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<div><font color="#000000"><b>IBRO-SIMONS COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE IMBIZO<span> </span><br>
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<div><font color="#000000">5 - 26 January 2020, Muizenberg Beach, Cape Town, South Africa</font><font><br>
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<b style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px">Application deadline: 30th<span><span> June 2019</span></span><br>
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<font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:12.8px">The #</span></font><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px">isiCNI2020</b><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:12.8px"> 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 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
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<div style="font-size:small"><b><font color="#000000">Who should apply?</font></b></div>
</font><font color="#000000">This course is aimed at Masters and early-PhD level students though Honours or advanced undergraduates may also apply.
<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span><font color="#000000">Postdoctoral students who can motivate why the course would benefit them are also encouraged to apply,
</font></span></span>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.
<b>Experimental neuroscience</b> 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).<br>
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<u>Please distribute this information as widely as you can.</u></font></span></div>
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<b style="font-size:12.8px">Essential details<br>
</b></font>* Fee (which covers tuition, lodging, and meals): 1100 EUR<br>
Thanks to out generous sponsors, significant financial assistance is available to reduce and waiver fees for students, particlualry for African applicants. We also hope to provide some travel bursaries for interrnational students. If you are in need of financial
assistance to attend the Imbizo, please state so clearly in the relevant section of your application.<font><br>
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</font></span></span><font><span style="font-size:12.8px">* Application deadline:</span><b style="font-size:12.8px">
<b style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span><span>30th June 2019</span></span></b></b><br>
<span style="font-size:12.8px">* Notification of results: late August 2019</span></font></font><span style="font-size:12.8px">
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<b>Information and application<br>
</b><a style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" href="http://isicni.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/" target="_blank"><u style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">https://imbizo.africa/</u></a></font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000"><b>Questions?</b></font></div>
<div><a style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" href="mailto:isicn.imbizo@gmail.com" target="_blank">isicn.imbizo@gmail.com</a><font color="#000000"><br>
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<div><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000"><b>What is an Imbizo?<br>
</b>\ɪmˈbiːzɒ\ | Xhosa - Zulu<br>
A gathering of the people to share knowledge.<br>
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<b>INVITED FACULTY</b><br>
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<div><font color="#000000">Dora Angelaki - Baylor College of Medicine</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">Demba Ba - Harvard University<br>
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<div><font color="#000000">Adrienne Fairhall - Washington University<br>
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<div><font color="#000000"><span style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80)"><font color="#000000">Ila Fiete - University of Texas</font></span></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">Peter Latham - University College London</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><span style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80)"><font color="#000000">Timothy Lillicrap - Google DeepMind</font></span></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">Blake Richards - University of Toronto<br>
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<div><font color="#000000">Joseph Raimondo - University of Cape Town<br>
Srikanth Ramaswamy - EPFL Lausanne</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">Athanassia Papoutsi - IMBB-FORTH</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">Thomas Tagoe - University of Ghana</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><span style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80)"><font color="#000000">Andrew Trevelyan - Newcastle University</font></span></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">Misha Tsodyks - Weiszmann Institute of Science</font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000">Tim Vogels - University of Oxford<br>
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<div><font color="#000000">Byron Yu - Carnegie Mellon University</font></div>
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<div style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000"><b>Organisers<br>
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<div><font style="font-size:12.8px" color="#000000"><span>Christopher Currin (University of Cape Town, South Africa)</span></font></div>
<div><font style="font-size:12.8px" color="#000000"><span>Emma Vaughan (Conference Managemant Centre)<br>
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<div><font style="font-size:12.8px" color="#000000"><span><b style="color:rgb(80,0,80)">DIRECTORS<br>
</b></span></font>Peter Latham (Gatsby Unit for Computational Neuroscience, UCL, UK)<br>
Joseph Raimondo (University of Cape Town, South Africa)<br>
Tim Vogels (University of Oxford, UK)<font style="font-size:12.8px" color="#000000"><span><br>
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<div><font color="#000000">The <span>isiCNI</span> is made possible by the generous support from the Simons Foundation (<a style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" href="https://www.simonsfoundation.org/" target="_blank">https://www.simonsfoundation.<wbr>org</a>) and the
International Brain Research Organisation (IBRO) (<a style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" href="http://ibro.info/" target="_blank">http://ibro.info</a>)</font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000"><span><b>Organizational</b></span><b> Affiliates</b></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">University of Cape Town, University College London, University of Oxford, <a style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" href="http://trendinafrica.org/" target="_blank">TReND in Africa</a>, <a style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" href="http://www.cncb.ox.ac.uk/" target="_blank">CNCB</a>, <a style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" href="http://www.gatsby.org.uk/" target="_blank">Gatsby
Foundation</a>, IBRO African Center for Advanced Training in Neurosciences at UCT</font></div>
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