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Video Lectures of ESSIR 2011 are available online! essir.uni-koblenz.de - many thanks to videolectures.net for great support!!

PROMISE Winter School January 2012: Information Retrieval meets Information Visualization, Switzerland - promise-noe.eu/events/winter-…

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ESSIR 2011 is now closing - a very big thank you to all. See you at upcoming IR events, presenting new results of your IR research!

Social event on Thursday 01 Sep 2011: ESSIR RHINE TOUR !! Main meeting point: 16.15 at the Lecture Hall - Map: g.co/maps/6x43

The long night in Koblenz ended after a long walk through the hstory of Coblenz in numerous pubs and taverns in the old town at ca. 22.00

Tuesday evening: informal guided walk through Koblenz: 19.30 at Pegelhaus (old load crane at Rhine landing stages) - g.co/maps/ytmf

Monday afternoon: 19.00 Center of Koblenz, student tavern Enchilada (Gerichtsstrasse 2) enchilada.de/koblenz ESSIR map: g.co/maps/4vz6

Our get-together in Gecko lounge was well attended: over 50 students! Thanks for your coming, see you tomorrow in the first ESSIR lectures!

ESSIR'11 locations in Koblenz - Google Map: g.co/maps/b3wn

Geocaching at #ESSIR'11- geospatial retrieval in practice! Several geocaches will guide you to ESSIR places in Koblenz! bit.ly/nCMIbm

Which kind of tagger are you - game with (PhD) purpose: try http://goo.gl/u6vbn - We're serious researchers, no spoofing of personal data !

Great news! CEPIS-EIRSG offers sponsoring support for ESSIR 2011. Many thanks!! Expect a couple of additional student grant notifications !!

All grant notifications sent out!! Congratulations to all successful applicants! Looking forward to meet you all in Koblenz at ESSIR 2011 !!

ESSIR'11 grant applications: all students will be informed about the status by end of week, first notifications today. Apologies for delay!

ESSIR'11 - Learning where others spend their holidays! Don't miss the list of leisure activities, it's very impressive! http://bit.ly/jaGmpu

ESSIR'11 Web site now fully implements both microformats AND the new microdata standard by Google, Yahoo and Bing! Try: http://bit.ly/kgVDvH

ESSIR 2011 grants: over 50 grant applications received so far (by deadline 01Jun 2011). Reviewing of received applications has been started.

Meet the "father" of Pajek (http://pajek.imfm.si/) at ESSIR'11. Vladimir Batagelj will give a lecture on network theory / network analysis!!

Practical Top-K reasoning in IR: Top-10 reasons NOT to attend ESSIR 2011 - http://bit.ly/lgsfbF