Schedule

Day 1 (Wed August 2nd, 2017)

Time Activity
09:00 Registration Open
09:30 - 09:45 Opening
09:45 - 11:15 Poster Session
11:15 - 13:00 Lunch (Provided)
13:00 - 14:00 Lecture 1: Introduction to Information Retrieval (Lecturer: Prof. Mark Sanderson)
14:00 - 14:15 Break
14:15 - 15:45 Lecture 2-I: Offline Evaluation in Information Retrieval (Lecturer: Dr. Charles L. A. Clarke)
15:45 - 16:00 Break
16:00 - 17:30 Lecture 2-II: Offline Evaluation in Information Retrieval (Lecturer: Dr. Charles L. A. Clarke)

Day 2 (Thu August 3rd, 2017)

Time Activity
09:15 - 10:45 Lecture 3-I: User Modeling for Information Retrieval (Lecturer: Prof. Yiqun Liu)
10:45 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:30 Lecture 3-II: User Modeling for Information Retrieval (Lecturer: Prof. Yiqun Liu)
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch (Provided)
13:30 - 14:30 Lecture 4-I: Social and Collaborative Search (Lecturer: Prof. Chirag Shah)
14:30 - 15:30 Lecture 4-II: Social and Collaborative Search (Lecturer: Prof. Chirag Shah)
15:30 - 16:00 Break
16:00 - 17:00 Lecture 5: Multimedia Information Retrieval (Lecturer: Prof. Gareth Jones)
18:00 - 20:00 Banquet (Camphora at Kyoto University)

Day 3 (Fri August 4th, 2017)

Time Activity
09:15 - 10:45 Lecture 6-I: Social Media Analysis for Information Retrieval (Lecturer: Prof. Ee-Peng Lim)
10:45 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:30 Lecture 6-II: Social Media Analysis for Information Retrieval (Lecturer: Prof. Ee-Peng Lim)
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch (Provided)
13:30 - 14:30 Lecture 7: Crowdsourcing for Information Retrieval (Lecturer: Prof. Gareth Jones)
14:30 - 15:30 Lecture 8: Online Evaluation in Information Retrieval (Lecturer: Dr. Charles L. A. Clarke)
15:30 - 16:00 Break
16:00 - 17:45 Panel on Writing

Day 4 (Sat August 5th, 2017)

Time Activity
09:15 - 10:45 Lecture 9-I: Machine Learning for Information Retrieval (Lecturer: Dr. Hang Li)
10:45 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:30 Lecture 9-II: Machine Learning for Information Retrieval (Lecturer: Dr. Hang Li)
12:30 - 12:45 Closing
12:45 - 13:45 Lunch (Provided)
Afternoon Free time for sight-seeing in Kyoto