SIGMOD 2015

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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).

Early bird registration ends April 25th, 2015.

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

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

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)

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

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.