ACM SIGIR'06 (Seattle, USA; Aug 6-11, 2006) "EARLY BIRD" registration closes TODAY -- Hurry!!!

[Apologies for multiple postings]

SIGIR 2006, the 29th Annual International Conference of ACM's Special
Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR) will be held August
6-11, 2006 at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Registration for conference is now open. Advance registration
(discounted rates!) ends TODAY, June 30th.
                      
                       SIGIR 2006 
                       http://www.sigir2006.org 
                       August 6-11, 2006, 
                       University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.

Don't forget to register to attend SIGIR '06 -- and do not forget to
book your lodging.  The two hotels (Silver Cloud Inn and Watertown
Hotel)  will release our SIGIR room block on July 5 and after that  the
rates will increase significantly, and possibly the hotels will  be
full.  The deadline for UW dorm reservations is July 19, but it's best
to take care of making  reservations now so you don't forget later.

 For more information and links to the hotels and UW dorms, visit the
lodging page of the SIGIR 2006 website:
 http://www.sigir2006.org/accomodations.asp


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   (Thu)    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

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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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