Comments on: SODA 2012 to be in Kyoto, Japan

By: Report from SODA « Algorithmic Game Theory

Report from SODA « Algorithmic Game Theory — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:47:15 +0000

[...] attending this year’s SODA conference, in Austin. It has been blogged about widely (here, here, here, and here), as well as continuously tweeted. The buzz here is good: it’s a very large [...]

By: asterix

asterix — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 06:16:01 +0000

Especially since there is going to be ICS 2011 in Beijing. On the other hand, if one can get a paper into ICS 2011, then one get a free airplane ticket to asia and then soda trip would be less expensive, assuming the time lag between the conferences is not too long …

By: Warren Schudy

Warren Schudy — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 05:38:51 +0000

I’ll take a wild guess that the parts of the world with the most SODA attendees, in descending order, are Eastern North America, Western North America, Europe, Asia, Israel, and other. I would guess that holding SODA in Western North America vs. Europe would yield similar aggregate time in airplanes, with Western US difficult for people from Europe, Israel, and Asia, whereas Europe is difficult for people from Western US and Asia. I therefore don’t see a problem with holding SODA in Europe. On the other hand Asia is a 10+ hour flight from the vast majority of attendees, so holding SODA in Asia seems silly.

By: asterix

asterix — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 04:21:57 +0000

Does anyone have a quote on how much an airline ticket from say NY or SF to Tokyo costs in January? I’m guessing > $1000.