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SIAM Symposium on Simplicity in Algorithms (SOSA26)

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.

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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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