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PERSPECTIVES 2023: The third edition of the PERSPECTIVES workshop ‘Perspectives on the Evaluation of Recommender Systems’ was just accepted to be held at RecSys 2023.

The Call for Papers for the Doctoral Symposium at RecSys 2023 in Singapore is online.

Today, Karlijn Dinnissen had the first-year assessment of her PhD, which she—as expected—successfully passed.

Today, Shabnam Najafian defended her PhD Thesis at TU Delft. My very first Dutch PhD defense.

There will be a Recommender Systems Summer School in 2023.

A successful Dagstuhl seminar on the ‘Frontiers of Information Access Experimentation for Research and Education’.

Next week, I am going to Dagstuhl, where I co-organize a seminar on the ‘Frontiers of Information Access Experimentation for Research and Education’ together with Ben Carterette, Nicola Ferro, and Norbert Fuhr.

Bruce Ferwerda will present our HICSS 2023 paper on: “IThe effect of ingroup identification on conformity behavior in group decision-making: the flipping direction matters”

New UMUAI paper is online: “Intra-list similarity and human diversity perceptions of recommendations: the details matter”

Next week, Lorenzo Porcaro will defend his PhD thesis with the title “Assessing the Impact of Music Recommendation Diversity on Listeners”. I have to honor to chair the jury consisting of two legends in the field, Perfecto Herrera (UPF) and Mounia Lalmas-Roelleke (Spotify),—and myself.