European Summer School in IR, Aug 29 - Sep 2, Germany

8th International Summer School on Information Retrieval offers high quality teaching on Information Retrieval and related research topics.

ESSIR 2011 - European Summer School in IR
29 Aug - 02 Sep 2011, Koblenz, Germany
essir.uni-koblenz.de/

The 8th International Summer School on Information Retrieval offers high quality teaching on Information Retrieval and related research topics. ESSIR is *THE* only world-wide school in Information Retrieval, with temporal regularity founded in 1990.

Confirmed SPEAKERS:

Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Yahoo! Research Barcelona and Universidad de Chile
Hinrich Schutze, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Peter Ingwersen, Royal School of Information and Library Science, IVA Denmark
Stefan Ruger, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK
Nigel Shadbolt, University of Southampton, UK
Andreas Hotho, University of Würzburg, Germany

Our VENUE: Koblenz is situated in the picturesque landscape of the Rhine and Moselle (UNESCO world heritage), known for excellent wines, romantic medieval castles, Loreley and Goethe. Wine tasting and a river cruise to the medieval castles of Rhine valley (Loreley rock) are part of our social program!

Koblenz has a very central position in central Europe and in Germany, with excellent travel connections to several international airports.

Web: essir.uni-koblenz.de/
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