Computational Complexity

Friday, June 27, 2008

 
Complexity Conference Wrap

Posted by Lance

In the second half of our podcast (22:34, 20.6 MB), Bill and I talk about the debate over special issues at the business meeting between Joachim van zur Gathen, editor-in-chief of Computational Complexity (a Springer journal that serves as the current home of the conference's special issue) and László Babai, editor-in-chief of Theory of Computing (an open-access electronic journal). Watch this space for the results of the vote taken after the debate.

Bill and I also talk about Richard Beigel's report on the not-too-bad state of theory funding. An important warning: Regular theory proposals will have a fall deadine, well before the deadlines over the previous few years.

Evan Golub set up a Flickr group for pictures from the conference and uploaded some he took from the business meeting. Feel free to upload your own pictures from the conference.

I really enjoyed the conference for several reasons. For the first time since 1995 I didn't attend the conference steering committee dinner or have any other major responsibilities. I did serve on the PC and hosted the first session, but pretty much I could just relax and enjoy this meeting. Also for the first time since Amherst in 2004 we had the conference by ourselves on an American college campus allowing a very relaxed atmosphere. I really had a chance to talk over some neat research problems and catch up with old friends including a very large presence of former Chicago students. No new theorems for me this week but plenty of neat problems to think about.

Now I go home, switch hats, and get ready for the upcoming Electronic Commerce Conference in Chicago.

See you all at next year's Complexity Conference in Paris!

10:40 AM # 3 comments

1.  Anonymous says:  
   
   thanks for the podcasts, they were very nice
   

   6:32 AM, June 28, 2008

2.  Anonymous says:  
   
   For those of us who cannot listen to podcasts (yes, there are some of us --- if you must know, I am traveling the next 3 weeks with no easy way to listen), can you summarize the topic of the debate over special issues?
   

   4:14 PM, June 28, 2008

3.  Anonymous says:  
   
   Any mention from Beigel of when NSF proposal writers would be notified of the outcome? 36/90 sounds like a pretty precise number, so I guess in principle he knows the outcomes. It would be nice have this info passed along ASAP.
   

   8:07 PM, June 29, 2008

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