Program

SIGIR 2016 program is spread across five days:

Some information (1, 2) to assist you in your arrival to SIGIR 2016.

SIGIR 2016 Online Proceedings are now online on ACM DL.

Sunday, July 17

Time slot starts at:	Sunday 17

8:00	Registration

9:00	Morning Tutorials	Full day Tutorials	Doctoral consortium Room B


10:30	Coffee break
11:00	Morning Tutorials	Full day Tutorials	Doctoral consortium Room B


12:30	Lunch (provided)


14:00	Afternoon Tutorials	Full day Tutorials	Doctoral consortium Room B


15:30	Coffee break
16:00	Afternoon Tutorials	Full day Tutorials	Doctoral consortium Room B


17:30




20:00	Welcome Reception Giardino Scotto

Time slot starts at:	Monday 18

8:00	Registration

9:00	Opening – Auditorium
9:30	Keynote, Christopher Manning Auditorium

10:30	Coffee break
11:00	1A – Evaluation I	1B – Speech and Conversation Systems	1C – Retrieval Models


12:30	Lunch (provided)		Student lunch (by invitation) Room Galilei


14:00	2A – Learning to rank	2B – Music and math	2C – Microblogs


15:30	Coffee break
16:00	Demo session I Room Galilei	Poster session I Main hall



18:00	Women in IR Room Pacinotti

19:00	Student evening event (by invitation) Argini e Margini

Sessions identified with letter “A” are held in Auditorium, “B” in Room Pacinotti, “C” in Room Fermi

Time slot starts at:	Tuesday 19

8:30	Registration
9:00	3A – Web search	3B – Question answering	3C – Learning


10:30	Coffee break
11:00	4A – Efficiency I	4B – Recommendation Systems I	4C – User needs


12:30	Lunch (provided)


14:00	5A – Privacy, advertising, and products	5B – Novelty and diversity	5C – Entities and knowledge graphs


15:30	Coffee break
16:00	Demo session II Room Galilei	Poster session II Main hall



18:00



20:00	Social Dinner Arsenali Repubblicani

Sessions identified with letter “A” are held in Auditorium, “B” in Room Pacinotti, “C” in Room Fermi

Time slot starts at:	Wednesday 20

9:00	Registration
9:30	Keynote, Vipin Kumar Auditorium

10:30	Coffee break
11:00	SIRIP 6A – Big companies, big data	6B – Evaluation II	6C – Events


12:30	Business meeting – lunch box Auditorium



14:30	SIRIP 7A – Small companies, big ideas	7B – Recommendation systems II	7C – Image and multimodal search


16:00	Coffee break
16:30	SIRIP 8A – Modeling and evaluation	8B – Behavior models and applications	8C – Efficiency II


18:00	Closing
18:30

Sessions identified with letter “A” are held in Auditorium, “B” in Room Pacinotti, “C” in Room Fermi

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