SoCG 2012
Program Commitee Report
28th Annual
Tamal Dey and Sue Whitesides (Co-chairs)
Symposium
on
Computational
Geometry
Program Committee
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Pankaj Agarwal
Dominique Attali
Gill Barequet
Mark de Berg
Danny Chen
Tamal Dey
Vida Dujmovic
David Eppstein
Leo Guibas
Sylvain Lazard
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Dinesh Manocha
Steve Oudot
Konrad Poltier
Edgar Ramos
Jian Sun
Takeshi Tokuyama
Yusu Wang
Max Wardetzky
Sue Whitesides
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– 44/124 (2 withdrawn)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
60
50
# of papers
40
30
20
10
0
5
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
Rejected
16
40
15
4
3
0
2
0
Accepted
7
17
14
2
2
1
0
1
30%
30%
48%
33%
40%
100%
0%
100%
Statistics by category
60
50
# of papers
40
30
20
10
0
6
Applied
Computational
Geometry
Combinatorial
Geometry
Computational
Topology
Experimental
Geometric
Algorithms
Geometric &
Topological
Structures
Rejected
8
16
9
1
38
8
Accepted
0
11
7
0
17
9
0%
41%
44%
0%
31%
53%
Statistics by country
Statistics by country
70
60
# of papers
50
40
30
20
10
0
Accepted
7
Rejected
Statistics by last update time
60
50
# of papers
40
30
20
10
0
Rejected
Accepted
8
Nov 2 Nov 4 Nov 6 Nov 8 Nov 10 Nov 12 Nov 14 Nov 16 Nov 18 Nov 20 Nov 22 Nov 24 Nov 26 Nov 28 Nov 30 Dec 2 Dec 3
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
3
1
2
13
21
0
1
1
4
34
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
3
5
8
0
1
2
5
19
100%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
60%
28%
28%
0%
50%
67%
56%
36%
Statistics by # of updates
50
45
40
# of papers
35
30
25
20
15
10
5
0
9
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
Rejected
30
24
9
6
5
1
3
2
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Accepted
13
11
10
1
4
2
0
2
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
30%
31%
53%
14%
67%
0%
50%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
100%
44%
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)
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