FUNDING FOR EUROPEAN-BASED STUDENTS TO ATTEND RUSSIR 2016 http://romip.ru/russir2016/registration/
The European Science Foundation (http://www.esf.org/) has made funding available through the ELIAS network (http://elias-network.eu/) administered by Wayne State University (https://wayne.edu/), to support student attendance at the Russian Summer School in Information Retrieval (RuSSIR 2016), Saratov, Russia, 22-26 August 2016 (http://russir.org). In order to be considered, students who are based in Europe should submit a short application with - one paragraph stating the benefit you hope to gain from attending RuSSIR 2016 - requested support for travel and accommodation - the e-mail address of your main academic supervisor, who we will ask to support your case through the registration form (http://romip.ru/russir2016/registration/) by July 24, 2016. Applications will be decided based on scientific merit by the Programme Committee of RuSSIR 2016. Successful applicants will receive the agreed amount of funding after the Summer School on production of original receipts and a short (1 page) report on the benefits of the Summer School for the student. The RuSSIR’2016 program includes the following courses: – Gianluca Demartini (University of Sheffield, UK) "Crowdsourcing and Human Computation for Semantic Search" – Ingmar Weber (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar) "Computational Social Science: Theories, Methods and Data" – Alexander Kotov (Wayne State University, USA) "Knowledge Graph Entity Representation and Retrieval" – Krisztian Balog (University of Stavanger, Norway) "Entity Linking" – Fabian Suchanek (Telecom ParisTech University, France) "Ontological Information Extraction" – Mihai Lupu (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) "Domain Specific Semantic Search" – Shlomo Berkovsky (CSIRO, Australia) "Social Personalization and Recommender Systems" – Heng Ji (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA) "Knowledge Base Population" – Ilya Markov (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) "Click Models for Web Search" – Boris Mirkin (Higher School of Economics, Russia) "Model- and experiment-driven recommendations for haunting issues in clustering" About the school: The RuSSIR series started in 2007 and has developed into a renowned academic event with solid international participation. The previous RuSSIRs took place in Ekaterinburg, Taganrog, Petrozavodsk, Voronezh, Saint Petersburg, Yaroslavl, Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod, and again in Saint Petersburg. For more information visit http://russir.org. About the venue: Saratov (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saratov) is a city in the European part of Russia. It is situated on the Volga river and is famous for a 3 km long beautiful bridge. Saratov State University has the status of the National Research University. The SSU has a long-standing excellent educational program in Mathematics and Computer Science. For inquiries regarding the grant program, please contact Alexander Kotov <[email protected]>; for general questions about the school, please write to <[email protected]>. _______________________________________________ Mt-list site list [email protected] http://lists.eamt.org/mailman/listinfo/mt-list
