[ACT-R-users] 2011 ACT-R Post-Graduate Summer School

[Christian Lebiere]

The ACT-R 2011 PGSS registration web site has been set up at:

<http://cog.cs.drexel.edu/actr2011/index.php>

Thanks to the support of our sponsor, there is no registration fee.
Interested participants should complete the registration form on the web
site.  Housing reservations will take place at a later date.

Christian, Dario, Greg, Mike and Niels

On 1/14/11 10:07 PM, "Christian Lebiere" <cl at cmu.edu> wrote:

> Instead of the traditional summer school and workshop, this year a
> post-graduate summer school (PGSS) targeted at experienced users of ACT-R will
> take place from Saturday July 16 to Tuesday July 19, 2011 at the White
> Mountain Hotel in North Conway, NH (http://www.whitemountainhotel.com/). The
> goal of the post-graduate summer school is to reflect on the ACT-R theory and
> discuss in depth the issues that have arisen since the last major
> architectural developments (and the last PGSS in 2001).
>  
> After an opening reception on Saturday evening, the PGSS will be organized in
> sessions consisting of extended presentations and open discussions around a
> specific theme.  Each day will feature three 90-minute sessions from 9am to
> 3pm, plus a free-ranging evening discussion of the topics of the day led by a
> discussant. The time between the end of the afternoon session at 3pm and
> dinner is set aside for informal discussions and collaboration and for
> recreation.  Participants attending the Cognitive Science Conference Workshop
> and Tutorials program on Wednesday July 20 can leave at 3pm on Tuesday after
> the afternoon session.
>  
> The White Mountain Hotel is situated on a 250-acre estate in the White
> Mountains of New Hampshire near the town of North Conway, the White Mountain
> National Forest, and a number of State Parks and State Forests.  The hotel is
> located within a 3-hour drive of Boston, where the Cognitive Science
> Conference will take place from Wednesday July 20 to Saturday July 23.  We
> have reserved a block of 35 rooms.  The cost of the package for 4 nights
> (Saturday 7/16 to Wednesday 7/20), including free breakfast every morning, 1
> dinner and all taxes is $819.00/person single occupancy and $465.00/person
> double occupancy.  A modest PGSS registration fee will cover lunches and
> coffee breaks.
>  
> At this point, we would like to solicit expressions of interest for planning
> purposes.  If you are interested in attending the PGSS, please email Christian
> Lebiere at cl at cmu.edu to register your interest.  Actual registration will
> take place at a future date.
> 
> Mike Byrne, Christian Lebiere, Dario Salvucci, Niels Taatgen & Greg Trafton