Organisers

• Programme Committee
  • Kalervo Järvelin, University of Tampere, Finland James Allan, University of Massachusetts, USA
  • Peter Bruza, Distributed Systems Technology Centre, Australia
  Posters Chair
  • Gareth Jones, Dublin City University, Ireland
  Best Papers Chair
  • John Tait, University of Sunderland, UK
  Mentoring Chair
  • Doug Oard, University of Maryland, USA
  Doctoral Consortium
  • David Harper, Robert Gordon University, UK
  Tutorials Chair
  • Fabio Crestani, University of Strathclyde, UK
  Workshops Chair
  • Mounia Lalmas, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
  Demos Chair
  • Ian Ruthven, University of Strathclyde, UK
  Local Organisers
  • General Chair
    • Mark Sanderson - Sheffield Information Retrieval Group
    Treasurer
    • Micheline Beaulieu
    • Conference accountant
      • Kathryn Cobley
    Local Arrangements
    • Peter Willett
    Registration chair
    • Daniela Petrelli
    Publicity & Website
    • Hideo Joho
    • Steve Levin
    Organiser of PC meeting in London
  • Mounia Lalmas
  • Volunteers
  • Courtesty of the Sheffield Information Retrieval Group
  Allocation of EU Student Travel Grants
  • Stefan Rueger, Imperial College London, UK

• Area Coordinators