Please register for TREC!
Laura
Subject: | [trec2018] TREC 2018: conference registration open |
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Date: | Thu, 30 Aug 2018 14:53:00 -0400 |
From: | Ellen Voorhees <ellen.v...@nist.gov> |
To: | trec...@nist.gov |
Dear TREC 2018 participants,
Conference registration for the TREC 2018 meeting is now open.
See the conference
page in the active participants' section of the web site.
Remember that you must be a member of a group that submitted at
least one valid run to TREC 2018 (or a government invitee) to
attend the conference.
A detailed agenda will not be available until
mid-to-late-October. For travel planning purposes, the general
structure of the conference will remain the same as previous
years: the Overview talk will be on Wednesday morning, the
poster session (which everyone is strongly encouraged to
participate in) will be on Wednesday afternoon, the conference
dinner will be Wednesday evening, and Thursday and Friday will
consist of two-way parallel track sessions plus multi-way
parallel TREC 2018 planning sessions. The conference will end
early afternoon on Friday. The dates of the main conference
are Wednesday--Friday November 14--16, 2018.
The conference registration fee will be approximately US$272
(food-inclusive option). We set the registration fee to just
cover costs, so there are no special-rate (e.g., student)
registrations. The registration fee includes the copy of the
notebook on a USB key, coffee breaks (if the food-inclusive
option is selected), the conference dinner on Wednesday night
(ditto), and transportation to/from NIST and the conference
hotel. The conference does not provide lunch; attendees may
purchase lunch on their own in the NIST cafeteria or go off
campus for lunch.
The conference is held on the NIST grounds and thus
pre-registration is absolutely mandatory. Non-US citizens will
need to show their passports to enter the NIST grounds. If the
passport you will use is issued by the People's Democratic
Republic of Korea, Iran, Sudan, or Syria please let Angela (angela...@nist.gov)
know as soon as possible but not later than Oct. 9 because
there are additional steps that must be performed to arrange for
your entry to the NIST grounds. If you need an invitation
letter to attend the conference, you can request the letter from
Angela Ellis [see the earlier message in the TREC email archive
for details].
Regards,
Ellen