[DMANET] 2nd Call for Papers: SIAM Symposium on Simplicity in Algorithms (SOSA 2021)

3rd SIAM Symposium on Simplicity in Algorithms (SOSA)
January 11-12, 2021
Alexandria, Virginia, U.S.
(Held jointly with SODA 2021)

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 can serve as benchmarks, as an initialization step, or as the basis for a "state of the art'' algorithm; 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 expected to prove novel theorems. That is, the results themselves can be known, but their presentation must be new. Conference website is https://www.siam.org/conferences/cm/conference/sosa21

Program Committee
Aaron Bernstein, Rutgers University, U.S.
Allan Borodin, University of Toronto, Canada
Timothy Chan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, U.S.
Edith Cohen, Google Research, U.S. and Tel Aviv University, Israel
Vincent Cohen-Addad, Google Research, Zürich, Switzerland
Sanjoy Dasgupta, University of California, San Diego, U.S.
Michael Elkin, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Funda Ergun, NSF and University of Indiana, Bloomington, U.S.
Mike Fellows, University of Bergen, Norway
Arnold Filtser, Columbia University, U.S.
Kasper Green Larsen, Aarhus University, Denmark
Andrew Goldberg, Amazon, U.S.
John Iacono, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Russell Impagliazzo, University of California, San Diego, U.S.
Giuseppe Italiano, LUISS Guido Carli, Rome, Italy
Michael Kapralov, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
Anna Karlin, University of Washington, Seattle, U.S.
Valerie King, University of Victoria, Canada (Co-chair)
Hung Le, University of Victoria, Canada and University of Massachusetts at Amherst, U.S. (Co-chair)
Daniel Lokshtanov, University of California, Santa Barbara, U.S.
S. Cenk Sahinalp, NIH and University of Indiana, Bloomington, U.S.
Jared Saia, University of New Mexico, U.S.
Shay Solomon, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Mario Szegedy, Alibaba and Rutgers University, U.S.
Robert Tarjan, Princeton University, U.S.
Seeun William Umboh, University of Sydney, Australia
Qin Zhang, University of Indiana, Bloomington, 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

Submissions and Deadlines:
A link to the submission site is available https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=sosa21.
Short Abstract Submission and Paper Registration Deadline: August 12, 2020, 4:59 PM Eastern Time
Full Paper Submission Deadline: August 19, 2020, 4:59 PM Eastern Time
Acceptance Notification: early October 2020
Proceedings (posted online): early January 2021


How to Participate
Authors must submit their papers electronically, in PDF format.
Submissions should begin with a title page containing the paper title, each author's name, affiliation, and email address, and an abstract summarizing the contributions of the paper. There is no page limit. The paper should begin with a clear description of the algorithmic problem to be solved, a survey of prior work on the problem—including a candid assessment of prior work in terms of simplicity and elegance—and a discussion of the contributions of the paper. The body of the paper should be written for a general theoretical computer science audience, and substantiate the main claims of the paper with full proofs. The submission should be typeset using 11 point font, in a single-column format with ample spacing throughout and ample margins all around. The submissions ought to be visually easy to read.
Brevity is a hallmark of simplicity. Authors are specifically encouraged to submit short and simple papers. Final papers may not exceed fifteen (15) pages in double column format.

The program committee may designate one or more papers as SOSA Best Papers. All submissions will be considered.

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