[SocBiN] 1st Announcement - Summer School, Applied Deep Learning in Bioinformatics (Aug 12-16, 2024)

[Betina Wingreen Jensen]

Dear All,

 

We are delighted to announce that we on Aug 12-16, 2024, will be hosting the
2nd Summer School – Applied Deep Learning in Bioinformatics.

 

VENUE: University of Copenhagen, Thorvaldsensvej 40, Auditorium A2-70.01,
Frederiksberg C (and the symposium day at Copenhagen Biocenter, The
Lundbeckfond Auditorium, Ole Maaløes vej 5, 2200 Copenhagen N)

 

LECTURES: Sampo Pyysalo (University of Turku), Arne Elofsson (Stockholm
University), Simon Rasmussen, Stefano Roncelli, Christian Anthon, Lars Juhl
Jensen & Jan Gorodkin (University of Copenhagen)

 

TOPICS: The summer school will (amongst other) cover the following topics:

*	Text-mining & Transformers
*	Language models for biological sequences
*	Variational autoencoders
*	Graphs & networks
*	Practical Applications

The format will consist of an approximately equal mix of lectures and
hands-on exercises. 

 

PARTICIPANTS: Max. 30 talented MSc students, PhDs and postdocs who are
already comfortable in programming. 

 

PRICE: O DKK. There is no course fee, but you must cover your own travel,
accommodation, and meals (expect those meals included in the programme). The
course is run and hosted by the CRISPRnet project granted by the Novo
Nordisk Foundation.

 

STIPENDS: A handful of travel and accommodation stipends are available for
talented applicants, who could otherwise not afford to participate. 

 

SYMPOSIUM: On Friday, August 16, 2024. All summer school attendees will be
attending the Symposium - on Applied Deep Learning in Bioinformatics that
will be held at University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen Biocenter, Ole
Maaløesvej 5, 2200 Copenhagen N.  All summer school participants will
automatically be signed up for free. Sign up and registration for this event
will be announced separately.

 

DEADLINES:

REGISTRATION DEADLINE - JUNE 6, 2024 - You will receive an email confirming
your application to the course - this is NOT a confirmation of
participation. All registrations received by the deadline will be evaluated
by the course organisers and max 30 people will be selected for
participation in the summer school. 

NOTIFICATION OF SUCCESSFUL PARTICIPANTS - LATEST JUNE 25, 2024 - Everyone
approved for participation in the summer school and recipients of stipends
will receive a confirmation email. If you do not hear back from us on June
25, your application has, unfortunately, not been successful.

 

For more information and registration go to:
https://conferencemanager.events/2024-summerschoolonapplieddeeplearninginbio
informatics

 

 

Best, Betina

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