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January 6-9, 2019
San Diego, CA
https://simplicityinalgorithms.com/
Submission deadline: August 16, 2018
The Symposium on Simplicity in Algorithms (SOSA) welcomes papers that advance simplicity and elegance in both the design and analysis of algorithms.
The 2nd Symposium on Simplicity in Algorithms (SOSA 2019) will be co-located with SODA 2019, January 6–9, 2019, in San Diego California.
June 8, 2018
Northwestern University
https://theory.eecs.northwestern.edu/events/algorithmic-fairness/
Registration deadline: June 8, 2018
As algorithmic systems have increasingly been deployed to make consequential decisions, it is becoming urgent that we grapple with the problem of (un)fairness and discrimination. These are delicate issues — to think rigorously about them, we first need to figure out how to formally define what we want, and then reason about how we might go about achieving our goals algorithmically — and what tradeoffs we will have to manage. This workshop focuses on recent advances in the theory of algorithmic fairness: both on foundational definitional questions, and on algorithmic techniques. The speakers are Nicole Immorlica (MSR), Jon Kleinberg (Cornell), Omer Reingold (Stanford), and Aaron Roth (U. of Pennsylvania).
The technical program of this workshop is organized by Aaron Roth and Jason Hartline.
August 13-17, 2018
Saarbrücken, Germany
http://resources.mpi-inf.mpg.de/conferences/adfocs/
ADFOCS is an international summer school with the purpose of introducing young researchers to topics which are the focus of current research in theoretical computer science. This year’s topic is *Fine-Grained Complexity and Algorithms*. The lecturers are Amir Abboud (IBM Almaden), Danupon Nanongkai (KTH), and Ramamohan Paturi (UC San Diego).
October 1-6, 2018
Hong Kong
http://seta2018.ust.hk/
Submission deadline: May 8, 2018
Registration deadline: July 17, 2018
The focus of the conference is on sequences and their applications in communications, cryptography, coding, and combinatorics, as well as on related topics in discrete mathematics.
July 9, 2018
Prague, Czechia
https://sites.google.com/site/aefeldmann/workshop
Submission deadline: April 20, 2018
Registration deadline: May 31, 2018
Two standard approaches to handle hard (typically NP-hard) optimization problems are to develop approximation and parameterized algorithms. For the former, the runtime should be polynomial in the input size, but the computed solution may deviate from the optimum. For the latter, the optimum solution should be computed, but any super-polynomial runtime should be isolated to some parameter of the input. Some problems however are hard to approximate on one hand, and on the other it is also hard to obtain parameterized algorithms for some given parameter. In this case one may still hope to obtain parameterized approximation algorithms, which combine the two paradigms, i.e. the computed solution may deviate from the optimum and the runtime should have super-polynomial dependence only in some given parameter. Recently there has been a great deal of development in proving the existence or non-existence of parameterized approximation algorithms, and the aim of this workshop is to bring together active researchers of this emerging field, so that they may share their results and insights.
April 22-26, 2018
Jerusalem
https://iiashdc.wordpress.com/april-conference-iias-huji/
Registration deadline: April 13, 2018
Combinatorics in general, and the theory of expander graphs in particular, have been fruitful areas of interaction between pure and applied mathematics. In recent years, a “high dimensional” combinatorial theory has emerged. Aside from its intellectual appeal, this theory has a great potential for various applications in mathematics and computer science. This theory calls for a cooperation of experts in these different fields. The conference will bring leading experts in these topics.
May 14-17, 2018
Athens, GA, USA
http://research.franklin.uga.edu/additive-combinatorics/georgia-discrete-analysis
The purpose of the conference is to exchange ideas related to the latest developments in discrete analysis with a focus on those in arithmetic combinatorics.
