24th RANDOM & 23rd APPROX
August 17-19, 2020
http://randomconference.com
http://approxconference.wordpress.com
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Paper submission deadline: April 24, 2020
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COVID UPDATE
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, RANDOM, APPROX 2020 will be completely virtual. The details will be determined and announced later, but the authors will be expected (if deemed necessary by the format) to be able to present their result in a live online presentation for the above dates (Aug 17-19). At least one author of accepted papers is expected to be officially registered for the conference.
SCOPE
The 24th International Workshop on Randomization and Computation (RANDOM 2020) and the 23rd International Workshop on Approximation Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization Problems (APPROX 2020) will be held virtually on August 17-19, 2020.
RANDOM 2020 focuses on applications of randomness to computational and combinatorial problems while APPROX 2020 focuses on algorithmic and complexity theoretic issues relevant to the development of efficient approximate solutions to computationally difficult problems.
TOPICS
Papers are solicited in all research areas related to randomization and approximation, including but not limited to:
RANDOM
* design and analysis of randomized algorithms
* randomized complexity theory
* pseudorandomness and derandomization
* 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
* smoothed analysis
* property testing
* computational learning theory
APPROX
* approximation algorithms
* hardness of approximation
* small space, sub-linear time and streaming algorithms
* online algorithms
* approaches that go beyond worst-case analysis
* distributed and parallel approximation
* embeddings and metric space methods
* mathematical programming methods
* spectral methods
* combinatorial optimization
* algorithmic game theory, mechanism design and economics
* computational geometric problems
* approximate learning
IMPORTANT DATES
Submissions: April 24, 2020
Notifications: June 11, 2020
Camera ready: June 22, 2020
SUBMISSIONS
Abstract Format: Electronic submissions are solicited. Please consult the following servers:
For submission of APPROX papers: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=approx2020
For submission of RANDOM papers: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=random2020
Note: You will be asked to login using an EasyChair account. Directions on how to register for such an account are available at the submission servers (you may also have an old account from a previous conference submission).
The submission must be received by 15:00pm (PDT) of April 24, 2020 for your submission to be considered.
Submission Format: Submissions 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 on single-spaced pages on letter-size paper, using reasonable margins, page numbers, and at least 11-point font. The first 10 pages should contain the main ideas and techniques used to achieve the results including motivation and a clear comparison with related work (not including the references). There is no page limit but any material beyond the first 10 pages will be read at the sole discretion of the program committee.
Simultaneous submission to other conferences with published proceedings is not allowed except as explained below.
Dual submission with CCC 2020 for RANDOM 2020: The CCC 2020 notification deadline falls one week after the RANDOM conference deadline. We will allow submissions that are substantially similar to those submitted to CCC 2020 with the understanding that the authors will withdraw the RANDOM submission if the CCC submission is accepted. The authors will also have to declare such dual submissions through the submission server at the time of submission.
PROCEEDINGS
Accepted papers will be published in the online proceedings of the conference in the Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs) series, based at Schloss Dagstuhl. This guarantees perennial, free and easy electronic access, while the authors retain the rights over their work.
RANDOM Program Chair
Raghu Meka, UCLA mailto:raghuvardhan@gmail.com
APPROX Program Chair
Jarosław Byrka, University of Wrocław mailto:jby@cs.uni.wroc.pl
RANDOM Steering Committee
Oded Goldreich, Weizmann
Cris Moore, SFI
Anup Rao, U Washington
Omer Reingold, Stanford, Steering Committee Chair
Dana Ron, Tel Aviv University
Ronitt Rubinfeld, MIT
Amit Sahai, UCLA
Ronen Shaltiel, U Haifa, Publicity Chair
Alistair Sinclair, UC Berkeley
Paul Spirakis, U Liverpool
APPROX Steering Committee
Klaus Jansen, U Kiel
Samir Khuller, Northwestern University (Chicago)
Monaldo Mastrolilli, IDSIA
László A. Végh, LSE
PROGRAM COMMITTEES
RANDOM
Nima Anari, Stanford University
Eshan Chattopadhyay, Cornell University
Gil Cohen, Tel Aviv University
Parikshit Gopalan, VmWare Research
Prahladh Harsha, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Sam Hopkins, University of California, Berkeley
Valentine Kabanets, Simon Fraser University
Gautam Kamath, University of Waterloo
Tali Kaufman, Bar-Ilan University
Yin-Tat Lee, University of Washington
Sepideh Mahabadi, TTI Chicago
Raghu Meka, UCLA, PC chair
Jelani Nelson, University of California, Berkeley
Ryan O'Donnell, Carnegie Mellon University
Ilya Razenshteyn, Microsoft Research
Barna Saha, University of California, Berkeley
Tselil Schramm, Stanford University
Madhu Sudan, Harvard University
Avishay Tal, University of California, Berkeley
Eric Vigoda, Georgia Tech University
Mary Wootters, Stanford University
APPROX
Nikhil Bansal, CWI & TU Eindhoven
Jarosław Byrka, University of Wrocław, PC chair
Andreas Emil Feldmann, Charles University in Prague
Naveen Garg, IIT Delhi
Anupam Gupta, Carnegie Mellon
Pasin Manurangsi, Google Research
Evangelos Markakis, AUEB, Athens
Nicole Megow, University of Bremen
Marcin Mucha, University of Warsaw
Harald Räcke, TU Munich
Laura Sanità, TU Eindhoven & University of Waterloo
Chaitanya Swamy, University of Waterloo
Jakub Tarnawski, Microsoft Research
Anke van Zuylen, William and Mary
David Williamson, Cornell
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