**TheoryFest*
*June 19-23, 2017*
*Montreal, Quebec, Canada*
You're cordially invited to attend the 49th ACM Symposium on Theory of
Computing (STOC 2017), sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on
Algorithms and Computation Theory (SIGACT <https://www.sigact.org>),
held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
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**Early registration deadline: * May 21, 2017
*Hotel deadline:* May 19, 2017
This year, the STOC program
<http://acm-stoc.org/stoc2017/stocprogram.html> will be part of Theory
Fest <http://acm-stoc.org/stoc2017/>, an expanded program of invited
talks, tutorials, a panel discussion, poster sessions, and workshops
<http://acm-stoc.org/stoc2017/workshops>, including:
*Keynote speakers: * Avi Wigderson, Orna Kupferman
*Invited Plenary Talks: * Alon Orlitsky, John Preskill, Tim Roughgraden,
Wim Martens, Atri Rudra, Vasilis Syrgkanis, Chris Umans, Christopher Ré,
Nate Foster, Mohsen Ghaffari, and Valeria Nikolaenko
*Panel Discussion: *TCS: The Next Decade
*Tutorials:* Foundations of Deep Learning (Rusian Salakhutdinov); Some
Graph Minor Theory and its Uses in Algorithms (Julia Chuznoy),
Decentralized Cryptocurrencies (Avi Zohar)
The *Knuth prize and lecture* and the *Godel Prize* presentation.
We hope to see you there!
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