The STOC 2010 Call for Papers is out. Submission deadline is November 5th, 2009 and the conference will be held in Cambridge, Massachusetts, fromSunday June 6 to Tuesday June 8, 2010.
The most interesting part of the CFP is:
The extended abstract should be addressed insofar as possible to a broad spectrum of CS Theory researchers. Authors should clearly convey to such a reader the main new ideas in the paper. One suggested, but not required, way of achieving this is to include a short section containing either the equivalent of a brief oral presentation of the work, or a discussion of the conceptual contributions of the paper, or a sketch of the key ideas in the proof of the simplest non-trivial statement of the main result.
Authors should substantiate the principal claims in the paper. If necessary, some material may be placed in a clearly marked appendix that will be read at the discretion of the program committee. There are no format requirements regarding such an appendix. (Authors are encouraged to simply attach a copy of the full paper, if ready.)
It’s somewhat shocking that there is not a single PC member that works in a European institution.
Why does it say in the CFP that the online proceedings will only be available under password to those who attend the conference? Why can’t the proceedings be made available to everyone? Also, why will these online proceedings cease to be available after the conference?
“The committee intends to provide registered attendees with internet access to the Proceedings on a password-protected site that will be available from about two weeks before the conference until the end of the conference. Authors can opt out of this online distribution by contacting the program committee chair by March 30.”
Thanks! On a related note, the EC’10 CFP is also out there.
— Iftah
“One suggested, but not required, way of achieving this is to include a short section containing either the equivalent of a brief oral presentation of the work …”
Seems to be converging to:
http://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2007/04/radical-change-to-conferences-by-vijay.html
–v.