ITCS seeks to promote research that carries a strong conceptual message (e.g., introducing a new concept, model or understanding, opening a new line of inquiry within traditional or interdisciplinary areas, introducing new mathematical techniques and methodologies, or new applications of known techniques). ITCS welcomes both conceptual and technical contributions whose contents will advance and inspire the greater theory community.
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Submission deadline: Notification to authors: Conference dates: |
September 8, 2017 (11:59pm PST) October 30, 2017 January 11-14, 2018 |
Costis Daskalakis, MIT
Yael Kalai, Microsoft Research New England
Vinod Vaikuntanathan, MIT
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Shipra Agarwal, Columbia University Zeyuan Allen-Zhu, Microsoft Research Benny Applebaum, Tel Aviv University Paul Beame, University of Washington Karl Bringmann, Max Planck Institute Bernard Chazelle, Princeton University Jing Chen, Stony Brook University Rachel Cummings, Georgia Tech Andrew Drucker, University of Chicago Faith Ellen, University of Toronto Kousha Etessami, University of Edinburgh Oded Goldreich, Weizmann Institute Anupam Gupta, Carnegie Mellon University Zhiyi Huang, University of Hong Kong Christian Ikenmeyer, Max Planck Institute Yael Kalai, Microsoft Research Anna Karlin, University of Washington, Chair Robert Kleinberg, Cornell University |
Tengyu Ma, Stanford Yury Makarychev, TTIC Ruta Mehta, UIUC Raghu Meka, UCLA Ashley Montanaro, University of Bristol Shayan Oveis Gharan, University of Washington Christos Papadimitriou, UC Berkeley Seth Pettie, University of Michigan Ronitt Rubinfeld, MIT and Tel Aviv University Atri Rudra, University at Buffalo, SUNY C. Seshadhri, UC Santa Cruz Tselil Schramm, UC Berkeley Roy Schwartz, Technion Li-Yang Tan, TTIC Greg Valiant, Stanford University John Watrous, University of Waterloo David Woodruff, Carnegie Mellon University Yuan Zhou, Indiana University |
Authors should upload a PDF of the paper to easychair. The font size should be at least 11 points and the paper should be single column. Beyond these, there are no formatting requirements.
Authors should strive to make their paper accessible not only to experts in their subarea, but also to the theory community at large. It is typically wise for the paper to contain, within its first few pages, a concise and clear presentation of the merits of the paper, including a discussion of its significance, innovations, and place within (or outside) of our field’s scope and literature. Included here should be an overview (similar to a brief oral presentation) of key technical ideas and methods used to achieve the main claims. The committee will put a premium on writing that conveys clearly and in the simplest possible way what the paper is accomplishing. In particular, authors are encouraged to provide as much intuition as possible. While there is no official limit on the length of a submission, PC members may not read beyond the first ten pages of the submission. However, the paper should also allow PC members to easily expand their understanding of any specific detail they deem important for evaluating the submission.
Results published/presented/submitted at another archival conference will not be considered for ITCS. Simultaneous submission to ITCS and to a journal is allowed. Papers accepted to ITCS should not be submitted to any other archival conferences.
Papers accepted to the conference must be presented at the conference by one or more of the authors. The exact schedule of presentations, including the time allotted for each presentation (which may vary for different presentations, but will not be less than 15 minutes), will be decided based on the pool of accepted papers.
The list of accepted papers is available here.
The program committee may invite individuals to present their specific recent work at the conference.
A poster session may be arranged by the program committee.
Participants within a couple of years (either way) of PhD graduation will be given 5 minutes to present their results, research, plans, personality, and so on. This is one of the important traditions of ITCS, and a sublime moment every year!
Typical accepted papers will be allocated roughly ten pages (exact length to be determined later), for publication in an electronic proceedings of the conference. To accommodate the publishing traditions of different fields, authors of accepted papers can ask the PC chair to have only a one page abstract of the paper appear in the proceedings, along with a URL pointing to the PDF of the full paper on an online archive. This option is available to accommodate publication in journals that would not consider results that have been published in preliminary form in a conference proceedings.
The committee may award a “best student paper” award.