{"id":798,"date":"2016-02-26T17:20:20","date_gmt":"2016-02-26T17:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/corner.mimuw.edu.pl\/?p=798"},"modified":"2018-09-12T08:37:06","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T08:37:06","slug":"highlights-of-algorithm-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corner.mimuw.edu.pl\/?p=798","title":{"rendered":"Highlights of Algorithm Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Guest post by <a href=\"https:\/\/people.csail.mit.edu\/madry\/\">Aleksander M\u0105dry<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>This summer, on June 6-8 in Paris, we will be having a new algorithmic\u00a0event: <a href=\"http:\/\/highlightsofalgorithms.org\/\">Highlights of Algorithms 2016 (HALG 2016) conference<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This conference will be quite unlike the conferences we are all used to.\u00a0First of all, it will consist mainly of invited talks and tutorials,\u00a0accompanied by a smaller number of contributed talks and posters.\u00a0Secondly, there will be no conference proceedings, i.e., presenting work\u00a0already published at a different venue or journal (or to be submitted\u00a0there) is absolutely welcome and even encouraged.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/highlightsofalgorithms.org\/call-for-submissions\/\">call for submissions\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0of contributed\u00a0short talks and posters has been just posted online. The <a href=\"http:\/\/highlightsofalgorithms.org\/comittees\/\">program\u00a0committee<\/a> is currently in\u00a0the process of selecting invited speakers (partially based on the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/highlightsofalgorithms.org\/call-for-nominations\/\">nominations<\/a>\u00a0from the community).<\/p>\n<p>We already have a number of <a href=\"http:\/\/highlightsofalgorithms.org\/program\/\">very exciting speakers<\/a> committed\u00a0and we expect to add a few\u00a0more names shortly.<\/p>\n<p>The intention here is to make HALG a forum for presenting the highlights\u00a0of some of the most exciting recent developments in algorithms,\u00a0discussing potential further advances in this area, as well as\u00a0networking and initiating new collaborations. In a way, we want HALG to\u00a0be a place one can go to catch up on what are the hottest results\/topics<br \/>\nat the moment, as well as what one missed by not being able to attend\u00a0all the STOC\/FOCS\/SODA\/ESA\/ICALP\/PODC\/ITCS\/\u2026 conferences that year.<\/p>\n<p>We believe that this kind of venue is very much needed today and will\u00a0help to make our community stronger and more cohesive. In particular, we\u00a0hope that the success of the first edition will make HALG become a\u00a0recurring event. In fact, HALG draws some inspiration from <a href=\"http:\/\/highlights-conference.org\/\">Highlights of<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/highlights-conference.org\/\">Logic, Games and Automata (HLGA)<\/a> conference series\u00a0that became very successful in its\u00a0respective community already. There are some differences in how both\u00a0conferences are constructed: HALG will concentrate on invited talks with\u00a0some contributed talks, whereas HLGA was only having short contributed\u00a0talks so far; but the overall premise is the same and seems to be\u00a0working very well. (We also heard some rumors that the next edition of\u00a0HLGA will move in the direction of HALG and have invited talks too.)<\/p>\n<p>In any case, the HALG 2016 in Paris should be a lot of fun. We hope to\u00a0see many of you there! So please submit your work to HALG.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest post by Aleksander M\u0105dry This summer, on June 6-8 in Paris, we will be having a new algorithmic\u00a0event: Highlights of Algorithms 2016 (HALG 2016) conference. 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