36th ACM SIGMOD/PODS International Conference on Management of Data
           Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
             May 31st - June 4th, 2015
            http://www.sigmod2015.org/


              CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

The annual ACM SIGMOD/PODS conference is a leading international 
forum for database researchers, practitioners, developers, and 
users to explore cutting-edge ideas and results, and to exchange 
techniques, tools, and experiences. We are delighted to invite you 
to attend the 36th ACM SIGMOD/PODS, to be held in Melbourne, 
Australia from May 31st to June 4th, 2015.

Melbourne is set along the banks of the Yarra river and is commonly 
cited as the most livable city in the world and the cultural and 
culinary capital of Australia with a population of more than 4 
million people. It is the gateway city for many other regional 
attractions such as the Port Philip Bay, Great Ocean Road, Yarra 
Ranges, Macedon Ranges, and Grampians as well as the city of 
Ballarat with its rich early Australian history and gold fields.

The conference will be held at the Melbourne Convention & 
Exhibition Centre. This venue is located near Melbourne's renowned 
Central Business District, Docklands and the Yarra river. It is 
minutes from a host of activities and promises to be an exciting 
venue for this year's conference.

This SIGMOD/PODS conference edition will feature a broad variety of 
technical and industrial events that will be of interest to people 
in academia, research labs, and industry.  The program includes 3 
keynote speakers, 1 panel, 6 tutorials, 7 workshops, over 120 
research presentations, and 20 industrial experience presentations.

===Registration

The registration site for SIGMOD/PODS 2015 is now online. 
To register, visit: 
https://iceaustralia.eventsair.com/sigmodpods2015/registration

Registrants who need a visa to enter Australia, 
please check details in http://www.sigmod2015.org/visa.shtml

Early bird registration rates until April 25th, 2015.

===SIGMOD/PODS 2015 Travel Award

Thanks to the generous support from the National Science 
Foundation, SIGMOD, and other sponsors, we will provide scholarship 
awards to selected students attending the SIGMOD/PODS conference.  
The scholarships will include financial support for traveling and 
conference registrations.

Eligibility information and application procedure are available at
http://www.sigmod2015.org/grants3.shtml

===SIGMOD/PODS 2015 Conference Organization

SIGMOD General Chairs
  Timos Sellis (RMIT University, Australia)

PODS General Chair
  Tova Milo (Tel Aviv University, Israel)

SIGMOD Program Chairs
  Susan B. Davidson (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
  Zack Ives (University of Pennsylvania, USA)

PODS Program Chair
  Diego Calvanese (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy)

SIGMOD Proceedings Chairs
  Huiping Cao (New Mexico State University, USA)
  Xiang Lian (University of Texas, Pan American, USA)

PODS Proceedings and Publicity Chair
  Marco Montali (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy)

SIGMOD Tutorials Chair
  Wenfei Fan (University of Edinburgh, UK)

SIGMOD Keynotes Chair
  Renee Miller (University of Toronto, Canada)

SIGMOD Panels Chairs
  Michael Franklin (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
  Tova Milo (Tel Aviv University, Israel)

SIGMOD Industrial Program Chairs
  Sihem Amer-Yahia (Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, Grenoble, France)
  Christopher Olston (Google)

SIGMOD Demonstration Chairs
  Vanessa Braganholo (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil)
  Juliana Freire (New York University, USA)

SIGMOD Workshop Chairs
  Anastasia Ailamaki (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland)
  Yi Chen (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA)

SIGMOD Undergraduate Research Chairs
  Anisoara Nica (SAP)
  Anastasios Kementsietsidis (Google)

SIGMOD New Researcher Symposium Chairs
  Julia Stoyanovich (Drexel University, USA)
  Alexandra Meliou (U Mass Amherst, USA)

SIGMOD Programming Contest Chair
  Thomas Neumann (TU Munich, Germany)

Finance Chair
  Jenny Zhang (RMIT University, Australia)

Publicity and Social Media Chairs
  Egemen Tanin (University of Melbourne, Australia)
  Jagan Sankaranarayanan (NEC Labs America)

Sponsorship Chairs
  Nick Koudas (University of Toronto, Canada)
  Mohamed Mokbel (University of Minnesota, USA)

Exhibit Chair
  Saket Sathe (IBM Research, Australia)

Local Arrangements Chair
  Yanchun Zhang (Victoria University, Australia)

Registration Chair
  Arkady Zaslavsky (CSIRO, Australia)

Demonstration and Workshop Local Arrangements Chair
  Benjamin Rubinstein (University of Melbourne, Australia)

Travel Award Selection Committee Chairs
  Alexandra Meliou (U of Mass Amherst, USA)
  Eugene Wu (MIT, USA)

Web/Information Chair
  Kai (Kevin) Zheng (The University of Queensland, Australia)

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