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PC chair and general chair guidelines for TCS conferences
August 22, 2023 by
We have collected several documents here.
The first is a guide for PC chairing written by Julia Chuzhoy and Anupam Gupta based on their experience with STOC, and passed along to other chairs.
The second is a guide for general chairs / local organizers, written mostly by David Kempe but also thanks to Michael Hoffmann, Valerie King, and Yusu Wang.
We hope such documents will give more insight and transparency into what goes on behind the scenes in our conferences each year.
We do realize that there are technical details in these documents, some of which are obsolete and some of which may not be interesting to the general public, but we think such documents should be more well-known and we hope they will stimulate discussion in our community and give us ideas on how we can improve.
Please let us know if you have any comments!
TCS Insularity Survey Results
August 16, 2023 by
You may remember that a task force was convened by CATCS to investigate approaches to modifying aspects of the TCS community, especially our publishing culture, and to enhance connections with other areas of CS and be as welcoming as possible to a broad range of contributions within theory. A survey was given to members of our community, 338 responses were received, and the results were summarized at STOC, 2023. Please see the attached slides from Jelani Nelson’s presentation at STOC, as well as the attached detailed report. Let us know if you have any feedback, thanks!
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