Dear RACI list members, 

IMC'22 organizes a Shadow TPC exercise, and we hope that some of you are interested in participating! Please find details below!

Best regards,

Lars  

IMC'22 will organize a Shadow TPC (STPC) exercise for PhD students, postdocs, early-career academics, and junior researchers. 

The Shadow TPC's peer-review process will closely resemble the actual one in function, workload, and timing. STPC participants will bid on abstracts, review 15+ papers over two review rounds, and converge on a shadow program during the virtual STPC meeting. Finally, the Shadow TPC will award a shadow "Best Paper" that will be announced during the award ceremony. 

The Shadow TPC will have no direct impact on the actual TPC. Yet, we will experiment this year with forwarding "Best of Shadow TPC" comments---detailed review summaries for two pre-accepted papers with exceptionally high ratings---to the actual TPC. *Please note* that the actual TPC is free to ignore these comments. 

If you are interested in participating, please apply by uploading your application material to the https://imc22shadowtpc.hotcrp.com/ submission site by April 8, 2022, 23:59 AoE. Your application should contain a single PDF file including a CV and a brief (0.25-1 page) motivation statement explaining why you would like to participate in the shadow TPC. Please indicate your name, position/year of study, areas of research experience, publications, and past reviewing experience (if any) in your application. If you mark them appropriately, you are also free to include tech reports, papers under submission, unreviewed manuscripts, etc. 

Important Dates:

Application Deadline: Friday, April 8, 2022, at 11:59 PM AoE (UTC-12)

Notification: Friday, April 15, 2022

Paper Bidding Phase: May 15, 2022–May 23, 2022

Review Phase 1: May 25, 2022–July 8, 2022

Review Phase 2: July 8, 2022–August 12, 2022

Online STPC Meeting: Thursday, August 18, 2022

You can find more information about the Shadow TPC at https://conferences.sigcomm.org/imc/2022/shadow/. 

For any further questions or concerns, please contact the Shadow TPC chairs via imc22shadowtpcchairs@mpi-inf.mpg.de.

Anja Feldmann (Max Planck Institute for Informatics) 

Lars Prehn (Max Planck Institute for Informatics)