General Chair
Iadh Ounis, University of Glasgow,
Programme Committee Chair
Ian Ruthven, University of Strathclyde,
Posters Chair
Ryen White, Microsoft Research,
Workshop/Tutorials Chair
Vassilis Plachouras, Yahoo! Research, Barcelona,
Programme Committee Members
Alan Smeaton, Dublin City University, Ireland
Alessandro Micarelli, DIA - Università "Roma Tre", Italy
Alex Bailey, Google Switzerland GmbH, Switzerland
Alistair Moffat, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Alvaro Barreiro, University of A Coruña, Spain
Amanda Spink, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Anastasios Tombros, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
Andrea Esuli, ISTI CNR, Italy
Andreas Hotho, University of Kassel, Germany
Andreas Rauber, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Andrew MacFarlane, City University London, UK
Anne Aula, Google, US
Antonio Gulli, Ask.com European Research Center, Italy
Arjen de Vries, CWI, The Netherlands
Arlindo Oliveira, INESC-ID/IST, Portugal
Ayse Goker, City University, UK
Ben Carterette, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, US
Ben He, University of Glasgow, UK
Benjamin Piwowarski, Yahoo! Research, Chile
Birger Larsen, Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark
Bruce Croft, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, US
Carlos Castillo, Yahoo! Research, Spain
Caterina Caracciolo, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the UN, Italy
Charles Clarke, University of Waterloo, Canada
Christina Lioma, University of Glasgow, UK
Christof Monz, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
Claudio Carpineto, Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Italy
C. Lee Giles, Pennsylvania State University, US
Clement Yu, University of Illinois at Chicago, US
Craig Macdonald, University of Glasgow, UK
Daqing He, University of Pittsburgh, US
David Carmel, IBM Research, Haifa Lab, Israel
David Elsweiler, University of Strathclyde, UK
David Hawking, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia
David Hull, Justsystems Evans Research, US
David Losada, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Dawei Song, The Open University, UK
Dawid Weiss, Poznan University of Technology, Poland
Dell Zhang, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK
Diane Kelly, University of North Carolina, US
Djoerd Hiemstra, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Donald Metzler, Yahoo! Research, US
Donna Harman, NIST, US
Eduard Hoenkamp, Maatricht University, The Netherlands
Eero Sormunen, University of Tampere, Finland
Einat Amitay, IBM Research, Haifa Lab, Israel
Elad Yom-Tov, IBM Research, Haifa Lab, Israel
Eric Gaussier, Université Joseph Fourier, France
Eugene Agichtein, Emory University, US
Fabio Crestani, University of Lugano, Switzerland
Fabrizio Silvestri, CNR, Italy
Fernando Diaz, Yahoo!, Canada
Fidel Cacheda, University of A Coruña, Spain
Frances Johnson, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Gabriella Kazai, Microsoft Research, UK
Gabriella Pasi, Universitàegli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Italy
Gareth Jones, Dublin City University, Ireland
G. Craig Murray, University of Maryland, USA
George Dupret, Yahoo! Research, Chile
Gheorghe Muresan, Microsoft Research, US
Giambattista Amati, Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Italy
Gilad Mishne, Yahoo! Research, US
Giorgio Brajnik, University of Udine, Italy
Giovanni Semeraro, University of Bari, Italy
Hideo Joho, University of Glasgow, UK
Hinrich Schuetze, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Holger Bast, Max-Planck-Institute for Informatics, Germany
Hui Fang, Ohio State University, US
Hyowon Lee, Dublin City University, Ireland
Ian Soboroff, NIST, US
Jaana Kekalainen, University of Tampere, Finland
Jaap Kamps, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Jaime Teevan, Microsoft Research, US
Jamie Callan, Carnegie Mellon University, US
Jan Pedersen, Yahoo! Research, US
Javed Aslam, Northeastern University, US
Javed Mostafa, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, US
Jean Martinet, National Institute of Informatics - Tokyo, Japan
Jian-Yun Nie, University of Montreal, Canada
Jim Jansen, Penn State University, US
Jimmy Huang, York University, Canada
Joao Magalhaes, Imperial College London, UK
Joemon Jose, University of Glasgow, UK
Johannes Fuernkranz, TU Darmstadt, Germany
Josiane Mothe, IRIT, University of Toulouse, France
J. Scott Olsson, University of Maryland, US
Juan Huete, University of Granada, Spain
Juan M. Fernández-Luna, University of Granada, Spain
Julio Gonzalo, UNED, Spain
Justin Zobel, NICTA, Australia
Leif Azzopardi, University of Glasgow, UK
Mário J. Gaspar da Silva, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Maarten de Rijke, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Manolis Koubarakis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Marco Maggini, University of Siena, Italy
Marie-Francine Moens, KU Leuven, Belgium
Mark Baillie, University of Strathclyde, UK
Mark Girolami, University of Glasgow, UK
Mark Sanderson, University of Sheffield, UK
Mark Smucker, University of Massachusetts Amherst, US
Martin Theobald, Stanford University, US
Massih Amini, University Pierre et Marie Curie, France
Massimo Melucci, University of Padua, Italy
Matthew Richardson, Microsoft Research, US
Michael Oakes, University of Sunderland, UK
Michel Beigbeder, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne, France
Micheline Beaulieu, University of Sheffield, UK
Mikhail Bilenko, Microsoft Research, US
Milad Shokouhi, RMIT University, Australia
Mohand Boughanem, IRIT-UPS, France
Monica Landoni, University of Lugano, Switzerland
Mounia Lalmas, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
Nicola Ferro, University of Padua, Italy
Nicola Stokes, NICTA, University of Melbourne, Australia
Nils Pharo, Oslo University College, Norway
Olga Vechtomova, University of Waterloo, Canada
Pablo de la Fuente, University of Valladolid, Spain
Paolo Ferragina, University of Pisa, Italy
Patrick Gallinari, University Pierre et Marie Curie, France
Paul-Alexandru Chirita, Adobe Systems Inc., Romania
Paul Bennett, Microsoft Research, US
Paul Clough, University of Sheffield, UK
Paul Ogilvie, mSpoke, US
Pertti Vakkari, University of Tampere, Finland
Peter Bailey, CSIRO, Australia
Peter Bruza, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Peter Ingwersen, Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark
Preben Hansen, SICS, Sweden
Ralf Schenkel, Max-Planck-Institut Informatik, Germany
Ravi Kumar, Yahoo! Research, US
Ray Larson, University of California, Berkeley, US
Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Yahoo! Research, Spain
Richard Bache, University of Strathclyde, UK
Roberto Basili, University of Roma, Tor Vergata, Italy
Robert Villa, University of Glasgow, UK
Rong Yan, IBM Research, US
Ross Wilkinson, CSIRO, Australia
Ruihua Song, Microsoft Research Asia, China
Shlomo Geva, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Stefan Buettcher, Google, US
Stefano Mizzaro, University of Udine, Italy
Stefan Rueger, The Open University, UK
Stefan Siersdorfer, University of Sheffield, UK
Stephen Robertson, Microsoft Research, UK
Tao Yang, ASK.COM and University of California, Santa Barbara, US
Tetsuya Sakai, NewsWatch Inc., Japan
Theo Bothma, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Theo Huibers, Thaesis / University of Twente, The Netherlands
Thijs Westerveld, Teezir Search Solutions, The Netherlands
Thomas Roelleke, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
Udo Kruschwitz, University of Essex, UK
Ulises Cerviño Beresi, Robert Gordon University, UK
Ulrich Thiel, Fraunhofer IPSI, Germany
Vaclav Snasel, VSB-Technical Univerzity of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Vanessa Murdock, Yahoo! Research, Spain
Warren Greiff, The MITRE Corp, US
Wensi Xi, Google, US
Wessel Kraaij, TNO, The Netherlands
Xiaohua Hu, Drexel University, US
Xuelong Li, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK
Workshops/Tutorials Committee Members
Andrew Trotman, University of Otago, New Zealand
Claudio Carpineto, FUB, Italy
David Losada, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Jian-Yun Nie, University of Montreal, Canada
Josiane Mothe, IRIT-UPS, France
Justin Zobel, NICTA, Australia
Nick Craswell, Microsoft Research, UK