Meetings

SSDBM 2001:
International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management
July 18-20, 2001

George W. Johnson Center, Fairfax, Campus
George Mason University

Sponsored by George Mason University,
In Cooperation With: ACM SIGMOD,
IEEE TC on Data Engineering, and the VLDB Endowment.

The SSDBM 2001 Organizing Committee invites you to participate in the
technical and social programs associated with scientific and
statistical database management.  The conference is single-track to
encourage discussions and interactions.

Highlights of the conference include:

Keynote Address:

"A Scaleable Infrastructure for Browsing, Processing, and Fusing
Distributed Heterogeneous Earth Science Data," by Professor Joseph
J�J�, University of Maryland, College Park

Invited Tutorial:

"Clustering Algorithms and Validity Measures," M. Halkidi,
Y. Batistakis, and M. Vazirgiannis, Athens University of Economics and
Business

Panel Session: "The Science Data Highway - Where Are We Today?

Technical Session titles include: Statistical Databases; Index
Structures for SSDBM; Query Processing, Optimization and Constraints;
Clustering Techniques; System Architectures and Methods; Performance
of Spatio-Temporal Data Structures; Data Mining and OLAP; and Posters
and Demonstrations.

The Advance Program may be viewed at:
http://www.ssdbm.gmu.edu/advance_program.htm

We are planning a dinner cruise on the Potomac River with views of
Washington, D.C.

Please visit our web site at: http://www.ssdbm.gmu.edu/ for details.
On the web site you can register for the conference via a secure web
page, and obtain conference hotel information.

Should you require additional assistance, please contact Ms. Rickee
Mahoney, GMU Events Management, 703-993-2122, or by e-mail at
rhanks@gmu.edu

Advance Registration closes June 15, 2001!

We look forward to seeing you at SSDBM 2001 on George Mason
University's Fairfax Campus.

Larry Kerschberg	Menas Kafatos
Program Chair		General Chair