STOC 2020 Business Meeting Highlights
The STOC 2020 Business Meeting highlights various committees, award recipients, upcoming events, and reports presented by distinguished individuals in the field of computer science. The meeting also covered plans for future conferences and acknowledgments for contributions to the field.
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STOC 2020 BUSINESS MEETING Thanks to sponsors
SIGACT EC Eric Allender (Rutgers) Shuchi Chawla (Wisconsin) Nicole Immorlica (Microsoft) Samir Khuller (Northwestern) Bobby Kleinberg (Cornell)
SUB COMMITTEES CACM Research Highlights Barak, Madry (chair), Reingold, Wooters Award Committee Co-ordination Sahai TCS Women Saha, Vassilevska Williams, Raskhodnikova
STOC 2020 Business Meeting General Chairs (Kamath, Makarychev, Makarychev, Tulsiani) Theory Fest Report (Tim Roughgarden) Awards (Knuth, Godel, SIGACT Service Award) Presentation of SIGACT Service Award and remarks Laci Babai PC Report Julia Chuzhoy Awards: Best Paper, Danny Lewin Award for Best Student Paper Upcoming STOC 2021 June 22-26 in Rome, Italy PC Chair: Virginia Vassilevska Williams, Local Arrangements: Stefano Leonardi TheoryFest Chair Tim Roughgarden SIGACT Report Bid for STOC 2022 location (?) PC Chair: Anupam Gupta NSF Report (Tracy Kimbrel) CATCS Report SafeTOC Report (Rabani) and FOCS 2020 (Durham, NC) Nov 16-19 Open Discussion of a few items
THEORY FEST Tim Roughgarden
STOC 2020 Business Meeting General Chairs (Kamath, Makarychev, Makarychev, Tulsiani) Theory Fest Report (Tim Roughgarden) Awards (Knuth, Godel, SIGACT Service Award) Presentation of SIGACT Service Award and remarks Laci Babai PC Report Julia Chuzhoy Awards: Best Paper, Danny Lewin Award for Best Student Paper Upcoming STOC 2021 June 22-26 in Rome, Italy PC Chair: Virginia Vassilevska Williams, Local Arrangements: Stefano Leonardi TheoryFest Chair Tim Roughgarden SIGACT Report Bid for STOC 2022 location (?) PC Chair: Anupam Gupta NSF Report (Tracy Kimbrel) CATCS Report SafeTOC Report (Rabani) and FOCS 2020 (Durham, NC) Nov 16-19 Open Discussion of a few items
AWARDS Godel Award (with EATCS) Knuth Prize (with IEEE) Robin Moser & Gabor Tardos Cynthia Dwork
SIGACT DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD SIGACT Dist. Service Award
STOC 2020 Best Paper Award Awarded to: Ryan Alweiss [Princeton University] Shachar Lovett [UCSD] Kewen Wu [Peking University] Jiapeng Zhang [Harvard University] For: Improved bounds for the sunflower lemma
SIGACT Danny Lewin Best Student Paper Award Awarded to: Siddharth Bhandari [Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai] Sayantan Chakraborty [Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai] For: Improved Bounds for perfect sampling of k-colorings in graphs
STOC PC REPORT AND STOC AWARDS Julia Chuzhoy
STOC 2020 Business Meeting General Chairs (Kamath, Makarychev, Makarychev, Tulsiani) Theory Fest Report (Tim Roughgarden) Awards (Knuth, Godel, SIGACT Service Award) Presentation of SIGACT Service Award and remarks Laci Babai PC Report Julia Chuzhoy Awards: Best Paper, Danny Lewin Award for Best Student Paper Upcoming STOC 2021 June 22-26 in Rome, Italy PC Chair: Virginia Vassilevska Williams, Local Arrangements: Stefano Leonardi TheoryFest Chair Tim Roughgarden SIGACT Report Bid for STOC 2022 location (?) PC Chair: Anupam Gupta NSF Report (Tracy Kimbrel) CATCS Report SafeTOC Report (Rabani) and FOCS 2020 (Durham, NC) Nov 16-19 Open discussion of a few items
STOC 2021 Rome, Italy http://acm-stoc.org/stoc2021/ Local Arrangements - Stefano Leonardi PC Chair Virginia Vassilevska Williams
STOC 2022 looking for a location Local Arrangements You! PC Chair Anupam Gupta 2018 Los Angeles 2019 Phoenix (FCRC) 2020 Virtual 2021 Rome, Italy 2022 US east coast location?
2019 ACM Fellows Scott Aaronson Paul Beame Timothy Chan Ramesh Sitaraman Peter Shor Nisheeth Vishnoi
SIGACT Executive Committee (2018-2021) SIGACT has both an upcoming review this fall (August) and an upcoming election this fall. Please consider running! Email any of the EC members if interested Bobby Kleinberg, Nicole Immorlica, Shuchi Chawla, Eric Allender.
STOC 2020 Business Meeting General Chairs (Kamath, Makarychev, Makarychev, Tulsiani) Theory Fest Report (Tim Roughgarden) Awards (Knuth, Godel, SIGACT Service Award) Presentation of SIGACT Service Award and remarks Laci Babai PC Report Julia Chuzhoy Awards: Best Paper, Danny Lewin Award for Best Student Paper Upcoming STOC 2021 June 22-26 in Rome, Italy PC Chair: Virginia Vassilevska Williams, Local Arrangements: Stefano Leonardi TheoryFest Chair Tim Roughgarden SIGACT Report Bid for STOC 2022 location (?) PC Chair: Anupam Gupta NSF Report (Tracy Kimbrel) CATCS Report SafeTOC Report (Rabani) and FOCS 2020 (Durham, NC) Nov 16-19 Open discussion of a few items
NSF REPORT Tracy Kimbrel Program Director for CCF
Safe TOC Yuval Rabani will talk https://www.ics.uci.edu/~irani/safetoc.html
CATCS REPORT Shuchi Chawla
OTHER BUSINESS PC Chair decides if PC members can submit or not? Accept more papers? Create a second virtual conference? Please do the STOC SURVEY released on Thursday evening.
