1. SIGIR 2011 Doctoral Consortium Welcome!

2. Schedule for today 8:30Introductions 9:00Sarah K Tyler 9:25Katja Hofmann 9:50Miguel Martinez-Alvarez 10:15Break 10:35Xiang-Fei Jia 11:00Sumit Bhatia 11:25Meet mentors / panel 12:15Lunch and networking 1:40Xue Jiang 2:05Ilya Markov 2:30M Rami Ghorab 2:55Break 3:15Ricardo Nuno Taborda Campos 3:40Wei Li 4:05Licai Wang 4:30Meet mentors/panel 5:20Wrap up

3. Thanks Our students and mentors Our panellists Our helpers, including Maristella Agosti, Diane Kelly, Howard Turtle, Min Zhang

4. The basics Your time is about your ideas and your research, not a chance to practise presenting. Discussion takes priority over presentation. We will cut presentations short if we have to.

5. Lunch and networking Students: please introduce yourself to at least one person other than your two mentors. After fifteen minutes, we will ring a bell and you will need to find someone else to talk to. After another fifteen minutes, we'll ring a bell again. By the end of the day you will have talked to at least your two mentors, two panellists, and three other people in your field.