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STOC 2009 Program Chair’s Report. Michael Mitzenmacher. Thanks 1 :Program Committee. Susanne Albers Andris Ambainis Nikhil Bansal Paul Beame Andrej Bogdanov Ran Canetti David Eppstein Dmitry Gavinsky Leslie Ann Goldberg Shafi Goldwasser Nicole Immorlica Anna Karlin. Jonathan Katz
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STOC 2009Program Chair’s Report Michael Mitzenmacher
Thanks 1 :Program Committee Susanne Albers Andris Ambainis Nikhil Bansal Paul Beame Andrej Bogdanov Ran Canetti David Eppstein Dmitry Gavinsky Leslie Ann Goldberg Shafi Goldwasser Nicole Immorlica Anna Karlin Jonathan Katz Jonathan Kelner Subhash Khot Ravi Kumar Kamesh Munagala Rasmus Pagh Anup Rao Rocco Servedio Mikkel Thorup Chris Umans Lisa Zhang
Thanks 2 • Richard Ladner • Jonathan Katz, David Mount, Aravind Srinivasan (Local Arrangements) • Shai Halevi • Cynthia Dwork
321 (Final) Submissions77 Accepted • algorithms and data structures 20/71 • algorithmic algebra and coding theory 6/19 • algorithmic graph theory and combinatorics 9/34 • computational biology 0/5 • computational complexity 9/40 • computational game theory 4/27 • computational geometry 1/6
cryptography 7/23 • machine learning 1/13 • none 2/14 • other 2/10 • parallel and distributed computation 3/12 • quantum computing and alternative models of computation 4/22 • randomness in computing 8/19 • theory of information retrieval 0/2 • theory of networks 1/4
Best Paper Award Shared • Public-Key Cryptosystems from the Worst-Case Shortest Vector Problem • Chris Peikert • A Constructive Proof of the Lovász Local Lemma • Robin A. Moser The second also selected for the Danny Lewin Best Student Paper Award
Software consistency / maintenence Encouraging detailed reviews Online vs. face-to-face PC meetings Conflict of interest policies Consistent, usable scoring methods Size/structure of PC Conceptual papers and simplicity Issues for the Future(see blog discussions)