foundation</a> and the <a href="https://ibro.org" class="">International Brain Research Organisation (IBRO)</a>, as well as the</font></font><a href="https://wellcome.org" class=""> Wellcome Trust</a><font face="Arial" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">, </font></font><a href="https://deepmind.com" class="">Deep Mind</a> and <a href="https://www.wits.ac.za" class="">Wits University</a><font face="Arial" class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><br class=""><br class=""><b class="">Organizational</b><b class=""> Affiliates</b><br class=""></font></font><div class=""><font color="#000000" face="Arial" class=""></font><div class=""><div class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">University of Cape Town, University College London, </font>Institute of Science and Technology Austria<font color="#000000" class="">, <a href="http://trendinafrica.org/" target="_blank" class="">TReND in Africa</a>, <a href="http://www.neuroscience.uct.ac.za/" class="">Neuroscience Institute</a>, <a href="http://www.gatsby.org.uk/" target="_blank" class="">Gatsby Foundation</a>, IBRO African Center for Advanced Training in Neurosciences at UCT</font></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>