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                        <h3><b>ITCS 2014</b></h3>
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                        <h3><b>Preliminary Call for Papers</b></h3>
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                      <div>The <b>5th Innovations in Theoretical
                          Computer Science</b><b> (ITCS)</b> conference,
                        sponsored by the <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                          href="http://www.sigact.org/" target="_blank">ACM
                          Special Interest Group on Algorithms and
                          Computation Theory (SIGACT)</a>, will be held
                        in Princeton, New Jersey, <b>January 12-14,
                          2014</b>, with a welcome reception on January
                        11.</div>
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                      <div>ITCS (previously known as ICS) seeks to
                        promote research that carries a strong
                        conceptual message (e.g., introducing a new
                        concept or model, opening a new line of inquiry
                        within traditional or cross-interdisciplinary
                        areas, or introducing new techniques or new
                        applications of known techniques). ITCS welcomes
                        all submissions, whether aligned with current
                        theory of computation research directions or
                        deviating from them.</div>
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                        <h4><b>Important Dates</b><span> </span>(subject
                          to change)</h4>
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                              <td valign="top">Paper Submission
                                Deadline:<br>
                                Notification to Authors:<br>
                                Camera ready papers due: <br>
                                Conference dates: <br>
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                              <td valign="top"><b>Thursday, August 22,
                                  2013<br>
                                </b>Monday, October 31, 2013<br>
                                Monday, November 25, 2013<br>
                                Sunday-Tuesday, January 12-14, 2014. <br>
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                      <div><b>Organizing Committee:</b></div>
                      <div><b><br>
                        </b></div>
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                    <div><a moz-do-not-send="true"
                        href="http://www.cs.princeton.edu/%7Earora/"
                        target="_blank">Sanjeev Arora</a>, Princeton
                      University</div>
                  </div>
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                  <div><a moz-do-not-send="true"
                      href="http://www.cs.princeton.edu/%7Emoses/"
                      target="_blank">Moses Charikar</a>, Princeton
                    University <br>
                  </div>
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                  <div><a moz-do-not-send="true"
                      href="http://www.cs.princeton.edu/%7Echazelle/"
                      target="_blank">Bernard Chazelle</a>, Princeton
                    University</div>
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                <div><b><br>
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                <div><b>Program Committee:</b></div>
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                        <div
style="line-height:normal;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;font-variant:normal;text-transform:none;font-style:normal;font-size:small;white-space:normal;font-weight:normal;word-spacing:0px">
                          <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                            href="https://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/dechakr/"
                            target="_blank">Deeparnab Chakrabarty</a>,
                          Microsoft Research India
                          <div
style="line-height:normal;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;font-variant:normal;text-transform:none;font-style:normal;font-size:small;white-space:normal;font-weight:normal;word-spacing:0px"><a
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                              href="https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/%7Etmchan/"
                              target="_blank">Timothy Chan</a>,
                            University of Waterloo<br>
                            <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                              href="http://people.csail.mit.edu/costis/"
                              target="_blank">Costis Daskalakis</a>, MIT
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                              moz-do-not-send="true"
                              href="http://www.disco.ethz.ch/members/yuval.html"
                              target="_blank">Yuval Emek</a>, ETH and
                            Technion </div>
                          <div
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                              moz-do-not-send="true"
                              href="http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/kousha/"
                              target="_blank">Kousha Etessami</a>, University
                            of Edinburgh</div>
                          <div
style="line-height:normal;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;font-variant:normal;text-transform:none;font-style:normal;font-size:small;white-space:normal;font-weight:normal;word-spacing:0px"><a
                              moz-do-not-send="true"
                              href="http://www.cs.toronto.edu/%7Eyuvalf/"
                              target="_blank">Yuval Filmus</a>, Toronto
                            and Simons Institute, Berkeley</div>
                          <div
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                              moz-do-not-send="true"
                              href="http://www.arpitaghosh.com/"
                              target="_blank">Arpita Ghosh</a>, Cornell</div>
                          <div
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                              moz-do-not-send="true"
                              href="http://cs.univie.ac.at/taa-team/infpers/monika_henzinger/"
                              target="_blank">Monika Henzinger</a>,
                            University of Vienna</div>
                          <div
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                              href="https://www.ics.uci.edu/%7Eirani/"
                              target="_blank">Sandy Irani</a>, University


                            of California Irvine</div>
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                              href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/%7Emkearns/"
                              target="_blank">Michael Kearns</a>,
                            University of Pennsylvania     </div>
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                              moz-do-not-send="true"
                              href="http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/%7Echi/"
                              target="_blank">Lap Chi Lau</a>, The
                            Chinese University of Hong Kong<br>
                            <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                              href="http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/%7Enati/"
                              target="_blank">Nati Linial</a>, Hebrew
                            University                      </div>
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                              moz-do-not-send="true"
                              href="http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/%7Enaor"
                              target="_blank">Moni Naor</a> (<b>Chair</b>),
                            Weizmann Institute</div>
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                          <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                            href="http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/%7Ekobbi/"
                            target="_blank">Kobbi Nissim</a>, Ben-Gurion
                          University
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                              href="https://www.itu.dk/%7Epagh/"
                              target="_blank">Rasmus Pagh</a>, IT
                            University of Copenhagen</div>
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                              moz-do-not-send="true"
                              href="http://www.math.ias.edu/%7Eshubhangi/"
                              target="_blank">Shubhangi Saraf</a>,
                            Rutgers</div>
                          <div
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                            <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                              href="http://theory.epfl.ch/osven/"
                              target="_blank">Ola Svensson</a>, EPFL</div>
                          <div
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                              moz-do-not-send="true"
                              href="http://www.cs.toronto.edu/%7Evinodv/"
                              target="_blank">Vinod Vaikuntanathan</a>,
                            University of Toronto</div>
                          <div
style="line-height:normal;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;font-variant:normal;text-transform:none;font-style:normal;font-size:small;white-space:normal;font-weight:normal;word-spacing:0px"><a
                              moz-do-not-send="true"
                              href="http://theory.stanford.edu/%7Ejvondrak/"
                              target="_blank">Jan Vondrak</a>, IBM
                            Almaden</div>
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style="line-height:normal;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;font-variant:normal;text-transform:none;font-style:normal;font-size:small;white-space:normal;font-weight:normal;word-spacing:0px">
                            <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                              href="http://users.soe.ucsc.edu/%7Emanfred/"
                              target="_blank">Manfred Warmuth</a>,
                            University of California Santa Cruz</div>
                          <div
style="line-height:normal;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;font-variant:normal;text-transform:none;font-style:normal;font-size:small;white-space:normal;font-weight:normal;word-spacing:0px">
                            <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                              href="http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/wichs/"
                              target="_blank">Daniel Wichs</a>,
                            Northeastern University</div>
                          <div
style="line-height:normal;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;font-variant:normal;text-transform:none;font-style:normal;font-size:small;white-space:normal;font-weight:normal;word-spacing:0px"><a
                              moz-do-not-send="true"
                              href="https://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/uwieder/"
                              target="_blank">Udi Wieder</a>, Microsoft
                            Research SVC</div>
                          <div
style="line-height:normal;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;font-variant:normal;text-transform:none;font-style:normal;font-size:small;white-space:normal;font-weight:normal;word-spacing:0px">
                            <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                              href="http://www.stanford.edu/%7Errwill/"
                              target="_blank">Ryan Williams</a>,
                            Stanford University</div>
                          <div
style="line-height:normal;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;font-variant:normal;text-transform:none;font-style:normal;font-size:small;white-space:normal;font-weight:normal;word-spacing:0px">
                            <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                              href="http://homepages.cwi.nl/%7Erdewolf/"
                              target="_blank">Ronald de Wolf</a>, CWI
                            and University of Amsterdam</div>
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style="line-height:normal;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;font-variant:normal;text-transform:none;font-style:normal;font-size:small;white-space:normal;font-weight:normal;word-spacing:0px">
                            <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                              href="http://www.cs.princeton.edu/%7Edxiao/"
                              target="_blank">David Xiao</a>, CNRS and
                            Université Paris 7</div>
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