- Tuesday, November 18
Green Auditorium
- 12 noon
- NIST bus from Gaithersburg Holiday Inn to NIST
- Please be prepared to show photo ID upon entering the NIST bus. If you
plan to drive to NIST please be prepared to stop at Main Gate A and show photo ID
- 12-1:30 p.m.
- Conference check-in
- 1:30-3 p.m.
- Introduction to TREC (targeted for new participants, but all are welcome)
- 3-3:15 p.m.
- Break
- 3:15-5:30 p.m.
- available for track meetings, coordinator planning sessions, etc.
- 5:30 p.m.
- NIST bus to Gaithersburg Holiday Inn
Wednesday, November 19 Green Auditorium
8 a.m.
NIST bus from Gaithersburg Holiday Inn to NIST
Please be prepared to show photo ID upon entering
the NIST bus. If you plan to drive to NIST please be prepared to stop at Main Gate A and show photo ID
Conference check-in
Continental Breakfast served in NIST West Square Cafeteria
8:30-9 a.m.
Welcome
9-10 a.m.
TREC 2003 Overview
10-10:30 a.m.
Break
10:30 a.m.-12:20 p.m., QA plenary talks:
10:30-11 a.m., Overview
11-11:20 a.m., BBN
11:20-11:40 a.m., IBM T.J. Watson Research Center (Prager)
11:40 a.m.-12 noon, Language Computer Corporation
12 noon-12:20 p.m., National University of Singapore (Yang)
12:20-1 p.m.
report outs from CLEF 2003 and TRECVID (20 minutes each)
1-2 p.m.
Lunch served in the NIST West Square Cafeteria
2-3:30 p.m., HARD plenary talks:
2-3:30 p.m., Overview
2:30-2:50 p.m., Microsoft Research Ltd. (Robertson)
2:50-3:10 p.m., Rutgers (Belkin)
3:10-3:30 p.m., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
3:30-4:15 p.m.
Boasters
4:15-5:30 p.m.
Demos/Posters (refreshments served at beginning of session)
5:30 p.m.
NIST bus to Gaithersburg Holiday Inn
6 p.m.
NIST bus from Gaithersburg Holiday Inn to the Smokey Glen Farm in
Gaithersburg, MD
Cash bar followed by buffet-style barbecue dinner (dress casually)
9 p.m. (approximately)
NIST bus from Smokey Glen Farm to Gaithersburg Holiday Inn
Thursday, November 20 Green Auditorium
8:30 a.m.
NIST bus from Gaithersburg Holiday Inn to NIST
If you plan to drive to NIST please be
prepared to stop at Main Gate A and show photo ID
Continental Breakfast served in NIST West Square Cafeteria
9-10:30 a.m., Novelty plenary talks:
9-9:30 a.m., Overview
9:30-9:50 a.m., Center for Computing Science and the University of Maryland
9:50-10:10 a.m., Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS-NLPR)
10:10-10:30 a.m., Tsinghua University
10:30-11 a.m.
Break
11 a.m.-1 p.m., Genome plenary talks:
11-11:40 a.m., Overview
11:40-12 noon, University of California, Berkeley
12 noon-12:20 p.m., Erasmus MC
12:20-12:40 p.m., National Library of Medicine and the University of Maryland
12:40-1 p.m., University of Waterloo
1-2 p.m.
Lunch served in the NIST West Square Cafeteria
2-3:30 p.m.
Workshops in parallel I
HARD, QA, and Web
3:30-4 p.m.
Break
4-5:30 p.m.
Workshops in parallel II
Genome, Novelty, Robust, Terabyte (proposed new track)
5:30 p.m.
NIST bus to Gaithersburg Holiday Inn
Friday, November 21 Green Auditorium
8:30 a.m.
NIST bus from Gaithersburg Holiday Inn to NIST
If you plan to drive to NIST please be
prepared to stop at Main Gate A and show photo ID
Continental Breakfast served in NIST West Square Cafeteria
9-10 a.m., Robust plenary talks:
9-9:20 a.m., Overview
9:20-9:40 a.m., Queens College, CUNY
9:40-10 a.m., Fondazione Ugo Bordoni
10 a.m.-12:10 p.m., Web plenary talks:
10-10:30 a.m., Overview
10:30-10:50 a.m.
Break
Web plenary talks (continued):
10:50-11:10 a.m., CSIRO (Interactive)
11:10-11:30 a.m., University of Glasgow
11:30-11:50 a.m., IBM Labs in Haifa
11:50-12:10 p.m., Microsoft Research Asia
12:10-1 p.m.
Wrap-Up
1-2 p.m.
Lunch served in the NIST West Square Cafeteria
Conference End
2 p.m.
NIST bus from Building 101 to Main Gate A and to Gaithersburg Holiday Inn
If you have arranged to be picked-up by cab or shuttle
please take this bus to NIST Main Gate A.
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