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<div style="font-size:12.8px">We would like to draw your attention
to the first</div>
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<div style="font-size:12.8px"><b>IBRO SIMONS COMPUTATIONAL
NEUROSCIENCE IMBIZO</b></div>
<div style="font-size:12.8px"><span tabindex="0" class="aBn"
data-term="goog_1558334889"><span class="aQJ">9 - 28 January
2017</span></span>, Muizenburg Beach Cape Town, South Africa</div>
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<div style="font-size:12.8px"><a
href="http://isicni.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/" target="_blank"
data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://isicni.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/&source=gmail&ust=1466509325434000&usg=AFQjCNEJbMuC_XQpBb5HJ4Mf3Mwb6at1NQ"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://isicni.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk">http://isicni.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk</a></a></div>
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<div style="font-size:12.8px"><b>Applications deadline: <span
tabindex="0" class="aBn" data-term="goog_1558334890"><span
class="aQJ">31st July 2016</span></span><br>
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The #isiCNI2017 is a (southern hemisphere) summer school aiming to
promote computational neuroscience in Africa by bringing together
international and local students under the tutelage of
world-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 given by distinguished
international faculty 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. Research projects
decided with the students and focus on the modeling of neurons,
neural systems, behavior, the analysis of state-of-the-art neural
data (behavioral data, multi-electrode recordings, calcium imaging
data, connectomics data, etc.), and the development of theories to
explain experimental observations.</div>
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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, as well as some computer experience.</div>
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<div style="font-size:12.8px"><b>Essential details:<br>
</b>* Fee (which covers tuition, lodging, and meals): 1000 EUR<br>
* Generous scholarships and travel stipends are available.
Successful African applicants will be fully subsidised.<br>
* Application deadline: <span tabindex="0" class="aBn"
data-term="goog_1558334891"><span class="aQJ">31 July 2016</span></span><br>
* Notification of results: September 2016<br>
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<b>Information and application</b></div>
<div style="font-size:12.8px"><a
href="http://isicni.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/" target="_blank"
data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://isicni.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/&source=gmail&ust=1466509325434000&usg=AFQjCNEJbMuC_XQpBb5HJ4Mf3Mwb6at1NQ"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://isicni.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk">http://isicni.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk</a></a></div>
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<div style="font-size:12.8px"><b>POSTER DOWNLOAD:</b></div>
<div style="font-size:12.8px"><a
href="http://tinyurl.com/isiCNI2017" target="_blank"
data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://tinyurl.com/isiCNI2017&source=gmail&ust=1466509325434000&usg=AFQjCNGiiNTVdtHvDQXmCTthhe-UUZMEqQ"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://tinyurl.com/isiCNI2017">http://tinyurl.com/isiCNI2017</a></a></div>
<div style="font-size:12.8px">(please distribute this is you can)</div>
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<div style="font-size:12.8px"><b>Imbizo</b></div>
<div style="font-size:12.8px">\ɪmˈbiːzɒ\ | Xhosa - Zulu<br>
A gathering of the people to share knowledge.</div>
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<b>Local Organiser:</b></div>
<div style="font-size:12.8px">Alex Antrobus (<a
href="mailto:isicn.imbizo@gmail.com" target="_blank"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:isicn.imbizo@gmail.com">isicn.imbizo@gmail.com</a></a>)</div>
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<b>DIRECTORS</b></div>
<div style="font-size:12.8px">Peter Latham (Gatsby Unit for
Computational Neuroscience, University College London, UK)</div>
<div style="font-size:12.8px">Joseph Raimondo (University of Cape
Town, South Africa)<br>
Tim <span class="il">Vogels</span> (University of Oxford, UK)<br>
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<b>FACULTY</b></div>
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<div style="font-size:12.8px">Larry Abbott - Columbia University</div>
<div style="font-size:12.8px">Emery Brown - Harvard University / MIT<br>
Nando deFreitas - Google DeepMind<br>
Adrienne Fairhall - Washington University<br>
Surya Ganguli - Stanford University<br>
Wulfram Gerstner - EPFL Lausanne<br>
Peter Latham - University College London<br>
Timothy Lillicrap - Google DeepMind<br>
Mate Lengyel - University of Cambridge<br>
Eve Marder - Brandeis University<br>
Joseph Raimondo - University of Cape Town<br>
Yiota Poirazi - Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas<br>
Srikanth Ramaswamy - EPFL Lausanne</div>
<div style="font-size:12.8px">Rajnish Ranjan - EPFL Lausanne<br>
Tim <span class="il">Vogels</span> - University of Oxford</div>
<div style="font-size:12.8px">Daniel Wolpert - University of
Cambridge<br>
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Special Guests:</div>
<div style="font-size:12.8px">Alyssa Piccini Schaffer - Simons
Foundation<br>
Arthur Wingfield - Brandeis University<br>
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<b>Teaching Assistants</b></div>
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<div style="font-size:12.8px">We are still assembling our roster of
teaching assistants. If you are interested, or you know of an able
and enthusiastic postdoc or senior graduate student, please send a
two-page CV to <a href="mailto:isicn.imbizo@gmail.com"
target="_blank">isicn.imbizo@gmail.com</a>, or at any of the
course directors.</div>
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