Making TCS more connected / less insular

[Announcement from Jelani Nelson –Boaz] TL;DR: https://tinyurl.com/tcs-connections

A task force has been convened by CATCS to investigate possible approaches to modifying aspects of the TCS community, especially our publishing culture, to enhance connections with other areas of CS and be as welcoming as possible to a broad range of contributions within theory. This committee will collect and synthesize feedback from the community via the questionnaire on https://tinyurl.com/tcs-connections then make suggestions. Since adjusting conference formats may help with this, we would like to get a general idea of community opinion on format choices. If you have some opinions you would like to share, please use this form. Though the questions below focus primarily on FOCS/STOC, we are welcome to receiving any and all suggestions that would make the TCS community as broad and well-connected to other areas of TCS as possible (see the last question of the survey).

Task force members: Ken Clarkson (IBM Research) Sandy Irani (UC Irvine) Bobby Kleinberg (Cornell) Adam Klivans (UT Austin) Ravi Kumar (Google) Jelani Nelson (UC Berkeley) Yuval Rabani (Hebrew University)