WELCOME

1. WELCOME To the BCS-IRSG Annual General Meeting 2011 Wednesday 16th November 2011

2. Annual General Meeting Agenda • 1. Welcome from the Chair • 2. Minutes of the previous AGM • 3. Committee Member Reports • Chair • Treasurer • 4. Election of committee members • 5. Any other business • 6. Close of Meeting

3. Annual General Meeting Agenda • 1. Welcome from the Chair • 2. Minutes of the previous AGM • 3. Committee Member Reports • Chair • Treasurer • 4. Election of committee members • 5. Any other business • 6. Close of Meeting

4. Annual General Meeting Agenda • 1. Welcome from the Chair • 2. Minutes of the previous AGM • 3. Committee Member Reports • Chair • Treasurer • 4. Election of committee members • 5. Any other business • 6. Close of Meeting

5. Report from the Chair • IR Events supported this year SEARCH SOLUTIONS

6. Report from the Chair • Informer • Not been able to do much on this for various reasons.

7. Report from the Chair • Website • Need to think about the design and layout: from the ground up • Tony Russell-Rose to lead.

8. Report from the Chair • Karen Spark-Jones Award – 2nd Award • Awarded at ECIR 2011 • 2010 Winner - Evgeniy Gabrilovich , Yahoo! Research, California, U.S • Timeline for 2011 Award: • Announcement out later this week. • Mid/End December 2011 - Deadline for nominations. • Mid January 2011 - Notification of the prize winner. • April 2012 - Winner presents keynote at ECIR • Contact: Ayse Goker (email:ayse.goker.1@soi.city.ac.uk)

9. Report from the Chair • BCS-IRSG European Conference in IR • ECIR 2011 Dublin • Very well run and successful conference • Excellent number of submissions & quality • 45 papers accepted from 223 papers submitted (rate 20% - 62% students of those accepted were students) • 17 Short papers accepted from 48 papers (rate 35%) • 24 Posters, 6 Demonstrations from 64 submitted (rate 46%) • 2 well regarded keynote speakers • Sponsorship from: Google, MS Research, Yahoo! Research, DCU, SFI, Bing, Failte Ireland, Clarity, CNGL, Yahoo! Labs, Meet in Ireland. • 2nd KSJ Award: Keynote speaker

10. Report from the Chair • BCS-IRSG European Conference in IR • ECIR 2012 to be held in Barcelona: 1-5 April 2012 • Organised by Yahoo! Research and Universitat Pompeu Fabra • Discussion on papers ends soon • Notifications Shortly • ECIR 2013 • Only one bid • Awarded to Yandex, Moscow (1st ECIR in Eastern Europe).

11. Report from the Chair • International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval • ICTIR 2011: Bertinoro, Italy, 19-21 September 2011 • Went well according to organisers • Papers presented 25 • Posters presented 13 • Two keynote speakers: Keith van Rijsbergen and Chengxiang Zhai • Sponsors: Almawave, Microsoft Research and Yahoo! Labs

12. Report from the Chair • Teaching and Learning in IR in ‘Information Retrieval’. • Continued to build on the theme from TLIR 2007/TLIR 2008 workshops organised by BCS IRSG. • Edited book – Springer-Verlag • Book available online, hard copy published shortly. Dedicated to the memory of our colleague Efthi Efthimiadis who passed away during the final stages of this book

13. Annual General Meeting Agenda • 1. Welcome from the Chair • 2. Minutes of the previous AGM • 3. Committee Member Reports • Chair • Treasurer • 4. Election of committee members • 5. Any other business • 6. Close of Meeting

14. Report from the Treasurer • Over to Nilesh Thatte

15. Annual General Meeting Agenda • 1. Welcome from the Chair • 2. Minutes of the previous AGM • 3. Committee Member Reports • Chair • Treasurer • 4. Election of committee members • 5. Any other business • 6. Close of Meeting

16. Current Committee Chair Andy MacFarlane City University London Vice Chair Tony Russell-Rose UX Labs Secretary Dawei Song Robert Gordon University Treasurer Nilesh Thatte Open University Membership Secretary Leif Azzopardi Committee Members Michael Oakes University of Sunderland Ayse Goker City University London Monica Landoni University of Lugano Stefan Rueger, Open University Gabriella Gazai Microsoft Research Udo Kruschwitz University of Essex Leif Azzopardi University of Glasgow Vishwa Vinay Microsoft Research Mike Taylor Microsoft Research Jun Wang, UCL Web Coordinator Murat Yakici University of Strathclyde Student Representative/ IRSG Publicity Officer M-Dyaa Albakour University of Essex Industry Rep vaction

17. Proposed Committee Andy MacFarlane City University London Tony Russell-Rose UX Labs Dawei Song Robert Gordon University Nilesh Thatte Fujitsu Murat Yakici University of Strathclyde M-Dyaa Albakour University of Essex Michael Oakes University of Sunderland Ayse Goker City University London Monica Landoni University of Lugano Stefan Rueger, Open University Gabriella Gazai Microsoft Research Udo Kruschwitz University of Essex Leif Azzopardi University of Glasgow Vishwa Vinay Microsoft Research Mike Taylor Microsoft Research Jun Wang, UCL

18. Annual General Meeting Agenda • 1. Welcome from the Chair • 2. Minutes of the previous AGM • 3. Committee Member Reports • Chair • Treasurer • 4. Election of committee members • 5. Any other business • 6. Close of Meeting

19. Any other business… • Search Solutions 2012 • Tutorials

20. Annual General Meeting Agenda • 1. Welcome from the Chair • 2. Minutes of the previous AGM • 3. Committee Member Reports • Chair • Treasurer • 4. Election of committee members • 5. Any other business • 6. Close of Meeting