A workshop on proofs and results so elegant, surprising, or delightfully clean that every AGT researcher should know them.
Easy Peasy at EC aims to incentivize new work, highlight existing work, and aggregate proofs and ideas so surprising, illuminating, or delightfully clean that every AGT researcher should know them.
In the spirit of Erdős's Proofs from the Book and the SOSA conference, we seek results whose elegance reveals deeper structure — the kind of proof that makes you put down your pen and think "oh, that's the right way to see it."
A result belongs here if a good researcher, on seeing it, wishes they had known it sooner, or if it is so crisp and self-contained that you could drop it into a lecture and have students walk away understanding exactly why it's true.
Submissions should contain only their elegant, simple result(s). The full result must be presentable in a 15-minute talk. Page limit: 10 pages, appropriately tailored to contain only your simple result(s), with anonymous authors.
We welcome both new and existing results. Examples: a new simple proof for a well-known result (like the economic proof of KVV), a new elegant result (like the single-sample geometric proof), or an elegant proof for a special case of a longer paper. The only exclusion is results already canonical in course curricula or folklore well-known to the community. All EconCS topics are encouraged, with priority given to newer, lesser-known, or more significant results.
Given that some works will be special cases of prior work we do not expect authors to fully anonymize the submission. But we require the submission to not have author names and affiliations. Submissions will be reviewed by a mixed-seniority program committee. The guiding philosophy: if a result is truly simple, a junior PhD student should be able to understand it.
There will be no published proceedings. Accepted authors are required to post their papers online (arXiv, SSRN, personal website, or equivalent). All accepted papers will be linked via a public index as a community resource. Dual submission to EC or any other conference is permitted.
Submissions managed through OpenReview:
All authors are required to have an OpenReview profile. If creating a new OpenReview profile please use an institutional email for immediate approval.
Tailored appropriately for this workshop--not a reprint of a longer paper--with "Anoymous author(s)".
Dual submission to EC or any other venue is welcome.
The submission deadline falls before the EC notification date. Notifications will be sent early to allow authors to make travel arrangements and meet the EC early registration deadline.
Deadline: May 4, 2026 (AoE) · Submissions via OpenReview