Registration has opened for ASIRF 2025, the Autumn School 2025 - Information Retrieval and Information Foraging.

For more information on the schedule, program, or registration: https://fg-retrieval.gi.de/veranstaltung/asirf2025

ASIRF provides a holistic perspective and shows how Information Retrieval and Information Foraging interact. In addition to conceptual and methodological knowledge from both fields, ASIRF is highly interdisciplinary. The autumn school will provide different tutorials, from foundations of Information Retrieval and Information Foraging to recent research topics such as using large language models for information retrieval tasks or applications of IR techniques in application domains.

The intended audience of ASIRF are doctoral or MA students and young researchers working in Information Retrieval, Information Foraging, or using concepts or methods from these fields in their research domains. Students and lecturers will live together for a week at Schloss Dagstuhl, which guarantees the school's traditionally highly communicative and interactive atmosphere.

The registration is free this year. A small number of partial travel grants are also available.

The autumn school will take place at the best computer science venue ever Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (LZI) between 24 and 29 August 2025.

The program includes the following lectures and tutorials:

- Foundations of Interactive IR (Norbert Fuhr, U Duisburg-Essen) - Deep Learning for IR (Avishek Anand, TU Delft) - Conversational Search (Ralf Schenkel, U Trier) - Fairness and Bias (Andrea Horbach, U Kiel) - Multimodal retrieval and data analysis (Henning Müller, HES-SO) - User Experiments and Interactive IR (Thomas Mandl, U Hildesheim) - Complex Casual Leisure Information Needs (Vivien Petras, HU Berlin) - User Simulations for IR (Philipp Schaer, TH Köln) See you in Dagstuhl!

ASIRF 2025 organizers Philipp Schaer, Ralf Schenkel, and Thomas Mandl