Marcin Sydow: invited research visits and invited lectures

• Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbruecken, research visit (Databases and Information Systems Department (D5), Prof. Gerhard Weikum), May/June 2009
• Yahoo! Research Barcelona, research visit (Data Mining Group), November 2008

• "Introduction to Ordered Information, Social Preference Theory and Rank Aggregation with Applications" Trinity College Dublin/University College Dublin, Ireland, March/April 2009
• "Applications of String Distance Metrics to Lemmatisation and Entity Matching in Polish" Trinity College Dublin/University College Dublin, Ireland, March/April 2009
• "Optimising Topical Query Decomposition" Trinity College Dublin/University College Dublin, Ireland, March/April 2009
• "Recent Results in Machine-Learning Approach to Search Engine Spam Detection", talks for researchers and doctoral students at School of Computer Science and Informatics, University College Dublin, Ireland, January 30-31, 2008
• "The Phenomenon of Web Spam", invited lectures for undergraduate and graduate students, Computer Science Department, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, February 5-6, 2008
• "Web Spam Detection", (with Carlos Castillo, Yahoo! Research, Barcelona), NATO-ASI Workshop "Mining Massive Data Sets for Security", Gazzada, Italy, 13.09.2007
• "Large-Scale Search Engines", "Selected Topics in Web Mining", National University of Ireland, Maynooth - Dublin, May 2007, (Socrates/Erasmus Programme)
• "Web Information Retrieval - an Introduction", "Introduction to Link Analysis - PageRank", University of Westminster, London (Harrow School) and University of Bedfordshire, London-Luton, April 2007, (Socrates/Erasmus Programme)
• "Link Analysis in Web Searching", Computational Linguistics Colloquium, Saarbruecken University, Germany, 28.07.2005
• "Web Searching and Data Analysis" (in Polish), invited talk during the 6th Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence Conference, CPI, Warsaw, Poland, 2006.04.11