SIGMOD 2015

18/05/2015

SIGMOD 2015 is being held in Melbourne which is an exciting, ever-changing city with extraordinary surprises to be discovered in every laneway, rooftop and basement. A city that regularly tops the World’s Most Liveable list, there’s always something going on with an enviable array of major events an…

17/05/2015

http://www.visitvictoria.com/Regions/Melbourne/Events

Melbourne is a city buzzing with theatre, exhibitions, concerts, festivals and sporting events. Check out Melbourne's events calendar.

17/05/2015

Dining Options at SIGMOD 2015

Yellow: Breakfast Places Green: Lunch & Dinner Red: Bars

17/05/2015

Transportation Options to Reach SIGMOD 2015 Conference Venue: Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre

Arriving by taxi
Taxi drop off points are at 1 Convention Centre Place (for Convention Centre) or 2 Clarendon Street, South Wharf (for Exhibition Centre).

Taxis can be booked by contacting Silver Top Taxi (131 008) or Yellow Cabs (13 22 27).

Arriving by tram
Melbourne's tram network services the metropolitan inner-city area with 28 lines. Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC) is serviced by regular services departing every few minutes.

MCEC is stop 124a (Crown Casino / MCEC) for routes 96, 109 and 112 stop opposite the MCEC on Clarendon Street, South Wharf.

Tram numbers 48 and 70 stop at the end of Flinders Street. Walk towards the Yarra River and cross Seafarers Bridge.

Arriving by train
Melbourne’s metropolitan train network operates from the nearby Southern Cross station connecting to all parts of Melbourne.

Exit onto Spencer Street and take trams 96, 109 or 112 to stop 124a, which stops opposite the Exhibition Centre entrance of MCEC.

Arriving by bus
Bus route 237 operates from Queen Victoria Market, via Southern Cross Station to Lorimer Street South Wharf from Monday to Friday. Lormier Street is approximately a five minute walk to MCEC. There is also a coach pick up/drop off point at Bay 1, Convention Centre Place (closest to DFO South Wharf).

17/05/2015

About the Conference Venue:

Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre

The 2015 ACM SIGMOD/PODS Conference will be held at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre. Recognized as Australasia’s Leading Meetings and Conference Centre in 2014, 2013 and 2012 by the prestigious World Travel Awards, MCEC proudly offers delegates amazing spaces, leading technology, creative food and wine and staff with the skills and experience to bring it all together. The Convention Centre is just a few minutes walk to the heart of Melbourne and there is plenty to explore in the immediate vicinity.

20/03/2015

SIGMOD undergraduate research poster competition extended to March 26th, 2015

https://research.cs.wisc.edu/dbworld/messages/2015-03/1426890884.html

17/03/2015

Early bird registration ends April 25th, 2015.

https://research.cs.wisc.edu/dbworld/messages/2015-03/1426571631.html

11/03/2015

SIGMOD 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.

http://www.sigmod2015.org/grants3.shtml

11/02/2015

ACM SIGMOD 2015 PROGRAMMING CONTEST
http://db.in.tum.de/sigmod15contest/

Student teams from degree-granting institutions are invited to compete in the annual SIGMOD programming contest. The task for this year's contest is focused on an aspect of optimistic concurrency control. The winning team will be awarded a prize of USD $5,000. Submissions will be judged based on their overall performance on a supplied workload. The top-5 submissions will receive a travel grant to attend SIGMOD 2015 in Melbourne, Australia.

IMPORTANT DATES
February 9, 2015 Detailed specification of the requirements and test data available.
February 19, 2015 Team registration begins. Leaderboard available.
April 7, 2015 Final submission deadline.
April 20, 2015 Finalists notified.
May 31, 2015 Conference begins.

ORGANIZERS
The contest is organized by the chair for Database Systems at Technische Universität München in collaboration with the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)

30/11/2014

Deadlines closing very soon:

Demo paper submission (November 30, 2014, 11:59 pm PST)
http://www.sigmod2015.org/calls_demo_proposals.shtml

Tutorial proposal (November 30, 2014, 11:59 pm PST)
http://www.sigmod2015.org/calls_panel_proposals.shtml

Panel proposal (November 30, 2014, 11:59 pm PST)
http://www.sigmod2015.org/calls_tutorial_proposals.shtml

Industrial paper submission (December 1, 2014, 11:59 pm PST)
http://www.sigmod2015.org/calls_industrial_track_papers.shtml

30/11/2014

Call for submissions

SIGMOD/PODS 2015 PhD Symposium
http://staff.itee.uq.edu.au/shenht/phdsymposium2015/
(May 31 2015)

The SIGMOD/PODS 2015 PhD Symposium will be a forum where PhD students will have an opportunity of presenting their research ideas, receiving feedback from and interacting with senior members of the community. The focus of the Symposium will be on mentorship and providing constructive feedback to the students. The members of the Program Committee will attend the symposium, which will provide ample opportunities for discussions and feedback. Students whose submissions are accepted for presentation will be paired by a member of the PC for mentorship and one-on-one discussions. The workshop is co-located with SIGMOD/PODS 2015 and will take place on May 31 2015.

We welcome submissions (5 pages in SIGMOD/PODS format) from PhD students. Since the focus of the Symposium is to provide feedback on the research, authors should not have received their Ph.D. degree nor submitted their thesis before the Symposium. According to the stage of the PhD work, we have two tracks for submission. The General Track is for students who are in early stages of their studies. The submission should clearly specify the problem they plan to focus on, the thesis that they plan to investigate, and the outline of the methodology that they plan to follow. The Towards Graduation Track is for students who expect to graduate by the end of 2015. The submission should specify the contributions they have made so far and what remains to be accomplished.

The SIGMOD Executive Committee has committed a certain amount of funds to support student participation, including financial support for traveling and free conference registrations. The distribution of these funds will be adjudicated after the acceptance decisions are made.

SUBMISSIONS

Submissions must be single-authored by the student and should specify (a) the expected graduation date, and (b) the name of the supervisor under the author's name. Authors should prepare their submissions in PDF format typeset in SIGMOD/PODS style (maximum 5 pages) and upload it to the conference management system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sigmo-pods-phdsymp-2015).

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline: Feb 1, 2015 (11:59pm PDT)
Notification: March 21, 2015
Camera ready: April 5, 2015

18/10/2014

Our confirmed keynote speakers for SIGMOD 2015 are: Laura Haas (IBM Fellow and Director, IBM Research Accelerated Discovery Lab) and Jignesh Patel (Professor, University of Wisconsin). Stay tuned for more updates.