IBRO-SIMONS, University of Cape Town, University College London, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Harvard University, TReND in Africa, Neuroscience Institute, Gatsby Foundation, IBRO African Center for Advanced Training in Neurosciences at UCT
Noordhoek Beach, Cape Town, South Africa
The #Imbizo2024 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. This four-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 computational neuroscience, including experimental underpinnings and machine learning analogues. 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 observations. It also includes a week focused on neuroscience-inspired machine learning.