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SIAM Symposium on Simplicity in Algorithms (SOSA27)

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

Gerth Stølting Brodal

Aarhus University, Denmark

Michał Pilipczuk

University of Warsaw, Poland

Program Committee

Divesh Aggarwal

National University of Singapore, Singapore

Georg Anegg

ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Per Austrin

KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

Ruben Becker

Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy

Sujoy Bhore

IIT Bombay, India, and London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom

Édouard Bonnet

ENS Lyon, France

Yixin Cao

Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China

Karthik C. S.

Rutgers University, U.S.

Radu Curticapean

University of Regensburg, Germany

Yann Disser

Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany

Mordecai J. Golin

University of Massachusetts Amherst, U.S.

Ivor van der Hoog

IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Ce Jin

University of California, Berkeley, U.S.

Linda Kleist

University of Hamburg, Germany

Laura Vargas Koch

RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Tuukka Korhonen

University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Martin Koutecký

Charles University, Czech Republic

Jason Li

Carnegie Mellon University, U.S.

Debmalya Panigrahi

Duke University, U.S.

Solon Pissis

The Cyprus Institute, Cyprus

Kevin Pratt

Columbia University, U.S.

Lars Rohwedder

University of Southern Denmark, Denmark

Rahul Santhanam

University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Srinivasa Rao Satti

Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

Roohani Sharma

Institute for Basic Science, South Korea

Nodari Sitchnava

University of Hawaii at Manoa, U.S.

Marek Sokołowski

Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Saarbrucken, Germany

Shay Solomon

Tel Aviv University, Israel

Chaitanya Swamy

University of Waterloo, Canada

László Végh

University of Bonn, Germany

David Wajc

Technion, Israel

Sebastian Wild

University of Marburg, Germany

Kewen Wu

Institute for Advanced Study and Caltech, U.S.

Karol Węgrzycki

MPI Saarbrucken, Germany

Jie Xue

New York University Shanghai, China

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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