Simons Computational Neuroscience Imbizo

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An annual summer course in computational neuroscience & neuro AI. Boosting African neuroscience by IBRO @ibroorg.bsky.social and the Simons Foundation @simonsfoundation.org. https://imbizo.africa/

Prof. Xaq Pitkow is talking about nonlinearities.
Dr. Nyalleng Moorosi is talking about inductive biases.
Dr. Athena Akrami is talking about Hopfield Networks.
Jonathan Shock, during his talk, is giving examples where RL has been used.
Prof. Adrienne Fairhall, the director of imbizo's cycle 2, introduces the Gender Diversoity Discussion that will take place tomorrow.
Will Dorrell is talkig about breaking the rules during the Science Communication workshop.
Prof Sara Solla during her lecture.
Prof. Jonathan Pillow from Princeton University is helping students to solve MLE equations.
Sunset form Chapmans Peak
Mentors/TAs are giving their tutorials. Spiros Chavlis introduces Python with the LIF model, Will Dorrell on neural computation, Kira Düsterwald on Probability Theory, Isabel Cornacchia on Dynamical Systems, Colleen Gillon on Reinforcement learning, and Rubén Herzog on information theory applied to neural data.
Prof Arif Hamid is talking on the dopamine circuit specializations to support multi-actor/hierarchical reinforcement learning
Prof. Arif Hamid is explaining Pavlov's dog as a part of his lecture on the "neural basis of reinforcement learning".
Dr Tom Tagoe is giving his lecture on synaptic plasticity
Prof Raimondo is giving a talk regarding ions, membranes and spikes.
Dr. Dan Wetmore giving a lecture
Dr. Dukes gives a presentation on Career Success and DEI initiatives as a #BlackInNeuro Scientist