<div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;line-height:1.27636;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:7pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Apologies for cross-posting *</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;line-height:1.27636;text-align:center;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:7pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">** 3rd call for DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM PARTICIPATION **</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;line-height:1.27636;text-align:center;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:7pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">In conjunction with </span><a href="https://cikm2020.org/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">CIKM 2020</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (October 19th-23rd, 2020)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;line-height:1.37455;text-align:justify;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:7pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">CIKM 2020 will be a fully virtual conference, with no travel involved, and presentations will be given via pre-recorded videos, followed by synchronized online discussions during the scheduled conference period.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;line-height:1.37455;text-align:justify;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:7pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">In this context, please note the </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">submission deadlines below.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:14pt;margin-bottom:14pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We invite PhD students from the general areas of databases (DB), information retrieval (IR), and knowledge management (KM) to submit their proposals for participation in a Doctoral Consortium, which will be held on Tuesday, 20th October 2020 in the context of the </span><a href="https://cikm2020.org/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,255);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">29th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM2020)</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:14pt;margin-bottom:14pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We welcome submissions representing a broad spectrum of research topics relevant to the CIKM community. The goal of the PhD Symposium is to provide a platform for PhD students to present and receive feedback on their ongoing research. Students at different stages of their research will have the opportunity to present their work in an online conference environment and discuss their research questions, goals, methods and results. Participants will benefit from the advice of senior researchers in the field in the form of one-to-one online discussions that will be organized.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;line-height:1.2;margin-top:14pt;margin-bottom:14pt"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Key Dates (Updated)</span></p><div dir="ltr" align="left" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;margin-left:0pt"><table style="border:none;border-collapse:collapse"><colgroup><col width="198"><col width="164"></colgroup><tbody><tr style="height:16.5pt"><td style="border-width:0.5pt 0.75pt 0.5pt 0.5pt;border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:0pt 5.4pt;overflow:hidden"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Submission deadline</span></p></td><td style="border:0.75pt solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:bottom;padding:2pt;overflow:hidden"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">24th July 2020</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:0pt"><td style="border-width:0.5pt 0.75pt 0.5pt 0.5pt;border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:0pt 5.4pt;overflow:hidden"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Acceptance notification</span></p></td><td style="border:0.75pt solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:bottom;padding:2pt;overflow:hidden"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">15th August 2020</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:0pt"><td style="border-width:0.5pt 0.75pt 0.5pt 0.5pt;border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:0pt 5.4pt;overflow:hidden"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Camera-ready version due</span></p></td><td style="border:0.75pt solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:bottom;padding:2pt;overflow:hidden"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">31st August 2020</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:0pt"><td style="border-width:0.5pt 0.75pt 0.5pt 0.5pt;border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:0pt 5.4pt;overflow:hidden"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Doctoral Consortium</span></p></td><td style="border:0.75pt solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:bottom;padding:2pt;overflow:hidden"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">20th October 2020</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard"><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;line-height:1.27636;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:7pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">More info: </span><a href="https://cikm2020.org/call-for-doctoral-consortium-participation/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://cikm2020.org/call-for-doctoral-consortium-participation/</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;line-height:1.2;margin-top:14pt;margin-bottom:14pt"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Doctoral Consortium Chairs</span></p><ul style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:14pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Daniel Hienert (GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Cologne, Germany)</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:14pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Gianluca Demartini (University of Queensland, Australia)</span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;line-height:1.37455;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:7pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Check our sponsorship </span><a href="https://cikm2020.org/sponsorship/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">options</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> for an opportunity to r</span></p></div>