It's “Coke”, dammit!
The call for papers for SODA 2008 is out. The program committee is led by computational geometer (and UIUC emeritus) Shang-Hua Teng. Other computational geometers on the committee include Mordecai Golin, Sariel Har-Peled, Jonathan Kelner, Dan Spielman, and Frances Yao. (Some of these people might be surprised (if not mortally insulted) to be identified as computational geometers, but what can you do?)
The program committee also includes two PhD students, Xi Chen and Constantinos Daskalakis, and two three postdocs, Mohammad Taghi Hajiaghayi, Nicole Immorlica, and Jonathan Kelner. They grow 'em younger every year.
The submission deadine is Friday, July 6, 2007, at 4:59pm EDT.
Update (4/17/07): Sorry, Nicole.
No offense, but you appear to be from one of those redneck states:
http://popvssoda.com:2998/
Posted by: Brian | April 16, 2007 at 04:12 PM
None taken. (Ah was neah fifteen yeahs old befoah I reelahzed that "damn" an' "yankee" wuz two diff'rent wuhds.) Hence the link in the title.
Posted by: JeffE | April 16, 2007 at 09:49 PM
Nicole probably counts as a postdoc as well.
I believe students on the PC is not a very common practice. I am not sure why but I have some guesses (in particular, reviewing 50 papers or so is quite a burden at such a critical stage). One may wonder what has caused the chair to do this.
Posted by: | April 17, 2007 at 12:12 AM
On the other hand, the chair added four more people to the PC (compared to 2007) so the load should be lighter?
Posted by: | April 17, 2007 at 09:02 PM
Also, as a program committee member you have to find subreferees, and a student might not have enough contacts or muscle to get people to answer her/his email.
Posted by: Nina Amenta | August 31, 2007 at 03:31 PM