Invitation to Tenderfor Hosting of ESSIR 2009 Summer School

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Invitation to Tender for Hosting of ESSIR 2009 Summer School

The Steering Committee of the European Summer School on Information
Retrieval (ESSIR) invites interested parties to submit bids to host
ESSIR in 2009. Further details on ESSIR can be found at
http://ims.dei.unipd.it/essir/home.html 

ESSIR is a five-day Summer school (Monday to Friday), which is now
organized every 2 years. The target audience of the Summer School are
advanced undergraduate students, PhD students, post-doctoral researchers
and academic and industrial researchers and developers. The ESSIR Summer
School gives participants a grounding in the core subjects of IR -
architectures, algorithms, formal theoretical models of IR, and
evaluation - as well as covering the development of some of the more
recent topics.

ESSIR 2009 will be the 7th European School in Information Retrieval.
The first one, ESSIR'90 was organised by the University of Padova (Prof.
Maristella Agosti) and was held in Bressanone, Italy, in 1990.
The 2nd ESSIR (http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/essir/) was organised by the
University of Glasgow (Prof. Keith van Rijsbergen) and held in Glasgow,
Scotland, in 1995, in conjunction with the BCS Colloquium in Information
Retrieval, an IRIDES project meeting, and the final MIRO workshop. The
3rd ESSIR (http://www.itim.mi.cnr.it/Eventi/essir2000/
index.htm) was organised by Dr. Gabriela Pasi, Prof. Maristella Agosti
and Prof. Fabio Crestani, and took place in Varenna, Italy, in 2000. The
4th ESSIR (http://www-clips.imag.fr/mrim/essir03/) was held in Aussois,
France and organised by Prof. Yves Chiaramella and Prof.
Catherine Berrut. ESSIR 2005 was held in Dublin, Ireland and organized
by Prof. Alan Smeaton (http://www.cdvp.dcu.ie/ESSIR2005/).
ESSIR 2007 was in Glasgow, Scotland, organised by Dr. Iadh Ounis
(http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/essir2007/)


Parties interested in hosting ESSIR 2009 are invited to submit proposals
by email to Alan Smeaton ([email protected] ), by Monday
22 October 2007.

Evaluation of proposals will take into account the proposed Summer
School venue, timing and location, programme, likely financial viability
and plans for organization and publicity.  Proposals should also take
into consideration the successful BCS IRSG Symposium on: "Future
Directions in Information Access 2007" which was incorporated into ESSIR
2007 in order to provide a forum for early-stage researchers to share
and discuss their research.

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