16-19 Dec 2018
Jiaoxi, Taiwan
********************************** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ********************************** ================================================================ ISAAC 2018 - The 29th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation December 16-19, 2018 Jiaoxi, Yilan County, Taiwan http://isaac2018.ie.nthu.edu.tw/ ================================================================ We are glad to invite you to participate in the 29th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2018), to be held in Jiaoxi, Yilan County, Taiwan on December 16-19, 2018. The symposium is intended to provide a forum for researchers working in algorithms and theory of computation. In this year, we schedule two keynote talks by Clifford Stein and Shang-Hua Teng. In addition, we organize a special workshop on Dec. 16, right before the regular program of ISAAC (Dec. 17-19) and invite several internationally renowned computer scientists who were born in 1949 or earlier as special guest speakers, including Tetsuo Asano, Fan Chung Graham, Kurt Mehlhorn, and so on. In particular, we also plan to arrange an open-problem session during ISAAC, which aims at providing a forum for discussion and brainstorming among the ISAAC community. The 'bubble-tea' session of open problems will be chaired by Sándor Fekete and Luca Trevisan, and submissions are open until Oct. 21 (Sun), 2018. [Session of Open Problems: Call-for-Abstracts] http://isaac2018.ie.nthu.edu.tw/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/ISAAC2018-CFA-open-problems.pdf The registration is open now. The early registration fee is $15,000 TWD for regular participants (and $10,000 TWD for students) until October 26, 2018. (After that, the registration fee will be $18,000 TWD for regular participants and $12,000 TWD for students.) Both of the registrations include admission to the special workshop, all sessions of ISAAC 2018, welcome reception on December 16, conference dinner banquet on December 18, and lunch on December 16-19. [Registration] http://isaac2018.ie.nthu.edu.tw/index.php/registration/ Additional information can be found on the conference website at: http://isaac2018.ie.nthu.edu.tw/ We look forward to seeing you at ISAAC'18 in Jiaoxi, Yilan, Taiwan! Best regards, Wen-Lian Hsu, Chung-Shou Liao and Der-Tsai Lee PC Co-Chairs and Chair of ISAAC 2018 ========================================= Location, Accommodation and Transportation ========================================= ISAAC 2018 will take place in Jiaoxi, Yilan County, Taiwan. Jiaoxi is one of the most famous towns in Taiwan known for its hot springs. The conference venue is Hotel Royal Chiaohsi, the best five-star hotel in the town, which is only 30- or 40-min away from the capital city, Taipei by bus or train. ISAAC also offers free shuttle service from Taipei Main Station (and Taipei Songshan Airport (TSA)) to Jiaoxi area. If your flight arrives at Taoyuan International Airport (TPE), you can take Taoyuan Metro Express to Taipei Main Station. Please refer to more details at: http://isaac2018.ie.nthu.edu.tw/index.php/venue-accommodation/ =================== Important Dates =================== Submission deadline of the open-problem session: October 21, 2018 Early registration deadline: October 26, 2018 Conference dates: December 16-19, 2018 ================ Committees ================ Conference Chair: D. T. Lee (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) Program Committee: Sang Won Bae (Kyonggi University, Korea) Mark Bun (Princeton University, USA) Hubert Chan (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) Danny Chen (University of Notre Dame, USA) Ho-Lin Chen (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) Kai-Min Chung (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) Leah Epstein (University of Haifa, Israel) MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi (University of Maryland, USA) Wing-Kai Hon (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan) Seok-Hee Hong (University of Sydney, Australia) Sun-Yuan Hsieh (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan) Wen-Lian Hsu (Academia Sinica, Taiwan, Co-Chair) Zhiyi Huang (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) Giuseppe F. Italiano (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy) Naonori Kakimura (Keio University, Japan) Ralf Klasing (CNRS and University of Bordeaux, France) Dieter Kratsch (Universite de Lorraine, Metz, France) Minming Li (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) Yi Li (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Chung-Shou Liao (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, Co-Chair) Pinyan Lu (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, China) Kazuhisa Makino (Kyoto University, Japan) Petra Mutzel (TU Dortmund University, Germany) Jesper Nederlof (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Netherlands) Evanthia Papadopoulou (Universita della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland) Kunsoo Park (Seoul National University, Korea) Seth Pettie (University of Michigan, USA) Marcin Pilipczuk (University of Warsaw, Poland) Kunihiko Sadakane (The University of Tokyo, Japan) Rahul Shah (Louisiana State University, USA) Tetsuo Shibuya (The University of Tokyo, Japan) Xiaoming Sun (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) Shin-ichi Tanigawa (The University of Tokyo, Japan) Takeshi Tokuyama (Tohoku University, Japan) Rob van Stee (University of Siegen, Germany) Dorothea Wagner (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) Haitao Wang (Utah State University, USA) Gerhard Woeginger (RWTH Aachen, Germany) Prudence Wong (The University of Liverpool, UK) Hsu-Chun Yen (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) Huacheng Yu (Harvard University, USA) Christos Zaroliagis (University of Patras, Greece) Guochuan Zhang (Zhejiang University, China) Organizing Co-Chairs: Ho-Lin Chen (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) Wing-Kai Hon (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan) -- [LOGIC] mailing list http://www.dvmlg.de/mailingliste.html Archive: http://www.illc.uva.nl/LogicList/ provided by a collaboration of the DVMLG, the Maths Departments in Bonn and Hamburg, and the ILLC at the Universiteit van Amsterdam