SoCG 2012 Program Commitee Report

Tamal Dey and Sue Whitesides (Co-chairs)

28th Annual Symposium

on Computational Geometry

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Program Committee

• Pankaj Agarwal• Dominique Attali• Gill Barequet• Mark de Berg• Danny Chen• Tamal Dey• Vida Dujmovic• David Eppstein• Leo Guibas• Sylvain Lazard

• Dinesh Manocha• Steve Oudot• Konrad Poltier• Edgar Ramos• Jian Sun• Takeshi Tokuyama• Yusu Wang• Max Wardetzky• Sue Whitesides

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Process

• Abstract submission (Nov. 22) : – Good idea for paper bidding– not all papers get submitted (126/156)

• Paper submission (Dec. 2)• Paper assignment (Dec. 5, 3/paper and

~20/PC member)

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Review

• 3 Reviews/paper (Jan. 17) : – External reviews – Scores ([-2,2]), confidence ([0,4])

• Deliberations (Jan 17 – Feb 15)– Electronic through Easychair– Three phases

• Final notifications (Feb 16)– 44/124 (2 withdrawn)– With reviews

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Statistics by # of authors

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

Accepted 7 17 14 2 2 1 0 1

Rejected 16 40 15 4 3 0 2 0

5

15

25

35

45

55#

of p

aper

s

30% 30% 48% 33% 40% 100% 0% 100%

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Statistics by category

Applied Com-putational Ge-

ometry

Combinatorial Geometry

Computational Topology

Experimental Geometric Al-gorithms

Geometric & Topological Structures

Accepted 0 11 7 0 17 9

Rejected 8 16 9 1 38 8

5

15

25

35

45

55#

of p

aper

s

0% 41% 44% 0% 31% 53%

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Statistics by country

USA - 3

2%

Australi

a - 0%

Austria

- 50%

Belgium - 2

5%

Brazil -

33%

Canad

a - 45%

Czech Rep

ublic - 4

0%

Denmark

- 100%

Finlan

d - 0%

France

- 57%

German

y - 50%

Greece

- 50%

Hong Kong -

75%

Hungary

- 100%

India - 5

0%

Iran - 0

%

Israe

l - 20%

Italy

- 50%

Japan

- 50%

Korea - 0

%

Mexico

- 100%

Netherl

ands -

50%

Norway

- 100%

Pakist

an - 5

0%

Poland - 0

%

Slove

nia - 0

%

Spain

- 50%

Swed

en - 0

%

Switz

erlan

d - 60%

UK - 33%

Ukraine -

0%0

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

Statistics by country

Accepted Rejected

# of

pap

ers

8

Statistics by last update time

5

15

25

35

45

55

# of

pap

ers

100% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 60% 28% 28% 0% 50% 67% 56% 36%

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Statistics by # of updates

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15

Accepted 13 11 10 1 4 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1

Rejected 30 24 9 6 5 1 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

2.5

7.5

12.5

17.5

22.5

27.5

32.5

37.5

42.5

47.5

# of

pap

ers

30% 31% 53% 14% 44% 67% 0% 50% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 100%

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Simultaneous submission

• Issue of simultaneous journal submission: – 1 paper was in journal submission. The PC debated extensively

if the paper should be considered for review

An extended abstract of a paper that is under journal review, or scheduled for publication in a journal after June 2012, may be submitted, when it is clear that the extended abstract differs substantially from the journal version. In such cases, the authors must include the journal version in an appendix that clearly identifies the status of the journal submission.

– Ambiguity in CFP caused PC to split on the issue (decided by voting ultimately)

– Strong recommendation: Revisit this issue and make CFP clear

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Awards

• We instituted three awards– two Best Paper awards– one Best Student Presentation award

• Best papers– Four papers were nominated by PC based on the reviews/merits– Awards Committee (PC member volunteers: Mark de Berg, Gill

Barequet, Tamal Dey, Steve Oudot, Edgar Ramos, Takeshi Tokuyama, Sue Whitesides) selected 2 out of these 4.

• Best Student presentation– To be decided by audience (bring and turn in your form

tomorrow)

• Award Sponsor: Mentor Graphics

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Thanks

We thank everyone who makes SoCG a success (authors; audience; speakers; PC; SC; OC; volunteers; sponsors ACM SIGACT, ACM SIGGRAPH; supporters UNC, UNC CS; award sponsor Mentor Graphics)