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, 2020 (05:59pm PDT) November 1, 2020 January 6-8, 2021 |
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Andris Ambainis, University of Latvia Nima Anari, Stanford Elette Boyle, IDC Herzliya Mark Braverman, Princeton Sebastien Bubeck, Microsoft Research Claire Mathieu, CNRS, Paris Edith Cohen, Google Anindya De, University of Pennsylania Uriel Feige, Weizmann Institute Kira Goldner, Columbia Monika Henzinger, University of Vienna Maurice Herlihy, Brown Sam Hopkins, UC Berkeley and MIT Tali Kaufman, Bar-Ilan University Adam Klivans, UT Austin Gillat Kol, Princeton Alexandra Kolla, University of Colorado, Boulder Lap Chi Lau, University of Waterloo James R. Lee, University of Washington (chair) |
Jamie Morgenstern, University of Washington Anand Natajaran, MIT Alantha Newman, Université Grenoble Alpes Lorenzo Orecchia, University of Chicago Debmalya Panigrahi, Duke University Richard Peng, Georgia Tech Ron Rothblum, Technion Aviad Rubinstein, Stanford Tselil Schramm, Stanford Leonard Schulman, California Institute of Technology Anastasios Sidiropoulos, University of Illinois at Chicago Nikhil Srivastava, UC Berkeley Ola Svensson, EPFL Avishay Tal, UC Berkeley Luca Trevisan, Bocconi University Jan Vondrak, Stanford Matt Weinberg, Princeton Amir Yehudayoff, Technion Mark Zhandry, Princeton and NTT Research |
Authors should upload a PDF of the paper to hotcrp using the following link: https://itcs2021.hotcrp.com. The font size should be at least 11 point and the paper should be single column. Beyond these, there are no formatting requirements. Authors are required to submit a COI declaration upon submission.
Submissions should not have the authors' names on them. Instead, author and institution information is to be uploaded separately. PC members will still be able to access author names in the reviewing process if they feel they need to; the intent of this procedure is to make it easier for PC members to remove unconscious biases. You are free (and encouraged) to post your paper on your web page, the arXiv, etc.
Authors should strive to make their paper accessible not only to experts in their subarea, but also to the theory community at large. The submission should include proofs of all central claims. In addition, it is recommended that the paper contain, within the first 10 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. The committee will put a premium on writing that conveys clearly, in as simple and straightforward a manner as possible, what the paper accomplishes.
All submissions will be treated as confidential, and will only be disclosed to the committee and their chosen sub-referees. In addition, the program committee may consult with journal editors and program chairs of other conferences about controversial issues such as parallel submissions.
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.
Authors are encouraged to post full versions of their submissions in a freely accessible online repository such as the arxiv, the ECCC, or the Cryptology ePrint archive. We expect that authors of accepted papers will make full versions of their papers, with proofs, available before the conference begins.
A talk accompanying each accepted paper will be streamed live during the conference by one or more of the authors (details forthcoming). There will be opportunities for additional extended presentations and posting of background material that participants may view prior to the talk.
Conference attendees are expected to abide by an anti-harassment code of conduct.
Participants near to graduation (on either side) will be given an opportunity to present their results, research, plans, personality, and so on during the "Graduating bits" session. This is one of the important traditions of ITCS, and not to be missed!
Typical accepted papers will be published by LIPIcs in the 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.
The committee may award a "best student paper" award.