Special Section on the Forty-First Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC 2009)

Abstract

This issue of SICOMP contains nine specially selected papers from the Forty-first Annual ACM Symposium on the Theory of Computing, otherwise known as STOC 2009, held May 31 to June 2 in Bethesda, Maryland. The papers here were chosen to represent both the excellence and the broad range of the STOC program. The papers have been revised and extended by the authors, and subjected to the standard thorough reviewing process of SICOMP. The program committee consisted of Susanne Albers, Andris Ambainis, Nikhil Bansal, Paul Beame, Andrej Bogdanov, Ran Canetti, David Eppstein, Dmitry Gavinsky, Shafi Goldwasser, Nicole Immorlica, Anna Karlin, Jonathan Katz, Jonathan Kelner, Subhash Khot, Ravi Kumar, Leslie Ann Goldberg, Michael Mitzenmacher (Chair), Kamesh Munagala, Rasmus Pagh, Anup Rao, Rocco Servedio, Mikkel Thorup, Chris Umans, and Lisa Zhang. They accepted 77 papers out of 321 submissions.

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