MCURCSM

Exciting news for my department: we are hosting the Midstates Conference for Undergraduate Research in Computer Science and Mathematics (MCURCSM) in just a few weeks on November 20th!

Liberal-arts undergraduate students often find themselves performing excellent research, and conferences such as these are perfect outlets for our students to show off their work. We're very excited to be holding this year's conference here at Wittenberg.

Unfortunately, I will be out of town that Saturday and will not be attending. Please come for the great student presentations and enjoy the awesome work performed by many first-time researchers!

No FUN for me. :( Other conferences?

FUN with Algorithms 2010 is taking place in Italy in early June. I submitted two papers, but neither of them made it in.

I would normally still probably try to go, but I'm getting married shortly afterwards. (Woohoo!) Without the excuse of presenting a paper, I won't attempt to squeeze these things together.

I've missed a lot of following paper deadlines, and there are others that I am either interested in or would consider submitting to. Here's a little list of what's already passed by (but might be candidates in future years):

FUN 2010
AOFA 2010
SWAT 2010
ICALP 2010
COCOON 2010
FAW 2010

Those still coming are:

GandALF 2010
FOCS 2010
SAGT 2010
COMSOC 2010
ICS 2011
INTEGERS 2010 (I don't have a site for this yet. INTEGERS 2009 had a very short submission/acceptance time.)
LAGOS 2011

(These are listed in order of (expected) submission deadline, not actual conference dates.)

I mostly catch these as they come through Theory Net. I'm likely out of touch with some more math-based feeds, though. Can anyone suggest other conference options?

Also, I've played a bunch of games of bOOleO this week already! This is an excellent card game! If I ever teach a machine organization course, I will somehow work this in as an example of logic gates!

Conferences for Combinatorial Games

One thing I'd like to provide here is a list of good options to submit combinatorial game papers to. Unfortunately, I'm just unfamiliar with these options.

Two years ago, I managed to get a paper about Atropos into the Workshop on Internet and Network Economics (WINE) 2007, though I think I was just lucky enough to be covering a lot of current keywords. Nevertheless, it was a great workshop and I saw a lot of cool results as well as met a bunch of excellent people. The audience was very interested in Atropos, and people were immediately remarking on different aspects of the game ("What happens if you change the coloring of the background?"). At the end, someone came up to me and mentioned that this presentation was going to be one of the most memorable from the workshop!

I was ecstatic, but I also realized that I was probably very lucky; it would be unreasonable that I would have such luck again. Later, my adviser discovered the Fun With Algorithms conference, which seems to be a great place to submit future combinatorial games papers. I also know that many people submit CG papers to Richard Nowakowski's Games of No Chance compilations.

Unfortunately, that is about the limit of my familiarity with combinatorial games papers. I know that results have appeared in many different conferences/journals/etc in the past. These days, however, what are the suggested avenues for publishing CGT results?