[DMANET] Workshop on Challenges in Algorithmic Social Choice, October 8-11, 2014, Bad Belzig (near Berlin)

CALL FOR APPLICATION AND PARTICIPATION
Workshop on Challenges in Algorithmic Social Choice
October 8-11, 2014, Eisenhardt Castle, Bad Belzig (near Berlin), Germany

http://akt.tu-berlin.de/menue/casc14

The workshop goal is to stimulate and discuss new research topics in a
thriving field of research at the interface of social choice theory
and computer science, algorithms and computational complexity. It
aims at bringing together young researchers and prominent researchers
working in the area of Computational Social Choice.

The workshop consists of six one-hour big-picture talks, short
contributed research talks, and sufficient room for small-group
discussions.

The big-picture talks are given by Edith Elkind (University of
Oxford), Ariel Procaccia (Carnegie Mellon University), Clemens Puppe
(Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Arkadii Slinko (University of
Auckland), Toby Walsh (NICTA and University of New South Wales),
Gerhard J. Woeginger (Eindhoven University of Technology).


LOCATION AND COSTS:
We expect about forty participants, all hosted in Eisenhardt Castle
where also the talks and discussions will take place. Eisenhardt
castle is in the small spa town Bad Belzig about 70 kilometers
southwest of Berlin. It can directly be reached by a local train from
Berlin taking about one hour. Due to capacity constraints, regular
participants are asked to share doublerooms. The participation fee is
100 Euros, covering accommodation in the castle hotel and all food for
three days. The workshop starts with a welcome reception on Wednesday
evening,
October 8, and ends with a lunch on Saturday, October 11.


PARTICIPATION REQUIREMENT:
Experienced researchers can directly contact the organizers by
email. Otherwise, potential participants are requested to apply
(through the workshop webpage) by providing a short CV and a short
statement concerning their motivation to participate, also sending a
few-line abstract of a potential short talk (around 15 minutes).


IMPORTANT DATES:
Application deadline: June 30, 2014 (through workshop webpage).
Notification: July 15, 2014.
Registration for successful applicants: July 31, 2014.
Workshop: October 8-11, 2014 (participants are expected to stay for
the whole workshop).


SUPPORT AND ORGANIZATION:
The workshop is supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG,
project PAWS NI 369/10), the DFG Research Training Group "Methods for
Discrete Structures", and TU Berlin.
The workshop chairs are Piotr Faliszewski (AGH University, Krakow,
Poland) and Rolf Niedermeier (TU Berlin).
The organizing committee consists of Robert Bredereck (chair), Jiehua
Chen, Rolf Niedermeier, Nimrod Talmon, and Christlinde Thielcke.
Conditioned on the availability of sufficient funding, we try to make
available further support for participants with very limited budget.

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