Program booklet 38th European Conference on Information Retrieval
20-23 March 2016
ECIR 2016 OVERALL SCHEDULE SUNDAY, 20 MARCH 2016 8:00
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........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ BIR 2016 BIR 2016 BIR 2016 BIR 2016
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....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... MultiLingMine MultiLingMine LiLa 2016 LiLa 2016
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....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... Collaborative IR Collaborative IR GroupRecSys GroupRecSys
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....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... ProAct IR ProAct IR RTBMA 2016 RTBMA 2016
MONDAY, 21 MARCH 2016 8:00
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Keynote Session 1a Panel ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ Jordan Social Context Data Driven Boyd-Graber and News IR
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Session 1b .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. Machine Learning
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........................................................................................................................................... Break Transfer to Sala Rossini Session 2a Session 3a ............................................................................................................................................ at Question Ranking Caffe Answering Pedrocchi Session 2b Session 3b ............................................................................................................................................. Machine Learning Evaluation Methodology
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Poster Session and Reception
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ECIR 2016 OVERALL SCHEDULE TUESDAY, 22 MARCH 2016 8:00
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Keynote Session 4a Session 5a ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. Emine Probabilistic Multimedia Yilmaz Modelling
Session 4b Session 5b Archivio .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. Evaluation Summarization Antico Issues
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Social Dinner Session 6a ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. Free @ Reproducibility Time Centro Altinate/ San Gaetano
Session 6b Archivio .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. Antico Twitter
WEDNESDAY, 22 MARCH 2016 8:00
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Break Registration Entrance .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. Lunch Break Aula Magna
Industry Keynote Session 7b Session 8b ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. Domonkos Industry Industry Tikk Talks Talks
Session 7a Session 8a Archivio .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. Retrieval Antico Applications Models
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Session 9b ..................................................................................................... Closing Industry Talks
Session 9a Archivio .................................................................................................... Antico Information Filtering
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Contents
Schedule
Venues & Social Events Sponsors
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Sunday 20 March 2016 Tutorial and Workshops. Social event: Welcoma Reception
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Monday 21 March 2016 Main conference Social event: Poster session and Reception
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Tuesday 22 March 2016 Main conference Social event: Social Dinner
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Wednesday 23 March 2016 Main Conference and Industry Day
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Venues Map
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Geoscience Department
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Botanical Garden
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Pedrocchi Cafè
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Palazzo del Bo
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“San Gaetano“ Cultural Centre
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Sponsor Short Descriptions
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From our Sponsors
ECIR
38 years of research
ECIR is the main Europ pean forum for the presentation of new research results in n the field of Inforrmation Retrieval. The event started its life as the Annual Colloquium on Information Retrieval Research in 1978 and was held in the UK each year until 1998 when it was hosted in Grenoble, France. Since then the venue has alternated between the United Kingdom and continental Europe. To mark jor event event to ars, ECIR an forum
the metamorphosis from a small informal colloquium to a main the IR research calendar, the BCS-IRSG later renamed the European Conference on Information Retrieval. In recent yehas continued to grow and has become the major Europefor the discussion of research in the field of Information Retrieval.
UNIPD
794 years of history
The University of Padu ua is one of the oldest universities in Europe, and one of the e biggest in Italy. It counts 2K resear-chers, 60K students, 12 2K graduate es/yea ar & 1.5K PhDs. Founded in the year 1222, in the 16th and 17th centuries, UNIPD became a workshop of ideas and the home to figures who changed the cultural and scientific history of humanity. They included Andrea Vesalio, who founded modern anatomy, as well as the astronomer Copernicus, and Galileo, who observed the skies here. UNIPD also vaunts the world’s first university botanical garden and a permanent anatomical theatre. William Harvey, who became famous for describing the circulation of the blood, studied in Padua, and in 1678 Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia became the first woman in the world to be awarded a university degree.
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WORKSHOPS & TUTORIALS
SUNDAY 20 March 2016
Scientific Campus - Geoscience Department Via G. Gradenigo, 6
08:00 1.5 hours
09:30
Registration
Workshop and Tutorials (Morning Session)
1.5 hours 1st International Workshop on Recent Trends in News Information Retrieval (NewsIR’16) 3rd International Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval (BIR2016) ProActive Information Retrieval: Anticipating Users‘ Information Needs (ProAct IR) Living Labs for Online Evaluation: From Theory to Practice (LiLa2016) Collaborative Information Retrieval: Concepts, Models and Evaluation
11:00
Coffee Break
Building Main Hall - Ground Floor
0.5 hours
11:30
Workshop and Tutorials (Morning Session)
1.5 hours 1st International Workshop on Recent Trends in News Information Retrieval (NewsIR’16) 3rd International Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval (BIR2016) ProActive Information Retrieval: Anticipating Users‘ Information Needs (ProAct IR) Living Labs for Online Evaluation: From Theory to Practice (LiLa2016) Collaborative Information Retrieval: Concepts, Models and Evaluation
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WORKSHOPS & TUTORIALS
14:30 1.5 hours
SUNDAY 20 March 2016
Workshop and Tutorials (Afternoon Session) 1st International Workshop on Modeling, Learning and Mining for Cross/Multilinguality (MultiLingMine 2016) 1st International Workshop on Recent Trends in News Information Retrieval (NewsIR’16) 3rd International Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval (BIR2016) Group Recommender Systems: State of the Art, Emerging Aspects and Techniques, and Research Challenges (GroupRecSys2016) Real-Time Bidding based Display Advertising: Mechanisms and Algorithms (RTBMA 2016)
16:00
Coffee Break
Building Main Hall - Ground Floor
0.5 hours
16:30 1.5 hours
Workshop and Tutorials (Afternoon Session) 1st International Workshop on Modeling, Learning and Mining for Cross/Multilinguality (MultiLingMine 2016) 1st International Workshop on Recent Trends in News Information Retrieval (NewsIR’16) 3rd International Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval (BIR2016) Group Recommender Systems: State of the Art, Emerging Aspects and Techniques, and Research Challenges (GroupRecSys2016) Real-Time Bidding based Display Advertising: Mechanisms and Algorithms (RTBMA 2016)
18:00
Welcome Reception
Building Main Hall - Ground Floor
3 hours
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MAIN CONFERENCE
MONDAY 21 March 2016
Historical Campus - Botanical Garden Via Orto Botanico, 15
08:00 1 hour
09:00
Registration
Biodiversity Entrance
Opening
Sala delle colonne
Keynote Talk
Sala delle colonne
0.5 hours
09:30 1 hour
Session Chair: Marie-Francine Moens
Opening up the Black Box: Interactive Machine Learning for Understanding Large Document Collections, Characterizing Social Science, and Language-Based Games Jordan Boyd-Graber, Karen Spärck Jones Award recipient Computer Science Department, University of Colorado, USA
11:00
Coffee Break
Biodiversity Entrance
0.5 hours
11:30 1.5 hours
Social context and News Parallel Paper Session 1a
Sala delle Colonne Session Chair: John Tait
SoRTESum: A Social Context Framework for Single-Document Summarization Minh-Tien Nguyen and Minh-Le Nguyen
A Graph-based Approach to Topic Clustering for Online Comments to News Ahmet Aker, Emina Kurtic, Balamurali Andiyakkal Rajendran, Monica Paramita, Emma Barker, Mark Hepple and Rob Gaizauskas
Leveraging Semantic Annotations to Link Wikipedia and News Archives Arunav Mishra and Klaus Berberich
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MAIN CONFERENCE 11:30 1.5 hours
MONDAY 21 March 2016
Machine Learning Parallel Paper Session 1b
Sala Emiciclo Session Chair: Jaime Arguello
Deep Learning over Multi-field Categorical Data: A Case Study on User Response Prediction Weinan Zhang, Tianming Du and Jun Wang
Supervised Local Contexts Aggregation for Effective Session Search Zhiwei Zhang, Jingang Wang, Tao Wu, Pengjie Ren, Zhumin Chen and Luo Si
An Empirical Study of Skip-gram Features and Regularization for Learning on Sentiment Analysis Cheng Li, Bingyu Wang, Virgil Pavlu and Javed Aslam
13:00
Lunch
Biodiversity Entrance
1 hour
14:00 1 hour
Panel
Sala delle Colonne
Data-driven Information Retrieval
Session Chair: Maristella Agosti
Omar Alonso, Raffaele Perego, Maarten de Rijke
15:00 1 hour
Question Answering Parallel Paper Session 2a
Sala delle Colonne Session Chair: Gareth Jones
Beyond Factoid QA: Effective Methods for Non-factoid Answer Sentence Retrieval Liu Yang, Qingyao Ai, Damiano Spina, Ruey-Cheng Chen, Liang Pang, W. Bruce Croft, Jiafeng Guo and Falk Scholer
Supporting Human Answers for Advice-Seeking Questions in CQA Sites Liora Braunstain, Oren Kurland, David Carmel, Idan Szpektor and Anna Shtok
15:00 1 hour
Machine Learning II Parallel Paper Session 2b
Sala Emiciclo Session Chair: Morgan Harvey
Multi-task Representation Learning for Demographic Prediction Pengfei Wang, Jiafeng Guo, Yanyan Lan, Jun Xu and Xueqi Cheng
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MAIN CONFERENCE
MONDAY 21 March 2016
Large-scale Kernel-based Language Learning through the Ensemble Nystrom methods Danilo Croce and Roberto Basili
16:00
Coffee Break
Biodiversity Entrance
Ranking
Sala delle Colonne
0.5 hours
16:30 1.5 hours
Parallel Paper Session 3a
Session Chair: Jacques Savoy
Does Selective Search Benefit from WAND Optimization? Yubin Kim, Jamie Callan, Shane Culpepper and Alistair Moffat
Efficient AUC Optimization for Information Ranking Applications Sean Welleck
Modelling User Interest for Zero-query Ranking Liu Yang, Qi Guo, Yang Song, Sha Meng, Milad Shokouhi, Kieran McDonald and W. Bruce Croft
16:30 1.5 hours
Evaluation Methodology Parallel Paper Session 3b
Sala Emiciclo Session Chair: Kalervo Järvelin
Adaptive Effort for Search Evaluation Metrics Jiepu Jiang and James Allan
Evaluating Memory Efficiency and Robustness of Word Embeddings Johannes Jurgovsky, Michael Granitzer and Christin Seifert
Characterizing Relevance on Mobile and Desktop Manisha Verma and Emine Yilmaz
18:00 3 hours
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Poster Session and Reception
Biodiversity Entrance/Terrace
MAIN CONFERENCE
TUESDAY 22 March 2016
Historical Campus - Bo Palace Main University Building, Via 8 Febbraio 1848, 2 08:00 1 hour
09:00
Registration Keynote Talk
Aula Magna - 1st Floor Session Chair: Fabio Crestani
1.5 hours A Task-Based Perspective to Information Retrieval Emine Yilmaz, Karen Spärck Jones Award recipient
Department of Computer Science, University College London, UK
10:30
Coffee Break
Basilica - 1st Floor
0.5 hours
11:00 1.5 hours
Probabilistic Modelling Parallel Paper Session 4a
Aula Magna - 1st Floor Session Chair: Gianni Amati
Probabilistic Local Expert Retrieval Wen Li, Arjen de Vries and Carsten Eickhoff
Probabilistic Topic Modelling with Semantic Graph Long Chen, Joemon Jose, Haitao Yu, Fajie Yuan and Huaizhi Zhang
Estimating Probability Density of Content Types for Promoting Medical Records Search Yun He, Qinmin Hu and Liang He
11:00 1.5 hours
Evaluation Issues Parallel Paper Session 4b
Archivio Antico - 1st Floor Session Chair: Donna Harman
The Curious Incidence of Bias Corrections in the Pool Aldo Lipani, Mihai Lupu and Allan Hanbury
Understandability Biased Evaluation for Information Retrieval Guido Zuccon
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MAIN CONFERENCE
TUESDAY 22 March 2016
The Relationship between User Perception and User Behaviour in Interactive Information Retrieval Evaluation Mengdie Zhuang, Elaine G. Toms and Gianluca Demartini
12:30
Lunch
Basilica - 1st Floor
1.5 hours
14:00 1.5 hours
Multimedia Parallel Paper Session 5a
Aula Magna - 1st Floor Session Chair: Stefan Rüger
Using Query Performance Predictors to Improve Spoken Queries Jaime Arguello, Sandeep Avula and Fernando Diaz
Fusing Web and Audio Predictors to Localize the Origin of Music Pieces for Geospatial Retrieval Markus Schedl and Fang Zhou
Key Estimation in Electronic Dance Music Ángel Faraldo, Emilia Gomez, Sergi Jorda and Perfecto Herrera
14:00 1.5 hours
Summarization Parallel Paper Session 5b
Archivio Antico - 1st Floor Session Chair: Paul Clough
Evaluating Text Summarization Systems with a Fair Baseline from Multiple Reference Summaries Fahmida Hamid, David Haraburda and Paul Tarau
Multi-Document Summarization based on Atomic Semantic Events and their Temporal Relationships Yllias Chali and Mohsin Uddin
Tweet Stream Summarization for Online Reputation Management Jorge Carrillo de Albornoz, Enrique Amigó, Laura Plaza and Julio Gonzalo
15:30 0.5 hours
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Coffee Break
Basilica - 1st Floor
MAIN CONFERENCE 16:00 1.5 hours
TUESDAY 22 March 2016
Reproducibility
Aula Magna - 1st Floor
Parallel Paper Session 6a
Session Chair: Norbert Fuhr
Who Wrote the Web? Revisiting Influential Author Identification Research Applicable to Information Retrieval Martin Potthast, Sarah Braun, Tolga Buz, Fabian Duffhauss, Florian Friedrich, Jörg Marvin Gülzow, Jakob Köhler, Winfried Lötzsch, Fabian Müller, Maike Elisa Müller, Robert Paßmann, Bernhard Reinke, Lucas Rettenmeier, Thomas Rometsch, Timo Sommer, Michael Träger, Sebastian Wilhelm, Benno Stein, Efstathios Stamatatos and Matthias Hagen
Toward Reproducible Baselines: The Open-Source IR Reproducibility Challenge Jimmy Lin, Matt Crane, Andrew Trotman, Jaime Callan, Ishan Chattopadhyaya, John Foley, Grant Ingersoll, Craig Macdonald and Sebastiano Vigna
Experiments in Newswire Summarisation Stuart Mackie, Richard Mccreadie, Craig Macdonald and Iadh Ounis
On the Reproducibility of the TAGME Entity Linking System Faegheh Hasibi, Krisztian Balog and Svein Erik Bratsberg
16:00 1.5 hours
Twitter
Archivio Antico - 1st Floor
Parallel Paper Session 6b
Session Chair: Maarten de Rijke
Correlation Analysis of Reader‘s Demographics and Tweets Credibility Perception Shafiza Mohd Shariff, Mark Sanderson and Xiuzhen Zhang
Topic-Specific Stylistic Variations for Opinion Retrieval on Twitter Anastasia Giachanou, Morgan Harvey and Fabio Crestani
Inferring Implicit Topical Interests on Twitter Fattane Zarrinkalam, Hossein Fani, Ebrahim Bagheri and Mohsen Kahani
Topics in Tweets: A User Study of Topic Coherence Metrics for Twitter Data Anjie Fang, Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis and Philip Habel
20:00 3 hours
Social Dinner
Centro Culturale Altinate - San Gaetano Via Altinate, 71
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MAIN CONFERENCE
WEDNESDAY 23 March 2016
Historical Campus - Bo Palace Main University Building, Via 8 Febbraio 1848, 2 08:00 1 hour
09:00
Registration Keynote Talk
Aula Magna - 1st Floor Session Chair: Pavel Serdyukov
1.5 hours
Lessons Learnt at Building Recommendation Services in Industry Scale Domonkos Tikk Gravity R&D Inc., Hungary
10:30
Coffee Break
Basilica - 1st Floor
0.5 hours
11:00 1.5 hours
Retrieval Models Parallel Paper Session 7a
Archivio Antico - 1st Floor Session Chair: Mohand Boughanem
Supporting Scholarly Search with Keyqueries Matthias Hagen, Anna Beyer, Tim Gollub, Kristof Komlossy and Benno Stein
Pseudo-Query Reformulation Fernando Diaz
VODUM: a Topic Model Unifying Viewpoint, Topic and Opinion Discovery Thibaut Thonet, Guillaume Cabanac, Mohand Boughanem and Karen PinelSauvagnat
11:00 1.5 hours
Industry Talks
Aula Magna - 1st Floor
Industry Session 7b Music Search, Personalization and Discovery Nicola Montecchio
Get on with it! Recommender System Industry Challenges Move Towards Real-World, Online Evaluation Andreas Lommatzsch, Martha Larson, and Daniel Kohlsdorf, and Jonas Seiler
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MAIN CONFERENCE
12:30
WEDNESDAY 23 March 2016
Lunch
Basilica - 1st Floor
1.5 hours
14:00 1.5 hours
Applications Parallel Paper Session 8a
Archivio Antico - 1st Floor Session Chair: Mark Sanderson
Harvesting Training Images for Fine-Grained Object Categories using Visual Descriptions Josiah Wang, Katja Markert and Mark Everingham
Do Your Social Profiles Reveal What Languages You Speak? Language Inference From Social Media Profiles Yu Xu, M.Rami Ghorab, Zhongqing Wang, Dong Zhou and Séamus Lawless
Retrieving Hierarchical Syllabus Items for Exam Question Analysis John Foley and James Allan
14:00 1.5 hours
Industry Talks
Aula Magna - 1st Floor
Industry Session 8b Improving User Engagement Through Genre Diversification Debora Donato
An Overview of the Challenges R&D had to Face Over the Last 10 Years Etienne Sanson
15:30
Coffee Break
Basilica - 1st Floor
0.5 hours
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MAIN CONFERENCE 16:00 2 hours
WEDNESDAY 23 March 2016
Information Filtering Parallel Paper Session 9a
Archivio Antico - 1st Floor Session Chair: Ayse Goker
Implicit Look-alike Modelling in Display Ads: Transfer Collaborative Filtering to CTR Estimation Weinan Zhang, Lingxi Chen, Jun Wang and Thomas Furmston
Efficient Pseudo-Relevance Feedback Methods for Collaborative Filtering Recommendation Daniel Valcarce, Javier Parapar and Alvaro Barreiro
Language Models for Collaborative Filtering Neighbourhoods Daniel Valcarce, Javier Parapar and Alvaro Barreiro
Adaptive Collaborative Filtering with Extended Kalman Filters and MultiArmed Bandit Jean-Michel Renders
16:00 2 hours
Industry Talks
Aula Magna - 1st Floor
Industry Session 8b Multilingual Query Categorization Michal Laclavik, Marek Ciglan, Sam Steingold and Alex Dorman
Thinking Outside the Search Box: A Visual Approach to Complex Query Formulation Tony Russell-Rose
Worst Practices for Designing Production Information Access Systems Fernando Diaz
Closing Omar Alonso and Pavel Serdyukov
18:00 0.5 hours
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Closing
Aula Magna - 1st Floor
VENUES AND SOCIAL EVENTS
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A. Department of Geoscience: Sunday 20 March, Workshop and Tutorials Via Giovanni Gradenigo, 6, 35131 Padova
B. Botanical Garden: Monday 21 March, Main Conference Via Orto Botanico, 15, 35123 Padova PD
C. Bo Palace: Tuesday/Wednesday 22/23 March, Main Conference Via 8 Febbraio 1848, 2, 35122 Padova
D. Cafè Pedrocchi: Monday 21 March, Poster Session and Reception Via VIII Febbraio 1848, 15, 35122 Padova
E. San Gaetano Cultural Centre: Tuesday 22 March, Social Dinner Via Altinate, 71, 35121 Padova
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GEOSCIENCE DEPARTMENT Tutorial and Workshops: Sunday, 20 March 2016 A little far on the one hand from ancient city walls and river harbor, on the other hand from the Department of Information Engineering, the Department of Geosciences, is the perfect union of culture and science and a perfect place where the conference start. The entire building, designed by Giulio Brunetta, appears a little unusual thanks to the black façade and to the modular composition, based on a grid of 1.50 by 1.50 meters. The whole composition is resolved into two adjacent volumes: the teaching block of classrooms and the scientific block with laboratories, library and professor offices.
WELCOME RECEPTION Sunday Evening, 18.00 - 21.00 The Welcome Reception is going to be hosted in the same place, but in the evening we leave the accuracy of the science to enter in the merry environment of a little country festival. Italy, in fact, during spring and summer is full of country festivals hosted almost in each village of the city countryside, where people dance, drink and eat typical food, above all. We can‘t bring you in a country festival, but we want to bring that atmosphere here, in the Department of Geosciences, offering you a welcome happy hour with, moreover, “porchetta” (Italian spit-roasted pork) and draft beer.
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BOTANICAL GARDEN Main Conference: Monday, 21 March 2016
For the first day of spring, we decided to move the conference in a place which represents a triumph for spring but also a cradle of scientific method: the Botanical Garden, the oldest university garden in the world to have retained its original location and layout over the centuries. The „lettura dei semplici“, or study of medicinal plants, was taught in Padova by Francesco Bonafede from 1543. Following centuries of tradition based on ancient authors, Bonafede recognized a need for the direct observation of nature in this branch of learning. Bonafede requested a public garden for the cultivation and study of medicinal plants and herbs. The request came before the Senate of the Venetian Republic, which on 1545 decreed that a suitable plot of land should be purchased. As we can read in the Unesco document “The Botanical Garden of Padua... represents the birth of science, of scientific exchanges [...] It has made a profound contribution to the development of many modern scientific disciplines, notably botany, medicine, chemistry, ecology, and pharmacy”. The structure of the Garden (a square within a circle) was enclosed by a wall in 1552 to combat the continual theft of plants, targeted for the rarity of their vegetal properties and the value of the medicines obtained from them. The botanical stock continued to grow, with plants brought in from all parts of the globe. Since September 2014, new areas representing the different climates across the Planet have opened to the public. The species in the Biodiversity Garden are about 1,300. They live in environments sharing the same humidity and temperature characteristics, simulating the climatic conditions of the planet‘s biomes, from tropical to sub-humid, temperate and arid zones.
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CAFÈ PEDROCCHI Poster Session and Reception: Monday, 21 March 2016
In the evening, we move to Cafè Pedrocchi for Poster session and Reception, to give you the opportunity to know one of the most important historical cafès, also known as “the Café with no doors” thanks to its very long-lasting opening hours and to its particular entrance: until 1916 it was open day and night and its layout featured an open arcade originally with no glass walls, a sort of “gallery” in the town centre. On the upper floor rooms and halls are decorated according to different themes and is now housed the Museum of the Risorgimento and Contemporary Time. The idea of the cafè was born in 1816 when Antonio Pedrocchi, the son of a coffee maker from Bergamo, commissioned to the well-known Venetian architect Giuseppe Jappelli the extension of the little café he had inherited from his father. The new building, which was to be the “most beautiful Café on earth” keeping a mixture of neoclassic and neo-Gothic styles, was inaugurated in 1831 and then sided in 1836 by the Pedrocchino, an elegant neo-Gothic building hosting the pastry shop. Since its opening, the café welcomes eminent guests such as writer Stendhal, who named its desserts as some of the best he ever tried, as well as students who always spent hours in the reading room discussing all sorts of matters, sometimes producing innovative ideas, sometimes the revolution, as they did in 1848 during Asburgic domination. Here, in the “Rossini room”, dedicated to the composer Rossini, after the Poster session, we are going to be greeted with the typical Italian wine “Prosecco” and a very good dinner with Italian cheeses, cured meats, shellfish... and so on.
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BO PALACE Main Conference: Tuesday/Wednesday, 22/23 March 2016
The first academic documents about University of Padova go back to 1222 A.D. and this is considered as one of the oldest Universities in Europe, and can name, among eminent faculty and scholars, Galileo Galilei, Nicolaus Copernicus, Pope Sixtus IV, Ippolito Nievo, Giovanni Battista Morgagni and Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia, the world‘s first female graduate (1678), to mention just a few. So, we want to show you the main and most beautiful seat of our University, even if the University acquired full ownership only in 1539. In previous centuries, this palace was an hostel whose sign was an ox (Bo‘), since it was located near some butcher shops and from this sign descends the name of the palace, nowadays called “Palazzo Bo” Architecturally, the 16th century was the key period for the Palazzo Bo, enlarged and transformed by the architect Andrea Moroni. Also dating from the 16th century is the world’s first permanent anatomical theatre, inaugurated in 1595 and made by six elliptical wooden floors hosting 300 seats, rising around the anatomical table (first, since 1446, anatomical theatres made of wood were erected and dismantled as needed for public dissections). Here we can also visit the 14th-century Medicine Lecture Room, the desk of Galileo Galilei and the double courtyard by Moroni In modern times, an important contribution to the aesthetic renewal of the University was made by Carlo Anti, rector from 1932 to 1943, who called in artists of great renown – architect Gio Ponti, sculptor Arturo Martini, and painter Massimo Campigli – to apply their skills and talent.
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“SAN GAETANO“ CULTURAL CENTRE Social dinner: Tuesday, 22 March 2016
For the social dinner, let’s jump trough centuries: from the oldest “cultural centre” of the city, Palazzo Bo, to the more modern one, “San Gaetano” Cultural Centre, built in 2008 renovating the old city courthouse. The Cultural Centre is a modern five-storeyed structure, which preserves ancient signs of old city. The excavation made in order to create the basement places revealed late medieval pavements and a considerable amount of archaeological findings stratified from the Renaissance back to the Roman age, partially visible in the foyer. The dinner will be hosted in the area of the cloister, previously occupied by the Hall of the Assizes, a big covered square where the attention is drawn onto the wing by Scamozzi on the northern side of the cloister. But the core of the evening is the dinner, obviously! The social dinner will be prepared by one of the best caterers in town and will give you the opportunity to taste the best Italian ingredients, dishes, wines and grappa.
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