Call for Participation: WebBar 2007 PhD School

WebBar 2007 - 1st Call for Participation

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3rd BiCi International PhD School on Advanced Retrieval and Web Mining
(WebBar 2007)
Organised by: BiCi, the Bertinoro  International Center for Informatics
Villa Monastero, Varenna August 27-31, 2007
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After two successful editions, the 3rd edition of WebBar will take
place in Varenna, on the magic shores of Lake Como. Prabhakar
Raghavan, Head of Yahoo! Research, Editor-in-chief of JACM and
world-renowned scientist, will offer his Stanford PhD course in
slightly condensed form (http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs276/). This
course is the basis of his new book "Introduction to Information
Retrieval" co-authored with Chris Manning and Heinrich Schuetze.

The course will be complemented by seminars of well-known researchers
presenting their own recent work. Fabrizio Sebastiani, of CNR Pisa,
will offer a tutorial on text categorization.

 During the school, several projects for independent research will be
discussed. In past editions, many of these projects became
full-fledged research papers accepted by prestigious venues such as
WWW, ACM PODS and others.

 The participation fee is euro 650 for accomodation in a double room
and euro 800 for accomodation in a single room. These fees cover all
registration and local costs (full room-and-board).

 There are several fellowships available under the BiCi Leonardo
Melandri Programme. To apply, and for any inquiries, please send email
to [email protected]

 The school is organized and sponsored by BiCi, the Bertinoro
International Center for Informatics. A web site for the school will
be made accessible from the BiCi main page: www.bici.eu .

 The directors of the school are Alessandro Panconesi, Sapienza
Università di Roma, and Gabriella Pasi, Università degli Studi di
Milano Bicocca.