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ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA25)

About the Conference

SODA is sponsored by the SIAM Activity Group on Discrete Mathematics and the ACM Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory.

This symposium focuses on research topics related to the design and analysis of efficient algorithms and data structures for discrete problems. The scope includes theoretical analysis, as well as experimental validation, of discrete algorithms, and the mathematical problems related to their development or limitations. The scope also includes aspects of combinatorics and discrete mathematics related to discrete algorithms. Papers that raise important algorithmic problems that can benefit from theoretical investigation and analysis, are encouraged.

SODA will be held jointly with:
SIAM Symposium on Algorithm Engineering and Experiments (ALENEX)
SIAM Symposium on Simplicity in Algorithms (SOSA)

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Included Themes

Aspects of combinatorics and discrete mathematics, such as:

  • Combinatorial structures
  • Discrete optimization
  • Graph theory
  • Random structures

Core topics in discrete algorithms, such as:

  • Algorithm analysis
  • Data structures
  • Experimental algorithmics
  • Lower bounds
  • Mathematical programming

Algorithmic aspects of other areas of computer science, such as:

  • Algorithmic fairness
  • Combinatorial scientific computing
  • Communication networks and the internet
  • Computational geometry and topology
  • Computer systems
  • Cryptography, security and privacy
  • Databases and information retrieval
  • Distributed and parallel computing
  • Game theory and mechanism design
  • Machine learning
  • Quantum computing
  • Scheduling and resource allocation

Program Committee Co-chairs

Yossi Azar

Tel-Aviv University, Israel

Debmalya Panigrahi

Duke University, U.S.

Program Committee

Amir Abboud

Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

Alexandr Andoni

Columbia University, U.S.

Soheil Behnezad

Northeastern University, U.S.

Sayan Bhattacharya

University of Warwick, United Kingdom

Arnab Bhattacharyya

National University of Singapore, Singapore

Luca Becchetti

University of Rome, Italy

Petra Berenbrink

University of Hamburg, Germany

Niv Buchbinder

Tel Aviv University, Israel

Harry Buhrman

Quantinuum (UK), QuSoft and University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Sergio Cabello

University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Yang Cai

Yale University, U.S.

Parinya Chalermsook

Aalto University, Finland

Eshan Chattopadhyay

Cornell University, U.S.

Chandra Chekuri

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, U.S.

Keerti Choudhary

IIT Delhi, India

Maria Chudnovsky

Princeton University, U.S.

Ilan Cohen

Bar-Ilan University, Israel

Vincent Cohen-Addad

Google Research, Switzerland

Andrea Coladangelo

University of Washington, Seattle, U.S.

Jose Correa

University of Chile, Chile

Rachel Cummings

Columbia University, U.S.

Jelena Diakonikolas

University of Wisconsin, Madison, U.S.

Shahar Dobzinski

Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

Anne Driemel

University of Bonn, Germany

Esther Ezra

Bar-Ilan University, Israel

Emily Fox

University of Texas, Dallas, U.S.

Nick Gravin

Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, China

Kasper Green Larsen

Aarhus University, Denmark

Anupam Gupta

New York University, U.S.

Tom Gur

University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Sungjin Im

University of California, Merced, U.S.

Michael Kapralov

EPFL, Switzerland

Telikepalli Kavitha

Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India

Dominik Kempa

Stony Brook University, U.S.

Arindam Khan

Indian Institute of Science, India

Samir Khuller

Northwestern University, U.S.

Ravi Kumar

Google Research, U.S.

O-joung Kwon

Hanyang University, South Korea

Bundit Lakhenukit

Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, China

Hung Le

University of Massachusetts, Amherst, U.S.

Jian Li

Tsinghua University, China

Yang Liu

Institute for Advanced Studies, U.S.

William Kuszmaul

Harvard University, U.S.

Shachar Lovett

University of California, San Diego, U.S.

Sepideh Mahabadi

Microsoft Research, U.S.

Nicole Megow

University of Bremen, Germany

Raghu Meka

University of California, Los Angeles, U.S.

Divyarthi Mohan

Tel Aviv University, Israel

Ankur Moitra

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, U.S.

Shay Mozes

Reichman University, Israel

Bento Natura

Columbia University, U.S.

Neil Olver

London School of Economics, United Kingdom

Krzysztof Onak

Boston University, U.S.

Seth Pettie

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, U.S.

Michał Pilipczuk

University of Warsaw, Poland

Max Probst Gutenberg

ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Rajmohan Rajaraman

Northeastern University, U.S.

Aviad Rubinstein

Aviad Rubinstein,

Barna Saha

University of California, San Diego, U.S.

Laura Sanita

Bocconi University, Italy

Piotr Sankowski

IDEAS NCBR and University of Warsaw, Poland

Aravind Srinivasan

University of Maryland, College Park, U.S.

Vera Traub

University of Bonn, Germany

Madhur Tulsiani

Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, U.S.

Seeun William Umboh

The University of Melbourne, Australia

Sergei Vassilvitskii

Google Research, U.S.

Magnus Wahlstrom

Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom

Kangning Wang

Stanford University, U.S.

Fan Wei

Duke University, U.S.

Nicole Wein

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, U.S.

Mary Wootters

Stanford University, U.S.

Steering Committee Chair

Piotr Indyk

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, U.S.

Steering Committee

Julia Chuzhoy

Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, U.S.

Robert Krauthgamer

The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

Sang-il Oum

KAIST, South Korea

Blair Sullivan

The University of Utah, U.S.

Shanghua Teng

University of Southern California, U.S.

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