MFCS 2018 best paper and best student paper award

Congratulations to the best paper and best student paper winners of MFCS 2018

The EATCS-IPEC Nerode Prize winners 2018

CONGRATULATIONS to NERODE PRIZE WINNERS Stefan Kratsch and Magnus Wahlström for Compression via Matroids: A Randomized Polynomial Kernel for Odd Cycle Transversal (ACM Trans. Algorithms 10(4): 20:1-20:15, 2014).

Petition for an increased EU Budget for Research and Innovation

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Elections of President and Vice Presidents of EATCS

Elections of President and Vice Presidents of EATCS for the period 2018-2020 took place in ICALP 2018

New SIGACT Executive Committee

Dear Members of SIGACT:

I am delighted to have the opportunity to work for the next three years, with an amazing (elected) team of Eric Allender (Rutgers), Shuchi Chawla (Wisconsin), Nicole Immorlica (Microsoft) and Robert Kleinberg (Cornell). I also wanted to take this opportunity to thank all of the prior leadership of SIGACT, and I am sure we will continue to rely on them for advice and wisdom.

IPEC Nerode Prize 2018 - Nomination

The EATCS-IPEC Nerode Prize 2018 for outstanding papers in the area of multivariate algorithmics is awarded to:

Stefan Kratsch, Magnus Wahlström

for their paper

"Compression via Matroids: A Randomized Polynomial Kernel for Odd Cycle Transversal". ACM Trans. Algorithms 10(4): 20:1-20:15 (2014)