January 8-10, 2018
Piteå, Sweden
http://knuth80.elfbrink.se/

Donald Knuth’s 80th birthday on January 10, 2018 will be celebrated by two connected events, both in Piteå, Sweden.

January 8-10 (Monday-Wednesday morning): The scientific symposium ”Knuth80: Algorithms, Combinatorics, and Information” in honor of Don’s career-long efforts that have inspired us all. Don’s interests and accomplishments are very broad, and the symposium will therefore include contributions from distinguished scientists in several areas where Don’s influence has been important.

January 10, afternoon (Wednesday): The world premiere of Fantasia Apocalytica, a multimedia work for pipe organ and video that Don has written. It will be performed by the Canadian organist Jan Overduin on the magnificent new pipe organ in Studio Acusticum in Piteå.

January 7-10, 2018
New Orleans
https://simplicityalgorithms.wixsite.com/sosa

Submission deadline: August 24, 2017

The Symposium on Simplicity in Algorithms is a new conference in theoretical computer science dedicated to advancing simplicity and elegance in the design and analysis of algorithms. The 1st SOSA will be co-located with SODA 2018 in New Orleans. Ideal submissions will present simpler algorithms for important algorithmic problems, or present simpler analyses of known algorithms, or offer insights that simplify our understanding of important computational problems.

July 14, 2017
UC San Diego
http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~slovett/workshops/sam-buss-60/

In celebration of Samuel Buss’s 60th birthday, we are organizing an Omni Buss celebration. As Sam’s work has had major impact on many areas of mathematics and computer science, including logic, proof complexity computational complexity, algorithms and graphics, the celebration will feature an eclectic combination of speakers.

June 7-8, 2017
University of Haifa
http://cs.haifa.ac.il/~yuri/Ilan60/

This mini-conference is a tribute to Prof. Ilan Newman and his academic career on occasion of his 60th birthday. Talks are open to all; the conference dinner is by invitation, or request and approval.

June 19-23, 2017
Budapest, Hungary
http://www.renyi.hu/conferences/barany70/

The aim of the conference is to celebrate the scientific achievements of professor Imre Bárány, a pioneering researcher of discrete and convex geometry, topological methods, and combinatorics. The conference will consist of invited 45 minute talks by prominent mathematicians whose work has special connections to that of Imre. The topics to be covered include: discrete and combinatorial geometry, convex geometry and general convexity, topological and combinatorial methods.