NSF Workshop on Algorithms In The Field: Request Ideas
From the post:
NSF Workshop on Algorithms In The Field (W8F) will assemble CSists from networking, databases, social networks, data mining, machine learning, graphics/vision/geometry/robotics and those from algorithms and theoretical computer science. It is a wider collection than you’d find in most meetings yet small enough to discuss or even debate.
Many of you are native experts in 8F. Many of you have first hand experience of being algorithms researchers and working with others on a common challenge or vice versa. Also, many of you have thought about frustrations and triumphs, in collaborations that involve algorithms/theory researchers.
The post goes on to list some ideas and suggests that you can roll your own.
The workshop is in the DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, May 16–18, 2011, by invitation only, so get your suggestions/applications in early.
This would be a perfect venue for suggestions/discussions of merging algorithms.