I decided to make a somewhat ad hoc list of conferences in the general scope of algorithms and theory (i.e topics in this conference will often show up in STOC/FOCS/SODA), and look at their submission deadlines (a man's got to do something while waiting for his sausage...). The resulting timeline is reproduced below; the blue bar indicates the span of time from submission to result announcement, and the red dot indicates the actual date of the conference.

Notes and caveats:
- I used the most recent conference dates; there are variations from year to year, but not significant ones.
- WADS and SWAT are really the same conference, but alternate.
- RANDOM and APPROX operate together
- I wonder why ISAAC and FSTTCS, which are both Asian theory conferences, schedule themselves to collide that way.
- As some pointed out, these are not conflicts per se; the number of people submitting to (say) COLT and CPM at the same time is probably small. I was more intrigued by the density of deadlines in the early part of the year.
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