
About the Conference
Symposium on Simplicity in Algorithms (SOSA) is a conference in theoretical computer science dedicated to advancing algorithms research by promoting simplicity and elegance in the design and analysis of algorithms. The benefits of simplicity are manifold: simpler algorithms manifest a better understanding of the problem at hand; they are more likely to be implemented and trusted by practitioners; they are more easily taught and are more likely to be included in algorithms textbooks; and they attract a broader set of researchers to difficult algorithmic problems.
Papers in all areas of algorithms research are sought. An ideal submission will advance our understanding of an algorithmic problem by, for example, introducing a simpler algorithm, presenting a simpler analysis of an existing algorithm, or offering insights that generally simplify our understanding of important algorithms or computational problems.
We are especially interested in papers that make material more accessible to a wider audience, such as undergraduates, or for more specialized topics, general algorithms researchers. Submissions should contain novel ideas or attractive insights, but they are not required to prove novel theorems. That is, the results themselves can be known, but their presentation must be new.
The following meetings will be held jointly:
- ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA)
- SIAM Symposium on Algorithm Engineering and Experiments (ALENEX)
- SIAM Symposium on Simplicity in Algorithms (SOSA)
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Program Committee Co-Chairs
Sepehr Assadi
University of Waterloo, Canada
Eva Rotenberg
Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Program Committee
Therese Biedl
University of Waterloo, Canada
Davide Bilo
University of l'Aquila, Italy
Joakim Blikstad
Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Netherlands
Chandra Chekuri
University of Illinois, U.S.
Matthias Christandl
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Arnaud de Mesmay
CNRS, Université Gustave Eiffel, France
Mahsa Derakhshan
Northeastern University, U.S.
Aditi Dudeja
University of Salzburg, Austria
Talya Eden
Bar Ilan University, Israel
David Eppstein
University of California, Irvine, U.S.
Nick Fischer
INSAIT, Bulgaria
Pawel Gawrychowski
University of Wroclaw, Poland
Nick Harvey
University of British Columbia, Canada
Evangelos Kipouridis
Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany
William Kuszmaul
Carnegie Mellon University, U.S.
Gonzalo Navarro
University of Chile, Chile
Eunjin Oh
Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea
Shreyas Pai
IIT Madras, India
Michał Pilipczuk
University of Warsaw, Poland
Aditya Potukuchi
York University, Canada
Chris Schweigelshohn
Aarhus University, Denmark
Jukka Suomela
Aalto University, Finland
Seeun William Umboh
The University of Melbourne, Australia
Jan van den Brand
Georgia Institute of Technology, U.S.
Nate Veldt
Texas A&M University, U.S.
Nicole Wein
University of Michigan, U.S.
Andreas Wiese
Technical University of Munich, Germany
Samson Zhou
Texas A&M University, U.S.
Uri Zwick
Tel Aviv University, Israel
Steering Committee
Michael A. Bender
Stony Brook University, U.S.
David Karger
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, U.S.
Tsvi Kopelowitz
Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Seth Pettie
University of Michigan, U.S.
Robert Tarjan
Princeton University, U.S.
Mikkel Thorup
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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