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.
SOSA will be held jointly with:
ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA)
SIAM Symposium on Algorithm Engineering and Experiments (ALENEX)
Program Committee Co-chairs
Ioana Bercea
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Rasmus Pagh
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Program Committee
Jérémy Barbay
University of Concepción, Chile
Greg Bodwin
University of Michigan, U.S.
Vladimir Braverman
Rice University, U.S.
Sami Davies
Simons Institute and University of California, Berkeley, U.S.
Jeff Erickson
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, U.S.
Gramoz Goranci
University of Vienna, Austria
Elena Grigorescu
Purdue University, U.S.
Qizheng He
Huawei, China
David Ellis Hershkowitz,
Brown University, U.S.
Valerie King
University of Victoria, Canada
Silvio Lattanzi
Google, U.S.
François Le Gall
Nagoya University, Japan
Paloma Lima
IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Slobodan Mitrović
University of California, Davis, U.S.
Tobias Mömke
University of Augsburg, Germany
David Mount
University of Maryland, U.S.
Christopher Musco
New York University, U.S.
Vasileios Nakos
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Seffi Naor
Technion, Israel
Lorenzo Orecchia
University of Chicago, U.S.
Alantha Newman
CNRS and Université Grenoble Alpes, France
Adam Polak
Bocconi University, Italy
Nicola Prezza
Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy
Maximilian Probst Gutenberg
ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Rebecca Reiffenhäuser
University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Will Rosenbaum
University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
Kevin Schewior
University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Robert Endre Tarjan
Princeton University, U.S.
Stefan Walzer
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
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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