17-19 December 2007
Sendai, Japan
************************************************* ISAAC2007 18th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation December 17-19, 2007 Sendai, Japan http://www.nishizeki.ecei.tohoku.ac.jp/isaac07/ The 18th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2007) will be held in Sendai Excel Hotel Tokyu, Sendai, Japan, December 17-19, 2007. *Topics The topics include but are not limited to: Algorithms and data structures Approximation algorithms Combinatorial optimization Computational biology Computational complexity Computational geometry Cryptography Experimental algorithm methodologies Graph drawing and graph algorithms Internet algorithms Online algorithms Parallel and distributed algorithms Quantum computing Randomized algorithms *Invited Speakers Pankaj K. Agarwal (Duke University, USA) Robin Thomas (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) *Important Dates Submission deadline June 26, 2007 Notification of acceptance August 20, 2007 Camera-ready submission September 18, 2007 Symposium December 17-19, 2007 *Committee Symposium Chair: Takao Nishizeki (Tohoku U., Japan) Program Chair: Takeshi Tokuyama(Tohoku U., Japan) Organizing Co-Chairs: Ayumi Shinohara (Tohoku U., Japan) Xiao Zhou (Tohoku U., Japan) Program Committee: Takao Asano (Chuo U., Japan ) Prosenjit Bose (Carleton U., Canada) Jin-Yi Cai (Wisconsin U., USA) Timothy Chan (U. Waterloo, Canada) Chandra Chekuri (UIUC, USA) Danny Z. Chen (U. Notre Dame, USA) Siu-Wing Cheng (HKUST, Hong Kong) Otfried Cheong (KAIST, Korea) Satoshi Fujita (Hiroshima U., Japan) Magnus Halldorsson (U. Iceland, Iceland) Seok-Hee Hong (U. Sydney, Australia ) Peter Hoyer (U.Calgary, Canada) Xiaodong Hu (Chinese Academy of Science, China) Satoru Iwata (Kyoto U., Japan) Piotr Krysta (U. Liverpool, UK) Der Tsai Lee (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) Xuemin Lin (U. New Southwales, Australia) Ming Li (U. Waterloo, Canada) Toshimitsu Masuzawa (Osaka U., Japan) Keiji Matsumoto (NII, Japan) David Mount (U.Maryland, USA) Seffi Naor (Technion, Israel and Microsoft Research) Pandu Rangan (IIT, India) Kunihiko Sadakane (Kyushu U., Japan) Baruch Schieber (IBM Research, USA) Jun Tarui (UEC, Japan) Takeshi Tokuyama (Tohoku U., Japan) (Chair) Dorothea Wagner (U.Karlsruhe, Germany) Frances Yao (City U., Hong Kong) Xiao Zhou (Tohoku U., Japan) *Contact Symposium website: http://www.nishizeki.ecei.tohoku.ac.jp/isaac07/ e-mail: isaac07@ecei.tohoku.ac.jp