Computational Complexity

Monday, July 07, 2008

 
Attendence at CCC I: History

Posted by GASARCH

(This is the first of two postings about Attendencd at CCC. Todays is about history. Next time I post (probably Wedensday) I'll talk about College Park and modern times.) Here is attendence for all years of CCC.

Where	Year	Attendence	Comment
Berkeley	1986	110	co-locate with STOC
Cornell	1987	100	co-locate with LICS
Wash, DC	1988	89
Oregon	1989	63
Barcelona	1990	108	Europe
Chicago	1991	100
Boston	1992	100
San Diego	1993	123	FCRC
Amsterdam	1994	110	Europe
Minnesota	1995	80
Philadelphia	1996	90	FCRC
Ulm	1997	80	Europe
Buffalo	1998	84
Atlanta	1999	84	FCRC
Florence	2000	66	Europe
Chicago	2001	96
Montreal	2002	140	Co-located with STOC
Aarhus	2003	78	Europe
Amherst	2004	82
San Jose	2005	67
Prague	2006	75	Europe
San Diego	2007	85	FCRC
College Park	2008	81

1. As part of FCRC: 123, 90, 84, 85. So lately this has not been a real boon, but not a loss either.
2. Co-locate with STOC, non-FCRC: 110, 140.
3. Co-locate with LICS. 100.
4. Europe Attendence: 108, 110, 80, 66, 78, 75. I suspect that Florence drew so badly because there are no complexity theorists in Italy (at least not since Luca was in High School.)
5. American non-co-locate, non-FCRC: 89, 63, 100, 100, 80, 84, 96, 82, 67, 81. Note that the two in the 60's were on the West Coast. Chicago did very well: it was there twice and we got 96 and 100. Boston is the other 100. 100 is a suspiciouly round number- I suspect they only had 99.
6. Lessons Learned: Good to co-locate with stoc, and good to have it in a place that has a strong complextiy community. We might have very high attendence in Boston co-locating with STOC in 2010. Mitigating factor: the price of gas.

7:49 AM #

1.  Anonymous says:  
   
   The number of people attending CCC remained more or less same since it started. Does it mean number of people working in Complexity Theory also remained the same?
   

   10:50 AM, July 07, 2008

2.  Paul Beame says:  
   
   The community is substantially larger than it was 20 or even 10 years ago. The number of workshops and conferences has grown but travel budgets have declined in real terms.
   

   5:07 PM, July 07, 2008