[Corpora-List] 3rd MUMIA Summer Training School - Call for Participation - INVITATION to apply for GRANTS

[Parth Gupta]

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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION - INVITATION to apply for GRANTS

  3rd MUMIA Training School on Information Retrieval and Interactive
Information Access

  July 21-July 25, 2014


 FORTH-ICS, Heraklion, Crete, Greece

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  ABOUT the TRAINING SCHOOL

The EU-funded COST Network IC1002 (*http://www.mumia-network.eu/
<http://www.mumia-network.eu/>*) is a networking programme which aims to
promote collaboration between researchers and professionals working on
Multilingual and Multifaceted Information Access (MUMIA). The aim of the
3rd MUMIA Training School on Information Retrieval and Interactive
Information Access is to give participants grounding in the core topics
that constitute the interdisciplinary area of Multilingual and Multifaceted
Interactive Information Access. The school is a week-long event consisting
of lecturers from scientists participating in the MUMIA network and invited
speakers who are recognized experts in the field. The School is intended
for PhD students, Master students or early stage researchers such as
post-doctoral researchers interested in the fields of information
retrieval, information management, interactive information access and
related fields.

  CONFIRMED LECTURES
· Keith van Rijsbergen, Introduction to IR: Foundation and Models

· Kalervo Jarvelin, Task-based information interaction evaluation

· Braschler Martin, Cross-language and Multilingual IR

· Mihai Lupu, IR Evaluation++

· Stefanos Vrochidis, Interactive Content-based Multimedia Retrieval

· Preben Hansen, Collaborative Information Seeking and Search Interfaces

· Gabriella Pasi, Contextual Search and Contextual Factors Aggregation

· George Paltoglou, Opinion Retrieval in Social Media

· Kostas Stefanidis, Recommender Systems

· Sébastien Ferré, Faceted Search

· Yannis Tzitzikas, Bridging the Web of Documents with the Web of Data

* the school will include 1 or 2 more lectures (confirmation pending)

 POSTER SESSION

The training school will organize a Poster session aiming to provide a
forum for participants of the training school to discuss their research and
interact with senior researchers or other young researchers in an informal
and relaxed atmosphere.


 REGISTRATION FEES

Early registration (until June 16, 2014) : 200 Euro

Late or onsite Registration : 250 Euro

  Registration Fees include admission to all lectures, course material,
lunches, coffee breaks, and participation in the social events organised
during the week of the training school.

  SCHOLARSHIPS for MSc/MPhil/PhD students and Early Stage Researchers

  MUMIA will provide a grant of 600 EUR to a large number of MSc/MPhil/PhD
students and Early Stage Researchers (up to 8 years after receiving your
PhD) working in one of the *35 COST countries
<http://www.cost.eu/about_cost/cost_countries>*. If you want to apply for a
scholarship to attend the 3rd MUMIA Training School you must send until May
15, 2014:

   1.

   an updated short CV (max 2 pages),
   2.

   a motivation letter

 to the MUMIA administration (*ic1002.grantholder at gmail.com
<ic1002.grantholder at gmail.com>*), expressing your work's relevance to the
courses of the school and your motivation to attend the training school.

  For more information about available grants to attend the training school
visit the website:

*http://www.mumia-network.eu/index.php/scholarships
<http://www.mumia-network.eu/index.php/scholarships>*
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