Scientific Programme
Programme
Keynote lectures, thematic sessions, hands-on workshops, and social events over one intensive week in A Coruña.
The programme below reflects confirmed sessions. Additional lectures and social events will be added as the school approaches. All times are local Spain time (CEST, UTC+2).
Day 1
Monday, July 7, 2027
Registration & Welcome Coffee
Dense Retrieval in the Era of Large Language Models: Challenges and Opportunities
Ana Ríos-Alvarado
Lunch Break
Foundations of Probabilistic Ranking
James Winterton
Hands-On: Building a Dense Retrieval Pipeline with PyTerrier
Day 2
Tuesday, July 8, 2027
Morning Coffee
Rigorous Evaluation in Information Retrieval: From Cranfield to the LLM Age
James Winterton
Structured Knowledge and Unstructured Text: Bridging the Gap in Modern IR Systems
Mei-Chen Liu
Lunch Break
Neural Language Models for Document Ranking
Ana Ríos-Alvarado
Workshop: Evaluation Campaign Design and Metrics
Ready to attend?
Secure your place at the premier European IR summer school.