<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dear friends and colleagues,</span><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We are excited to announce that Neuromatch Academy (NMA) is offering two courses this year from July 11th to July 29th 2022 which will run in parallel online.  </span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(29,28,29);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Applications for students and teaching assistants are now open until</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(29,28,29);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> April 20th, 2022.</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(29,28,29);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">NMA-Computational Neuroscience</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Flagship course covering contemporary computational neuroscience modeling and analysis techniques</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Content: </span><a href="https://compneuro.neuromatch.io/tutorials/intro.html" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://compneuro.neuromatch.io</span></a></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">NMA-Deep Learning:</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> In-depth advanced materials, ideal for graduate students and postdocs wishing to add computational techniques to their neuroscience research, or for individuals looking to dive into the Deep Learning world. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Content: </span><a href="https://deeplearning.neuromatch.io/tutorials/intro.html" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://deeplearning.neuromatch.io</span></a></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Application Form: </span><a href="https://portal.neuromatchacademy.org/" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://portal.neuromatchacademy.org/</span></a></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">What is Neuromatch Academy? </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Neuromatch Academy (NMA) launched in 2020 as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Our aim</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">is to provide globally-accessible, high-quality, TA-supported training in computational techniques related to neuroscience. In 2020 and 2021, NMA designed and ran a fully online 3-week Computational Neuroscience and a Deep Learning course for over 3000 students with more than 350 teaching assistants (TAs) working in virtual inverted (or flipped) classrooms and on small group projects. Fourteen languages, active community management, and low cost allowed for an unprecedented level of inclusivity and universal accessibility. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">What’s in a course?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Our courses are intensive 3-week programs involving hands-on tutorials developed by experts in the field. </span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(29,28,29);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Accepted students are placed into TA-led pods (groups) using the Neuromatch algorithm, which matches students with common interests who are in the same timezone and their preferred language for instruction.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Students also receive personalized support as they work through hands-on tutorials and collaborate on course projects. </span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(29,28,29);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">[Please note that course participation requires active attendance and attention of the students for 3 weeks.]</span></p><br><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">What does it cost?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(29,28,29);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Neuromatch Academy’s mission is to make education affordable to everybody, no matter their financial background. We do this by pricing our courses significantly lower than other summer schools, adjusting for national economic factors, and allowing students to pay what they can when those adjustments are insufficient. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bott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ttps://www.facebook.com/NeuromatchAcademy</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Reddit: </span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/neuromatch/" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://www.reddit.com/r/neuromatch/</span></a></p><br></div><div dir="ltr">-- <br><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><font size="1">Melvin Selim Atay <span style="color:rgb(230,153,230)"><span style="color:rgb(153,230,230)">[</span><span style="color:rgb(215,168,192)">he</span><span style="color:rgb(191,191,191)">/</span><span style="color:rgb(215,168,192)"><span style="color:rgb(181,168,214)">him/<span style="color:rgb(161,198,232)">his</span></span><span style="color:rgb(153,230,230)">]<br></span></span></span></font></span><span style="color:rgb(103,78,167)"><b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><font size="1">Co-CDO of NMA 2022</font></span></span></b></span><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><font size="1"><span style="color:rgb(230,153,230)"><span style="color:rgb(215,168,192)"><span style="color:rgb(153,230,230)"></span></span></span></font></span></div><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><font size="1">PhD Candidate of <br></font></span></div><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><font size="1">Neuroscience and Neurotechnology</font></span></div><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><font size="1">Middle East Technical University</font></span></div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(153,193,230)"><a href="https://mselimata.github.io" target="_blank"><font size="1"><span style="color:rgb(153,193,230)">https://</span><span style="color:rgb(215,168,192)">mselimata<span style="color:rgb(153,193,230)">.</span></span><span style="color:rgb(153,193,230)">github.io</span></font></a></span></span></div></div></div>
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