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PODC 2004 Business Meeting

PODC 2004 Business Meeting. Mark Tuttle, HP Labs Steering Committee. Thanks: Sponsors. Microsoft $5,000 Sun Labs $5,000 HP Labs $3,000. Thanks: Steering committee. Marcos Aguilera Soma Chaudhuri Idit Keidar Shay Kutten Keith Marzullo Sergio Rajsbaum Mark Tuttle (Gil Neiger).

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PODC 2004 Business Meeting

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  1. PODC 2004 Business Meeting Mark Tuttle, HP LabsSteering Committee

  2. Thanks: Sponsors Microsoft $5,000 Sun Labs $5,000 HP Labs $3,000

  3. Thanks: Steering committee Marcos Aguilera Soma Chaudhuri Idit Keidar Shay Kutten Keith Marzullo Sergio Rajsbaum Mark Tuttle (Gil Neiger)

  4. James Aspnes Gregory Chockler Edith Cohen Panagiota Fatourou Joan Feigenbaum Christof Fetzer Jaap-Henk Hoepman David Karger Idit Keidar Victor Luchangco Keith Marzullo Toshimitsu Masuzawa Rafail Ostrovsky Boaz Patt-Shamir Michel Raynal Alex Shvartsman Gadi Taubenfeld Mark Tuttle Roger Wattenhofer Thanks: Program committee Shay Kutten, Chair Michael Mitzenmacher, Special Track Chair

  5. Thanks: Organizing committee Soma Chaudhuri, General Chair Shay Kutten, Program Chair Michael Mitzenmacher, Special Track Chair Marcos Aguilera, Treasurer Krishnamurthy Vidyasankar, Local Arrangements Panagiota Fatourou, Publicity Victor Luchangco, Publicity Rida Bazzi, Posters Jaap-Henk Hoepman, Technical Services Gil Neiger, Webmaster and Registration

  6. Agenda • 2003 treasurer’s report: Soma Chaudhuri • 2004 treasurer’s report: Marcos Aguilera • 2004 program chair’s report: Shay Kutten • Dijkstra Prize proposals • Registration fee proposals • PODC future locations

  7. Soma Chaudhuri 2003 Treasurer 2004 General chair

  8. 2003 Treasurer’s Report • Revenue $48, 850 • Registration $ 32, 350 • Sponsorship $ 16, 500 • Expenses $ 48, 740 • Surplus $1,110! Reimbursed travel for $1000 leaving a surplus of $110.

  9. Some Explanations Last year I said I had a $4500 deficit. Why? • We saved an extra $1100 on the banquet. • Got a few more full-fare non-ACM registrations! • ACM is tax-exempt in Massachusetts! It was close!

  10. Main Pitfalls • 132 registrations • 51 students • 69 full-fare 42 % at student rate! This percentage has been growing in the last couple years. This is good for PODC but hard for the budget! More of this in 2004.

  11. Marcos Aguilera 2004 Treasurer 2005 General chair

  12. Revenue

  13. Expenses

  14. Shay Kutten 2004 Program chair

  15. Dijkstra Prize proposals • ACM PODC and EATCS DISC as joint sponsors • DISC will match PODC’s contribution to endowment • Cash value of prize will double to $2,000 • Advantages: • Increase visibility in Europe via EATCS • Increase interest by doubling the cash value • Dijkstra Prize Lecture • A ceremony awarding the prize followed by… • A lecture by the recipient(s) on the work and the future of the field (an invited lecture, not required)

  16. Registration fee proposals • Deep student discounts are no longer practical • Students ratio grown from 1:3 in 2000 to 1:1 in 2004 • 1:3: to discount students $100, charge nonstudents $33 • 1:1: to discount students $100, charge nonstudents $100 • Student ratio uncertainty hamstrings organizers • Proposal: Fix some surcharge like 20% • Nonstudents pay 120% of actual costs • Students pay 40% (1:3) to 80% (1:1) depending on ratio • 2004 fees would have been $291/183 vs $335/130 • Proposal: banquet optional? travel grants?

  17. PODC/SPAA 2005July 17-20 • Main event is collocation with SPAA • Several joint sessions, probably no festival etc… • Was to be in Santa Fe • Hotel rates turned out to be $150+ not $99 • Available dates were badly restricted by tourism season • But we’re going to Vegas!

  18. Alexis Park Resort

  19. One mile off the strip! No casino in hotel! Near the university Near the airport Many restaurants within a short walk But it will be hot! Alexis Park Resort

  20. Alexis Park Resort • “… the only reasonable choice in Las Vegas” - Guy Blelloch, PLDI’97 • “I used pretty much all the venues available … the most satisfactory … arrangement I had was with the Alexis Park. It's a mile off the strip, … and within an easy walk of a half dozen great restaurants.” -Hal Berghel, UNLV • “…the conference rooms were fine …the best option …the location could not be better.” -Wolf Bein, UNLV

  21. Alexis Park Resort • Some easily found airline fares for July 2004 • Boston $221 • New York $221 • Pittsburgh $198 • Seattle $192 • Atlanta $222 • Toronto $350 • London $1159 • Paris $1116 • Tel Aviv $1107

  22. Alexis Park Resort • Cheap rooms, expensive food (ACM says “normal”) • Hotel: $79/night • Registration: perhaps $475 full, $325 student • From Boston: registration + five nights + airfare: • Saint John: $335 + 5*125 + 404 = $1364 • Las Vegas: $475 + 5*79 + 221 = $1091 • How important is it to keep registration <$400? • Cut food? Cut reception? Cut banquet? Cut proceedings?

  23. 2005 organizing committees • PODC • General chair: Marcos Aguilera • Program chair: • Treasurer: Eric Ruppert • Local chair: • SPAA • General chair: Phil Gibbons • Program chair: Paul Spirakis • Treasurer: Raj Rajmohan • Local chair: Cindy Phillips

  24. Potential coming PODCs • 2006: New Haven, CT (Jim Aspnes) • See Tuttle land: Yale divinity school, dirty parking lot • 2007: Portland, OR (Gil Neiger) • See Gil Neiger • 2008: Toronto, Ontario (Eric Ruppert) • See Henry Moore plaster casts for sculptures • Also Flagstaff/Phoenix, AZ (Rida Bazzi), SPAA • Maybe Philadelphia, ACM FCRC…

  25. Questions? (Yes, HP Labs is hiring!)

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