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Thirteenth Algorithmic Number Theory Symposium ANTS-XIII
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Business Meeting
The business meeting for ANTS XIII will be Tuesday, July 17 from 3:45-4:45 PM. We will hear bids to host the next ANTS conference, and discuss several issues related to the future of ANTS. Here is a brief agenda.
Meeting Called to Order (3:45 pm)
Brief Overview of ANTS Decision Making (3:45-3:50 pm)
You will be asked to vote on some items at this meeting.Bids for ANTS 2020
- UNSW Canberra (3:50-3:55 pm)
- New Zealand/Tahiti (3:55-4:00 pm)
- Bejing (4:00-4:05 pm)
Conference Proceedings (4:05-4:20 pm)
We are not going to discuss individual publishers at this business meeting.- Quick recap of the history
- Discussion and vote: Should the organizers/PC keep choosing the publisher?
- Discussion vote: If not, should the Steering Committee be in charge of the choice (possibly delegated)?
“Welcoming Environment” policy, aka Harassment and Discrimination (4:20-4:30 pm)
- Discussion and Vote: Should ANTS adopt a standard policy?
- For ANTS 2018 we have adopted the
Policy Against Discrimination and Harassment for Members and Event Attendees set out by the Association for
Computing Machinery: https://www.acm.org/special-interest-groups/volunteer-resources/officers-manual/policy-against-discrimination-and-harassment
- Discussion and Vote: If so, should the Steering Committee be in charge of drafting one (possibly delegated)?
- Discussion and Vote: Should ANTS adopt a standard policy?
By-Laws Discussion (4:30-4:45 pm)
- Discussion and Vote: Should ANTS adopt official by-laws to include, e.g., the above decisions?
- Discussion and Vote: Should the Steering Committee consider (possibly by delegating) incorporating ANTS as a non-profit?
- E.g. the “Algorithmic Number Theory Society”? The Computational Complexity Conference did this and has posted
their organizing documents online at http://www.computationalcomplexity.org/foundation/.
Adjournment (4:45 pm)
© 2017-2018 Jennifer Paulhus (with thanks to Kiran S. Kedlaya, and by extension Pierrick Gaudry and Emmanuel Thomé)