[Asis-l] ECIR 2016, the place to be in March 2016: research, art and fine cuisine

[Gianmaria Silvello]

The 38th European Conference on Information Retrieval
Call For Participation

20-23 March 2016
Padua, Italy

http://ecir2016.dei.unipd.it/
http://twitter.com/ecir2016

The 38th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2016) will take place in Padua, Italy from 20-23 March 2016. ECIR is the main European forum for the presentation of new research results in the field of Information Retrieval (IR).

ECIR 2016 offers:

* 3 outstanding keynotes *
- Jordan Boyd-Graber (Recipient of the Karen Spärck Jones Award 2015): Opening up the Black Box: Interactive Machine Learning for Understanding Large Document Collections, Characterizing Social Science, and Language-Based Games
- Emine Yilmaz (Recipient of the Karen Spärck Jones Award 2015): A Task-Based Perspective to Information Retrieval
- Domonkos Tikk (Industrial Keynote): Lessons Learn at Building Recommendation Services in Industry Scale

* 42 full research IR papers, 4 reproducibility papers, 28 posters and 6 demos *

* A panel on "Data-driven Information Retrieval" with Maristella Agosti, Omar Alonso, Raffaele Perego and Maarten de Rijke *

* 4 workshops *
- 3rd International Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval (BIR2016)
- 1st International Workshop on Modeling, Learning and Mining for Cross/Multilinguality (MultiLingMine 2016)
- ProActive Information Retrieval: Anticipating Users' Information Needs (ProAct IR)
- First International Workshop on Recent Trends in News Information Retrieval (NewsIR’16)

* 4 tutorials *
- Collaborative Information Retrieval: Concepts, Models and Evaluation
- Group Recommender Systems: State of the Art, Emerging Aspects and Techniques, and Research Challenges (GroupRecSys2016)
- Living Labs for Online Evaluation: From Theory to Practice (LiLa2016)
- Real-Time Bidding based Display Advertising: Mechanisms and Algorithms (RTBMA 2016)

* Industry day with 7 exceptional talks featured by Spotify, Microsoft, Berlin Institute of Technology, Delft University of Technology, XING, Plista, StumbleUpon, Criteo, Magnetic and UXLabs

* 3 remarkable social events *
- Welcome Reception: On Sunday evening we propose a little country festival. Italy, in fact, during spring and summer is full of country festivals hosted almost in each village of the city countryside, where people dance, drink and eat typical food, above all. We can't bring you in a country festival, but we want to bring that atmosphere at ECIR 2016 by offering you a welcome happy hour with, moreover, “porchetta” (Italian spit-roasted pork) and draft beer.

- Monday Evening Reception offered at Cafè Pedrocchi one of the most important historical cafès, also known as “the Café with no doors” thanks to its very long-lasting opening hours; Pedrocchi (1831) is considered one of the “most beautiful Café on earth” keeping a mixture of neoclassic and neo-Gothic styles. Here, in the “Rossini room”, dedicated to the composer Rossini, after the Poster session, we are going to be greeted with the typical Italian wine  “Prosecco” and a very good dinner with Italian cheeses, cured meats, shellfish... and so on.

- Tuesday Social Dinner at "San Gaetano" Cultural Centre, a modern five-storeyed structure, which preserves ancient signs of old city. The social dinner will be prepared by one of the best caterers in town and will give you the opportunity to taste the best Italian ingredients, dishes, wines and grappa. 

* The venues *
ECIR 2016 will take place at the University of Padua historical botanical garden and at the main University building: Palazzo del Bo. 

The Botanical Garden is a UNESCO World Heritage site and it is the oldest university garden in the world to have retained its original location and layout over the centuries. As we can read in the Unesco document “The Botanical Garden of Padua... represents the birth of science, of scientific exchanges [...] It has made a profound contribution to the development of many modern scientific disciplines, notably botany, medicine, chemistry, ecology, and pharmacy”. 

The participants to the conference will spend the whole Monday in the botanical garden with the opportunity to visit the old garden (1545) and the new Biodiversity Garden (2014) containing more than 1,300 plant species.

On Tuesday and Wednesday ECIR will take place in the main and most beautiful seat of University of Padua, Palazzo del Bo, which in the centuries has been the home of eminent faculty and scholars: Galileo Galilei, Nicolaus Copernicus, Pope Sixtus IV, Ippolito Nievo, Giovanni Battista Morgagni and Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia, the world‘s first female graduate (1678), to mention just a few.


* Registration at: http://ecir2016.dei.unipd.it/registration.html *
Prices:
Students: 280€	
BCS/IRSG/ACM: 480€	
Regular: 530€

ECIR 2016 is sponsored by: ELIAS, European Science Foundation, Google, Yahoo, Elsevier, Spotify, Springer, Yandex, University of Padua, Department of Information Engineering, Department of Mathematics and supported by BCS-IRSG.


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