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Program Committee


APPROX

Nikhil Bansal (Eindhoven)
Siu On Chan (CUHK)
Moses Charikar (Stanford)
Michel Goemans (MIT)
Venkatesan Guruswami (CMU)
Sungjin Im (UC Merced)
Sanjeev Khanna (U Penn)
Jochen Koenemann (Waterloo)
Shi Li (Buffalo)
Nicole Megow (Bremen)
Viswanath Nagarajan (Michigan)
Laura Sanità (Waterloo)
Ola Svensson (EPFL)
Seeun William Umboh (Eindhoven)
David Williamson (Cornell, CHAIR)
Anke van Zuylen (William and Mary)

RANDOM

Shipra Agrawal (Columbia)
Arnab Bhattacharya (IISc)
Sebastien Bubeck (MSR)
Alan Frieze (CMU)
Anna Gilbert (Michigan)
Thomas Hansen (Aarhus)
Anna Karlin (UW)
Yin Tat Lee (MSR and UW)
Adam Marcus (Princeton)
Ankur Moitra (MIT)
Richard Peng (GaTech)
Will Perkins (Birmingham)
Barna Saha (UMass)
Alistair Sinclair (Berkeley)
Santosh Vempala (GaTech, CHAIR)
David Woodruff (IBM Almaden)

Program Chairs


APPROX
David Williamson
Cornell, USA
davidpwilliamson@cornell.edu

RANDOM
Santosh Vempala
Gatech, USA
vempala@gatech.edu

Local Organizing Committee Chair
Neha Dave
Berkeley, USA
neha_dave@hotmail.com

Workshop Chairs


José Rolim,
U. of Geneva
jose.rolim@unige.ch
Klaus Jansen,
U. of Kiel
kj@informatik.uni-kiel.de
                                                      


Local Organisation


TBA
Important dates
Submission deadline
Friday, April 21, 2017
15:00 PDT


Notification to authors
By June 2, 2017

Camera ready
June 19, 2017

Conference
August 16-18, 2017
Call for papers

Venue

The talks will be held at the HP Auditorium/306 Soda Hall, UC Berkeley . Soda Hall has two entrances: the entrance from Hearst Avenue is on the 3rd floor, the entrance from LeRoy Avenue is on the 4th floor.


How to get from the visitors' center to the venue
By busOn foot

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How to get to the campus

Below you'll find directions for reaching the Berkeley campus by car. Also see the online campus map. Due to limited parking availability, we recommend that you use public transportation whenever possible.

(Google map)
GPS Coordinates:
37° 87.2306' N
122° 26.617' W

From San Francisco, the San Francisco airport, and points south on northbound Highway 101

  • Follow U.S. 101 north and then switch to I-80 east, and take it across the San Francisco/Oakland Bay Bridge
  • Stay left as you get off the Bay Bridge and take I-80 east heading to Berkeley & Sacramento
  • Exit I-80 onto University Avenue
  • Continue east on University Avenue for approximately 1.5 miles to Oxford Street at the western edge of the campus

From Oakland, the Oakland airport, Hayward or San Jose on northbound I-880

  • Stay in left center lanes on I-880 when you reach downtown Oakland
  • Exit I-80 east (to Berkeley)
  • Exit I-80 at University Avenue
  • Continue east on University Avenue for approximately 1.5 miles to Oxford Street

From the East Bay on westbound Highway 24

  • From Highway 24 exit at Telegraph Avenue and take a right on Telegraph.
  • Continue on Telegraph until it ends at the southside of campus on Bancroft Way.
  • Make a left on Bancroft
  • Make a right on Fulton Street, which will become Oxford Street in two blocks
  • Continue on Oxford to University.

From the East Bay on northbound Highway 13

  • Highway 13 ends and becomes Tunnel Road
  • Continue on Tunnel Road. Tunnel Road becomes Ashby Avenue near the Claremont Hotel. Continue on Ashby.
  • Turn right at Shattuck Avenue
  • Turn right at University Avenue and continue east one block to Oxford Street and the western edge of the campus

From the East Bay on I-80 bound either east or west

  • Exit University Avenue
  • Continue east on University Avenue for approximately 1.5 miles to Oxford Street and the western edge of the campus

From the East Bay on westbound I-580

  • Exit I-80 East (to Berkeley & Sacramento)
  • Exit at University Avenue
  • Continue east on University Avenue for approximately 1.5 miles to Oxford Street and the western edge of the campus

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