PCs for ICALP 2008

Over the coming year or so, I'll be using this blog to keep you posted on the developments in the organization of ICALP 2008, which Anna Ingolfsdottir, Magnus Halldorsson and I will be co-organizing at Reykjavik University in the period 7-11 July 2008.

ICALP 2008 will have three tracks, and the PCs for the three tracks have been formed. They are as follows.

Track A

• Michael Bender (State Univ of New York at Stony Brook, USA)
• Magnus Bordewich (Durham University, UK)
• Peter Bro Miltersen (Aarhus University, Denmark)
• Lenore Cowen (Tufts University, USA)
• Pierluigi Crescenzi (Università di Firenze, Italy)
• Artur Czumaj (University of Warwick, UK)
• Edith Elkind (University of Southampton, UK)
• David Eppstein (University of California at Irvine, USA)
• Leslie Ann Goldberg (University of Liverpool, UK) (chair)
• Martin Grohe (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany)
• Giuseppe Italiano (Università di Roma "Tor Vergata", Italy)
• Christos Kaklamanis (University of Patras, Greece)
• Michael Mitzenmacher (Harvard University, USA)
• Ian Munro (University of Waterloo, Canada)
• Ryan O'Donnell (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
• Dana Ron (Tel-Aviv University, Israel)
• Tim Roughgarden (Stanford University, US)
• Christian Scheideler (Technische Universität München, Germany)
• Christian Sohler (University of Paderborn, Germany)
• Luca Trevisan (University of California at Berkeley, USA)
• Berthold Vocking (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
• Gerhard Woeginger (Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands)

Track B

• Parosh Abdulla (Uppsala University, Sweden)
• Luca de Alfaro (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
• Christel Baier (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany)
• Giuseppe Castagna (Université Paris 7, France)
• Rocco de Nicola (Università di Firenze, Italy)
• Javier Esparza (Technische Universität München, Germany)
• Marcelo Fiore (University of Cambridge, UK)
• Erich Grädel (RWTH Aachen, Germany)
• Jason Hickey (California Institute of Technology, USA)
• Martin Hofmann (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany)
• Hendrik Jan Hoogeboom (Leiden University, NL)
• Radha Jagadeesen (DePaul University, USA)
• Madhavan Mukund (Chennai Mathematical Institute, India)
• Luke Ong (Oxford University, UK)
• Dave Schmidt (Kansas State University, USA)
• Philippe Schnoebelen (ENS Cachan, France)
• Igor Walukiewicz (Labri, Universitè Bordeaux, France) (chair)
• Mihalis Yannakakis (Columbia University, USA)
• Wieslaw Zielonka (Université Paris 7, France)

Track C

• Christian Cachin (IBM Research Zurich, CH)
• Jan Camenisch (IBM Research Zurich, CH)
• Ivan Damgård (Aarhus University, Denmark) (chair)
• Stefan Dziembowski ((Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy)
• Dennis Hofheinz (CWI Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
• Susan Hohenberger (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
• Yuval Ishai (Technion Haifa, Israel)
• Lars Knudsen (DTU Copenhagen, Denmark)
• Arjen Lenstra (EPFL Lausanne, CH)
• Anna Lysyanskaya (Brown University, USA)
• Rafael Pass (Cornell University, USA)
• David Pointcheval (ENS Paris, France)
• Dominique Unruh (Saarland University, Germany)
• Serge Vaudenay (EPFL Lausanne, CH)
• Bogdan Warinschi (Bristol University, UK)
• Douglas Wikström
• Stefan Wolf (ETH Zurich, CH)

The call for papers for the conference will be available by early July this year, and will include the names of at least two invited speakers. Watch this space for further information.

For the moment, plan to submit your best papers to ICALP 2008 and use this chance to make a visit to Iceland and to our ICE-TCS research centre!