Connectionists: Apply now for the Computational Neuroscience Imbizo 2024 - form closes 11th July

[Christopher]

Dear all,

The DEADLINE for the next IMBIZO is approaching very quickly. Don’t let
this opportunity slip by if you are hoping to join the most diverse
neuroscience summer school at the most beautiful beach in the world!

If you know anyone who would benefit from an extraordinary computational
neuroscience summer school, please distribute this information as widely as
you can:

IBRO-SIMONS COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE IMBIZO

#Imbizo2024

7 January - 28 January 2024, Noordhoek Beach, Cape Town, South Africa

http://imbizo.africa/

Application deadline: 11th July 2023

The #Imbizo2024 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. It also
includes a week focused on neuroscience-inspired machine learning!

Who should apply?

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. Experimental
neuroscience 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).

Essential details

* Fee (which covers tuition, lodging, and meals): 1350 EUR

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.

The Imbizo is planned to be hosted in person, with everyone following our COVID
policy <https://imbizo.africa/covid-policy/>. If it is unsafe to hold the
summer school, we will follow up with further information at the
appropriate time.

* Application deadline: 11th July 2023

* References submitted: 14th July 2023

* Notification of results: August 2023

Information and application

https://imbizo.africa/


Questions?

isicn.imbizo at gmail.com


What is an Imbizo?

\ɪmˈbiːzɒ\ | Xhosa - Zulu

A gathering of the people to share knowledge.

Incl. past FACULTY and TAs such as...

Adrienne Fairhall - Washington University

Alex Pouget - University of Geneva

Anne-Marie Oswald - University of Pittsburgh

Annik Carson - AI Redefined

Arif Hamid - University of Minnesota Medical School

Aza Allsop - Yale University

Bard Ermentrout - University of Pittsburgh

Bianca Jones Marlin - Columbia University

Blake Richards - McGill University

Brent Doiron - University of Chicago

Cengiz Pehlevan - Harvard University

Christopher Currin - Institute of Science and Technology Austria & IndabaX
South Africa

Daniela Vallentin - Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence

David Sussillo - Google

Demba Ba - Harvard University

Dongyan Lin - MILA

Evan Schaffer - Columbia University

Franck Kalume - University of Washington

Grace Lindsay - New York University

Guillaume Lajoie - University of Montreal & MILA

Henning Sprekeler - Technical University of Berlin

Ilenna Jones - Harvard University

Joseph Raimondo - University of Cape Town

Mackenzie Mathis   - EPFL Lausanne

Marjorie Xie - Columbia University

Mohamed Abdelhack - Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics

Nina Kudryashova- University of Edinburgh

Peter Latham - University College London

Rachael Dangarembizi - University of Cape Town

Roy Eyono - MILA

Spiros Chavlis - IMBB-FORTH

SueYeon Chung - New York University

Thomas Tagoe - University of Ghana

Tim Vogels - Institute of Science and Technology Austria

Timothy Lillicrap - DeepMind

Xaq Pitkow - Baylor College of Medicine


ORGANISERS

Demba Ba (Harvard University)

Christopher Currin (Institute of Science and Technology Austria & IndabaX
South Africa <https://indabax.co.za>)

Peter Latham (Gatsby Unit for Computational Neuroscience)

Joseph Raimondo (University of Cape Town)

Emma Vaughan (Imbizo Logistics)

Tim Vogels (Institute of Science and Technology Austria)

Sponsors

The Imbizo is made possible by the generous support from the Simons
Foundation <https://www.simonsfoundation.org/>, the International Brain
Research Organisation (IBRO) <https://ibro.org/> as well as the Wellcome
Trust, Google Deep Mind and others.

Organizational Affiliates

University of Cape Town, University College London, Institute of Science
and Technology Austria, TReND in Africa <http://trendinafrica.org/>,
Neuroscience
Institute <http://www.neuroscience.uct.ac.za/>, Gatsby Foundation
<http://www.gatsby.org.uk/>, IBRO African Center for Advanced Training in
Neurosciences at UCT
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