Meetings

 First SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM'2001)
                     Chicago, Illinois, April 5-7, 2001

This is a gentle reminder that registration and hotel reservations for
the First SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM'2001) to
be held at the Midland Hotel in Chicago, Illinois, from April 5-7,
2001, is rapidly approaching. Rooms are filling up quickly,
so register soon!

SDM-01 program includes 30 contributing research papers, 4 invited key
note talks, 4 tutorials and a panel by prominent researchers and
practitioners in data mining.  In addition, four international workshops
are being held in association with the SDM'01 conference.

KEYNOTE TALKS:
1) Machine Learning and Extracting information from the Web.
   TOM MITCHELL, Whizbang! Labs.

2) Data Mining for Fun and Profit. DAVID HAND, Imperial College, London

3) Combining Discrete Algorithmic and Probabilistic Approaches in Data
   Mining.  HEIKKI MANNILA, Nokia Research Center

4) Data Mining Meets E-Business: Opportunities and Challenges.
   UMESHWAR DAYAL, HP Labs

PANEL:
Mining E-Business Data  & amp; Scientific Data: Is There a Difference?

WORKSHOPS:
1) Workshop on Mining Scientific Data Sets
2) Workshop on Data Mining for Genomics
3) Workshop on Web Mining
4) Workshop on Text Mining

TUTORIALS:
1) Data Mining for Science and Engineering Applications.
   Chandrika Kamath, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

2) E-commerce and Clickstream Mining. Ronny Kohavi, Blue Martini
   Software, Inc. and Jon Becher, Accrue Software, Inc.

3) Data Mining meets the Internet: Techniques for Web Information
   Retrieval and Network Data Management. Rajeev Rastogi, and Minos
   Garofalakis, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies

4) Data Mining for Genomics.
   George Karypis, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Details for registration, hotel accommodations, and conference program
are available at the following url: www.siam.org/meetings/sdm01/.