General:

National Science Foundation East Asia and Pacific Summer Institute
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5284
The East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes provide U.S. graduate students in science and engineering:  1) first-hand research experience in Australia, China, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Singapore or Taiwan; 2) an introduction to the science and science policy infrastructure of the respective location; and 3) orientation to the society, culture and language. The primary goals of EAPSI are to introduce students to East Asia and Pacific science and engineering in the context of a research setting, and to help students initiate scientific relationships that will better enable future collaboration with foreign counterparts. The institutes last approximately eight weeks from June to August.


Cold Spring Harbor Courses
http://meetings.cshl.edu/index.html
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory has courses in many areas related to cognitive neuroscience. Thanks to federal funds, foundation and corporate support, we provided partial stipends to almost 900 graduate students and postdocs who attended meetings or courses at Cold Spring Harbor. Please enquire about funding for individual meetings by email to meetings@cshl.edu.


Programme of European Neuroscience Schools
http://mars.glia.mdc-berlin.de/pens/
A collaboration between FENS and IBRO. This programme, aimed to train students and young investigators throughout Europe, brings together educational activities previously sponsored by FENS through its Schools Committee and by IBRO's Regional Committees for Europe: Western Europe Regional Committee (WERC) and r Central and Eastern Europe Regional Committee (CEERC).
PENS will provide funds to support high-quality Schools and Courses on a wide range of important topics in the Neurosciences. Particular attention will given to proposals from the membership that encourage an active involvement of the students and the teachers during the entire event


RIKEN Brain Science Institute Summer Program
http://www.brain.riken.jp/en/summer/index.html
The RIKEN Brain Science Institute (RIKEN BSI), located just outside Tokyo, Japan, offers a summer program to train advanced students interested in brain function. Applicants may choose either a two-month laboratory internship (Plan A) within a RIKEN BSI laboratory, or participate in an intensive 11-day lecture course (Plan B) featuring a distinguished international faculty. Those participating in the internship may also enroll in the lecture course.
Typically, around 45 international students are accepted to the Summer Program each year. Attendees have wide-ranging academic backgrounds and are usually enrolled in graduate courses, or have recently embarked on postdoctoral research. However, candidates holding other positions are encouraged to apply.
Attendees usually reside on the RIKEN campus, where they have ample opportunity to interact with invited lecturers, other attendees and RIKEN BSI researchers. Students unable to provide their own financial support will be considered for travel and accommodation bursaries provided by RIKEN BSI.


Summer Institute in Cognitive Neurosceince
http://www.sagecenter.ucsb.edu/si/index.htm
The two-week course examines how information about brain structure and function interacts with issues in cognitive sciences and how approaches in cognitive science apply to other forms of neuroscience research. A distinguished faculty will lecture on current topics. Laboratories and demonstrations will provide practical experience with methods in anatomy and functional imaging and their application to issues in cognitive neuroscience. Applications are invited from beginning and established researchers.


Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience:

John Merck Fund Summer Institute on the Biology of Developmental Disabilities
http://sacklerinstitute.org/cornell/summer_institute/2007/
The annual John Merck Fund Summer Institute on the Biology of Developmental Disabilities is held for one week each summer. The course examines basic principles of behavior, brain function and organization in the context of typical and atypical development. Experts in the fields of psychology, neurobiology, neuroendocrinology and neuroscience present their work in addition to hands-on workshops on brain imaging, genetics and modeling methods. The institute is geared toward predoctoral and postdoctoral fellows.


Computational Neuroscience:

Probabilistic Models of Cognition: The Mathematics of Mind
http://www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/gss2007/
Involve leaders from Cognitive Science and experts from Computer Science, Mathematics and Statistics, who are interested in making bridges to Cognitive Science. The goal is to develop a common mathematical framework for all aspects of cognition, and review how it explains empirical phenomena in the major areas of cognitive science - including vision, memory, reasoning, learning, planning, and language. The summer school is motivated by recent advances which offer the promise of modeling human cognition mathematically. These advances have occurred largely because the mathematical and computational tools developed for designing artificial systems are beginning to make an impact on theoretical and empirical work in Cognitive Science. In turn, Cognitive Science offers an enormous range of complex problems which challenge and test these theories.
The main theoretical theme of the summer school is to model cognitive abilities as sophisticated forms of probabilistic inference. The approach is "sophisticated" in at least three respects. First, the knowledge and beliefs of cognitive agents are modeled using sophisticated probability distributions defined over structured relational systems, such as graphs and generative grammars. Second, the learning and reasoning processes of cognitive agents are modeled using advanced mathematical techniques from statistical estimation, statistical physics, and stochastic differential equations. Third, the decision making processes of agents are modeled using techniques from decision theory and game theory. 
The summer school is intended for graduate students and postdocs, as well as more senior researchers interested in focusing their efforts on these mathematical challenges and crucial applications.


Theoretical Neuroscience and complex systems
http://fias.uni-frankfurt.de/neuro_school/
There is a high demand in Neuroscience to develop new concepts for understanding the brain. Computational and other theoretical approaches aiming at a mathematical analysis of neuroscientific questions are becoming more and more important. However, theoreticians in this area typically have backgrounds in physics, mathematics, computer science, or electrical engineering and no formal training in neuroscience during the early stages of their career. Conversely, the education of experimental neuroscientists lacks in computational and mathematical knowledge. Most importantly, these two groups usually have few opportunities to come together and learn how to collaborate with each other. Our school is designed to address this problem.
The school will bring together young scholars from three different areas: experimental and theoretical neuroscience and theoretical physics. Together these students will attend lectures by renowned scientists in the field. In addition, they will form interdisciplinary teams to work on small projects. Ideally, every team will be composed of at least one student in each of the three areas (experimental and theoretical neuroscience, theoretical physics). Experienced computational neuroscientists will help the interdisciplinary teams with their project work, which makes up a significant fraction of the school.
A unique feature of our school is the “complex systems perspective”. We view the brain as a complex system, whose computational powers emerge from the interplay of many comparatively simple elements, and which shares organizational principles with other animate and inanimate complex systems. This view allows neuroscientists to look beyond the specifics of their day-to-day work and it will make it much easier for physicists to approach the neuroscience field.

fMRI training:

University of Michigan
http://sitemaker.umich.edu/fmri.training.course/home
The purpose of this intensive two-week course is to introduce students to fMRI in a way that will allow them to use this technique in their own research and to critically appreciate fMRI data gathered by others.  The course covers motivation for using fMRI, neuroanatomy, the BOLD response, experimental design, physics of MRI and fMRI, data acquisition, pre-processing of fMRI data, basic statistics, introduction to the SPM, temporal and spatial modeling of data, group modeling of data, and advanced designs.  The course also includes a substantial laboratory component during which students will learn some elementary programming and conduct data acquisition and analysis.  The course meets every day during each of the two work weeks.


UCLA Advanced Neuroimaging Summer School
http://www.brainmapping.org/NITP/fMRIFellowship/
The purpose of this two-week intensive summer school, presented by the UCLA Neuroimaging Training Program (NITP), is to provide a solid foundation in state-of-the-art functional neuroimaging methods.   The course will involve lectures from both UCLA faculty and a distinguished international group of lecturers, covering all aspects of neuroimaging data acquisition, experimental design, and data analysis. In addition, students will interact closely with these lecturers in  hands-on laboratory exercises.  The pinnacle of the course will be the design, execution, and analysis of an fMRI study by participants in small groups.

The target audience is researchers at all levels of their careers (beyond undergraduate), including graduate students, post-doctoral researchers, and PI's in neuroscience, broadly defined. Participants should have basic skills in statistics and computing; previous exposure to neuroimaging is preferable but not necessary.  We expect to train roughly 30 students in this first year of the course. Students in the UCLA NITP training program are required to take this course in the summer before their second year, providing a strong foundation for their next year of training. 
With generous support from the National Institute for Drug Abuse, this program will be offered for free to all accepted participants. In addition, there is limited free on-campus housing available for participants from other institutions.


ERP Training:

The ERP Bootcamp
http://www.erpinfo.org/bootcamp
The ERP Boot Camp is an intensive introduction to the ERP technique, organized and led by Steve Luck with additional lectures by many other ERP experts. The boot camp is intended for beginning and intermediate ERP researchers--at any career stage--who would like to obtain a firm grasp of the fundamentals of ERP research.

Topics include:
1) Where do ERP come from? What do they mean?
2) ERP components
3) Setting up and running an ERP lab
4) The design and interpretation of ERP experiments
5) EEG data acquisition
6) Filtering, artifact rejection, and artifact correction
7) Measuring and analyzing ERP components
8) ERP localization

We will also focus on the use of ERP in several research areas, including:
1) Attention, memory, language, and executive control
2) Aging, dementia, and brain damage
3) Schizophrenia and other psychiatric disorders
4) Cognitive development

The boot camp consists of lectures on these topics, accompanied by discussions of classic and contemporary ERP papers and guided lab activities (e.g., EEG recording, filtering waveforms, measuring ERP components).

Participants at previous Boot Camps have come from around the world and have ranged from beginning graduate students to full professors. They have included psychologists, neuroscientists, psychiatrists, neurologists, and speech pathologists. We encourage the participation of individuals from underrepresented groups.