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<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The IBRO-Simons computational neuroscience imbizo is a summer school in computational neuroscience and machine learning, hosted each January in Cape Town, South Africa.</font></div>
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<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The event is generously sponsored by the International Brain Research Organisation (IBRO) and the Simons Foundation (Simons).</font></div>
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<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">"Imbizo" is an isiXhosa word, meaning "A gathering to share knowledge". The aim of the isiCNI is exactly this: to create an environment in which young African and international students can explore computational neuroscience
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<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Three weeks of intensive lectures, tutorials, projects and fun!<br>
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<div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b><u>When and where?</u></b></font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>January 6th - 27th </b><b>2019</b></font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Cape Town, South Africa</b></font></div>
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<div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Dora Angelaki (Bayor College, Houston)<br>
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<div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Demba Ba (Harvard Uni, Boston)</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Sophie Denève (ENS, Paris)<br>
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<div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Adrienne Fairhall (Univ of Washington, Seattle)<br>
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<div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Peter Latham (Univ College London)</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Timothy Lillicrap (Google Deepmind, London)<br>
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<div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Joseph Raimondo (Univ of Cape Town)<br>
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<div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Athanassia Papoutsi (IMBB-FORTH, Hellas)<br>
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<div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Srikanth Ramaswami (EPFL, Lausanne)<br>
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<div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Blake Richards (Univ Toronto)<br>
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<div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Andrew Trevelyan (Newcastle Univ., Newcastle)</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Misha Tsodyks (Weizmann Inst., Rehovot)</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Tim Vogels (Oxford)<br>
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<div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Byron Yu (Carnegie Mellon Univ, Pittsburgh)</font></div>
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<div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The Imbizo is designed to introduce students with backgrounds in analytic fields (computer science, statistics, physics, mathematics, engineering,
etc.) to the field of computational neuroscience. It will also benefit advanced experimental biologists who would like to learn more computational skills. It also provides an opportunity for students already working in computational neuroscience to do 3 weeks
of intensive, focused work in a different sub-topic of the field.</font></div>
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<div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Students should generally be at Masters/early PhD level, and have completed at least a 2nd-year university level course in computer science,
statistics, physics or mathematics. Some coding experience will also be helpful.</font></div>
<div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">More advanced level students (post-Docs, early career PIs) may also be accepted if they can motivate how the courses at the Imbizo could
help their career. Well motivated, exceptional undergraduates will also be considered.
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<div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The attendance fee for the isiCNI2019 is EUR 1,100.00.</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Thanks to our generous sponsors, significant bursaries are available to subsidise and waiver student fees, and provide some travel bursaries. Funding will be allocated according to need and
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