Connectionists: Announcing the 2020 CCN GAC kickoff workshops! (Please RSVP!)

[Eric DeWitt]

Dear Connectionist Community,

This year the Cognitive Computational Neuroscience cancelled it’s in person conference  scheduled for August 2020 and launched a new, unique project: The CCN Generative Adversarial Collaborations (see the announcement here: https://gac.ccneuro.org/). The goal is to generate bring together a diverse group of researchers to clarify a controversy or outstanding open question and propose concrete steps (experimental and theoretical) to help resolve it.

The kickoff workshops for the 2020 CCN GACs have been scheduled! There will be six open workshops, spanning October 15-23, with the entire community invited to attend and participate! The goals is to help move the current GAC initial proposals forward and allow other interested members of the community to engage. See the full schedule here: https://gac.ccneuro.org/schedule

If you are planning to come to the virtual workshops, please help us plan for capacity by filling out this RSVP form.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf47xOjBgcOUqEdM35egCATquq3kb9cV91AkkLSQ0TA7nh_Pg/viewform?usp=sf_link

We hope to see you there!
- the CCN Program Committee: Gunnar Blohm, Eric DeWitt, Ralf Haefner, Niko Kriegeskorte, Jennifer Lieberman, Megan Peters, & Gemma Roig

Email questions to gac at ccneuro.org