<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><div class="">Dear all,<br class=""><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div class=""><div class=""><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div class=""><div class=""><br class="">We would like to draw your attention to the first<br class=""><br class=""><b class="">IBRO SIMONS COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE IMBIZO<br class=""></b>9 - 29 January 2017, Muizenberg Beach, Cape Town, South Africa<br class=""><a href="http://isicni.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/" class="">http://isicni.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk</a></div><div class=""><br class=""><b class="">Application deadline: 31st July 2016<br class=""></b><br class="">The #isiCNI2017 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 in teams of 2-3 people under the close supervision of expert tutors and faculty. Individual research projects will focus on the modeling of neurons, neural systems, behavior, the analysis of state-of-the-art neural data, and the development of theories to explain experimental observations.<br class=""><br class="">The course is aimed at graduate students and postdoctoral fellows from various disciplines, including neuroscience, physics, electrical engineering, computer science, mathematics, psychology, and biology. Students are expected to have a keen interest and basic background in neurobiology, a solid foundation in mathematics, and some computing experience.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Please distribute this information as widely as you can, especially to your African Colleagues. </div><div class=""><br class=""><b class="">Essential details<br class=""></b>* Fee (which covers tuition, lodging, and meals): 1000 EUR<br class="">* Generous scholarships and travel stipends are available<br class="">* Application deadline: 31 July 2016<br class="">* Notification of results: September 2016<br class=""><br class=""><b class="">Information and application<br class=""></b><a href="http://isicni.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/" class="">http://isicni.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk</a></div><div class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></div><div class=""><b class="">POSTER DOWNLOAD<br class=""></b><a href="http://tinyurl.com/isiCNI2017" class="">http://tinyurl.com/isiCNI2017</a></div><div class="">(please distribute)<br class=""><br class=""><b class="">Application form</b><br class=""><div class=""><a href="http://tinyurl.com/gonst65" class="">http://tinyurl.com/gonst65</a></div><br class=""></div><div 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=""><br class=""><b class="">Sponsors</b></div><div class="">The isiCNI is made possible by the generous support from the Simons Foundation (<a href="https://www.simonsfoundation.org/" class="">https://www.simonsfoundation.org</a>) and IBRO, the International Brain Research Organisation (<a href="http://ibro.info/" class="">http://ibro.info</a>)</div><div class=""><br class=""><b class="">Local Organiser<br class=""></b>Alex Antrobus (<a href="mailto:isicn.imbizo@gmail.com" class="">isicn.imbizo@gmail.com</a>)<br class=""><br class=""><b class="">DIRECTORS<br class=""></b>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)<br class=""><br class=""><b class="">FACULTY<br class=""></b>Larry Abbott - Columbia University<br class="">Emery Brown - Massachusetts General Hospital/MIT/Harvard Medical School</div><div class="">Nando deFreitas - Google DeepMind<br class="">Adrienne Fairhall - Washington University<br class="">Surya Ganguli - Stanford University<br class="">Wulfram Gerstner - EPFL Lausanne<br class="">Peter Latham - University College London<br class="">Timothy Lillicrap - Google DeepMind<br class="">Mate Lengyel - University of Cambridge<br class="">Eve Marder - Brandeis University<br class="">Joseph Raimondo - University of Cape Town<br class="">Yiota Poirazi - Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas<br class="">Srikanth Ramaswamy - EPFL Lausanne<br class="">Rajnish Ranjan - EPFL Lausanne<br class="">Tim Vogels - University of Oxford<br class="">Daniel Wolpert - University of Cambridge<br class=""><br class="">Special Guests<br class="">Alyssa Piccini Schaffer - Simons Foundation<br class="">Arthur Wingfield - Brandeis University<br class=""><br class=""><b class="">Teaching Assistants<br class=""></b><br class=""><b class="">We are looking for teaching assistants.</b> If you are interested, or you know of an able and enthusiastic postdoc or senior graduate student, please send a CV to <a href="mailto:isicn.imbizo@gmail.com" class="">isicn.imbizo@gmail.com</a>.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div><div class=""><br class="">-------------------------------------------------------------<br class=""></div></div><br class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class="" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span class="">All the best,</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;">Tim</div><div class="" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="" style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="" style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="" style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">+</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="" style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Dr Tim Vogels</span></div></div><div class=""><div class="" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><font size="1" class="">Sir Henry Dale Wellcome Trust and Royal Society Research Fellow <br class="">Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour and Oriel College<br class="">Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics<o:p class=""></o:p></font></span></div></div><div class=""><div class="" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><font size="1" class="">University of Oxford<br class="">Mansfield Road<br class="">Oxford, OX1 3SR</font></span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><font size="1" class=""><a href="http://cncb.ox.ac.uk/" class="">cncb.ox.ac.uk</a></font></span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><font size="1" class=""><a href="http://www.neurotheory.ox.ac.uk/~timv" class="">www.neurotheory.ox.ac.uk/~timv</a></font></span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><br class=""></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br class=""></body></html>