[visionlist] 8th Computational and Cognitive Neuroscience (CCN) Summer School

[Eric DeWitt]

We are pleased to announce the 8th Computational and Cognitive Neuroscience (CCN) Summer School which will take place June 26 – July 19, 2018, at Cold Spring Harbor Asia (CSHA) in Suzhou, China. Please distribute this announcement to your department and colleagues

The CCN summer school is a unique international summer school focusing on systems neuroscience and cognition from a computational and theoretical perspective. Lectures from leading international faculty in experimental, computational and theoretical neuroscience are tightly coupled with computational tutorials in a series of modules. Each module covers a core area, integrating experimental, theoretical and computational perspectives. The course aims to train talented and highly motivated graduate students and postdoctoral fellows from around the world. Applicants with quantitative (including Physics, Mathematics, Engineering and Computer Science) or experimental backgrounds are welcome. The summer school also has the mission of training and integrating students from diverse academic, cultural and geographic backgrounds. The practical training includes learning Python-based approaches to programming, data analysis and modeling. Students work through tutorials designed with the faculty and then design, plan and complete a series of open-ended projects for each module.

Course information is available on the CCN official website:
http://www.ccnss.org/

Applications are being accepted now through the CSHA website:
https://www.csh-asia.org/2018meetings/S-COSYNE.html

The application deadline is March 4th, 2018.

Organizers:
Xiao-Jing Wang (New York University)
Zach Mainen (Champalimaud Neuroscience Program)
Si Wu (Beijing Normal University)
John D. Murray (Yale University)
Eric DeWitt (Champalimaud Neuroscience Program)

The faculty:
Eric DeWitt (Champalimaud Research)
Shaul Druckmann (Stanford)
Jeff Erlich (NYU Shanghai)
Birte Forstmann (U Amsterdam)
David Foster (UC Berkeley)
Julijana Gjorgjieva (MPI Brain Research)
Michael Hausser (UCL)
Alex Huth (UT Austin)
Chris Honey (Johns Hopkins)
Sukbin Lim (NYU Shanghai)
Zach Mainen (Champalimaud Research)
John Murray (Yale)
Peggy Series (U Edinburgh)
Maurice Smith (Harvard)
Xiao-Jing Wang (NYU)
Si Wu (Beijing Normal)
Byron Yu (Carnegie Mellon)
+ more!

Best regards,
Eric DeWitt, on behalf of the CCN SS organizers:
Xiao-Jing Wang, Zach Mainen, Si Wu, John Murray, Eric DeWitt