Dear Colleague,

Next year's Data Compression Conference (DCC) will include a special session on Compressed Data Structures. This will be an opportunity for members of our community to confer with each other, and reinforce our topic's relevance to the wider field of Data Compression.

Papers are due by November 2nd, 2015, and the conference will take place from March 29th to April 1st, 2016, in Snowbird, Utah (a premier ski resort in the Rocky Mountains). The DCC submission process (see http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~dcc/Call.html) will allow authors to direct their papers to the special session, but submissions are otherwise handled in the same way, will be subject to the same review process and, if accepted, will be included in the same proceedings.

Best regards,

Gonzalo Navarro and Travis Gagie

(session co-chairs)

PS There will also be a special session on Genome Compression, chaired by Jiangtao Wen, Khalid Sayood, Claudio Alberti, Ioannis Xenarios, Jaime Delgado, and Marco Mattavelli, which may be of interest to our community.