Conference Organizers

General chairs

• James Allan, University of Massachusetts Amherst (USA)
• Bruce Croft, University of Massachusetts Amherst (USA)

Program Chairs

• Arjen de Vries, CWI Amsterdam (Netherlands)
• Chengxiang Zhai, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA)

Program Chairs, short papers

• Norbert Fuhr, University Duisburg-Essen (Germany)
• Yi Zhang, University of California Santa Cruz (USA)

Tutorial Chair

• Peter Bruza, Queensland University of Technology (Australia)

Program Committee

• http://ictir2015.org/pc

Local Arrangements

• Jean Joyce, University of Massachusetts Amherst (USA)
• Kate Moruzzi, University of Massachusetts Amherst (USA)

Credits

• Front-page photo of Pioneer Valley from Massachusetts Office of Travel and Tourism, Lynne Graves photographer.
• Front-page photos of Fall Scenes from Huong Phan, UMass Amherst CICS.
• Drupal theme of site based on "Danland" by Danetsoft and Danang Probo Sayekti inspired by Maksimer.

Contact

• info@ictir2015.org

ICTIR Steering Committee

• Leif Azzopardi, University of Glasgow
• Peter Bruza, Queensland University of Technology
• Susan Dumais, Microsoft Research
• Jaap Kamps (SIGIR representative), University of Amsterdam 
• Oren Kurland (Chair), Technion - Israel Institute of Technology 
• Birger Larsen, Aalborg University
• Donald Metzler, Google
• Stefan Rueger (BCS-IRSG representative), the Open University
• Keith van Rijsbergen (Honorary Chair), University of Glasgow