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Program Committee




APPROX

Alexandr Andoni
Yossi Azar
Shuchi Chawla
Anupam Gupta (chair)
Sariel Har-Peled
Jochen Koenemann
Amit Kumar
Lap Chi Lau
Konstantin Makarychev
Monaldo Mastrolilli
Dana Moshkovitz
Rene Sitters
David Steurer
Kunal Talwar
Jan Vondrak
Lisa Zhang

RANDOM

Eli Ben-Sasson
Andrej Bogdanov
Mark Braverman
Colin Cooper
Tobias Friedrich
Tali Kaufman
Raghu Meka
Jelani Nelson
Ilan Newman
Ryan O'Donnell
Konstantinos Panagiotou
Prasad Raghavendra
Atri Rudra
Rocco Servedio (chair)
Alistair Sinclair
Emanuele Viola

Program Chairs


APPROX
Anupam Gupta,
Carnegie Mellon University
email:
anupamg+approx@cs.cmu.edu

RANDOM
Rocco Servedio,
Columbia University
email:
Rocco@cs.columbia.edu

Workshop Chairs


José Rolim,
U. of Geneva
e-mail: jose.rolim@unige.ch
Klaus Jansen,
U. of Kiel
e-mail: kj@informatik.uni-kiel.de
Important dates
Submission deadline
April 20, 2012
5PM EDT

Notification to authors
June 8, 2012

Camera ready
June 15, 2012

Conference
August 15-17, 2012
Call for papers
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The Random/Approx organization would like to thank Microsoft Research New England for their support.

Submissions


Please use the following links to submit:

Random:
Click here

Approx:
Click here

Abstract Format: Authors should submit an extended abstract (not a full paper). An abstract should start with the title of the paper, each author`s name, affiliation, and e-mail address, followed by a one-paragraph summary of the results to be presented. This should then be followed by a technical exposition of the main ideas and techniques used to achieve these results including motivation and a clear comparison with related work. The abstract should not exceed 10 single-spaced pages on letter-size paper (not including the title page and the references), using reasonable margins and at least 11-point font. If the authors believe that more details are essential to substantiate the main claims of the paper, they may include a clearly marked appendix that will be read at the discretion of the program committee. Abstracts deviating significantly from these guidelines risk being rejected without further review.

Simultaneous submission to other conferences with published proceedings is not allowed.


TOPICS

Papers are solicited in all research areas related to randomization and approximation, including, but not limited to:

APPROX

  • design and analysis of approximation algorithms
  • hardness of approximation
  • small space, sub-linear time, and streaming algorithms
  • embeddings and metric space methods
  • mathematical programming methods
  • combinatorial problems in graphs and networks
  • game theory, markets, and economic applications
  • geometric problems
  • packing, covering, and scheduling
  • approximate learning
  • other applications
RANDOM

  • design and analysis of randomized algorithms
  • randomized complexity theory
  • pseudorandomness and derandomi-zation
  • random combinatorial structures
  • random walks/Markov chains
  • expander graphs and randomness extractors
  • probabilistic proof systems
  • random projections and embeddings
  • error-correcting codes
  • average-case analysis
  • property testing
  • computational learning theory