- From: Raman Chandrasekar <Raman.Chandrasekar@microsoft.com>
- Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 11:56:11 -0700
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- Cc: <SearchTextMining.sigirlist5@spaces.msn.com>, <efthimis@u.washington.edu>
Registration for the 29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference is now OPEN! http://www.sigir2006.org August 6-11, 2006, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA. Don't forget to make your Room Reservations: http://www.sigir2006.org/accomodations.asp There are rooms available at the two conference hotels (Silver Cloud Inn, and Watertown), and at the University of Washington Halls of Residence. SIGIR 2006 Advance Registration until June 30 Standard Registration July 1-31 Late/On-site Registration starts Aug 1 Member Rates To qualify for member rates, you must be a member of ACM SIGIR, ACM SIGCHI, ACM SIGWEB, ACM, or ASIST. PROGRAM Summary Aug 6 (Sun) - Tutorials (8) and Doctoral Consortium (9) Aug 6 (Sun) Welcoming Reception and dinner at the new Boeing Future of Flight Aviation Center (sponsored by Boeing). Aug 7-9 (Mon-Wed) - Main Conference (74 papers) Aug 7 (Mon) Salton Award Winner Keynote Address Aug 7 (Mon) Posters (63) and Demonstrations (11) Reception & buffet dinner Aug 8 (Tue) Keynote Address by Jon Kleinberg Aug 8 (Tue) SIGIR Business Meeting Aug 8 (Tue) Banquet at Tillicum Village (sponsored by Microsoft) Aug 9 (Wed) Keynote Address by Radha Radhakrishnan Aug 10 (Thurs) - Workshops (eight 1-day) Aug 11 (Fri) - Workshop (one 2-day) Seventy four (18.5%) of the submitted papers were accepted. Geographic areas represented are: 49 from the Americas, 11 from Europe and 14 from Asia - Pacific. In addition to the full papers, 63 posters 11 demonstrations, 8 tutorials and 9 workshops were accepted for inclusion in the technical program. A doctoral consortium with 9 PhD candidates is also part of the technical program. Looking forward to seeing you in Seattle! Cheers, Efthi * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Efthimis N. Efthimiadis <efthimis@u.washington.edu> Associate Professor The Information School, University of Washington Suite 370 Mary Gates Hall, Box 352840 Seattle, WA 98195-2840, USA tel.(off.) 206-616-6077, (sch) 206-685-9937, fax. 206-616-3152 http://faculty.washington.edu/efthimis http://www.sigir2006.org * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
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