11th Russian Summer School in Information Retrieval (RuSSIR 2017)
August 21-25, 2017, Yekaterinburg, Russia
Application deadline: June 25, 2017 July 3, 2017 (extended)
The 11th Russian Summer School in Information Retrieval (RuSSIR 2017) will be held on August 21-25, 2017 in Yekaterinburg, Russia. The school is co-organized by the Ural Federal University and the Russian Information Retrieval Evaluation Seminar (ROMIP). The RuSSIR 2017 will have a special focus on neural networks and their applications for the Information Retrieval.
The missions of the RuSSIR school series are to enable students to learn about modern problems and methods in information retrieval and related disciplines; to stimulate scientific research and collaboration in the field; to create an environment for successful networking between scientists, students and industry professionals.
RuSSIR 2017 will offer the following program (see in more detail here).
Keynotes:
- Ruslan Salakhutdinov (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) — Foundations of Deep Learning
- Jaap Kamps (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands) — Foundations of Information Retrieval and its Future
Courses:
- Ying-Hsang Liu (Charles Sturt University, Australia) — Design and Implementation of User Experiments in Information Retrieval
- Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio (University of Padua, Italy) — An Interactive “View” of Probabilistic Models for Text Retrieval, Classification, Quantification
- Efstratios Gavves (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands)— Deep Learning for Language and Vision
- Stefan Rueger (The Open University, United Kingdom) — Visual retrieval and mining
- Mikhail Burtsev and Valentin Malykh (MIPT, Russia) — Conversational Intelligence: Deep Learning Approach
- Tom Kenter, Alexey Borisov, Christophe Van Gysel, Mostafa Dehghani, Maarten de Rijke and Bhaskar Mitra (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Yandex, Russia; Microsoft Bing, United Kingdom) — Neural Networks for Information Retrieval
Additionally, our industry sponsors will give practical talks on how information retrieval methods help them solve their production tasks.
Summer school participants will have an opportunity to present their current research projects/ideas at poster sessions and to get feedback from the fellow students and the lecturers. The school will have a versatile social program.
IMPORTANT DATES
Application deadline: June 25, 2017 July 3, 2017 (extended)
Notification: July 5, 2017 July 12, 2017 (extended)
School: August 21-25, 2017
PARTICIPATION IN THE SCHOOL
The target audience of the school is advanced graduate and PhD students, post-doctoral researchers, developers, academic and industrial researchers and developers. The school will be open to about 100 qualified, motivated, and pre-selected candidates. The working language of the school is English. Participation is free of charge, a limited number of travel/accommodation grants will be provided.
To participate in the school, fill the application form by July 3, 2017. In particular, you need to provide the following information:
- Name, country of residence and affiliation.
- One paragraph description of what you expect to gain from attending RuSSIR 2017.
- A short paper in the ACM proceedings format. Short papers are up to two-page pdf documents in English that describe applicants’ early-stage, ongoing or completed research/educational projects. Research results published before and work in progress are accepted. Short papers will be presented during poster sessions at RuSSIR 2017.
- Curriculum Vitae.
There is also an option to apply for grants when completing the application form.
Questions and inquiries are welcome at school@romip.ru.
ABOUT RUSSIR
The first RuSSIR took place in 2007 and since then has evolved into a popular academic event with solid international participation. Previous schools took place in Yekaterinburg, Taganrog, Petrozavodsk, Voronezh, Yaroslavl, Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod, St. Petersburg, and Saratov. Courses in previous editions of RuSSIR were taught by many prominent researchers in information retrieval and related disciplines.
ABOUT THE VENUE
Yekaterinburg is a big modern city, located in the Urals, on the border between Europe and Asia. Yekaterinburg is known for its vibrant music scene and thriving contemporary art. Many IT companies are located here. Yekaterinburg is the home city of Boris Yeltsin, the first president of Russia; the Yeltsin Presidential Center opened in 2015 became a new highlight of the city.
Ural Federal University (UrFU) is one of the top-ranked and largest universities in Russia. UrFU has an old tradition of education and research in computer science; the university’s team has a good record in ACM ICPC series.