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FOCS
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57th Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science October 9-11, 2016 New Brunswick, New Jersey |
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CALL FOR PAPERS
57th Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS 2016)
New Brunswick, New Jersey, October 9-11, 2016.
The 57th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS 2016), sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Mathematical Foundations of Computing, will be held in New Brunswick, New Jersey on October 9-11 (Sunday through Tuesday).On Saturday, October 8th, FOCS will join the celebration of Avi Wigderson's 60th birthday.
Papers presenting new and original research on theory of computation are sought. Typical but not exclusive topics of interest include: algorithms and data structures, computational complexity, cryptography, computational learning theory, economics and computation, parallel and distributed algorithms, quantum computing, computational geometry, computational applications of logic, algorithmic graph theory and combinatorics, optimization, randomness in computing, approximation algorithms, algorithmic coding theory, algebraic computation, and theoretical aspects of areas such as networks, privacy, information retrieval, computational biology, and databases. Papers that broaden the reach of the theory of computing, or raise important problems that can benefit from theoretical investigation and analysis, are encouraged.
Important Dates:
- Submission deadline: 3:59pm EDT, April 5, 2016.
- Notification: by June 24th, 2016.
- Final version of accepted papers due: August 12, 2016.
Submission format:
Submissions should start with a title page consisting of the title of the paper; each author's name, affiliation, and email address; and an abstract of 1-2 paragraphs summarizing the paper's contributions.There is no page limit and the authors are encouraged to use the "full version" of their paper as the submission. The submission must contain within its first ten pages a clear presentation of the merits of the paper, including discussion of its importance, prior work, and an outline (similar to a brief oral presentation) of key technical ideas and methods used to achieve the main claims. The submission should include all of the ideas necessary for an expert to verify fully the central claims in the paper. Finally, the submission should be addressed to a broad spectrum of theoretical computer scientists, not solely to experts in the subarea. Although there is no bound on the length of a submission, material other than the abstract, references, and the first ten pages will be read at the committee's discretion. Authors are encouraged to put the references at the very end of the submission.
The submission should be typeset using 11-point or larger fonts, in a single-column, single-space (between lines) format with ample spacing throughout and 1-inch margins all around. Submissions deviating significantly from these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits.
All submissions will be treated as confidential, and will only be disclosed to the committee and their chosen sub-referees.
Submission instructions:
Authors are required to submit their papers electronically, in PDF (without security restrictions on copying or printing). Submissions will be judged solely on the basis of the paper submitted by the deadline; post-deadline revisions will not be allowed.On-line posting:
Authors are encouraged to post full versions of their submissions in a freely accessible on-line repository such as the arxiv, the ECCC, or the Cryptology ePrint archive. (Papers that are not written well enough for public dissemination are probably also not ready for submission to FOCS.) We expect that authors of accepted papers will make full versions of their papers, with proofs, available by the camera-ready deadline. (This should be done in a manner consistent with the IEEE Copyright Policy.)Prior and simultaneous submission:
The conference will follow SIGACT's policy on prior publication and simultaneous submissions. Work that has been previously published in another conference proceedings or journal, or which is scheduled for publication prior to December 2016, will not be considered for acceptance at FOCS 2016. Simultaneous submission of the same (or essentially the same) abstract to FOCS 2016 and to another conference with published proceedings or journal is not allowed. The program committee may interact with program chairs of other (past or future) conferences to find out about closely related submissions.Awards:
The Machtey award will be given to the best paper or papers written solely by one or more students. An abstract is eligible if all authors are full-time students at the time of submission. This should be indicated at the time of submission. All submissions are eligible for the Best Paper award. The committee may decide to split the awards between multiple papers, or to decline to make an award.Presentation of Accepted Papers:
One author of each accepted paper will be expected to present the work at the conference.Program Committee:
| Eric Blais | University of Waterloo |
| Mark Braverman | Princeton University |
| Siu On Chan | The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Moses Charikar | Stanford University |
| Marek Cygan | University of Warsaw |
| Irit Dinur (chair) | Weizmann Institute of Science |
| Andrew Drucker | University of Chicago |
| Faith Ellen | University of Toronto |
| Sariel Har-Peled | University of Illinois Urbana Champaign |
| Prahladh Harsha | Tata Institute of Fundamental Research |
| Alexandra Kolla | University of Illinois Urbana Champaign |
| Swastik Kopparty | Rutgers University |
| Robert Krauthgamer | Weizmann Institute of Science |
| Brendan Lucier | Microsoft Research |
| Or Meir | University of Haifa |
| Raghu Meka | University of California, Los Angeles |
| Daniele Micciancio | UCSD |
| Moni Naor | Weizmann Institute of Science |
| Joe Neeman | University of Bonn and University of Texas, Austin | Rasmus Pagh | IT University of Copenhagen |
| Rocco Servedio | Columbia University |
| Yaoyun Shi | University of Michigan |
| Ola Svensson | EPFL |
| Thomas Vidick | Caltech |
| Daniel Wichs | Northeastern University |
Contact Information:
| General Chair: | Program Committe Chair: | Local Arrangements Chairs: |
| Rafail Ostrovsky
UCLA |
Irit Dinur Weizmann Institute focs16chair@gmail.com |
Rebecca Wright (Rutgers) Lisa Zhang (Bell Labs) |