- From: Raman Chandrasekar <Raman.Chandrasekar@microsoft.com>
- Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 08:02:00 -0700
- To: "Raman Chandrasekar" <raman.chandrasekar@microsoft.com>
- Cc: "Efthimis Efthimiadis" <efthimis@u.washington.edu>
- Message-ID: <C666D8EF5C34C04083B0AC8B6DAC54AC01960B66@RED-MSG-71.redmond.corp.microsoft.com>
> [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. Standard registration (yes, > this is cheaper than on-site registration!) ends in a few days, on > July 31st. Rates go up on August 1st. > Register NOW and save!! > > SIGIR 2006 > http://www.sigir2006.org > August 6-11, 2006, > University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA. > Accommodation: > Don't forget to make your room reservations. There are rooms available > at the University Tower Hotel (book by July 28th to get SIGIR rate), > and at the University of Washington Halls of Residence. See > http://www.sigir2006.org/accomodations.asp for details. > Registration: > Standard Registration ends on July 31st. > 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 > > * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * > 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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