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<span class="gmail-normaltextrun"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">6th Baltic-Nordic Summer School on </span></b></span><span class="gmail-spellingerror"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Neuroinformatics</span></b></span><span class="gmail-normaltextrun"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> (BNNI
2018)</span></b></span><span class="gmail-eop"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="gmail-eop"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="gmail-normaltextrun"><b><span style="font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#2E74B5">Understanding the Brain: from Neuroscience to Deep Learning</span></b></span><span class="gmail-eop"><span style="font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="gmail-eop"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="gmail-normaltextrun"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Place:</span></b></span><span class="gmail-eop"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="gmail-spellingerror"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Ventspils</span></span><span class="gmail-normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> University of Applied Sciences</span></span><span class="gmail-eop"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="gmail-spellingerror"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Inženieru</span></span><span class="gmail-normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> 101, </span></span><span class="gmail-spellingerror"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Ventspils</span></span><span class="gmail-eop"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="gmail-normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Latvia</span></span><span class="gmail-eop"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="gmail-normaltextrun"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Time:</span></b></span><span class="gmail-eop"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="gmail-normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">11-13 June 2018</span></span><span class="gmail-eop"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="gmail-normaltextrun"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></span></p>
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<span class="gmail-normaltextrun"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">More information and applications at:</span></b></span><span class="gmail-eop"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><a href="http://web.lsmuni.lt/bnni2018/en" target="_blank"><span class="gmail-normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">web.lsmuni.lt/bnni2018/en</span></span></a></span><span class="gmail-eop"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="gmail-normaltextrun"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></span></p>
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<span class="gmail-normaltextrun"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Important dates:</span></b></span><span class="gmail-eop"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="gmail-normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">2 April 2018: Application deadline </span></span><span class="gmail-eop"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="gmail-normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">15 April 2018: Acceptance notification </span></span><span class="gmail-eop"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="gmail-normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">11-13 </span></span><span class="gmail-contextualspellingandgrammarerror"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">June 2018</span></span><span class="gmail-normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">:
School </span></span><span class="gmail-eop"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="gmail-normaltextrun"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></span></p>
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<span class="gmail-normaltextrun"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">We invite</span></b></span><span class="gmail-normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> advanced master students, doctoral students, and postdoctoral researchers
to participate in the BNNI 2018 to be held at the </span></span><span class="gmail-spellingerror"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Ventspils</span></span><span class="gmail-normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> University of
Applied Sciences, </span></span><span class="gmail-spellingerror"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Ventspils</span></span><span class="gmail-normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">, Latvia in 11-13 June 2018.</span></span><span class="gmail-eop"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="gmail-normaltextrun"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></span></p>
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<span class="gmail-normaltextrun"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The course</span></b></span><span class="gmail-normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> is interdisciplinary and covers modeling at different levels of
organization of the brain. </span></span><span class="gmail-contextualspellingandgrammarerror"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Additionally</span></span><span class="gmail-normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> this year's
training course is planned more diverse and will include also EEG/SEEG signal processing techniques, forward and inverse modeling of the brain and various aspects of deep learning algorithms.<span style="color:#666666"> </span>This school is the sixth in the
series of the Baltic-Nordic Courses on </span></span><span class="gmail-spellingerror"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Neuroinformatics</span></span><span class="gmail-normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> (BNNI 2013
in Kaunas, Lithuania; BNNI 2014 in Tampere, Finland; BNNI 2015 in Tartu, Estonia; BNNI 2016 in Warsaw, Poland, BNNI 2017 in Kaunas, Lithuania).</span></span><span class="gmail-eop"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="gmail-normaltextrun"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></span></p>
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<span class="gmail-normaltextrun"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The target audience</span></b></span><span class="gmail-normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> of the course will be advanced master students, doctoral
students and postdoctoral researchers in biomedical and technology sciences, from medicine, biology, psychology, to mathematics, informatics, information technology, physics, chemistry, who would like to get an introduction to </span></span><span class="gmail-spellingerror"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">neuroinformatics</span></span><span class="gmail-normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> and
computational neuroscience. Some experience with programming and quantitative reasoning as well as strong interest in computational and mathematical modeling of the brain will be desirable but not necessary to benefit from the school. Last year we had participants
from 14 countries all over the world! </span></span><span class="gmail-eop"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="gmail-normaltextrun"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></span></p>
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<span class="gmail-normaltextrun"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Faculty includes:</span></b></span><span class="gmail-eop"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="gmail-normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Marja-Leena Linne, Tampere University of Technology, Finland; The Human Brain Project</span></span><span class="gmail-eop"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="gmail-spellingerror"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Ausra</span></span><span class="gmail-normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></span><span class="gmail-spellingerror"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Saudargiene</span></span><span class="gmail-normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">,
Neuroscience Institute, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, and </span></span><span class="gmail-spellingerror"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Vytautas</span></span><span class="gmail-eop"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="gmail-normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania</span></span><span class="gmail-eop"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="gmail-normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Bruce Graham, University of Stirling, UK</span></span><span class="gmail-eop"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="gmail-normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Daniel Wojcik, </span></span><span class="gmail-spellingerror"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Nencki</span></span><span class="gmail-normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Institute
of Experimental Biology, Warsaw, Poland</span></span><span class="gmail-eop"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="gmail-normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Arnd Roth, University College London, UK</span></span><span class="gmail-eop"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="gmail-normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Peter Jedlicka, </span></span><span class="gmail-spellingerror"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">NeuroScience</span></span><span class="gmail-normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Center,
Goethe-University, Frankfurt, Germany</span></span><span class="gmail-eop"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="gmail-normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Gaute </span></span><span class="gmail-spellingerror"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Einevoll</span></span><span class="gmail-normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">, </span></span><span class="gmail-spellingerror"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">UiO</span></span><span class="gmail-normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Department
of Physics </span></span><span class="gmail-contextualspellingandgrammarerror"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The</span></span><span class="gmail-normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Faculty of Mathematics and Natural
Sciences, Norway</span></span><span class="gmail-eop"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="gmail-normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Radu Ranta, CRAN, University of Lorraine, France</span></span><span class="gmail-eop"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="gmail-normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Louis Maillard, CHRU </span></span><span class="gmail-spellingerror"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Hôpital</span></span><span class="gmail-normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> central
- Nancy, CRAN, University of Lorraine, France</span></span><span class="gmail-eop"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="gmail-normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Janis </span></span><span class="gmail-spellingerror"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Hofmanis</span></span><span class="gmail-normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">,
Smart Technology Research Center, </span></span><span class="gmail-spellingerror"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Ventspils</span></span><span class="gmail-normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> University of Applied
Sciences, </span></span><span class="gmail-spellingerror"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Ventspils</span></span><span class="gmail-normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">, Latvia</span></span><span class="gmail-eop"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="gmail-normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">and others.</span></span><span class="gmail-eop"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="gmail-normaltextrun"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></span></p>
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<span class="gmail-normaltextrun"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Venue</span></b></span><span class="gmail-eop"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="gmail-normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The lectures will be held at the </span></span><span class="gmail-spellingerror"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Ventspils</span></span><span class="gmail-normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> University
of Applied Sciences, </span></span><span class="gmail-spellingerror"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Inženieru</span></span><span class="gmail-normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> 101, </span></span><span class="gmail-spellingerror"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Ventspils</span></span><span class="gmail-normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">,
Latvia.</span></span><span class="gmail-eop"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="gmail-normaltextrun"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Practical arrangements</span></b></span><span class="gmail-eop"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="gmail-normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">There is a small tuition fee of 50 euros. The organizers will provide teaching materials, </span></span><span class="gmail-contextualspellingandgrammarerror"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">meals
and</span></span><span class="gmail-normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> coffee during the course. The participants are expected to cover their travel and health insurance expenses as well as lodging. Although Student accommodation
will be available at a reduced cost. </span></span><span class="gmail-spellingerror"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Ventspils</span></span><span class="gmail-normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> University of Applied
Sciences can provide a student dormitory rooms - 2 students per room, 2 rooms per block. One block costs 51 EUR (12,75 EUR for one person per night).</span></span><span class="gmail-eop"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="gmail-normaltextrun"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">We are looking forward to welcome you at the BNNI 2018 in </span></b></span><span class="gmail-spellingerror"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Ventspils</span></b></span><span class="gmail-normaltextrun"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">,
Latvia!</span></b></span><span class="gmail-eop"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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