Meetings

              CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
First SIAM International Conference on Data Mining
          Midland Hotel, Chicago, USA
                 April 5-7, 2001
See conference URL for accepted papers, conference program and
registration instructions: http://www.siam.org/meetings/sdm01/

REGISTRATION INFORMATION:
                                SIAM Member Non-Member Student
Preregistration(before March 2)
                                   $250     $330        $75
Registration(after March 2)        $310     $390        $75

Registration fee includes:
    Welcome Reception, Thursday, April 5
    Continental breakfast daily: Thursday, Friday, Saturday
    Admission to all technical sessions
    Admission to conference workshops
    Two coffee breaks daily
    Room set-ups and audiovisual equipment

CONFERENCE HOTEL:
The Midland Hotel
172 West Adams at LaSalle
Chicago, Illinois, 60603
Telephone: 312-332-1200
Fax : 312-332-6507
http://www.midlandhotelchicago.com/home.html

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE:
              April 5           April 6         April 7
7:00-8:15     --------Continental Breakfast--------------
8:15-8:30     -----Opening Remarks/Announcements---------
8:30-9:30     K1                K3              Workshops
9:30-10:00    -------------Coffee Break------------------
10:00-12:00   L1 - L2 - T1      L3 - L4 - T3    Workshops
12:00-13:45   -----------Lunch (on your own)-------------
13:45-14:45   K2                K4              Workshops
15:00-16:00   S1 - S2 - T1      S3 - S4 - T3    Workshops
16:00-16:30   Coffee Break/T2   Coffee Break    Coffee Break
16:30-18:00   M1 - M2 - T2      Panel           Workshops
18:00-18:30   T2                -               Workshops
18:30-20:00   Welcome Reception -               -

K=Keynote, T=Tutorial, L=Long session (4 papers),
M=Middle length session (3 papers), S=Short Length session (2 papers)

WORKSHOPS:
Four workshops will be held (all on April 7, 2001):
1) Workshop on Mining Scientific Data Sets
2) Workshop on Data Mining for Genomics
3) Workshop on Web Mining
4) Workshop on Text Mining